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by rthomas6 8y ago
In a global sense, it really is. So is eating at restaurants regularly, or even eating meat with every meal. We just don't realize it because we live in such rich countries, and everybody does that stuff here. Me included. But most peo
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I do think it's absurd to expect them to moderate their behavior without regulation. If it made their products more expensive to do so (which it would), they'll just lose market share to some other less scrupulous corporation sell
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The end result of this is that driving a lot and excessive heating and cooling of spaces are more of an expensive luxury. The problem is people see owning and driving a personal vehicle as something like a right instead of the extravagant o
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by rthomas6 8y ago
You're kind of talking around the parent comment's point. Global corporations don't make that profit in a vacuum, they do it by selling people things they want. Barring huge technological progress, our current way of life has
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by rthomas6 8y ago
YES. I really dislike the insinuation that all those companies could voluntarily change their behavior and stay in business. There's no incentive for them to eat the cost of that negative externality, and their competition would immedi
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by rthomas6 8y ago
I greatly prefer silent meditation. People prefer different things, so ymmv. My advice is to carve out 30 minutes in the morning and just start. Pick a focus; most people pick a sensation of breathing. While focusing on this, observe what y
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by rthomas6 8y ago
This is what I do: 1. Meditate every day 2. I have the following text file on my desktop. Answer the questions before you start, then start, and do nothing else but the steps listed for the amount of time listed. What are my steps? Why acco
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by rthomas6 8y ago
This isn't a solution for most people, but I started using the "screen call" button on my Pixel 2 for numbers I don't know, and it's been great. The illegal telemarketers will just hang up, and the number of calls I
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by rthomas6 8y ago
That's not strictly true. The recent wars weren't "declarations of war", but most (not all) were authorized by Congress. Congress voted on military action against those countries and it passed both chambers, but they did
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by rthomas6 8y ago
It sells a lot of large things in its warehouses that are expensive to ship. I'm sure you can buy a 50 pound bag of dog food or a giant pack of paper towels online, but will you beat Costco's price? Doubtful.
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by rthomas6 8y ago
Could I sign up 10 times and use statistical regression to get very accurate results?
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I think we should also be asking this about adults. We know screens interfere with sleep. We know screen time is correlated with depression. We know the mere presence of smartphones lowers cognitive ability and concentration. It seems obv
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Netlify domains get all green
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Which phone? If you're willing to unlock the bootloader and flash a custom OS load, you could probably get 8 or at least 7.
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by rthomas6 8y ago
I mean, that's true with meat, too.
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Subjective wellbeing, stress hormone levels, and fMRI readings would all be good ways to measure happiness in my opinion. When I wrote the above, I was thinking of Buddhist monks, but I didn't want to imply other monastic disciplines w
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by rthomas6 8y ago
FWIW, I had Buddhist monks in mind. I don't have any direct empirical evidence this is true, but their methods have been and continue to be empirically validated (to increase subjective wellbeing, decrease stress markers, increase em
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by rthomas6 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill We spend a lot of our time trying to add pleasure to our lives to (temporarily) boost us above our baseline happiness level, when really we should be spending that time l
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by rthomas6 8y ago
I think people discover something new soon after a set of preconditions are met. Then once people know about it, it becomes easier for later people to discover it, because this knowledge starts to be incorporated in speech, other fields of
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Also them being picked to be VS models because of their good skin.
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by rthomas6 8y ago
Wow, talk about correlation != causation. Being attractive increases your likelihood of being wealthy. You know what else is good for your skin? Lower stress, something else correlated with high incomes. People who are wealthy also tend to
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by rthomas6 8y ago
This definition of consciousness, that there is some internal state that can change based on input, and changing this internal state leads to different behavior, is problematic. So is a definition that defines consciousness as responding to
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by rthomas6 8y ago
Honest question. Why not Firefox? What are your concerns with it?
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by rthomas6 8y ago
This is great! When the system IDs someone, you know they're not the person you're looking for. It's a great way to weed out potential suspects.
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by rthomas6 8y ago
Yes, but the real strength of Python (as with most popular languages) comes from its community. The reason why I end up using it so much is because somebody already made a good library that does what I want, and because it's much easie
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True, nobody eats homemade soup.
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As someone out of the loop, can I get an explanation for this?
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Surely both models can coexist? I don't think there should be any decrease in government science funding.
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I wonder if some rich people could start a form of charity where they just pay a few incredibly brilliant people a good salary to go do whatever research they want for the rest of their lives. Sort of like patronage. Just bypass the whole g
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by rthomas6 8y ago
Yes! That scene was hilarious. I also like the scene when they're super excited that they hooked a lamp up to a port on the open internet and someone turned it on. Then someone asks, why spend the time to do this? And they respond, bec

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