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by misja111 5y ago
Not necessarily, it also comes from natural gas: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/32/e2107632118#:~:text=Meth... .
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by misja111 5y ago
But doesn't the article suggest that the recent rapid rise comes from methane produced by microbes? If this is true, it is not the melting permafrost, but (intensive) agriculture that is the culprit. > But since 2007, when methane l
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Your gut bacteria are already getting plenty of food, but to digest the food efficiently, they also need something to hold on to. This is the function of the insoluble fibers.
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There are two different kinds of fibers: soluble and insoluble. The insoluble one is the most important for your gut and the one in the article. This fiber you will only find in vegetables and fruits, in particular in sturdy ones such as be
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Beans and nuts are real fiber bombs and easy to include in your diet. Also broccoli and full grain bread are good options.
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It depends what you mean with 'real'. The experience or feeling of having consciousness is real, that's true. But the fact that humans experience consciousness doesn't make it a real physical phenomenon. Not so long ago
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An illusion is a belief or perception which does not match reality. A belief is something that is stored in memory. So there is nothing to 'observe' about an illusion; an illusion is an error in either memory or perception of the
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by misja111 5y ago
Your comment reminds me of religious people, whose argument that God exists is similar: that you will realize that He exists as soon as you believe in Him. And that you can't possibly understand it otherwise. Consciousness is a hard pr
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> I have neither a feeling nor a rationally logical proof of this idea. It's just an intuitive guess. This intuition, that there is something special and unique about what 'we' are, is baked into our brains by many thousa
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This. There's nothing magic about consciousness, and if you think it is, it's because your brains are hardwired to be convinced that you're special. But we're not. In the article, this is said very well: > Would you s
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Why are (almost) all these writing systems from Crete? Were people not writing things down on the mainland at that time, or have their writing systems all been deciphered? Or is there some other explanation?
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I guess that could be a form of survivor bias; we can only detect them well if they have this orientation towards us.
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> The more code I've written, the less I care about code quality. .. - I minimize interdependencies (changing a line of code should not affect something un-related) - I go for abstractions later, only when I need them, rather than t
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It probably has been tried already by someone, but how about this: all square roots can be written as repeating continued fractions [1]. With a bit of work, continued fractions can also be summed [2] and compared. Wouldn't this take le
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Of course WSL2 can never be as good as running Linux natively. But as someone who needs software that runs on Windows, I like WSL2 a lot. For me the choice was native Linux + Wine or native Windows with WSL2. I have tried both, and I have t
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Ok, let me give you some more details. The first guy I knew was a friend when I was studying. He studied Electrotechnical engineering at university level, a highly mathematical study and when he started he was quite good with it. However at
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by misja111 5y ago
I can confirm, I have known some people who smoked Cannabis basically the whole day long for several years. They lost certain cognitive abilities, e.g. they were not really able to do calculations in their head anymore. They also got severe
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> shooting dead American soldiers they found inside Switzerland who had escaped from German POW camps Do you have a source? I can't find anything about that on the Internet.
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In theory you are right but when talking specifically about poker, I can't think of any example of imperfect play that isn't exploited (to a certain extent) by optimal play. Yes, playing the opponent would win more, but optimal pl
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> You can only win in poker if you recognize how your opponent deviates from the optimal strategy and then play a strategy to exploit him. This is not true. If you play optimal strategy, you will win against any opponent except one that
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This starts to sound a lot like The Matrix.
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I don't see how you could model the world without addition or subtraction. Even if you started out with differentiation, wouldn't addition and subtraction be implicitly defined by it? And once you have those, you have multiplicat
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>> It is exceedingly likely that people just ate more fat instead of sugar.. Why do you believe this is so likely? To be honest I don't see the connection. People notice in the supermarket that their favorite soft drink became mo
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Of course there's not, but actually this is something that the CCP is pushing a lot for as well; to have one nation, one language, one culture. See e.g. https://www.wsj.com/articles/beijing-accelerates-campaign-of.
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IMO many programmers simply don't like Clean Code because their greybeard mentors have been bothering them with it too much. They want something fresh and new, something that makes them feel they understand software development better
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It's not so long ago that the appropriate way to deal with homosexuals was to 'cure' them, for instance by therapy or if that didn't work, by medication. Once 'patients' would be cured they could manage to live
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Thank you for this reply. It demonstrates exactly the mindset of those few FP die-hards that I have seen wrecking havoc in a couple of companies where I worked for. I'm not saying FP is bad, it is actually really powerful when it is in
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I can see the benefit of having a platform to run decentralised applications, as described in the article. And yes one could use smart contracts for that. But what I fail to see is why this would need blockchain. It just seems overhead for
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Anonymity comes at a price.
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I have a Boox Note and the excessive screen refreshes are really annoying there as well. But I'm impressed by the part in the demo where they show the playing of a video, this works pretty smoothly and I don't see any flickering.

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