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The goal is happiness. No one cares to live a long time being healthy if they are miserable.

Actually for me fasting was quick and easy. I lost most of the weight within weeks and months. Fasting is much more powerful than your comment would indicate.

They are opposites. You want to get bigger or maintain muscle mass and simultaneously you want to fast (get smaller) and lose mass. Fasting will definitely cause you to lose mass - some fat and/or muscle.

While working out or lifting will cause you to increase your need for calories and food intake. They are opposing forces. You cannot have it both ways.

Fasting = less mass less food intake. Lifting/muscle mass = more food intake more mass

Magic Mushrooms can absolutely be DMT like and users can have full blown life like hallucinations of entities or landscapes. Most people simply dont do enough and have a light experience. DMT is simply less forgiving in this regard.

Plenty of competing theories on the origins of humanity on a 4 billion year old planet some in which the origins of life came from elsewhere in the universe.

I think this may be the most recent evidence that modern science has discovered.

Perhaps you mean to say we wont dig up any fossils that say otherwise and that the case is closed?

As if the entirety of the fossil record on earth has been exhausted and we have nothing more to discover.

My agenda is to make sure we are being good scientists and not religious about our findings.

Religion is not science. It is a belief.

Do you believe it is in fact established? Science discovers new ‘facts’ all the time. To say definitively that humans first evolved here in the context of a 4 billion year old planet seems irresponsible at best.

“They live in the African savannah, which is where humankind first evolved”

We have some evidence to suggest that early humans were there but it is a huge assumption and leap of faith to make a statement like this with certainty. This statement is more likely a religious statement than one a good scientist would make.

A good scientist would not make such a bold assumption without putting it in quotes or a star next to it. You cannot make this statement definitively.

AWS console is one of the most poorly developed builder tools Ive ever encountered for a company like Amazon, from a UX perspective at least.

I may like some of the services like s3 but will never rely on AWS for anything more that that. Logging into the aws console makes my blood pressure go up.

Im not taking a stance on disease risk. Im simply pointing out that many people will. And it will favor remote work.

Polio, Monkey Pox, Covid variant x, environmental concerns, inflation. The office isn't coming back unless we fall into some dystopia where they force people back in.

People had a taste of life WFH during the pandemic. Overwhelmingly they loved working from home even though there were a minority who wanted a return to the office.

The hybrid model or remote work will be the only real possibilities going forward. Top talent does matter and is the edge that companies like Apple and Google use to stay competitive. They need that talent more that talent needs them. Plain and simple.

A meditator is a someone. That someone is a product of duality.

The wounds are part of the body and personality. They are not you.

To come out of the duality we can leave the meditation open. It doesnt have to take any particular form and it should have no goal in mind. Objectless. It is this sense of beingness or presence that is a true meditation. It is the sense of existence which is the background of every other thing itself not perceivable to the senses. It remains constant throughout while everything else fades.

You mean you find your feed to be a nice place.

To feign ignorance on the subject is silly and side steps the main criticisms.

No one is talking about your personal twitter feed here. They are referencing Twitter as a whole and its culture.

Censorship doesnt seem like a big deal if you agree with the side that is censoring.

Make it painful if they abuse the site.

We all benefit from open data. Polite scrapers are just fine and a natural part of the web ecosystem.

Google has been scraping the web all day every day for decades now.

Yes I created http://lazyday.tv to help me find and track things to watch. Ive been making use of it for several years now and it’s available to the general public for free. No sign ups required. No ads displayed.

Your statement “mushrooms are certainly not conscious” cannot be proven.

It also makes the assumption that consciousness is something we understand. This is certainly not the case. As science still doesn’t have a clue as to what it really is.

Because China owns the US economy and could put it out of business like the US is attempting to do to Russia.

He’s right. It just ends up hurting regular folks.

Putin and friends are doing just fine under sanctions. They expected sanctions for a long time.

This effectively does nothing except make the lives of the non invaders harder.

If you actually want to help Ukraine pick up a gun and go fight.

