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by meric 10y ago
I would note squid and octopus have fine manipulators (tentacles) and they are relatively intelligent.
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by meric 10y ago
Ahh. One day you will realise from my point of view all of you is inseparable from the universe - your mind is just atoms like a plant. Are we saying the atoms in your mind are coloured and in a separate space time to the rest of the univer
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by meric 10y ago
You are conscious, because your mind is conscious, and your mind is a part of you. The universe is conscious, because you are conscious, you are a part of the universe. Brahman is also conscious, because universe is conscious, and the unive
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by meric 10y ago
Taiwan, South Korea, Pakistan, Chile.
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by meric 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12433430
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by meric 10y ago
"my ego is taking a big hit" Your ego, your wants, your desires, how others see you, how you see others, is all an illusion, a covering. You are a spark of light, like every other. You wear this ego like clothes. Your dy
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by meric 10y ago
It's the underlying, intrinsic, emotional connection, rather than the extrinsic muscle movements. On intrinsic goods: http://philosophy.lander.edu/ethics/intrinsic.html P.S. As a side irrelevant note, I think in t
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by meric 10y ago
For me, the membership of the community means you can talk to them directly. And even if we'e in the same community, I will never judge, and never intervene, unless you're directly harming another member of my community. I do not
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by meric 10y ago
The 'oppressed' we are talking about are meth dealers who have spread the drug such that up to 30% of those who live in slums have become addicts. Entire communities destroyed. Filipinos follow your exact same logic, decide the be
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by meric 10y ago
the Phillipines' behavior is unjustified. That maybe so, but intervention of other groups cannot be justified, if Philippine's behaviour to intervene in the unjustified behaviour of drug dealers is itself unjustified. If mob rul
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by meric 10y ago
So is that the logic we use to impose the ideas of the majority of the rest of the world on Philippines? Is oppression by majority solved by more oppression by a bigger majority? What kind of logic is that?
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by meric 10y ago
This is how Philippines has chosen to solve it's own societal problems, and is none of HN's or UN's business. I won't put judgement on it, but Philippine's people deserve to experience the consequences of their own
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by meric 10y ago
By better, he means better excluding quantity. For a particular individual, a competent meat teacher is more valuable than a competent silicon one.
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by meric 10y ago
If I have 1825 days left to live, and afterwards my life would be passed on to another "soul", how would I live it?
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by meric 10y ago
Keep going, everything's going to work out, very well in fact.
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by meric 10y ago
>> following the laws of physics The question is, which laws of physics, and are the interaction between those laws of physics, interactions we already know, or new ones we have not discovered yet? Otherwise we might as well say consc
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by meric 10y ago
Report to law enforcement.
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by meric 10y ago
I think it's a cycle that will pass. E.g. Early Rome vs Late Rome vs Early Islam.
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by meric 10y ago
Meditation to keep the mind up for the next day.
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by meric 10y ago
human knowledge != human understanding. You can read about humans, to understand humans you have to form relationships with them and experience them yourself. An analogy would be reading K&R compared to bashing against GCC.
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by meric 10y ago
$5 billion from Civil Forfeiture vs $4 billion from Burglary. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-...
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by meric 10y ago
I do the repeating thing when I'm in danger of zoning out. I repeat their words, and then try to rephrase it. It signals to the other person to give me a second or two to come back into the conversation.
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by meric 10y ago
We have an appearance of abundance of capital, but not an actual abundance. An actual abundance of capital will mean people can consume their capital instead of participating in the labor market. But they cannot, as you said, because they&#
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by meric 10y ago
Second Amendment Remedy to take care of another high-profile woman who bothers him No mention of politics, only whether it is "bothering" the potential killer, which might as well be a due to relationship dynamics. If he was goi
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by meric 10y ago
Someone who wants to go shoot Secretary Clinton doesn’t need Donald Trump to tell him (because it’s always a man who does this sort of thing) That is incredibly sexist. Well, it could be a former man, or it could be a female partner of a
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by meric 10y ago
Philosophy - She doesn't know the code that's running on machines inside her body. I don't even know the code that's running my heart. And yet, I trust it.
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by meric 10y ago
The majority partners of women are men, and the majority of partners of men are women. I think for one-to-one companionship people look for compatibility rather than similarity.
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by meric 10y ago
It was vapourware. It became real. It turns into a scam.
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Show HN: Logical Proof of an “Intelligent Creator”(gist.github.com)
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by meric 10y ago
No, but I've had to see a therapist since I could move out and not tell my parents about it, because I've parenting that shares similarities to what OP described. My suggestion is only based on what the therapist told me I needed,

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