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by xk_id 14y ago
Whatever works :)
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by xk_id 14y ago
Not really, imo. The Ad is more about fun, and having fun. Fun sells.
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by xk_id 14y ago
A few thoughts – Do you have proof that men "remain" better at coding, IF equality is completely established? Equality has never been established completely, so you can't have that proof. Can you argue satisfactorily why men are necessarily
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Bitcoin crashes, losing nearly half of its value in six hours(arstechnica.com)
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by xk_id 14y ago
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5497253
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by xk_id 14y ago
> Take much care to ensure that you are not merely being open, like a scientist is to new evidence and a better "map" for the "territory"; but rather that you are doubting everything. And as someone once eloquently put it, there are two
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by xk_id 14y ago
> But it seems quite sound from the perspective of many non-ordinary states of consciousness, animism[4], panpsychism[5], pantheism[6], panentheism[7], various types of shamanism[8] and religions which hold animistic, pantheistic, or pa
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by xk_id 14y ago
> But they were very valuable. ...if you say so :) > But to paint them all indiscriminately with the pejorative term "disturbed" is to misunderstand their nature. I meant the following definition for "disturbed": interfere with
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by xk_id 14y ago
> As for finding opportunity to do nothing, the thing is that in those states of consciousness, nothing is the base experience of reality. Everything else, the doing, the striving, the acting, are forms. It is similar to looking at this
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by xk_id 14y ago
Did you find any practical purpose to the "altered" states of consciousness? I would also like to suggest substituting the word "altered" with "disturbed". Would you mind telling me your thoughts on this (whether in connection with the abov
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by xk_id 14y ago
Thanks, but I think you're missing the point of this conversation. The parent said: >Being 'bored' is the best part - setting a time to do 'nothing' during the day. There's always something to do, something to see, someone to talk to, b
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by xk_id 14y ago
"Buddhism without beliefs" is a bit oxymoronic, no? :) Any doctrine must start with some assumptions (i.e, beliefs). Perhaps the title means "Buddhism without the obviously wacko beliefs". That doesn't mean it excludes the more subtle ones.
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by xk_id 14y ago
There is 'nothing' to do when I go to sleep. Isn't that enough, and the best time for it? Edit: Sorry, I do not wish to troll. You may wish to read the other post I made in this thread, where I question more elaborately the practice of medi
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by xk_id 14y ago
Well I think meditation is sort of like a minimalistic tool for training yourself. So I reckon it's part of the point to figure out how to get yourself "into a habit", etc. Anyway, I don't think anything substantial can come out of medita
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by xk_id 14y ago
Somebody else posted this in the same thread: http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_sapolsky_the_uniqueness_of_h... . It overviews sharp distinctions between the behaviours of animals and humans.
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by xk_id 14y ago
Just stop loading the page immediately after the article loads, and before the comments appear.
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by xk_id 14y ago
Thanks, I think it boils down to tokipin's comment above.
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by xk_id 14y ago
Very much agreed.
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Good point... Well, if we've always been doing X, and it seems we cannot do without it (well, try to argue against that); and then at some point we started doing Y (while still doing X); and Y is conflicting with/retarding X; then Y mus
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by xk_id 14y ago
Link to the study about pigeons' discrimination between Picasso and Monet paintings: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1334394/pdf/jeab... Still looking for a source for the assembly lines tests.
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by xk_id 14y ago
No, it wasn't intended ironically! I resonated because the other day I spoke with an academician in business studies, who was researching how corporations can make more money... I argue that consumerist systems of ideas are essentially agai
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by xk_id 14y ago
I didn't say other species clearly do not possess equally impressive linguistic abilities. But qualitatively, our stand in sharp distinction. Surely, we can never be certain the woodpecker is absent, but, that's just a new take on the fac
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by xk_id 14y ago
Thank you! You are a great human.
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by xk_id 14y ago
Excellent article! A couple of observations... "Aristotle's idea of the scala naturae, the ladder of nature, put all life-forms in rank order, from low to high, with humans closest to the angels. During the Enlightenment, the French philoso
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by xk_id 14y ago
As far as I'm concerned, the best 'nugget' in the article was towards the end, regarding how developers have a genuine passion for their craft, irrespective of monetary concerns. And that they would not change their careers even for a subst
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by xk_id 14y ago
Wow. Looks like time for a revolution in physics.
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by xk_id 14y ago
It is still not entirely clear to me why people allow the whole Facebook wall shenanigans. I've closed mine a long time ago, exactly because I never understood why would I want to mix in one place the public, the personal, and the intimate.
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by xk_id 14y ago
Thanks. Actually, my university (UCL) was oferred access to Lucidchart for its students for that project that we did. So it was one of the web-based tools I tried. Looking over the paper I wrote, it seems I actually did happily use it for t
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by xk_id 14y ago
Even my rather trivial undergraduate UML project required very advanced options, and the only software that fully satisfied my needs was astah professional. I struggled a lot with browser-based UML tools, always to come across a feature I n
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by xk_id 14y ago
This guy seems to be even more confident: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN2LBO8wig8

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