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by pkghost 7y ago
Downvoted for this: > Equality of outcome forces people to do things that they may not have an interest in What?! Equality of outcome, as I've encountered it, is always downstream of individual choice. That is, it's up to the h
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by pkghost 7y ago
@harimau777 and theferalrobot regarding evolutionary timelines: It appears we've been eating meat for about 2.5 million years. 12,000 years seems like the blink of an eye, relatively. Epigenetic research has definitely changed my notio
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by pkghost 7y ago
As if there are not other industries that benefit from meat being deemed unhealthy by science? Non-expert perspective on this: I find it very difficult to believe that there is such a thing as too much meat (and easy to believe that too muc
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by pkghost 7y ago
What's wrong with chasing? The buddha didn't check out after enlightenment, he spent the rest of his life chasing the same thing for others
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by pkghost 7y ago
I think you'll get more traction from looking into criticism of identity politics. Maybe start w/Slavo Zizek
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by pkghost 7y ago
https://hello.pixinote.com/ is a properly beautiful product in this vein, though input is restricted to a square-cropped photo and a few lines of text
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by pkghost 7y ago
> $1M per year, is too small to draw anyone's attention. I'll take this opportunity to tell a long-winded story about how that number can be two orders of magnitude larger, and still be too small. I was with Slide when Google b
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by pkghost 7y ago
the workshop facilitator was of ambiguous mediterranean origin and clearly traveled the world giving this workshop. i've lived in SF for close to a decade—while it remains a very special and unique place, its reputation as a nexus of c
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by pkghost 7y ago
Hypothesis: it would be better to live in a world where UI is mostly user-authored, and B2C is mostly an API marketplace. In other words, imagine that instead of being forced to digest a plurality of static and unforgiving view hierarchies
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by pkghost 7y ago
Has anyone done a deep dive on 5g health concerns? E.g., 240-some scientists and 40 doctors signed a letter of discouragement (or something), claims research indicates 5g interacts with human biology in poorly understood ways: https:/
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by pkghost 7y ago
A couple of anecdotes: I went to a group rhythm workshop in San Francisco called TaKeTiNa wherein a group of 50 of us learned, over the course of a few hours, to perform a stomp/clap polyrhythm (that is, a sequence that is really the c
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by pkghost 8y ago
The left hemisphere encodes tool use. Its preference for this is so strong that even left-handed folks encode tool-use in the left hemisphere, which means that the round trip from hand to brain goes left hand -> right hemisphere (b/
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by pkghost 8y ago
I read the first half of this book about eight years ago and haven't stopped noticing the same story in different places. It shows up in meditation frameworks (Chuladasa's attention/awareness) to Jungian psychology (anima&#x2
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by pkghost 8y ago
the graphics indeed failed to reflect the fact that each eye is split vertically into two fields of vision that go to separate brain hemispheres (the inner field going to the same-side hemisphere and the outer half going to the opposite), b
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by pkghost 8y ago
Or, furthermore, by standard induction, or by standard conduction via the extracellular matrix (assuming the ECM can deal w/400microns and axons/dendrites cannot—idk if this holds)
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by pkghost 8y ago
I'm surprised to see no mention of the two mechanisms that jump out at me as candidate explanations: a) standard electrical induction b) standard conductance via the extracellular matrix ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by pkghost 8y ago
bewunderungeifersucht
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by pkghost 8y ago
Is this a joke? > Finding: From 1997 through 2016, medical marketing expanded substantially, and spending increased from $17.7 to $29.9 billion Adjusted for inflation, that might even constitute a decrease in spending: 2.5% annual market
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by pkghost 8y ago
No other profession has quite the same capacity to transform itself. Like blacksmiths, programmers are capable of building tools that not only change the way they work but enable new kinds of work to be done, often by making previously oner
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by pkghost 8y ago
If you hit the gym too close to bedtime, that's not super surprising. It also may take time for your body to adapt to the workouts. I hope this isn't stopping you from strength training at all — from what I've read, it's
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by pkghost 8y ago
kudos to stcredzero for a humorous and tactful exit... I'll be the killjoy and explain his joke, which I think was a last-ditch attempt illustrate the point he's been trying (and failing) to get across all thread, which is that &g
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by pkghost 8y ago
> That's insane, literally. Metaphor is literally dead.
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by pkghost 8y ago
If you haven't, try Ursula Le Guin. Her psychologies aren't rendered in quite as much detail as Dostoyevsky's—perhaps because she comes after and therefore needs to break less ground there?—but she's unique (in my experi
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by pkghost 8y ago
the mechanism has to do with chromatin and quantum entanglement in the bands that connect the rods (cones?) in their retinas. don't think the bodymod crew is going to catch up to this any time soon... AR will get there first for sure.
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by pkghost 9y ago
Neuroplasticity yes indeed; Lumosity users are at least getting better at Lumosity games. Generalization no.
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by pkghost 9y ago
The willpower hypothesis is one of the larger tire fires in the disaster that is reproducibility in psychology research. https://www.google.com/search?q=willpower+reproducibility
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by pkghost 9y ago
Q for sorenbs or schickling or anybody else on the team: how far can you take it in terms of disk IO (not the serverless API portion) scaling? If I build a consumer web product on graph.cool and blow up, what's the end of the runway?
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by pkghost 9y ago
Though many reasonable rebuttals have been mentioned, the one case in which I find this pattern indispensable is when creating mock-instances for a variety of classes that need to be interleaved amongst genuine instances (say, ORM objects,
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by pkghost 10y ago
Cross-platform alternative: http://emcrisostomo.github.io/fswatch/
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by pkghost 10y ago
Is anybody else vaguely disgusted that this headline is not a joke?

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