smartial_arts

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by smartial_arts 4mo ago
Previews are v slow to load for some reason
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by smartial_arts 4mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiqEhJJqtbc
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by smartial_arts 7y ago
Very unlikely, as the concentrations would be quite minute. Nick Lane expands on this in "The Vital Question" book.
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by smartial_arts 7y ago
Also, traps along the Yarra river https://www.google.com/maps/@-37.818863,144.9708563,51m/data...
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by smartial_arts 7y ago
There you go https://www.google.com/maps/@-38.011524,145.1053701,47m/data...
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Recycling companies stockpiling and landfilling glass(abc.net.au)
3 points by smartial_arts 9y ago|0 comments
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by smartial_arts 10y ago
Incorrect, you do need to provide an email address (bogus one works fine) and tick the Ts&Cs box.
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by smartial_arts 11y ago
Meditation brought about some massive changes for me: increased focus, better and more acute introspection; I became way less irritable and my stress levels reduced. I briefly outlined my before and after experience in this blog post: http
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by smartial_arts 11y ago
Frankly, Github did a very poor job at communication this breaking change. I only recently discovered that most of my post got broken. Apparently it's no longer legit to use "#Title", you need to "# Title" (and god
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by smartial_arts 11y ago
Not sure how the search suggestions are meant to work, but when typing "Drunkard's Walk" I can see the book at the top of the result's list, although when typing the author's name, "Leonard Mlodinow" I get
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by smartial_arts 11y ago
No it is not, but I get redirected to it on my Android phone after clicking on book covers or graph.
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by smartial_arts 11y ago
Is this some sort of a promo trap? When clicking on book links I get taken to pages like this one http://www.freebie.guru/au/starwars/starwars625.html
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by smartial_arts 11y ago
Said the whale from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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by smartial_arts 11y ago
Not your fault, but I find it quite annoying that most of those documents are not digitised and you have to order the items to be delivered into library's reading rooms.
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by smartial_arts 11y ago
main discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10433318
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by smartial_arts 11y ago
Just finished, in the following order: - Blindsight - Echopraxia - Colonel by Peter Watts. Though I should've read the 'Colonel' before 'Echopraxia' in the hindsight.
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by smartial_arts 11y ago
Previous discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9833375
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by smartial_arts 11y ago
Not sure what's the equivalent for the steps 3-7 here in Australia, but getting a referral from a GP and then getting a portable testing machine, that you're supposed to wear at home, is very straightforward. It also doesn't
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by smartial_arts 11y ago
Although this is very tangentially related, one may want to consider taking a multi-species probiotic also, based on "A randomized controlled trial to test the effect of multispecies probiotics on cognitive reactivity to sad mood"
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by smartial_arts 11y ago
That would be fantastic - and admittedly people like yourself or some other folks I can think of (Paul Whiteley of "Questioning Answers" fame comes to mind) are doing really great job on explaining the complex subjects in lay term
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by smartial_arts 11y ago
Interestingly enough, f.lux[1] has been around for a while (a cool app that adjusts the colour temperature of your screen(s) as the day progresses, based on your lat & long. I also noticed a similar functionality in one of the latest Cy
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by smartial_arts 12y ago
All I have to say re sleep is: get enough of it, or suffer. How much is 'enough' depends on your chronotype (lark/own type of thing) - see http://brainrules.net/sleep for more.
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by smartial_arts 12y ago
TLDR (from PDF): As this article demonstrates, print books are still the best suited to the optical, cognitive, and metacognitive requirements of the reading brain. While e-paper technology has been shown to be the optical equivalent of pri
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by smartial_arts 12y ago
The bone marrow studies look at implanted, not orally consumed material. Just in case anybody assumes "If I eat more bone marrow I'll get new brain cells built from the cells I eat".
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by smartial_arts 12y ago
HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8437470
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A Time for Urgency / Zero VC Funding for Clean Tech(nantucketproject.com)
5 points by smartial_arts 12y ago|0 comments
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by smartial_arts 12y ago
"Zebras don't get ulcers" by Robert Sapolsky [ http://amzn.to/1kFszdH ] Great book on stress, it's evolutionary role and how it's screwing us up now, in the modern environment that's quite diff
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by smartial_arts 12y ago
Wow, and I get downvoted for saying how amazing that patio11 is so quick to react. Somebody's being an off-topic nazi?
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by smartial_arts 12y ago
Dude you, like, live in here!
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by smartial_arts 12y ago
Tracy, that's a great initiative, I wish you all the best with the book! I wonder what the thought process was behind the decision though - i.e. how did you decide to write a book, whether you tested/researched the market in any w

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