trukterious

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by trukterious 8y ago
'Reside of experience'. Yes, more especially the residue of imaginative experience . Daydreaming can be dysfunctional & defensive, as in: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5962718/ Y
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by trukterious 8y ago
Movies and TV shows are naturally biased towards social relationships and friendships because it's hard to present a first person point of view. Yet I assume that's where the future of entertainment lies, in first person virtual r
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by trukterious 8y ago
I'm at 52 deg N and an enthusiastic convert to D3 supplementation. Yet there are other factors which make going out into the sunshine pleasant. UV light causes nitric oxide to be released from the skin, relaxing the blood vessels. Also
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by trukterious 8y ago
Cold turkey sounds like a healthy diet :-) But seriously, the idea that saturated fat causes type II diabetes is news to me. Can you provide an explanation and/or sources? Thank you.
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>Time inconsistency refers to the tendency of the human brain to value immediate rewards more highly than future rewards. To me it seems this sort of reasoning suffers from the homuncular fallacy. Who is placing value on the rewards: a
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by trukterious 8y ago
I remember at my college dining hall there'd usually be a row of keys on the table in front of any row of women sat down to dinner.
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by trukterious 8y ago
>Because one gains more from any experience wherein something in the way of effort is demanded. This is true, however it's an argument for choosing hard goals ( because they are hard, e.g. 'we choose to go to the moon...&#x2
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by trukterious 8y ago
Figure of speech :-) Yet I know from experience that visceral pleasures apparently make my heart beat faster, and that salt-water rinses for toothache are fairly unpleasant.
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by trukterious 8y ago
Yes, we do try to save species we know are threatened by human activities and because we have wiped out many animal species in the past. Also, as with other kinds of problem-solving, our efforts are indeed going to include missteps and side
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by trukterious 8y ago
Hear hear. Also I'd bet that a given quantity of salt sprinked on french fries raises the blood pressure more than the same amount dissolved in a glass of water accompanying unsalted fries. Wonder if anyone has tested this (or similar)
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by trukterious 8y ago
Well, people eat for comfort and pleasure, as well as for calories, and some people get addicted to food. So I think if we understood addiction and how to cure it then this might automatically solve the obesity epidemic as well as the drug
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by trukterious 8y ago
Bird-herding by drone is another potentially emerging technology: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17707305
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Yet some humans try to save other species. No other species does that.
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Yes, discipline is needed, but knowledge helps too, because it shows some of the directions in which discipline may be applied, for example: One can learn that carb and fructose-rich foods are addictive and cause diabetes when consumed in e
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by trukterious 8y ago
Thieving isn't a good life -- for one thing, thieves lie awake at night worrying that someone's going to steal their stuff.
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by trukterious 8y ago
Thanks! I found an audio version/adaptation, will listen later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAlagNId3fw
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by trukterious 8y ago
This is slightly depressing as I've been looking forward to Isaac Asimov's "belts" for some time now. A giant loop of of parallel walkways of graded speeds, continuously operating for city-wide underground transport. I g
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by trukterious 8y ago
Conspiracy theories are usually bad explanations and leave unexplained stuff like how new conspirators are recruited without exposing the conspiracy. Yet a small fraction of conspiracy theories are true, e.g. Guy Fawkes. A more sophistica
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by trukterious 8y ago
>Conspiracy theorist and online troll Alex Jones >The decision comes hours after Apple and Facebook made similar moves So I guess Mr Jones will have to report on this particular conspiracy elsewhere. I for one would like to hear it.
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by trukterious 8y ago
Yes. A review that explains why the product is good is harder to fake. Plus the reader may be able to verify independently whether the explanation itself is good. In which case the source no longer signifies.