tungstenfurnace

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by tungstenfurnace 17y ago
If I drink salt solution this might have very little effect on my blood pressure. However, if I add salt to my pasta bake it might make it tastier. I might therefore eat more of it and raise my blood pressure this way.
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by tungstenfurnace 17y ago
My speculation is that 'willpower' or 'vitality' relates directly to the available reserves of neurotransmitter(s) in your nervous system. Notes: If you try to do something bad (that part of you knows is wrong), this will set up repetitious
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by tungstenfurnace 17y ago
Yes, the glucose idea is pretty implausible. Better might be: available reserves of neurotransmitters.
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by tungstenfurnace 17y ago
Isn't it better to focus on oneself -- trying to be a better parent or teacher -- than to focus on testing the child in your care and trying to predict his future? It's not possible to predict people's futures anyway and all this tyrannical
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by tungstenfurnace 17y ago
He does seem vulnerable, even tortured. Does this go hand in hand with great creativity?
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by tungstenfurnace 17y ago
He does seem vulnerable, even tortured. Does this go hand in hand with creativity?
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by tungstenfurnace 17y ago
Here's a radical idea: only read books that you enjoy and find interesting. Don't measure reading success by the number of books, but by how far your hair was blown back :-)
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by tungstenfurnace 17y ago
Minor suggestion: put the intro to narro the scrapdealer on the load page and lose the keyboard instructions page altogether.
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by tungstenfurnace 17y ago
Rule 10: for the wintertime, invest in an electric blanket. That way you don't lose the first 20 minutes of sleep having to warm up the bed. Coming next week: the 12 rules for helping you to remember all the other rules you learnt :-)
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by tungstenfurnace 17y ago
The war on vice is properly regarded as a private war fought within each individual.
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by tungstenfurnace 17y ago
Problem is that, unlike in that movie, our computers aren't slick or fast. Gains in speed are quickly lost by the added load of new features.
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by tungstenfurnace 17y ago
I think 'great is simple' applies to programming too. The reason I learned BASIC at school was because there were computers lying around which all had the same BASIC pre-installed on ROM. They switched on in less than a second. Nowadays,
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by tungstenfurnace 17y ago
Stuff which is sufficiently interesting and important I remember automatically; the rest I forget. Presumably that's the case with most people. So, rather than enjoining them to memorise stuff which I find interesting, I'm better off enth
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by tungstenfurnace 17y ago
And, on the side, how about a Manhattan-style project to produce a commerical scale Thorium Reactor within five years?
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by tungstenfurnace 17y ago
Yeah, sometimes novel phenomena are stumbled upon. Where they are deliberately stumbled upon I would call it exploration rather than science. I don't think that exercise falls into that category. There is nothing surprising about exercise
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by tungstenfurnace 17y ago
Unfortunately there's no explanation which means there's no science here. (The world seems to be full of studies which measure things that are easy to measure and say things that people want to hear.) Here's an explanation as to why exerc
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by tungstenfurnace 17y ago
I want privacy because (1) I break laws I don't know about (2) I do things which might be misinterpreted as breaking the law or as being immoral (3) I do things which are considered immoral by most people, but which are not illegal. For t
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by tungstenfurnace 17y ago
Educate students -- lecturing doesn't work. Best is working from the best material in small groups of peers and having help available from graduate students. Socialise students -- learning to get on with people is best done with friends.
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by tungstenfurnace 17y ago
>I can be upset and angry and still participate in a rational discussion. The problem is that it would only take a few people who can't remain rational for a tipping point to be reached whereby the overall quality of debate badly degr
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by tungstenfurnace 17y ago
It's better to steer clear of political issues which are covered more than adequately elsewhere. They are by their nature divisive and tend to make people upset and/or angry. This coarsens the atmosphere and makes reasoned and intelligent d
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by tungstenfurnace 17y ago
No explanation, no science.
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by tungstenfurnace 17y ago
>To survive these daily onslaughts, Esther put on her familiar mask of haughty confidence and switched on her emotional autopilot, mimicking social interactions while feeling nothing Hmm, that summarises about 50% of social interactions
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by tungstenfurnace 17y ago
I know what you mean; I couldn't do it either. However, he confessed his lie, and now he works making movies. They're lies too! They're fictional . Yet good things -- including important truths -- come out of them. Richard Branson confesse
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by tungstenfurnace 17y ago
>the privacy argument is a joke if you are in a public place Surely not always a joke. If, for example, a couple is kissing in public then recording them against their will seems wrong to me. Whether it ought to be illegal is another
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by tungstenfurnace 17y ago
Great idea! Also, mount the dishwashers a few feet above the floor to avoid all that leaning over.
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by tungstenfurnace 17y ago
Affluent people are aggressively hooked on entertainment and stress-based productivity, which has dampened creativity and optimism somewhat, imo. One field generating a lot of exciting discoveries seems to be materials science.
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by tungstenfurnace 17y ago
>bullish future where our society continues to have plenty of natural resources (oil, food and fresh water) Thorium would cover a great deal of that; the critical resource we need is optimism .
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by tungstenfurnace 17y ago
Nutrient density, like he says, isn't the only factor in determining what makes food healthy. For example, food which tastes delicious and raises blood sugar makes us 'high'. Being high is bad for the body (please note, I'm not saying it's
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by tungstenfurnace 17y ago
Yes, it's called day dreaming :-) This corroborates the theory that long periods of doing nothing help to develop creativity. (Day dreaming makes you smarter; meditation makes you well.)
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by tungstenfurnace 17y ago
Arthur Dent: I wonder what'll happen if I press this button. Ford Prefect: Don't. Arthur Dent: [presses it] Oh. Ford Prefect: What happened? Arthur Dent: A sign lit up saying "Please do not press this button again."

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