Malician

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by Malician 4y ago
I found this a very interesting question to ponder. I think the answer is "no," without cheating by having my own memories of myself at 13. Too many things that could accidentally give me away by not matching the vibe properly.
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by Malician 4y ago
In many parts of Europe she would have had the services and access available & this wouldn't have happened. The US is creating these cases.
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by Malician 4y ago
I prize the rind for throwing in ragu to melt down
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by Malician 5y ago
I don't have a PhD in south-east asian history and it's not well taught but this doesn't comport with my understanding at all Isn't fighting China off a core part of their culture/history? https://en.wi
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by Malician 5y ago
I didn't know what the big deal was and thought it was silly until I actually lived in a place with a gas stove. Definitely motivated me to cook more. Induction also excellent. I'm not saying I physically can't cook with e
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by Malician 5y ago
Experts should be allowed to weigh in, not office workers and bureaucrats. Where were the aerosol dispersion specialists when the CDC/WHO were preaching "droplet?"
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by Malician 5y ago
I mean, the enabling principle behind scalping is that demand is more than supply but supply does not increase to match. More people want the tickets than there are tickets, scalping means it's based on cost instead of who you know or
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by Malician 5y ago
I wonder, though, what happens if you investigate the important variables - "up to", "during the rainy season," - maybe the human body can tolerate this for short periods of time, but not 24/7; and pygmies makes me
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by Malician 6y ago
I enjoy https://crookedtimber.org/ ! It's indirect and all over the place, but it's opinion from people of a bit of a different political bent. Doesn't feel like the NYT / Daily show style propaganda, i
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by Malician 6y ago
I'm honestly baffled that anyone sees this any other way. It didn't even occur to me as a possibility. The whole betrayal was not just telegraphed, it was directly shown in every aspect of how Hans interacted with Anna.
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by Malician 6y ago
it's a few hundred miles up instead of 22,300. this means that it's not geostationary and you gotta switch your dish between satellites often as they go overhead, but latency is far lower.
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by Malician 6y ago
Maybe one person has more delicate finger dexterity, or better hearing. Maybe another person is more easily distractable. Of course the genes would not be "a golf gene" or "a harsichord gene" but all of the various fac
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by Malician 6y ago
You are not wrong that there are many people on the Left / spat out by the university ecosystem who have little integrity. The Right is, in my experience, on average worse. In many cases figures on the Right are only amenable to disc
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by Malician 6y ago
If you're motivated enough to believe something, you'll find a way to believe it regardless. If there are smart arguments in favor of what you want to believe, you'll go for them. If those don't exist, you'll seek
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by Malician 6y ago
Feels like this is a totally different topic. What if: Neuroplasticity allows you to build new base cognitive tools from sensory information, or dump/change existing tools. If you build sufficiently numerous, broad, and adaptive tools
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by Malician 6y ago
Flip side, get fully comfortable with your own beliefs all the way through, and suddenly the pill is no threat at all
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by Malician 6y ago
I had a really tough time taking MDMA for the first time, much tougher than the last times I took psychedelics. I think it came down to expectations, though.
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by Malician 6y ago
I really like this answer, because it has a spark that isn't in the groupthink. What if conditioning is designed to shape someone in a society or circumstances which no longer exist, or if someone realizes that they would like to be
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by Malician 6y ago
I think the scariest thing about MDMA is that it's not really the pill that can do that, the pill is just a shortcut to the type of high-intensity scenario in your brain which can lead to that sort of change. There are plenty of both
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by Malician 6y ago
I don't think you're likely to get blame shamed for suggesting that opioids (especially heroin!) or crack or meth are likely to lead to a bad time. There are, though, quite a few people who reduce a whole wide range of totally di
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by Malician 6y ago
This sort of regulatory response has already caused a problem: as a 100% legitimate business, you can already get totally cut off from all banking services if something about you feels potentially dangerous to back-office staff isolated fro
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by Malician 6y ago
OP's post says "It avoids turning dating into a second job."
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by Malician 6y ago
I love this modern Internet age and the fact I can google for a book and find the author throwing relevant ideas around from one hour ago https://twitter.com/FuDaoge
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by Malician 6y ago
Building relationships with our allies in the area (TPP), State Department diplomacy, etc. to pressure China effectively. I think TPP was dead regardless of who won, but that State is impaired right now.
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by Malician 6y ago
https://semiwiki.com/ has a lot of cool stuff on the semiconductor side. https://www.nextplatform.com/category/hyperscale/ has interesting stuff on uses and development you don't see from a c
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by Malician 7y ago
They're not really doing much that isn't in the papers they're quoting. Their flaws, of which there are certainly many, stem from the flaws in those papers. That's a rather hard problem to fix, so I have trouble faulti
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by Malician 7y ago
Selfhacked doesn't vet or validate very well. Tons of information that makes you feel like everything under the sun is going to solve your issues, but without the extreme evidence required to prove it.
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by Malician 7y ago
Dunleavy released a 15 page budget proposal which notes that UAF's spending is the sum of the problem: UAA and the community campuses are fine, UAF is way out there. This is actually true; the UAF campus has over 2x the spending per s
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by Malician 7y ago
Note that only 9% of rural residents support Dunleavy right now, especially since he is cutting ferry service by 2/3, which will be catastrophic for the many towns which rely on it and are not accessible by road. http://midn
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by Malician 7y ago
http://midnightsunak.com/2019/07/08/dunleavys-already-low-ap... Dunleavy promised a $6700 dividend without significantly cutting the University or major operations of the ferry system. Now we're talking

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