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by rewgs 5y ago
Ha, I won't, but thank you.
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by rewgs 5y ago
> Remember "average" means you're already better than half the people! Well, no. It just means you're part of the bell curve. Which is probably around 60 to 90% of people.
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by rewgs 5y ago
Ah got it. Mind-boggling. Thank you!
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by rewgs 5y ago
So, even though “100,000 light years” means “it will take 100,000 years to travel this distance at the speed of light,” those traveling won’t experience it as 100,000 years, but rather a much shorter time period? How long would the traveler
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by rewgs 5y ago
No, auto-immune means that your immune system attacks the body. Allergies are where your immune system flags non-self, non-harmless stuff as harmful. And the answer is: no one knows. It’s rare for adults with no history of food allergies as
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by rewgs 5y ago
It's very late and I don't have the energy to look up the math, but: Assuming you're traveling at light speed across the Milky Way, a distance of 100,000 light years, the trip would take 100,000 years for the person travelin
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by rewgs 5y ago
Ha! Funny, I've never considered it even though it's so incredibly obvious: the spacecraft needs to be able to slow down out of light speed. That might honestly be even harder than getting up to light speed, and that of course
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by rewgs 5y ago
Yeah, I think that the Fermi Paradox can be pretty easily explained: the universe is fucking huge. Those who talk about the feasibility of alien life visiting us very simply haven't thought it through, or are ignorant of the reality of
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by rewgs 5y ago
I wanted to travel directly after college but instead got straight to work. I'm now 31 and in the last year have developed a couple dozen food allergies, to the point that I very literally cannot eat out at restaurants. I have to prepa
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by rewgs 5y ago
> Any time where something comes up and I "must" be up at an early hour with alarm it affects my ability to fall asleep the night before. Usually the more important the thing is the harder it will be to fall asleep. Like ensuri
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by rewgs 5y ago
Amazing to be able to interact with those who were actually there. Thank you for the story!
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by rewgs 5y ago
Welcome to the immune system :p Most people don't develop food allergies. Especially most adults if they don't have a family history of it/didn't have any food allergies as children. Those that do typically only develop
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by rewgs 5y ago
This is precisely the thing I figured out when I finally eventually quit a long-term weed dependence: do anything else. It does not matter what it is (well, within reason). At first, I spent a lot of time staring at the walls, literally,
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by rewgs 5y ago
I don't take it every day but I often take it at pretty high doses (1200 to 1800 mg) due to an ear condition. The most adjacent condition is called Hyperacusis, which is the word I use most often in conversation, but in practice it dif
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by rewgs 5y ago
Okay that's sick. Absolutely awesome idea.
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by rewgs 5y ago
Good. A few years back, I was having questionable symptoms that pointed towards ALS, and my neurologist made the mistake of telling me. The two months between that day and the round of tests that were able to prove his theory wrong were ver
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by rewgs 5y ago
> Bonus points if you make it a SaaS test platform and get universities to buy into it Surely this exists already? It's good and obvious an idea to not be taken already.
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by rewgs 5y ago
> libertarian speed-run to regulated banking Ha! This is perfectly put.
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by rewgs 5y ago
> Apple's iDevices and T2/M1 Macs all require Internet access to finish their setup. If by "finish" you mean "log into iCloud," then yes, but that goes without saying. You can absolutely have a working devic
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by rewgs 5y ago
As always, essays like these bring to mind the Prisoner's Dilemma. A thought experiment that, at scale, humanity consistently loses. I'm not sure that there is a solution. Part of the overall system of..."all this," for
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by rewgs 5y ago
Yup, very similar except in his case he got well enough to work again. I too had a couple of times where my ears just freaked out and went deaf. Pumped me full of steroids to bring the hearing back. It's been pretty hellish but thankfu
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by rewgs 5y ago
To be completely honest, optimism is only showing through because I'm hitting the latter end of the grieving process. It's been a very, very tough road coming to terms with this. Thank you, I'll do that.
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by rewgs 5y ago
Thank you!
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by rewgs 5y ago
I haven't contacted him but I love his work!!
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by rewgs 5y ago
Absolutely agreed.
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by rewgs 5y ago
It's a living :) I replied to someone with more details below if you're interested.
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by rewgs 5y ago
Sure. It's actually a little sad, heh, but more on that in a second. I followed the route that many composers take: working for other composers. First as kind of a general assistant, then doing the boring tasks required to make the pro
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by rewgs 5y ago
Throughout my 20s (in my 30s now) I worked as a film composer in Hollywood, land of personal assistants. One thing I took to heart was that the best personal assistants weren't looking to use the opportunity get elsewhere. What you w
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by rewgs 5y ago
Same, but replace Atom with Sublime. Vim is too much of a time suck (I will customize until the end of time and get nothing done), VS Code is a bit busy and hectic for my tastes. Sublime is just lean and solid, I love it.
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by rewgs 5y ago
I literally changed my last name from a very common one to a very uncommon one for this reason. Saw it coming from a mile away. That and my URL purchase went from a potential $40k or more to $8.

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