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by themgt 11y ago
Here's a 300w for $135: http://www.amazon.com/GalaxyhydroTM-Spectrum-Greenhouse-Flow... Or a 1200w for $369: http://www.amazon.com/KingTM-Spectrum-360-860nm-10bands-Flow... I actually have free electri
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by themgt 11y ago
Interesting tech, but quite expensive. I'm looking to do some indoor herbs/greens in my office, but these lights look maybe 5x more expensive than the multi-color diode competitors. I'd be curious to see comparison with PAR s
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by themgt 11y ago
I guess you didn't RTFA, where it says the United States Chamber of Commerce is helping sue other countries for public health measures such as eliminating second hand smoke and ensuring people are well-informed of the risks they'r
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by themgt 11y ago
It's not that we're not aware, it's essentially that we may only be aware - aware of our thoughts once our subconscious thinks them, aware of our actions and their consequences once they're made. The trick, seemingly i
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by themgt 11y ago
I also highly recommend that book. I wonder whether I'd consider this a hemispheric situation. It seems to me like the internal, autobiographic self being disabled, and then upon awakening this self immediately says "wait, discont
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by themgt 11y ago
Well, it's an interesting point, because apparently if the tape recorder never turns back on, you're just kinda stuck in time as the person you were. So it suggests at the least that the tape recorder aspect of consciousness, perh
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by themgt 11y ago
Yeah, I've had that also. Very strange, like how does one recognize that one has "woken up" from being already awake? It's like, oh, the tape recorder turned back on. Maybe we're just the tape recorder?
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by themgt 11y ago
I'm more curious about, it's known that Facebook uses algorithms to display content based, in part on the popularity of that type/user's history of content popularity. So to what extent does that create a self-fulfilling
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SpaceX's Rocket Crash Came at a Really Bad Time(motherboard.vice.com)
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by themgt 11y ago
With our ever-increasing knowledge of the importance of our friendly microbiome, does shutting down their communication system really sound like a good, probably-no-side-effects kind of idea?
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by themgt 11y ago
When the director of policy for Doctors Without Borders tells the public that "U.S. negotiators have basically functioned as drug lobbyists" and "We consider this the worst-ever agreement in terms of access to medicine",
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by themgt 11y ago
I'm not sure the exact experiment performed in the article (which sounded similar), but I've always thought the delayed choice quantum eraser was about the best example of this, once you spend some time understanding the experimen
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by themgt 11y ago
Right. This way of describing it is much closer to "zero-worlds" or relational quantum mechanics, and to my mind is a far simpler, deeper way of understanding what's really going on - reality is simply all entanglement. What
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by themgt 11y ago
Thanks! That paper/book is going on the reading list. I need to bring this up with some neuroscience friends.
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by themgt 11y ago
I don't know you at all, so it's hard to really give advice. From my experience though, most tech-industry men who can't find a date have some combination of these problems: * obsessively interested in/talking about tech
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by themgt 11y ago
There are many, many people who skip showering, haircuts, exercise and washing dishes and still easily find a girlfriend. The fact that op is 30 and has never had one suggests far deeper social problems, which I think this life-improvement
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by themgt 11y ago
From my not incredibly extended experience, the problem was the FFL attracts exactly the sort of people in op's situation - those with criminal records and/or nowhere else to turn. You're then basically a mercenary in a group
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by themgt 11y ago
(re: another comment) I knew a couple people in the french foreign legion, and I wouldn't recommend joining them unless you want to become even more fucked up. What I would recommend instead, is save up a bit of money and move to anoth
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by themgt 11y ago
Wow, fantastic paper: However, the relevance of Turing model is questioned even in case of present-day computing [33] [34]. Indeed, any computing machine that follows a Turing model would be highly inefficient to simulate the activity of b
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by themgt 11y ago
> To claim that the brain has a fundamental advantage over a Turing machine is to claim that there's some magical quantum (or otherwise) advantage in the brain's physical system that is un-simulate-able by a Turing machine. Aga
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by themgt 11y ago
But this is effectively begging the question. If you assume that reality can be completely described by functions that compute on natural numbers, then obviously anything within reality, including consciousness, can be simulated by a Turing
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by themgt 11y ago
I think the key fail is hidden beneath this statement, 'many “digital” computer switches are built out of analog components and processes'. In fact obviously, all computers are built out of analog components, in the sense that the
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by themgt 11y ago
I can relate, for sure, but it's not like they'd written a 50 million line operating system in ASP. At the point you've decide to build a terrible new internal-only language just to maintain a single bug-tracking app codebase
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by themgt 11y ago
If you go to the trouble to write your own language, make it not terrible? Public Abstract Class Animal Abstract Function Speak() As String Overridable Function Eat() As String Return "Yum!" End Function E
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by themgt 11y ago
Respectfully, their example code is the following: <% <WebEntryPoint("example.asp")> _ Sub Example() %> <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>An Example Wasabi P
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by themgt 11y ago
It's important to understand that if we completely shut off CO2 production today, the climate would continue to warm significantly for decades/centuries into the future. And that warming might not be completely catastrophic, and c
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by themgt 11y ago
Helpful when reading this thread to keep in mind Michael Mann's six stages of climate change denial: 1. CO2 is not actually increasing. 2. Even if it is, the increase has no impact on the climate since there is no convincing evidence o
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by themgt 11y ago
Do read this criticism of Roy Spencer's methods, which to me do not appear credible: http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2014/02/roy-spencers-latest-decei... http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2014/05&#x2
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by themgt 11y ago
They even named their new programming language after Taylor as a co-promotional ruse. Wake up sheeple!!1
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by themgt 11y ago
Completely agreed - I do think the fasting studies suggest you should find some way to integrate that into your diet, and the easiest way is likely intermittently, trying to space out and decrease your eating in reasonable ways, e.g. taking

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