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Comment #46181444
I'm a caffeine/coffee consumer because I like its effects, and the claims to overall physiological benefits appear solid, but why do you think multiple and varied spiritual schools…
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Comment #37926104
It feels quite trippy and delirious and somewhat physically pleasurable and if you have enough you teleport into another dimension
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Comment #36419343
Can you please define groundbreaking?
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Comment #36186283
Interesting and promising seeming strategy to counter not only issues of 'peer pressure to own a device' but 'culture pressure' wherein assumedly for many schools most of the topic…
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Comment #35961046
Seems like one of the benefits you get with a state is to regulate powerful technologies. Is this not commonly agreed upon?
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Comment #35773457
See the dactyl tool linked as a sibling comment: https://ryanis.cool/dactyl by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35769435
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Comment #35651502
Yes that’s correct. Probably a better way of articulating what I meant to say is that unlike adding more battery mass which gives you diminishing returns as that additional weight …
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Comment #35650241
Cool! What didn’t occur to me until I learnt it was that you get a multiplicative benefit with energy density when weight is a major factor (air transport, especially) because you …
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Comment #34411581
Yes!
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Comment #34400836
Do hands release from the line they're on at the point of the next time increment being reached (meaning, by the time they hit the next line, they'll be late) or does it kindly rel…
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Comment #34260148
This implies there is something about """you""" that is inherently lacking rather than the habits currently in your brain and "more discipline" often means """if only I would casti…
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Comment #34227075
There's a body chemistry component here. Are you possibly mouth breathing while you sleep?
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Comment #34134475
Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorave and Sonic Pi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvsoWehBbec :)
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Comment #34134461
This comment is so confidently ignorant of rhythm and melody, lol Pay attention to the counterpoint (one voice rising, one voice falling) when one big triangle ends and the one abo…
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Comment #34107190
Maybe so, but the author says ‘The updated ChatGPT answers to the Political Spectrum Quiz are exquisitely neutral, consistently striving to provide a steel man argument for both si…
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Comment #34103977
I agree with you principally, and generally, but in rather small domains like this I would imagine symptom management using negative examples (i.e. training pairs where the respons…
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Comment #33998926
Would love to hear from domain experts here. Reading the article one finds that they only created very small cathodes rather than anything close to a 'consumer sized' battery. (The…
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Comment #33800197
This sounds great, but isn't this - > hopefully keep them at bay as much as possible ...wishful thinking, or symptom management, rather than cutting at the root of the issue (less …
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Comment #33637938
More accurately - Callbacks are anonymous functions [or references to named functions] that you pass to asynchronous [or synchronous] functions so you can work with the produced va…
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Comment #33504017
Trees
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Comment #33483005
I agree that solid epistemology has better specificity and sensitivity for what's true, and that's the idea with independent fact-checker institutions, but it appears none have man…
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Comment #33482627
‘Horrible’ epistemology is a bit harsh (signal = approximate measure rather than direct), but this is indeed a valid loophole. Would be interesting to explore if third or fourth gr…
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Comment #33220533
Often localised ID or reference books can become like bibles. Consult your local mycologists or fungi enthusiast groups!