tbastos

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by tbastos 11y ago
Buddha himself was clearly against faith and dogma, and also considered metaphysics irrelevant to the human condition. If you consider Buddhism to be the original teachings, then it's obvious dogma has no place in it, and a person affl
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by tbastos 11y ago
Just goes to show his honesty :-) "One is not to trust my teachings implicitly but to test them oneself and evaluate their effects." — Buddha (thus making Buddhism perhaps the only "religion" not plagued by faith and dog
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DuckDuckGo bang commands in Safari's address bar(github.com)
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by tbastos 12y ago
Well, I have the exact opposite experience. I've always had pleasant trips with shrooms (over 10 trips) but at my first DMT trip I experienced some anxiety (didn't break through)... nothing traumatic but I could imagine it going m
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by tbastos 12y ago
If you smoke DMT and don't have a breakthrough you may feel a lot of discomfort, which may cause anxiety. That's exactly what happened the first time I tried DMT, and I was already pretty experienced with other psychedelics...
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by tbastos 12y ago
Related topic: I just finished reading "Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion" by Sam Harris and it has become my book recommendation for people that don't understand psychedelics or meditation. Sam talks about
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by tbastos 12y ago
You don't seem to know what you're talking about... the chance of bad tripping with DMT is about the same as with other psychedelics. It's just waaay more intense and has a shorter duration. And actually, most people argue th
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by tbastos 12y ago
Psychedelics make you learn stuff that you cannot easily "unlearn", like any major life experience. It expands your awareness in ways that sometimes are not pleasant (very often, "ignorance is bliss"). That's the re
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by tbastos 12y ago
Yes, I share your belief in collective consciousness. I think there's little doubt we'll find they do exist, once we find a testable definition of consciousness. BTW one doesn't even need to take acid to realize this. Humans
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by tbastos 12y ago
Even though capnproto would be our first choice, the lack of support for Windows/CMake is kind of a party killer. FlatBuffers doesn't offer everything we need either, but its codebase is simpler to grasp and hack, so it may end up
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by tbastos 12y ago
And then go on a honeymoon...
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Our Responsibility to Defeat Mass Surveillance (Martin Fowler)(youtube.com)
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Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth (2013)(imdb.com)
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by tbastos 12y ago
Just because money isn't a priority for you, it doesn't mean you'll refuse it. He got the best of both worlds by letting other people run the business to focus on what he really wanted (indie dev). Believe me, it's MUCH
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Godfather of ecstasy, Alexander ‘Sasha’ Shulgin dies at 88(euronews.com)
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by tbastos 12y ago
Seems like the perfect engine for a remake of Ultima Online... the best MMORPG ever nostalgia
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by tbastos 13y ago
Of course it had to be Microsoft's fault... they used to have no clue about UX design.
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by tbastos 13y ago
And why did you assume I would be the one to pick a fight? Even though I'm a peaceful person who never ever assaulted anyone, I've been assaulted several times for no reason, and in different countries. Friends of the aggressor ca
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by tbastos 13y ago
Sure, there are problems everywhere, but you cannot compare the level of bullshit in the states. Just look at the statistics on Wikipedia, and the many documentaries on YouTube and newspaper articles on it. Yeah if you're poor and vuln
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by tbastos 13y ago
Exactly! I think I can only visit the states again after I'm married and with kids, to go to Disneyland... it seems the only safe venture. I mean if you're single, go to a club and get into a fight, that would probably be enough t
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by tbastos 13y ago
I hope the kid wins a shitload of money in a lawsuit against the state... and the cops get punished. Now what's the chance of this happening?
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App lets Lebanese tell worried loved ones ‘I am still alive’(dailystar.com.lb)
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by tbastos 13y ago
I propose we call it a Techno-Militarized Surveillance-and-Incarceration Pseudo-Democratic State. Here are the basics on how to create one: 1) Education: provide a relatively weak public education system that teaches patriotism and not a lo
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by tbastos 13y ago
LOL as a Brazilian, that was my first thought too! The most skilled developers will continue to use the global SO and only the "pesky" will move to the new site. The only real drawback is for the youth who doesn't speak engli
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by tbastos 13y ago
+1 for meditation. The magical thing about meditation is that it fixes a lot of things all at once, and without you even trying... all you have to worry about is to meditate daily, to harvest the results. You will feel less stressed, more c
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by tbastos 13y ago
Exactly... there are hundreds of systems to evaluate people. All of them are abstractions which are unable to capture the full depth of reality, and so will work well under some conditions and bad under others. It's a matter of design
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by tbastos 13y ago
This quote is about "drawing wisdom from the past, to interpret current affairs". It's not about judging people by their past. In fact, if you research history you will find many examples of people who did grave mistakes and
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by tbastos 13y ago
Quite frankly, "killing dozens when you're young" isn't a predictor of good leadership when you're older, especially after you've been through solitary confinement for over a decade. In this regard Mujica'
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by tbastos 13y ago
You sure are very naïve. Just Google for: HSBC crime history
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by tbastos 13y ago
As a foreigner, I appreciate your sensibility. I'm constantly under the impression that most americans would be fine with the NSA surveillance programs if they didn't target americans. That viewpoint is exactly what earned Ameri

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