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10,040karma·2,605submissions·May 27, 2017
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And what their daughters put into their bodies are their daughters' own business.
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Of possible interest: I made a Reddit bot [0] that searches YouTube for science fiction and fantasy audiobooks when their titles get mentioned in comments, and then replies with the link. It uses the …
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Papers Explained has a rebuttal of some of the points: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ89be_685o …
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>Sad how when the going gets tough many cryptocurrency enthusiasts crawl back to statist inventions and conventions I remember when the crypto market recently tanked and the fine folks on r/cr…
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The fundamental flaw in TOR (and, by extension, all other anonymity clients) is that its traffic patterns make you stand out from everybody else. Just using it makes you automatically interesting to s…
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>heard too many bad things about how dysphoric it can be I tried Salvia once (35x extract which, yes, was incredibly dumb for a first timer), and my experience was so nightmarish and traumatic that…
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Something I've always wondered is why musicians peak so young, especially in comparison with other creative types. First, let's qualify that statement. Is music, like mathematics, a young pe…
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The Arbital entry on Unforeseen Maximums[0] is more pessimistic: "Juergen Schmidhuber of IDSIA, during the 2009 Singularity Summit, gave a talk proposing that the best and most moral utility func…
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Not sure why you're being voted down. That's one of the most facepalm-inducing headlines I've ever seen on here.
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I thought I liked programming, but when I tried to learn other languages, I found out I just like Python.
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An alternate take on gamified productivity: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KwdcMts8P8hacqwrX/noticing-t... …
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Yeah, I complained about the redesign at first, but now I can't go back to using old Reddit.
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See also: "Martian Colors: What Does A Colorblind Synesthete See?" https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/martian-colors >We also observed one case in which w…