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by rtl49 11y ago
>There's no shame in using a chair for sitting Easier said than believed when there's a sixty-year-old woman within view managing just fine without one ^^. I actually appreciated the discipline of the retreat, I was just physic
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Yes, I understand. My main message is that it seems a software developer need not be a programmer in the sense of writing code as we currently conceptualize it. It isn't hard to imagine a future where ordinary people can create their o
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I agree that some people recommend the retreats with too little restraint. I'm a fairly young and healthy person, and I still found sitting still while cross-legged for long periods of time very painful. Even on the last day I found it
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I've been (trying to) meditate for about four years now. I even attended a ten day silent meditation retreat in September, which I wrote about in another post. I still find it extremely difficult. People vary in their aptitude for medi
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This kind of content seems more appropriate for WebMD or WikiHow than the NYT website. There's no discussion of any substance here, it's pure filler. Differences in meditation technique and course format between apps find no menti
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Incorporating themes and plugins strikes me as basically equivalent to using a framework written by a third party in your software product, which few would say disqualifies you as a "developer," even if you couldn't write fra
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This is a silly knickknack intended to promote justpark.com. It doesn't work, and even if you account for differences in other variables (mouse vs keyboard, rendering speed, etc.), it probably can't work reliably given the variati
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With respect to my comment, it leaves them in a completely different position from the one I referred to, as they were before Harper's term. I was clarifying that the OP did not appear to be defending the sale of "credentialed&quo
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I don't think the titles we use are irrelevant like some have said, but why draw the line at the manual editing of text that is ultimately translated into machine language? Do programmers working at a lower level of abstraction have a
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>Yes. The search for scientific truth shouldn't be a narrative for the people who pay for it. I don't believe the parent comment is arguing on behalf of "merchants of doubt". He or she is suggesting that it should be
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Bear in mind that that each of the "high-IQ-associated genes" (alleles) is responsible for the synthesis of a polypeptide, and that the phenotypes produced by their interactions can be extremely difficult to predict. I believe the
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I think it's tongue-in-cheek or a publicity stunt. Among other problems, this would only increase the carrying capacity of our planet. It doesn't miraculously solve the problems of inevitable overpopulation or excessive consumptio
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What you say is true, but the proposal is to reduce the height of the human species as a whole. Thus the cross-species comparison might be applicable here (i.e. humans at their current height vs. a smaller derived species).
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I think this is a reasonable interpretation, but those who disagree with you might point to a large number of instances where extremists' political grievances are only intelligible in the context of religious beliefs derived from the Q
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I think few would disagree that religious scriptures can be used as a pretense or "justification" for violence, but I believe your comment cited the content of the Quran as the "root cause" of Muslim violence. Given that
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I've encountered this explanation before (most notably from Sam Harris), and I don't feel qualified to disagree with it, but I wonder how you account for the difference between the actions of Muslims and those of other religious t
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I attended one of these ten day retreats in September. It was a worthwhile experience, but it hasn't produced any great change in my day-to-day experience. That said, many people I met at the retreat reported feelings of great personal