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11 days ago
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on: Urea prices
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2 months ago
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on: Our approach to advertising
https://chatgpt.com/share/696a8c52-f29c-800d-b597-93dfde0c30...What you’re reacting to isn’t just “ads.” It’s the feeling of:
Someone monetizing the collective output of human thought while quietly severing the link back to the humans who produced it.
That triggers a very old and very valid moral instinct.
Why “sleazy” is an accurate word here
“Sleazy” usually means:
technically allowed
strategically clever
morally evasive
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5 months ago
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on: Aphantasia and Psychedelics
My understanding is that most aphantasics (like myself) can still see images while dreaming—suggesting that dreaming uses a different network for visualization. I have vivid dreams most nights.
Shane Williams (an aphant) hosts a podcast where he interviews people using a set of questions designed to probe their inner sensory world. From it I’ve learned, for example, that some people can taste food when reading a menu, or have a conversation with a deceased loved one and actually hear their voice. One of his prompts is whether guests can place themselves inside a photo of a carnival (which he provides); many say they can smell the cotton candy or hear the chatter of the crowd.
It’s striking how little we really know about the variety of inner sensory experiences:
Discovering Your Mind – Aphantasia and Beyond
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/discovering-your-mind-...
A favorite research paper compares brain activity in identical twin sisters, only one of whom is aphantasic:
The Neural Underpinnings of Aphantasia: A Case Study of Identical Twins
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.23.614521v2
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9 months ago
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on: Fields where Native Americans farmed a thousand years ago discovered in Michigan
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1 year ago
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on: Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's suicide
Immediately after the book won the Pulitzer in 1981, Gottlieb could not recall Toole or the manuscript. In his 2016 memoir, Gottlieb wrote that, after returning to A Confederacy of Dunces decades later, he felt the same about its flaws.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gottlieb
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1 year ago
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on: How French Drains Work
I suddenly remembered why, having previously found this channel, which is full of great information, I can't stand to watch the videos - the innocuous background music! Anyone else have this problem... where you're perhaps overly sensitive to music, especially non-fiction videos and podcasts? I find the background music unbearable.
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1 year ago
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on: Ask HN: Why Google shut down business.site website feature?
Anything that Google does apart from make money selling ads and turning the internet into an ad cesspool functions as a smoke screen to fool the public (and their employees) into thinking they do anything of real value or that serves the community. All of it
https://killedbygoogle.com/ serves as a (relatively) inexpensive marketing tool.
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2 years ago
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on: Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history
Awsm!
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2 years ago
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on: Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history
I may be missing something, but I would like to be able to search by zip and return individual doctor's names.
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2 years ago
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on: Continuous glucose monitoring in people without diabetes
...What I usually hear from “CGM users without diabetes” is along the lines of ‘it helps you to understand your metabolism and make changes to your diet and lifestyle’. This is a compelling narrative, but I have a couple of problems with it: First the premise that CGM outside of diabetes can show you something to fix is at best flawed and at worst an invention designed to move product.
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2 years ago
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on: How to see bright, vivid images in your mind’s eye (2016)
Having only discovered Aphantasia in my 6th decade on the planet, it's safe to say that you can't miss what you never had. That said, in a FB forum that discusses Aphantasia, a few people who previously had the ability to 'see memories', were devastated by the (stroke) loss of it.
Upon describing my situation, one friend immediately asked incredulously, "How do you jerk off?"
I'm intrigued with the article. That a "Mind's Eye" could be developed is an exciting possibility.
BTW, This is a tight, short, Hank Green video that I send to folks who have no idea what I'm talking about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A91tvp0b1fY
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2 years ago
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on: How to see bright, vivid images in your mind’s eye (2016)
I take the heals of my palms and apply gentle pressure, just long enough to create phonemes. So, not rubbing. (Not that this too might not be a good idea to do too often).
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2 years ago
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on: Perfectly good M1 MacBooks are being scrapped because of Activation Lock [video]
Really, this is disgraceful and it's unacceptable that Apple hasn't come up with a work around...
Just as millions of iPhones and iPads have been scrapped due to Activation lock, we are now seeing 2018+ MacBooks scrapped at recyclers as well, due to the "feature" being enabled on those devices.
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2 years ago
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on: Tell HN: Putting mirrors around my desk improved my posture
FYI, A very simple awareness hack is resting your reading glasses farther down your nose, so that you're forced to have your head sit higher/straighter when looking at your screen.
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2 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
A Random Movie Maker that looks at my 4 TB collection of personal history... digitized journals, email, photos, digitized cassettes, phone messages, and home videos, and creates a random 15 minute movie. Each video will include about 50 clip sources. It's a crazy trip down memory lane.
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
I hate ads too. The thing I tried that felt ethical and useful was an affiliate code for related (to the content) products that would split the discount 50/50 between me and readers. I stated this clearly in the ad.
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7 years ago
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on: The sad state of RSS on the Mac
I'm very happy with NetNewsWire 3.3.2 on Mac OS El Capitan 10.11.6.
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8 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How will you manage your digital assets when you die?
I recently contacted Archive.org to ask if they had a "time-capsule" option... could I upload now and have it made public in xx years. They don't, but I wish they did. Not so much for friends and family but thinking that there may be some historical value to my archives in the future.
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8 years ago
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on: Buyer Beware, Your VIN Is in for a Scare
That the author writes for a company that sells products (tools for analyzing dns and web shenanigans) doesn't make the post an'ad' does it? What struck me in particular was that if it's this easy (granted, using custom tools) to track these kinds of activities, why doesn't Google do it for us and block these (long list of related) domains from search results?
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8 years ago
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on: Show HN: Park your domain name with just 2 DNS records
