wapapaloobop

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by wapapaloobop 11y ago
>Mining on Earth leads to conflicts on Earth, so what's the difference? The difference is that conspiracy theorists and others will fear that an asteroid would be used to destroy a major city. But we've got to learn how to defl
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by wapapaloobop 11y ago
That's a false analogy since farming potatoes is an existing technology.
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by wapapaloobop 11y ago
It's good things are getting efficient up to a point however those kind of savings are unsustainable and in the longterm our energy use will continue to grow exponentially, including for environmental management. Thus it doesn't m
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by wapapaloobop 11y ago
...could provide a third of America's present power requirements.
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by wapapaloobop 11y ago
There's an assumption here that meaning or understanding is discrete and limited but the reality is that there is an unlimited depth of meaning in any text. So a claim that a reader has captured the meaning has to include "for the
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by wapapaloobop 11y ago
I've a very limited working memory and thus at university lectures my choice as I saw it was either (1) trying to understand the content, or (2) taking notes. Looking back, it never occurred to me that notes written without comprehensi
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by wapapaloobop 11y ago
I'm a night owl and I think I know what's going on here, at least as far as I'm concerned. It is that every so often I indulge in too much coffee, booze, etc, and this pushes back bedtime by an hour or two. Or I get excited a
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by wapapaloobop 11y ago
Even if you're not depressed there are several reasons to spend more time in bed. (1) get more sleep, (2) develop the faculty of imagination, (3) meditate (it doesn't matter if you fall asleep; you're in bed after all).
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by wapapaloobop 11y ago
PG noted that getting rich is largely about running errands. In fact most of what society regards as 'work' is like this. What one needs is a hard problem to work on.
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by wapapaloobop 11y ago
I don't think this gets to the heart of how words can become taboo in the first place. It's because they evoke associations and imagery in the listener's mind which are gross (e.g. bad smells, STDs, jealousy). Moreover, the l
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by wapapaloobop 11y ago
If you go outside with a measuring tape and a stopwatch you'll discover there's an unlimited number of measurements you can make. So that can't be how scientists operate. They are guided by prior theories. >[science] doesn
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by wapapaloobop 11y ago
Cos it doesn't work with an explanation. Science is about explaining things.
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by wapapaloobop 11y ago
>otherwise it tastes horrible; try raw cacao Every luxury food or drug tastes horrible until you've learnt to enjoy it. Remember your first beer or coffee? My guess is sugar would initially taste somewhat foul ('sickly sweet&#x
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by wapapaloobop 11y ago
You put a bunch of people, be they left-wing, right-wing, religious or secular in the same spot, and their talk will be influenced and perhaps dominated by group politics. A significant minority with an internalised sense of lack will compe
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by wapapaloobop 11y ago
Good points about dry mouth and grinding. Also I wonder if crack and amphetamines are directly acidic. Are you sure though that pleasure doesn't affect the immune system? It seems logical that it would from an evolutionary point of vie
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by wapapaloobop 11y ago
Speculatively, there seems to be a double whammy effect of carbohydrate consumption when it comes to teeth. (1) direct effect of sugar/carbs feeding bacteria in the mouth which produce acid which etches away at enamel, (2) indirect eff
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by wapapaloobop 11y ago
There seems to be some ambiguity in the term 'subvocalization'. Should it refer strictly to (A) the internal monologue, (B) micro-movements of speaking muscles, or (C) both? Correct me if I'm wrong, but my suspicion is that p