winchling

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by winchling 7y ago
Yes, and most of the people who don't buy crystals are still eager to damage health and wallet by overeating.
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by winchling 7y ago
Yet authority figures set a standard, whether one is able to meet it or not. If they had been sneaky, then I might sneak around sociopathically for the rest of my life, without a twinge of guilt. This could easily mar both my life and oth
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by winchling 7y ago
Yes. And the parents who sneak out to smoke aren't just teaching their kids to smoke: they're teaching them to be sneaky. It would be better to smoke openly and say, 'Please don't follow my example. I regret having sta
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by winchling 7y ago
>I get a sort of "movie in my head" when I'm reading I think this means you're doing it right! In Polanyian terms, your subsidiary awareness is on the particulars of the typography and the words allowing your foc
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by winchling 7y ago
We don't know what Socrates said because it wasn't written down. He relied on his followers to improve on his ideas and transmit those improved versions, and perhaps they did. However knowledge does get lost (e.g. how to read Cr
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by winchling 7y ago
Well, to be fair, our Stone Age did take 3 million years to complete.
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by winchling 7y ago
This misses that it might be a rarified form of egotism to privately reject great prizes such as Nobels, knighthoods, and Oscars in the knowledge that this voluntary refusal will probably become public knowledge, sooner or later.
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by winchling 7y ago
>optimality is neither simple nor complex Yes, however, do you think that music should be beautiful? And is beauty easy, or hard, to apprehend? If your answers are 'yes' and 'easy' then I think you'll naturally
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by winchling 7y ago
Yes. To me it seems that great players find something new and relatively simple in the music and then find a way to communicate it in performance. Likewise, the best music is simple in its core. Starting with melody. If I can't remembe
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by winchling 7y ago
In my case K2 even seemed to prevent customary tea stains from forming.
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by winchling 7y ago
The reason these scams seem so crude and obvious, as I learnt from Daniel Dennett, is that they're designed that way . They filter out the vast majority of the population. The scammers can then focus on trying to reel in potential vic
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by winchling 7y ago
>Someone has to know what other people ate, know what of what they ate killed them, remember that, pass it on, and be believed for that to work. Yes, this is the tricky part. Per the article, such knowledge is passed on culturally, i.e
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by winchling 7y ago
For people to learn to cook poisonous plants safely, a lot of other people must have died from food poisoning. So why did they eat bad stuff? Well, if you're hungry enough, you'll eat anything. And people frequently got very hungr
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by winchling 7y ago
>I found it remarkably sensitive toward transgenderism. Yes, although it does give Reg the last word, who claimed that Loretta was struggling against reality. Regardless, that scene would I'm sure be regarded as too offensive to b
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by winchling 7y ago
If you think Taleb's wrong, explain how!
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by winchling 7y ago
Yes, for instance Life of Brian itself contains a scene which mocks transgenderism. It seems that we haven't outgrown blasphemy. We merely go from one regime to another regime. And specifying the new blasphemies can itself be blasphe
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by winchling 7y ago
Most infectious bugs can't survive outside the human body for more than a day or two. Bugs prefer non-porous surfaces. Most books have porous pages, which is good, but of course the covers are non-porous.
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by winchling 7y ago
I think the phrase quality time emerged in the 1970s at which time the Sexual Revolution was well underway and divorce was sky-rocketing. It's really a euphemism for scarce parental time with children (e.g. a father's visitati
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by winchling 7y ago
Agreed. One suspects the concept of quality time came in with the rising incidence of divorce. Where quality time implies some kind of performance or role, which is stressful, hanging out with one's children is wonderful. I find th
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by winchling 7y ago
Physical work is creative. Wielding the body takes intelligence and is improved incrementally by trial and error. People can and do take pleasure in it. Robots are merely an extension and enhancement of the bodies of their operators. (So th
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by winchling 7y ago
Parents: hanging out with your children is reasonably-priced and can actually be fun. Non-parents: starting a family is fun and can actually be reasonably-priced.
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by winchling 7y ago
https://www.schofieldandsims.co.uk/moredetails/508-c.pdf An imaginary friend took the blame, in her real friend's mind, for stealing dried fruit.
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by winchling 7y ago
These traditions developed around families with children. The situation now is that divorce and childlessness are common and people are adapting accordingly. Personally, I think it's sad. Long-distance relationships don't work. Ye
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by winchling 7y ago
Spaced repetition is how learning naturally works. In real life, if something is interesting, or it just keeps cropping up, you'll remember it. The fact that spaced repetition is proving valuable now is because people in general are co
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by winchling 7y ago
Is there an optimum somewhere between a fully-mortared wall and a drystone wall? i.e. mortar which gives some reinforcement but also allows rain or groundwater to run out?
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by winchling 7y ago
I presume they will, but will modern greenhousing and 3D farming (under artificial light in factories) help to reduce soil erosion, or not?
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by winchling 7y ago
I don't get this problem much any more, despite the fact that I have achieved little worldly success to date. I'd say the key thing is that you've noticed the envy, which means that it can't control you -- not all the
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by winchling 7y ago
Yes. Can anyone name a nice scientific genius? It's not a coincidence that these rare individuals aren't agreeable, i.e. not unduly influenced by the concerns/ideas of people around them.
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by winchling 7y ago
I think the answer is to stick with a few problems rather than trying to consume or know everything.
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by winchling 7y ago
It seems inevitable. Repairing the natural damage that human bodies accumulate as they age will quickly become the cheapest way to treat and prevent heart disease and cancer in ordinary people. The small research community involved in life

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