xanthopan

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Why PayPal’s crackdown on ASMR creators should worry you(engadget.com)
9 points by xanthopan 8y ago|1 comments
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by xanthopan 8y ago
Last I checked, nicotine isn't carcinogenic. It's the tobacco that kills you. Or, at least, there isn't enough research yet to say that nicotine alone is harmful enough. So I may be playing devil's advocate here, but i
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by xanthopan 8y ago
Maybe only tangentially related, but Michael Pollan's recent book about psychedelics "How To Change Your Mind" goes in-depth on this. There's something about being able to quiet the "default mode network" that
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by xanthopan 8y ago
i'd bet that proto-beer and proto-bread appeared around the same time, and techniques were developed over generations to calibrate different recipes until they resembled what we might recognize as "beer" and "bread"
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by xanthopan 8y ago
> America in 1950 had orders of magnitudes less diagnosed depression than America in 2018 America in 1950 also had orders of magnitude less access to medical professionals for proper diagnosis. And, - The theory was still fairly nascent.
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by xanthopan 8y ago
> In most other contexts we encounter, stuffing an adjective in there means "NOT". I think that's less a comment on grammar and more about how there's a tendency to name stuff that is similar to other stuff, yet marke
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by xanthopan 8y ago
Recently finished The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte and How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan. I would have been embarrassed to have been caught reading the latter given the subject matter, despite how
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by xanthopan 8y ago
* Trail Running * Yoga * Cooking * Gardening * Photography * Reading I've found that a lot of my hobbies are inextricably related to one another in some way, like a strange loop :)
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by xanthopan 8y ago
there aren't riots over the state of elder care because the elderly can't riot
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by xanthopan 8y ago
1. OTOH, it also means there's now a need for manual pollination.
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by xanthopan 8y ago
I can attest to this. I've struggled with anxiety/depression/insomnia/adhd for years, and over the past couple years I've learned that careful attention to exercise, diet, and sleep are the most reliable ways I can
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by xanthopan 8y ago
feed and water are very expensive, as is the calf
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by xanthopan 9y ago
> they started falling apart within weeks isn't that kind of the point?
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by xanthopan 10y ago
From my understanding, the reason it hasn't been opened yet is to preserve whatever's inside, not so much out of fear for mercury poisoning. For instance, the terracotta army was actually painted before it was excavated [1], but
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by xanthopan 11y ago
As far as international rights go, but what happens if this is in conflict with federal law?
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by xanthopan 11y ago
I'm sure Lord Howe lost much more than just one species of tree lobster.