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by mr_overalls 6y ago
Materials research is an exception to your claim. Aviation and weapons research depend heavily on exotic materials that are almost certainly NOT found in civilian applications. E.g. nuclear weaponry, stealth coatings, metamaterials cloaking
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
> Society divorcees and scandalized people in transition, politicians from remote ridings, elderly widows, downwardly mobile sons of establishment families, mistresses, professional artists and musicians who needed to be in the city but
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
I'm kind of curious how you expect science to be applied without its discovery phase being performed first.
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
I'm a long-time judoka. I took it up as a very awkward teenager, and it had incalculable benefits for my social comfort and development. And I've seen it do the same for others, beyond what might be expected for an athletic/s
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
Not the person you're replying to, but try to at least read award-winning works in the genre of interest. E.g. if interested in sci-fi, read the Hugo and Nebula award winners going back a few years. Read Pulitzer winners for non-fictio
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
Certainly no city is recession-proof, but Detroit _was_ almost totally invested in a single economic industry: car manufacturing. Silicon Valley's emphasis - digital computing devices and software - fuels multiple economic sectors. It
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiiwish 1. Crack open the shell and pull out the inner part of the acorn. 2. Mash with mortar and pestle until it has a flour-like consistency. 3. Soak several times with water to leach o
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
I'm the the go-to guy at a small government agency for the overall network/system architecture. There are some technical & memory-related prereqs (i.e. I have a CS degree, and I'm not a dummy), but mainly I know our syste
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
I noticed this, too. Is Microsoft just left out of the article, or are they being left out of consideration for potential government break-up?
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
I came here to plug the same book. I read "Against the Gods" as part of an effort to understand business topics on a more fundamental level, and was not disappointed. As a self-identified "tech guy", my eyes previously g
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
The calculation depends on the specific configuration of the vehicle, but yes, friction-reduction can be a better use of (some amount of) energy, rather than increased thrust. E.g. hovercraft. Edit: This concern is also addressed int he art
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
I have dealt with Oracle in the enterprise space, and endured their audit-turned-blackmail monetization strategies. They have a mixed bag of tech, some excellent, some mediocre - but their business practices are absolutely revolting and pre
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
Postgres is fantastic. But let's be honest about how it compares to commercial offerings. https://old.reddit.com/r/PostgreSQL/comments/hqnafk/postgres... "Before I start, a disclaimer: I Postg
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
Stamets is a fascinating & passionate guy, but it's worth remembering that he makes a lot of claims that aren't necessarily backed up by research (Stamets himself has only a bachelor's degree). https://www.jnca
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
Absolutely. Imho, there are a couple of different directions we can take in exploring reality via contemplation. The direction of (for lack of a better term) purification/egolessness is emphasized by Buddhist schools. An orthogonal dir
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
I'm not an authority on this stuff, but the rationale that resonates with me is: 1) gaining awareness of & context for the ego-narrative can HUGELY reduce psychological suffering, and 2) the ego doesn't go away for the vast ma
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
An emphasis on direct experience can be found throughout Buddhism, usually in the context of emphasizing its utility, while downplaying the usefulness of intellectual elaborations on Buddhist ideas. I.e., it's much better to have a sin
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
We are also capable of realizing directly that personal identity itself is also construct, a mask we put on to make sense of the world. Seeing through this illusion can be deeply unsettling, as well as deeply liberating. E.g. Buddhist insig
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
> isn’t willing to sit with me during all these moving and emotionally rich experiences day in and day out I'm incredibly sad for you. Do you have a theory as to why you must be a passive observer to emotionally enriching human expe
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
> Is that because this whole stuff is incredibly in fashion in SV? Well, I grew in the rural South and currently live in Wisconsin, so I don't think I'm succumbing to some kind of SV hippie group-think. The literature and instr
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
No worries! I'm familiar with Trungpa's warnings about spiritual materialism. I know the context of Vajrayana is quite different from the "Batman Effect" discussed in the original article, but I wanted to spur discussion
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
I've long been fascinated by the complex imaginal techniques of tantra in Tibetan Buddhism, in which you vividly imagine yourself as a yidam, or tutelary deity. Via intense concentration on elaborate self-visualization, repetition of t
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
Studies have not provided strong evidence of aluminum being a risk factor for the development of dementia. https://alzheimer.ca/en/Home/About-dementia/Alzheimer-s-dise...
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
Same here - it's really quite baffling. Sowell even thinks that racial discrimination in hiring doesn't require government intervention. He constructs an argument in Basic Economics that market forces will rectify this kind of soc
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
I'm going to be a nonconformist myself and oppose the near-univeral approval of Sowell in this discussion. His book Basic Economics was the first book on econ that I read, and I was very impressed by it. It reaffirmed the rather right-
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
In medical school, many doctors learn the saying, “When you hear hoof beats, think horses, not zebras.” Most physicians are taught to focus on the likeliest possibilities when making a diagnosis, not the unusual ones. However, it seems that
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
If you trawl in someone's activities and background long enough, you can usually find something to charge them with. It's a favorite tactic of repressive regimes that seek to present veneer of legitimacy.
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
Just to provide an additional data point, I've sought relief from anxiety in meditation, failed, and then found great relief in cognitive-behavioral therapy. You're exactly right in that what's needed sometimes is conventiona
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
". . . isn't supported by evidence." This thread is _literally_ about the gold-standard scientific evidence (gathered by Spanish doctors) about how COVID is attacking the nervous system.

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