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by moultano 9mo ago
> This is where my reaction was: "Dude, wat??" If adult experiences make you resentful, something is really off. If a good experience makes you wish you could go back to being a child, I'd be recommending therapy because t
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by moultano 9mo ago
This essay was in part an inspiration for my (much more upbeat) essay which was on here yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452763 , and I linked it at the end, but I thought it deserved a submission on its own.
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Real Biological Clock Is You're Going to Die (2018)(hmmdaily.com)
88 points by moultano 9mo ago|75 comments
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by moultano 9mo ago
The graph is just to clearly convey the idea, not to give it any more connotation of rigor than the idea itself has. The idea has a long enough history and enough research behind it to be in psychology textbooks and be referenced on Wikiped
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Children and Helical Time(moultano.wordpress.com)
201 points by moultano 9mo ago|125 comments
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If childhood is half of life, how should that change how we live?(moultano.wordpress.com)
8 points by moultano 9mo ago|2 comments
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Children and Helical Time(moultano.wordpress.com)
4 points by moultano 9mo ago|0 comments
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The Deadweight Loss of Entertainment – Go do things even if you don't want to(moultano.wordpress.com)
2 points by moultano 10mo ago|0 comments
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Deep Time Maps – maps of ancient earth(deeptimemaps.com)
1 points by moultano 10mo ago|0 comments
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by moultano 10mo ago
I wrote this following a similar line of thought, but with the root problem being a collective action problem around community rather than an internal psychological tradeoff between short and long term. https://moultano.wordpress
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The Deadweight Loss of Entertainment – How social life can die out by accident(moultano.wordpress.com)
2 points by moultano 10mo ago|1 comments
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The Deadweight Loss of Entertainment(moultano.wordpress.com)
3 points by moultano 10mo ago|0 comments
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The Deadweight Loss of Entertainment(moultano.wordpress.com)
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by moultano 10mo ago
Yes, I wish we could serve static content more like bittorent, where your uri has an associate hash, and any intermediate router or cache could be an equivalent source of truth, with the final server only needing to play a role if nothing e
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by moultano 10mo ago
Notable how this is only possible because the website is a good "web citizen." It has urls that maintain their state over a decade. They contain a whole conversation. You don't have to log in to see anything. The value of old
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The Dead Weight Loss of Entertainment(moultano.wordpress.com)
2 points by moultano 10mo ago|0 comments
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The House That Was Perfect in Every Way but One(moultano.wordpress.com)
2 points by moultano 1y ago|0 comments
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The House That Was Perfect in Every Way but One(moultano.wordpress.com)
1 points by moultano 1y ago|0 comments
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The David Rumsey Map Collection(davidrumsey.com)
1 points by moultano 1y ago|0 comments
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by moultano 2y ago
I love that book. It's an all time favorite, and an inspiration.
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by moultano 2y ago
I just wrote a novel at 41, and am starting the process of trying to get it published. Almost everything about aging in the article hit home, but something that struck me very differently about writing, is that I'm not trying to be &qu
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by moultano 2y ago
I love Charley Harper's depiction of all the colors in a winter bird feeder. https://charleyharperprints.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/W... Red winged blackbirds are another all time favorite of mi
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by moultano 2y ago
Yes, it's possible that some of the diversification within those clades happened before the impact, but the start of the radiation is so close to the impact that I think it's unlikely that it happened earlier. It would be too much
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by moultano 2y ago
Huh. Here they only sing in the morning. Are you sure it was a mockingbird? I've heard people have that reaction to whippoorwills and other nightjars that sing loudly and repetitively all night.
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by moultano 2y ago
It's leftover from when all mammals were nocturnal. Color vision is useless at night, there aren't enough photons to care about their frequency, so mammals lost it almost entirely and only primates have re-evolved the red-green di
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by moultano 2y ago
Is there a way to import your Goodreads library after profile creation? I skipped it because I couldn't get it to download on mobile, but will probably only use the site if I can import it later when I'm at my desk.
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A Few of the Birds I Love(moultano.wordpress.com)
101 points by moultano 2y ago|46 comments
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by moultano 2y ago
Yes.
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by moultano 2y ago
Clever!
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by moultano 2y ago
Magic eye pictures are viewed by diverging your eyes, so the "parallel view" versions at the bottom work correctly with that method. "Cross view" pictures require converging your eyes, so the images have to be in the opp

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