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by zepto 5y ago
> Physiological addiction is more real No it isn’t. > in that your body forms a physical dependency on something that can kill you if you don't have it. Yes, sometimes it can kill to withdraw without support. But that isn’t what
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by zepto 5y ago
True, but the idea that physiological addiction is more real than psychological addiction is certainly outdated.
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by zepto 5y ago
> when what intelligence even means is an active matter of debate. Is there anything in social science that isn’t an active matter of debate?
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by zepto 5y ago
Sure - but the point is that the original commenter is using an extreme as though it was typical or necessary, when it is clearly not. I have a curry recipe that takes about 3 hours to execute, however it makes about 20 portions which can t
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by zepto 5y ago
It may not have been. As far as I know comments aren’t just ordered by rating, but also by recency so that new comments have at least some visibility.
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by zepto 5y ago
If people say marijuana is not addictive, this is a false claim. Psychological addition is just as real as physiological addiction.
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by zepto 5y ago
> I'm going to give this thread a few more hours before decide to quit reading Hacker News comments forever. What do you anticipate happening in those few hours?
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by zepto 5y ago
You’re reading something into my comment that isn’t there, indeed it’s the opposite of what I wrote. The point is that people keep offering you suggestions because you seem to be saying there is a problem. You’re obviously wrong that the pr
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by zepto 5y ago
What do you mean ‘precedent set’? Precedent’s are a legal concept that has no particular meaning here.
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by zepto 5y ago
> And this is what I do, but it doesn't meet my caloric needs unfortunately. I really wish I could sustain myself off of just that. Same with some of your other suggestions. I know because I've tried for a while :) From the way
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by zepto 5y ago
> Hate to break it to you but fruit is not far removed from sugar. Hate to break it to you, but you don’t need a lot. Also my point is that you can incrementally improve your diet. Oatmeal and fruit is way better than most packaged cerea
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by zepto 5y ago
> Sure, but every spending so much time on it every single day can be a serious burden Yes, but that simply isn’t necessary.
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by zepto 5y ago
You tried spending 7 hours a day thinking about your diet? Also what do you mean by ‘have a life’? Doesn’t that just mean diet is a lower priority than other things? If you really don’t have much time, one approach is to improve your diet
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by zepto 5y ago
> they're not saying the causes of height are simple, but rather that the output is simple to measure. By talking about the dimensionality, they are saying both. I agree that measuring height is easier, but I disagree that it’s cau
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by zepto 5y ago
No it isn’t. Not anywhere. Code is speech. Running it is not.
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by zepto 5y ago
NYT
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by zepto 5y ago
What does it mean to ‘master’ a subject?
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by zepto 5y ago
Not disputing any of your other point but this one: > 1. Intelligence is not the same as height, as one of these is low-dimensional and mechanical, and the other is high-dimensional and very complex. Is way off. Height is influenced by
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by zepto 5y ago
> It can help ordinary people outmaneuver oppressive regimes. An unproven fantasy.
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by zepto 5y ago
How? Nobody is prevented from speaking.
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by zepto 5y ago
> Maybe pick up a book now and again. Maybe try reading the HN guidelines. > Google did stop innovating, all the subsequent progress they made aside from gmail was acquisition of startups. Obviously false. They bought technologies fr
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by zepto 5y ago
These aren’t examples of ‘innovation’ coming from small startups at all. All you’ve really shown is that startups can be successful sometimes, and simply ignored the fact that large companies keep going and in fact do keep innovating. Take
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by zepto 5y ago
Yes, it’s almost the only example anyone can think of, and yes, I agree that the Apple 2 was good product innovation and identified a new segment. However that segment was transient. The business use case in the medium term was far better
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by zepto 5y ago
> Both can occur but the first one is more problematic: I want to take out the rubbish but it feels like torture to force myself to start the task. It's not something easy to explain if you haven't experienced it, but it feels
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by zepto 5y ago
> What is bad faith is to tell people not to look at the contradictory results. If you choose not to look at results that don’t confirm your view, then of course you will think there is a consensus. The only person who has told anyone no
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by zepto 5y ago
> The first quote is a symptom of you choosing to seek your information from the “ADHD controvieries” page in bad faith It’s not bad faith. There is much more than what I quoted that is reasonable to question about ADHD research and tre
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by zepto 5y ago
> Society can accommodate my difficulty in doing chores How do you define “chores”? It’s seems very true that people with ADHD find it hard to get through a to-do list in a linear fashion. If that is what it means to do chores, then ma
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by zepto 5y ago
I’m picking out two statements that seem questionable. The rest of what you say, I am in agreement with. > Tesla does not have a special advantage over other car makers. This seems like the least accurate of your statements. Tesla has
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by zepto 5y ago
You are basically advising them to be crypto bulls.
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by zepto 5y ago
Here is a confident statement, very similar to the one I made: “The long-term effects on the developing brain and on mental health disorders in later life of chronic use of methylphenidate is unknown. “ It comes from Wikipedia, which presen

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