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by msiyer 7y ago
Can live up to 50 years. OK. What happens when they do not? Does the body not regenerate them? Various kinds of stress can cause them to not live that long. It is not as black and white.
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by msiyer 7y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16495940?access_num=1649... Adult neurogenesis or brain plasticity is a fact. Skin cells, blood cells and all types of cells have a finite lifespan - a few days to a few months.
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by msiyer 7y ago
This thought experiment is neither just a thought nor an experiment. This is the reality of life - every single cell in the body of a plant or animal is replaced every few months. Essentially, talking about the physical body, we are not wha
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by msiyer 7y ago
Language is a poor way to comprehend the cosmos. It is very limiting. Words are not enough to explain what happens when rain drops fall on my skin or the wet smell of sand intoxicates me or wind ruffles my hair... I have seen cows chewing c
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by msiyer 7y ago
the problem we are discussing in this thread can be rephrased as - do i own my thoughts? only when we have an answer to this question can we properly progress as a society. else, we will keep expending resources to keep these debates alive.
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by msiyer 7y ago
I totally agree.
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by msiyer 7y ago
I gave you enough info. If you are really interested, search on the internet.
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by msiyer 7y ago
Did you even read? The PDF has list of companies that form the prison-industrial complex and Amazon has a place there. >> This report exposes over 3,100 corporations that profit from the devastating mass incarceration of our nation’s
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by msiyer 7y ago
It is a real problem. People think downvoting will make the problem disappear. Link 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison%E2%80%93industrial_comp... Link 2: https://static1.squarespace.com/static&#x2F
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by msiyer 7y ago
Many of these workers are from the prison industrial complex. Pay is non-existent or abysmally low, AFAIK.
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by msiyer 7y ago
You and I are thinking about this totally differently. Humans and their activities can create new variables, but nature will adjust to that. We are an inseparable part of nature. So are our activities.
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by msiyer 7y ago
>> Do you not think things which are balanced should remain so unless acted upon by an outside force? The net effect is what is important. A complex, interconnected and ever-changing system like nature cannot be evaluated so easily. Y
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by msiyer 7y ago
And the motion of electrons is totally predictable? And what exactly are the 'outside forces' when it comes to the closed system which we refer to as 'nature'?
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by msiyer 7y ago
Ridiculous. What next? The 'balance of an atom' is a totally wrong concept and the universe is about to crumble?
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by msiyer 7y ago
The executives in any corporation are in no way normal people. More so in a behemoth like Boeing. They have nothing in common with common people. They might not be clapping hands at the death of few humans, but they would not be crying eith
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by msiyer 7y ago
The building blocks of this universe are "things" vibrating. That is all I know. Consciousness is a very tricky problem. I often question what happens when a man loses his "mind". Is the being now just a machine with sto
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by msiyer 7y ago
you are not doomed. you are just fine. you can be talkative or you can go in to deep meditation in the middle of a crowd. whatever be it do it consciously. remove all guilt and all negativity from it. experience everything deeply - silence
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by msiyer 7y ago
Morality has no place when dealing with a corporation. Legality is the only thing that counts. >> If you accidentally purchased a bag of M&Ms from Amazon for 500 dollars instead of 5, they will let you undo it If it is technically
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by msiyer 7y ago
Half a decade ago, I visited some very distant relatives in Delhi. I woke up at night unable to breathe properly. The next morning, when I told them about my ordeal, people boasted about their ability to breathe such air and laughed at my i
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by msiyer 7y ago
Life is a zero-sum game. Give your full attention to whatever it is that you are doing at the moment - mopping the floor or solving partial differential equations. Live.
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by msiyer 7y ago
Human race has a lot of intellectual growing up to do. This is, in effect, the same Modus Operandi that resulted in the Opium Wars - addict a populace to "free" some thing and bankrupt them intellectually.
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by msiyer 7y ago
My mother is bed-ridden and partially blind. She cannot use a smartphone. Alexa helps her call me. I do not deserve to have my privacy obliterated.
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by msiyer 7y ago
Maybe, you are looking for this: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031224-00/?p=41...
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by msiyer 7y ago
>> As far I've been able to determine, a human being could live 5 years on Mars with a stockpile of processed food[2], water, and oxygen, and without the microbiome or any organism within a hundred million kilometers. It would be
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by msiyer 7y ago
Why do we need to expend our energies to debate? Facebook cannot be trusted. Facebook should not be allowed anywhere near our finances. This is a nightmare in the making. Gullible public will start using it in the name of convenience and it
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by msiyer 7y ago
Can you please try cutting out oil from your diet for 2 weeks? You will see what I mean.
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by msiyer 7y ago
>>Not downvoting, but not everybody can reverse it. I am OK with people downvoting as long as they reason it out. Here in HN, people are not willing to accept that changing food habits can reverse most lifestyle disease. There are two
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by msiyer 7y ago
I am not confused. Fast food is bad because it contains excess amounts of oils and animal fats and a lot many other things. Oils are bad. They are especially bad after heat is applied to them.
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by msiyer 7y ago
I said the same thing in a previous HN discussion and my comment was down voted into oblivion. Many Asian cultures had this thing figured out thousands of years ago. Less or no meat. Many famous martial arts schools (Indian, Chinese and Jap
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by msiyer 7y ago
We can learn from Nature - atoms, photons, DNA... all last long. Really long.

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