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I’ve always been somewhat dissatisfied with image viewing/browsing software. Gqview and Sequential came close to being what I wanted, but there were things about both that I didn’t…

A chicken once beat a friend of mine at tic-tac-toe at a state fair.

I just wanted to mention how I cope with occasional restless leg syndrome. I find that a wall sit for two minutes right before trying to fall asleep works every time. I have to do …

I disable js in safari (which is my main browser) on ios. If there is something that I really want to see that requires js, I switch to brave which has js enabled. But most of the …

Great story. But the end bothered me. Particularly this part: “Some of you will succumb and some of you won't, and my sending this warning won't alter those proportions.” Of course…

Also relevant and mind-expanding essay: Simulation, Consciousness, Existence Hans Moravec, 1998. https://frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/general.articles...

I would make an even stronger assertion that this is almost certainly the case. ;-)

If you can find a copy, the first edition of ‘Introduction to Functional Programming’ by Richard Bird covers the concepts of functional programming in a language-agnostic way.

Another perhaps more esoteric approach is pointed to by Ramana Maharshi (and others) who encouraged people seeking happiness to inquire into "the one who is unhappy". In other word…

"You need to..." is one of my favorites. I'm often guilty of it myself when offering advice to others, but recently I've realized how off-putting it can be and have made an attempt…

"The Ants" by Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson.

The reality is, everything comes down to luck. We are all ultimately a product of our genes plus our conditioning, neither of which we control. And any decisions we make are a func…

It seems to me the standard argument for legalizing cannabis is tax revenue. It reminds me of when Kansas was considering abolishing capital pinishment. It wasn't due to any ethica…

It's interesting that whenever the subject of legalizing drugs comes up, people rarely argue for legalization from the perspective of cognitive liberty. Why we allow certain people…

I'm curious and I think others might be as well. How does one possibly go about finding a therapist who is a good fit? It seems like searching for a needle in a haystack -- akin to…

> And as long as we live in a democracy, they're entitled to structure their society as they see fit. I strongly disagree. There are certain human rights that should not be able to…

I'm really curious about this. Was stopping your inner monologue as a teen a conscious decision or did it just happen? If it was a conscious decision, how did you do it?

I'm curious how long you did the three minutes per day before doubling to six, and likewise for the time before doubling to twelve.

I am one of those people who finds this question fascinating. I am neither a philosopher nor a physicist, but it seems to me that one of two cases must be true: Either the universe…

I think the author may have been referring to time dilation due to relative motion of the clocks as opposed to gravity. In that case, to an observer on the ground, the clock on the…