Magnesium citrate before bedtime.

It will improve your sleep quality tremendously which will then improve your concentration naturally. A rested mind has an easier time getting into the zone.

Buddhism and Zen can also help. No need to become a master, simply understanding and applying some of the basic concepts can help mind state significantly. This can also boost concentration by quieting the mind.

Also check out:

TMS Therapy or Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. It is brain stimulation technology. Very interesting and lots of research behind it on pubmed.

If you believe in souls then why assume they dont have limitations as we do? Perhaps a soul if it exists is just as ignorant of its reality as we are of ours. Perhaps in some way a soul would be just as limited but in different ways.

Is it neural activity that underlies all experience? Or is it neural activity which filters it?

My point is that they scrape the web for data because that is their core business.

Im not sure why robots.txt was even brought up.

So google respects this file? I say so what.

Im arguing that while Google has free reign to scrape whatever data it wants, we indie devs are subject to the cider house rules.

Sources can be found for just about any argument. So they are more or less useless.

There is nothing wrong with self evident truths or reasonable hypotheses. That is how the modern world was created.

A search engine that scrapes the web for data to make a good search engine. Who wouldve dreamed of it?

We are not privy to what happens behinds closed doors at Google. They only work for their shareholders. Not us or the public good.

Source that google does what it wants based on what it thinks the web should be. Google can change its mind on a whim https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-robots-txt-noinde...

Google scrapes web data is my point. It is king web scraper.

Robots.txt does not fit into this argument. Im not sure why it was brought up. Google doesn’t scrape urls listed there? Ok. And so? Am I to believe that just because Google says so?

Google scrapes what it wants. It does so for its shareholders. It could care less about web standards.

Source: Amp

+1 for Firefly. At least they kind of finished it with the movie. I'll always be a browncoat.

You are stating that Google has never acted in bad faith and that robots.txt is the only thing that Google looks at when crawling/scraping the web.

You’re a smart guy. Surely you must know how ridiculous that sounds on the face of it.

It is common sense.

The sky is blue.

Source: Look up at the sky.

Think how ridiculous it sounds that Google only has URLs listed in robot.txt. They wouldve gone out of business long ago.

Surely you must be joking. Alphabet is the largest web scraper in the world. They would soon go out of business if robots.txt was the only data they scraped.

It’s not a web crawler. They are all web scrapers. And Alphabet/Google sells this data and makes profits from it.

It is not like it is trying to hide the fact that it is king web scraper.

Google has gotten in trouble from various publishers for this before. It is no secret there is a double standard in big tech.

Again if you are going to arrest a web scraper, then arrest the king of all web scrapers first to make it fair.

Data wants to be free. If it is publicly accessible then it is fair game.

Nefarious? Then they should arrest Google first, it is the king of web scrapers.

Dang you spend more time banning accounts than constructively participating on the site. Just look at your comment history.

This goes against the spirit of HN. We value open discussion here.

Your actions should be brought to PGs attention. It seems you are abusing your power as moderator. This is not in HN’s best interest.

Just because you disagree with someone doesnt mean you should ban or silence them.

What a ridiculous comment. A flame war? Do we still live in the 90s?

It is clear I am being unfairly targeted for my views by you and this community.

You happen to disagree with what I am saying and are not creative or brave enough to come up with a meaningful response. Be honest with yourself.

Ive said nothing abhorrent. I defended my religious and spiritual beliefs against a community which is clearly very pro atheist.

Dont tell other people what to do and stop disrespecting others’ religious beliefs. Let’s start with that.

No, you just need the belief that something more is beyond what you normally see and sense. Not a supernatural being. That is all that is required to be spiritual.

Although in reality we are only spiritual. Call it a very good haptic VR system if you will.

Our society is mainly atheists consumers. You wont find God on CNN or Amazon Prime

No. The answer is in the question.

Reality is subjective, you will get what you believe.

In one sense you are right because ultimately reality can only be expressed in the negative. It is not in the class of perceivable objects.