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by smeej 2y ago
Yes, from what I've heard from other people, I have pretty extreme hyperphantasia. The only other people I've talked to/heard of who experience something similar also have one or more kinds of synesthesia, which I don't
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by smeej 2y ago
Don't let the world tell you what you want. A few days before I found out a company I worked at early was going to go public, which ended up 5x-ing my net worth, I had just been thinking, "Even if I had all the money in the world,
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by smeej 2y ago
My mind's eye doesn't care whether my eyes are open or closed. I can copy things back and forth between "reality" and "internal reality" quite seamlessly, so I can either keep my eyes open and bring things from
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by smeej 2y ago
I think adults with hyperphantasia can easily tell what's real and what's not, but I had a lot of trouble with it as a child. My parents were afraid I was hallucinating, so took me to see a child psychologist, but it turned out
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by smeej 2y ago
My "screen" isn't anywhere in space. It's in my internal world. If I want to see only it, I take a step out of reality, into my head, and there it is. Doesn't matter whether my eyes are open or closed, there's
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by smeej 2y ago
Not very well at all. I barely even think of P as having its own sound at all. It has an air puffing sound, but the vowel is the only difference I actually hear with those words.
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by smeej 2y ago
I just checked and the nearest city I could find results for and we have zero extreme days, 25ish very high, and more than half the year very low. Unfortunately (for this purpose; I generally love it here), I'm about as far north as I
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by smeej 2y ago
Maybe it's just me, but a blanket rule that no one can exempt themselves from a law they help pass seems like a good idea.
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by smeej 2y ago
I'm way out of my depth from a cryptography perspective, but if it's saying you could derive the extended public key, I can see why that would matter. With a protocol like Bitcoin, for example, that would allow you to tie each a
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by smeej 2y ago
The thing that sucks is that my other ancestry is Spanish and Italian. You would think it would help. SPF 15 doesn't do a thing for me in terms of extending the time before I burn, but I'll be fine all day with 30 as long as frict
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by smeej 2y ago
I appreciate your and other commenters suggestions, but I've been down all these roads. I spent a whole summer slowly "working my way up," 5 mins a day the first week, 6 mins a day the 2nd week, 7 the 3rd, etc. It doesn'
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by smeej 2y ago
Get enough sun, but don't get sunburn. Can someone make a product that allows "just enough" sun through for people like me? I live in the northern latitudes of the continental U.S. and take strongly after my Scandinavian ance
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by smeej 2y ago
I wonder how much variation there might be in terms of margin of error. Like, how close do they have to get to keeping people on a rigid 6-month schedule? Would 7 be fine? For what percentage of people? I'm assuming they have reason to
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by smeej 2y ago
Now you're making me wonder if I just don't make enough distinctions in my speech or something, at least when it comes to the short A sound. If I speak these sentences out loud, the words sound exactly the same to me: "That d
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by smeej 2y ago
I tested them out loud in the context of sentences: "Can I get some ham on that sandwich?" and "Did you get your kid a hamster?" and the "ham" part still sounds exactly the same to me. It could definitely be an
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by smeej 2y ago
I edited the 2nd one because it was an actual typo, but ironically the American south is not one of the regions where I've lived. I just find "y'all" clearer than any of its alternatives!
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by smeej 2y ago
> Just think how you pronounce the syllable ham when referring to a piece of meat and when talking about a fury animal—a long ham and a short ham-ster. Hang on. Y'all pronounce these differently? I've lived in four U.S. regions
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by smeej 2y ago
It's not "no shot," though. It's other existing, widely available forms of pre-exposure prophylaxis. They're not comparing the new treatment to nothing. They're comparing it to existing treatments.
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by smeej 2y ago
It's still disappointing that after all this time, nobody's been able to implement a less bad option.
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by smeej 2y ago
It's funny to me that my gut reaction was, "Oh. Why do they want that? Bouba would be such a weird tattoo compared to kiki." I don't have tattoos. I don't really want them (I appreciate the artistry of them, but I c
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by smeej 2y ago
I think you've just confirmed the post's point about overanalysis. This type of thinking is exactly why adults get it right less often than children. Kids immediately recognize the view must be from the driver's side of the b
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by smeej 2y ago
Given how poorly government seems to run everything else it touches, this sounds like a dystopia to me.
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by smeej 2y ago
Doesn't debt, both national and personal, come into this equation in a big way, though, as far as anchors? Like, if I bought a house 10 years ago for $50k (which I actually did), paying off $50k with today's dollars seems like no
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by smeej 2y ago
Those are the factors that make the tradeoff easy for me. I would vastly prefer direct accountability for my own fuckups, because that means I have the agency to do something to fix it. What makes me want to put my head through a wall is
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by smeej 2y ago
I'd tweak this slightly: "It's exceedingly foolish to be an employee at an early startup for the money. " I think there are a lot of us who struggle to fit the larger corporate mold who pretty much only thrive in the
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by smeej 2y ago
Exactly. Or just don't do it. I am sure enough that I would crumble under that specific kind of pressure that I don't put myself in situations where I would experience that specific kind of pressure. Works great!
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by smeej 2y ago
Massachusetts has basically the same weather at the same time. When demand plummets in NH, it also does in MA. Somebody somewhere would still have to store the energy being produced overnight, which happens to be when nobody wants to use it
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by smeej 2y ago
> you could just build more renewables I think your "just" is carrying a lot of weight here. Building more renewables requires buy-in from a LOT more people, like state and local government officials, never mind the actual cons
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by smeej 2y ago
Aren't all these things moot in a situation where the consideration is how much energy to produce from a plant that has already been built and is already operating? New Hampshire's utility isn't considering whether to use bit
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by smeej 2y ago
As far as I know, they do use it for baseload, but there's a very big difference between baseload and peak. In the summer in New Hampshire, for example, it's very common for people to run their air conditioners for a few hours dur

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