monkeycantype

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by monkeycantype 2y ago
I like the perspective shift that consciousness is the only thing that we know, from direct experience is real, the existence of the physical world is something we only infer via conscious experience. what I like about this is that when try
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
The Skywalker name wasn't coined by Lucas, it's taken from the name of a Native American man.
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
My hope is that the situation is better than that, the human nature is an interaction of genes and environment, and that human culture is constantly evolving, and that environmental change, makes for different people.
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
I know text can be flat, nuance and tone lost that would not be lost in conversation, but I'm confused by your reply Akira. I can't read any endorsement of the system in the comment you're replying to, I read it as agreeing w
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
Our civilisation today is less corrupt, less violent, fairer than it was a thousand years ago, I am optimistic that this will continue to be true for the next thousand years of new todays
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
In western democracies we have many functions roads, health, education, security in which a government provided service exists side by side with market alternatives. I think the public confidence in those functions in different countries is
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
Somewhere there is a doco about the guys who lay these cables, I’ve forgotten the name, does anyone know it? It has a focus on the guy who has his hand on the lever that controls the speed of the spool the cable is rolling off. This guy nee
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
Or far southern hemispheric; I stayed at my uncles last night on a makeshift bed in the living room, He has a network of connected goldfish tanks (connected by water filled plastic tubes the fish can migrate through) He has the whole thing
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
interesting connection between the mindrot from that book and the warfighter alertness link posted today that uses IR light to target drug activation in specific parts of the brain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40707
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
my brain holds a set of values, I rely on deterministic physics for them to be expressed through my decisions and actions, I do not want a magic quantum 8-ball meddling in the middle Who I am aligns with what I do because the universe is
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by monkeycantype 2y ago
but that observation is consistent with the prevailing beliefs of powerlifters v bodybuilders on weight v volume for strength v hypertrophy, both get strong and both get big, but Powerlifters prioritising strength lift heavier weights at lo
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by monkeycantype 3y ago
I love max, though I haven't used it since it got the upgrade from the old black and white UI. One thing I really liked about it is you can combine visual programming with procedural code, you can add boxes which process inputs using j
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by monkeycantype 3y ago
I have good close friends, they are a little younger than me, in their mid 40s - in a poly relationship, perhaps the difference I see in their relationship is it opened up after decades of commitment, raising children and the trust and comm
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by monkeycantype 3y ago
I really like this comment, and am now trawling DanHulton.com for more
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by monkeycantype 3y ago
Very well articulated, You’ve given me that strange feeling that happens when some once expresses cohesively a set of ideas you’re still trying to map
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by monkeycantype 3y ago
I read that the eden whales were hunted by a Norwegian ship during ww2
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by monkeycantype 3y ago
my hometown is so low the contour maps have no contour lines on them. I've recently heard neighbours chatting about not being able to afford flood insurance. I have friends who still believe climate change is an academic ploy for fund
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by monkeycantype 3y ago
Another day, another nudge that we are NPCs in GTA 40, on a map that looks big but isn't
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by monkeycantype 3y ago
Oh I love christian morgenstern poems but I've only ever come across a handful. the one about the man who said he doesn't exist!
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by monkeycantype 3y ago
I assume there is no double slit diffraction pattern until it is observed, and when that observation occurs - the universe has no information on which slit the photon or electron went through - it was not observed - it went through neither&
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by monkeycantype 3y ago
thank you aydyn
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by monkeycantype 3y ago
not a response of the article - just a contribution to the conversation here: anyone into kink should be able to understand there is a complex relationship between constraint and freedom. Yes monogamy is as a constraint, but that constraint
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by monkeycantype 3y ago
Maybe telescopes were already invented when then level loaded, maybe the simulation is only simulating the last 12 minutes
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by monkeycantype 3y ago
My hope is that the double slit experiment is what happens if you do lazy evaluation with unevaluated dependencies
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Ask HN: wave functions and are electrons actually repelling each other?
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by monkeycantype 3y ago
The headline is part of the story. The other part of the story is "cooled as migration returned and a visa backlog cleared". If you spend time talking to tech workers on visas in Australia, you'll find a common story, most wi
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by monkeycantype 3y ago
somewhere on the internet are some videos in which an italian scientist describes what he means by a system. I think that's probably enough to google. So if you're willing to accept that sometimes we are able to recognise a phenom
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by monkeycantype 3y ago
i haven't read it, but soon will thank you. (thumbs up emoji)
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by monkeycantype 3y ago
My fave theory for the origin of life is that the porous spaces in the material around the vents were full of pockets which functioned as different cells in which sets of molecules would interact. Groups of molecules that cooperated to form
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by monkeycantype 3y ago
plants will hybridize, combining the entire genomes of multiple species. common wheat is an example of this, it has full pairs of chromosomes from three ancestor species https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat

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