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by poormystic 6y ago
The developer told me personally that it is definitely open source so I'll be back with more
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by poormystic 6y ago
I was a technician doing industrial microcomputer repairs with that v=ir mentality and life got impossible. Somehow I found it in myself to pray for faith and was rewarded with a satori experience. That's more than 30 years ago now. My
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by poormystic 6y ago
Well, you might have read Machiavelli's "The Prince" for the same reasons.:)
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by poormystic 7y ago
And now I see from the fresh links that bats don't have the same kind of immune system as humans. Antibodies are not made by bats.
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by poormystic 7y ago
It's a good question. Based purely on a guess, I'd say that human antibodies are constructed in such a way that other parts of the immune system do not destroy them - in other words our natural antibodies pass a "self or non-
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by poormystic 7y ago
Can't have satori experiences nor achieve enlightenment. Can't love, can't enjoy life.
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by poormystic 7y ago
Look we all know these sorts of things... most of us won't talk about them and I believe there might be quite a few of us who won't even think about them. So it's a disappointment to people like me to see this sort of thing b
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by poormystic 7y ago
Most of us have not developed spiritual lives and know of no reason that might persuade us that goodness is a valuable state of being, nor that the state of love (kindness; care; honesty) is also the state of happiness (beauty, loveliness).
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by poormystic 7y ago
Mostly the best thing is to improve your diet, paying particular attention to leafy greens such as cabbage. You also need Vitamin D made by your melanocytes using sunlight energy for some purposes but dieticians tend to believe in leafy gre
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by poormystic 7y ago
Bah!! People are letting their kids be educated and addicted to the gaa-gaa box. Brought up without a loving family environment; with overly busy, disinvolved parents - the reasons for the incomplete development of modern children are obvio
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by poormystic 7y ago
Surely any substance that is a substitute for opioids and reduces the anguish of opiod addiction, is itself an opioid, and addictive?
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by poormystic 7y ago
The Art of Electronics, by Horowitz & Hill
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by poormystic 7y ago
I think that, since a person can give full attention to only one thing at a time, you might well be exclusively focusing on your thinking and ignoring your feelings. It is not uncommon for people to use their intellectual faculties in this
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by poormystic 7y ago
You really had me there. I thought HN had transmogrified into Facebook. Gaaah!
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by poormystic 7y ago
The world has not gone mad, you've merely had an unrealistic expectation that it might be consistent and sane. Some people want love, happiness, beauty and sweetness in their lives. Others prefer security, power, self-satisfaction and
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by poormystic 7y ago
Surely this is a poorly edited title! I think they mean "The human gut virome is highly individual and stable over time", don't they? Such errors reduce my expectations of the body of work that follows.
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by poormystic 7y ago
I wish I could provide references... I recall a tutor stating that human speech can be encoded at a very similar rate. This was in 1985 I think.
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by poormystic 7y ago
Anything by Krishnamurti. Don’t be fooled by the name; he’s a good thinker :)
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by poormystic 8y ago
How is this not scary?
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by poormystic 8y ago
I suppose we’ll someday hear that many of the companies who got people’s data have themselves been hacked, and that privacy is ended for many people. Surely Facebook must have some responsibility in such cases. It can never be too late to