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by carti 6y ago
> Most types of meditative studies also force this notion of blindness. In my experience, many seem to encourage the opposite (a higher awareness of one's emotional state). Perhaps certain techniques could be considered similar to h
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by carti 6y ago
I feel this way too. I think you can still get access to a lot of the "conversational currency" by just checking it less frequently. Making highly curated lists helps a lot too, since you can isolate a lot of the more drama/e
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by carti 6y ago
Besides picture quality, there's definitely something to be said for using a device that's exclusively for photo/video. You've got better UX (hopefully), amazing lens options, no notifications or distractions, and a diff
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by carti 6y ago
Totally agree. Realized my earlier comment could be read as suggesting inaction or complacency, which wasn't the point I was trying to make at all. Everyone should be acting with their wallet where and when they can and pushing corpora
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by carti 6y ago
"There's no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism" comes to mind. Even if some folks are in a position to spend all of their money in ways that align with their values (which seems impossible given the extent of
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by carti 6y ago
The Cato Institute, founded as the Charles Koch Foundation, is pro-capital, pro-deregulation, and anti-worker. Being a noted economist doesn't mean that you aren't full of shit.
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by carti 7y ago
LeetCode, Project Euler, etc. are great if you're looking for a bit of structure with your practice and would give you a reason to go through the MDN docs in a more targeted way. A lot of older resources are more OO-focused, but functi
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by carti 7y ago
Not drastically, it seems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_issues_in_Japan
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by carti 7y ago
This was claimed for propaganda purposes and never substantiated, afaik.
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by carti 7y ago
I wasn't assuming you did say anything about those things; I was merely saying that others commonly do so, and do in fact frequently lump those together with "they have opportunities, but don't want to take them" in a wa
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by carti 7y ago
There is a difference. Please ask some women you know about this, as the parent suggested.
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by carti 7y ago
If you can't recognize the difference, you aren't talking with or listening to enough women in your circle about this sort of thing. I would highly encourage you to do so. Regardless, the parent is not saying that men don't a
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by carti 7y ago
Citation needed.
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by carti 7y ago
How many are rising out of that sort of situation in the U.S. in 2019? It's in the interest of those who seek to maintain the status quo to have people believe that this is a real possibility, when for most, it isn't.
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by carti 7y ago
Blaming the people in the ghetto for the problems of the ghetto is a common refrain of those who seek to deny the material conditions and motivations that created the ghetto in the first place. This train of thought leads to the justificati
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by carti 7y ago
CSS Secrets: Better Solutions to Everyday Web Design Problems (written by Lea Verou) covers a variety of interesting techniques along these lines.
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by carti 7y ago
A lot of the local guidelines I've seen mention that light grease is ok.
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by carti 7y ago
> I have personally taught a few junior developers functional programming in JavaScript, and they became really good at it in about half a year. If only...
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by carti 7y ago
This comment plays into some awful streetwear stereotypes. "ym bape compilation" is about as representative of streetwear as a video of Raiders fans rioting is representative of professional sports, if not less so. Sure, there are
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by carti 7y ago
It's absurdly "bad" form taken to such an extreme that it's basically parody (or art).
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Regulating Facebook: A Proposal(platformonomics.com)
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by carti 7y ago
I don't think the uncanny valley concept is really applicable here, unless the file manager resembles a human. It's certainly a departure from the expected behavior, though.