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   by techbio 6y ago

   In a one bedroom working alone all day is unnaturally austere.
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   Sounds like a use case for some of those humanities majors.
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   Lower-energy comment here to concur on first-time seeing that acronym, but also to iterate with the thought-network of: "GAFTA"
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   Extraneously strenuous use of "useless" when using "redundant" would have done...unless useless has another usage. EDIT: The commenter echoed, duckly.
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   by techbio 6y ago

   If you believe that's how coin tosses work, you could believe almost anything.
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   The equivalency in math and some hard sciences between "understanding" and "describing symbolically" has never sat very well with me.
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   In his case, also doodling with paper and pencil.
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   by techbio 6y ago

   Sounds like a new search for meaning and creative direction. A simple but effective habit in that direction could come out of: https://juliacameronlive.com/basic-tools/
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   I don't think the argument is that it "has to have happened another time". The argument is that if it is possible to happen once, it's likely to have happened more than once, the "existence heuristic." It prove
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    I make an effort to indent on most keywords, using a Python-like structure to indent related lines to the same level, one more than the keyword operating on them all, with the heuristic that if I can comment one or more lines to debug, I ha
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    by techbio 6y ago

    If it's a question with food, why not every product we ingest? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25551877
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    by techbio 6y ago

    Another discovery brought to you by big aspirin. Edit: It was a joke. Aspirin isn't trying to take down Tylenol, but to not compare this result with a wider selection of painkillers reads to me like a PR play.
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    by techbio 6y ago

    An interesting startup story, and links to measures of atmospheric radio-generated randomness at https://www.random.org/history/
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    by techbio 6y ago

    Might look to "Innumeracy" by John Allen Paulos. Though written a fairly long time ago, the subject fares better over time than many more qualitative ones.
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    Like others here, I read books on paper by incandescent light in the hours before bed. But since you bring it up, I think I might try to start using paper-only for an hour or two after waking also, before facing a screen.
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    by techbio 6y ago

    42
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    Still waiting for the bestseller "How to Tell the Truth With Statistics" to hit.
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    Merriam-Webster puts the two definitions in the other order, but clearly this is a contentious terrain: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/casuistry
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    by techbio 6y ago

    This is why I don't watch videos on my laser printer.
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    I actually appreciated the explanation. Less so the heavy sarcasm. I'm glad it's boring, obvious cubes and not starfish or irreducible complexity, but not in the least surprised, and I still think atoms are concave.
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    Not wrong, I don't think, except that raising energy costs wouldn't help more :)
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    I appreciate the time you've taken to reply to my brief comment, though you admit it took little effort, assuming, as a sibling post here states, "spherical cows in a vacuum", or rather your own equivalents for the sake of re
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    "...further suppose these shapes are all convex, with no indentations." Math; not geology.
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    by techbio 6y ago

    If zooming "out in space and time" elides human existence itself, perhaps that is the wrong technique for valuing us.
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    Thanks for "baby duck syndrome." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprinting_(psychology)
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    Good start--now if you can only make them funny.
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    by techbio 6y ago

    True the Earth is not flat in many different ways, and also, the parts are moving. Edit: if you can put either of those extraordinary places in touch with me, that's fine also.
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    by techbio 6y ago

    Sines, cosines, and the Haversine formula only get you so far (or approximately close). The Earth is neither flat, nor perfectly spherical, but an oblate spheroid. The coordinate systems referenced in TFA are defined to adapt for this, but
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    by techbio 6y ago

    Nelly Bly was an investigative reporter who was committed to an asylum by a judge, more at linked page. In the US, for decades, jails hold many more mentally ill people than psychiatric facilities do. https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#
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    by techbio 6y ago

    I spent a second trying to figure out that apostrophe, and found it humorous, about the same as i'f I saw a stop sign on the shoulder of a freeway.