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by pharke 7y ago
Just want to point out that you're on a site that successfully uses crowd sourcing combined with moderation to curate a list of websites, news, and articles that people find interesting and valuable. Why not a new internet built around
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by pharke 7y ago
Although those activities lack the factor of physical presence. For a lot of people in modern society the only time they are around others is at work or in public places neither of which have a primary focus on community and fellowship like
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by pharke 7y ago
We do have 3D senses, but the primary ones aren't vision. Proprioception tells us the position of our body in space and is relevant to the discussion because we can tag and encode information based on posture or movement, think hand-g
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by pharke 7y ago
The issue here isn't a slight decrease in population. Japan is facing a projected decline of 1/4 of their population by 2050. A change of that magnitude will mean severe consequences for their economy and overall culture. Even
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by pharke 8y ago
> I can't picture it in technicolour The article mentions varying ability to picture things. You may have good spatial reasoning but less visual imagination. I know that when I picture something in my mind it isn't always a cle
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by pharke 8y ago
I think it's worth stating that learning to control your emotions is not synonymous with learning to suppress your emotions. The first involves acknowledging the emotion and expressing/discussing it or it's cause if it is war
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by pharke 8y ago
To quote Rodney Dangerfield when asked if becoming successful has made life better: "You've still got the same head"
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by pharke 8y ago
I don't think the issue is the tools available but the motivation behind their use. Until we get rid of the ad revenue model we'll be stuck with user profiling and tracking. Micropayments or some other model will have to take it&#
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by pharke 8y ago
I wonder if you could also add magnetic core memory to this. The ferrite beads and their wires could make an attractive pattern.
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by pharke 8y ago
From the description of the bird, this sounds like a terrible idea. If they were successful in restoring populations of these birds to the current environment, wouldn't they immediately resume their role as an agricultural pest? Dest
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by pharke 8y ago
I love cooking and I love programming (as a career and a hobby) and I love doing many other physical things. That's my anecdata for what it's worth.
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by pharke 8y ago
I didn't see the part about visualizations and to my knowledge they are considered a distraction to the practice of meditation and not to be sought after. I was actually thinking the opposite for the cause of the perception of "th
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by pharke 8y ago
>In general you get the perfect ratio of predators to herbivores to plants. This is just flat out wrong. Both predator and prey animals starve to death all the time, often due to the impact they have on their environment but also due to
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by pharke 8y ago
The disdain in this article is surprising and disappointing. A more thorough analysis of why and how such a rule came to be and an investigation of its detrimental effects vs. positive aspects beyond "inefficient land use" would h
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by pharke 8y ago
You're right that the language is not the API, it is the medium. The "appointment booking API" exists only in our heads, it is a set of mutually understood conventions for interpreting a subset of language in order to create
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by pharke 9y ago
It does, check out its properties compared to other materials. The process of turning silica into glass makes it much stronger than other materials made of silica. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strength_of_glass http
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by pharke 9y ago
It's funny you mention that route, it's about 185 miles which is about how wide Sri Lanka is. Living in the US also gives us a distorted view of how large the typical nation is.
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by pharke 9y ago
The gazelle may not be able to reflect on the meaning of its existence but it is certainly capable of experiencing its actions and environment. A lack of self-awareness is not a lack of enjoyment, it may even heighten it. Think of the dro
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by pharke 9y ago
I wouldn't say it's the only way. You could certainly gather data from experimental archaeology. True, you couldn't duplicate the lives of early hunter gatherer's precisely since you would have to take certain precauti
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by pharke 9y ago
You're right, it wasn't either but it was a bit of both. Our perspective often misses many aspects of home life in the past because we are living in such a radically different environment than even our grand parents and great gra
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by pharke 9y ago
Genuine question, did he hire or bring any other new people to the company after becoming CEO?
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by pharke 9y ago
And yet an argument such as this does serve a purpose. It draws attention to the larger follies we commit. It may even give a better perspective from which we might see a common cause for such behaviour. Rather than shutting a conversatio
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by pharke 9y ago
I've had more social interaction thrust upon me living in a rural community than I have ever been subject to while living in a city. You can't avoid it out in the country due to the fact your neighbours will incessantly invite yo
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by pharke 9y ago
> Unis are becoming the tool of class formation I'd argue they've already been that for at least several years if not, less brazenly, for a few decades and that the article these comments are in response to is strong evidence t
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by pharke 9y ago
The solution for colleges was to only allow a limited number of admissions at one point in the year. Perhaps that could work again, have some number of spots to be filled that is a fraction of the current population and prioritize applican
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by pharke 9y ago
Probably has more to do with how you process written vs audio information. Richard Feynman had an anecdote about discovering that he couldn't read and count in his head at the same time but others could, turned out the person who could
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by pharke 9y ago
It amazed me at the time of the 'red line' incident how little credence most people gave to the threat intimated by Russia should the US take action in Syria. Those on the right took it as a turn to jab at Obama over perceived wea
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by pharke 9y ago
Also, it wasn't seen by 'everyone at the airport' >"The disc was visible for approximately five minutes and was seen by close to a dozen United Airlines employees, ranging from pilots to supervisors, who heard chatter
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by pharke 9y ago
This is a domino we should pay attention to.
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by pharke 9y ago
I would argue that the bad UX of current phones and apps is a big obstacle to this happening now. Having to take your phone out of your pocket, unlock it, open an app, point it at the object, wait for recognition, wait for data/proces

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