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by gadabout 26d ago
> If you aren’t glued to the news and doomscrolling you wouldn’t know anything about Trump and ICE. This is such an outrageously privileged and out-of-touch statement. Maybe YOU wouldn't know about Trump and ICE if you didn't r
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by gadabout 1y ago
> Recently I heard Neil Degrasse Tyson saying that people came up with averages more recently than with calculus. It's not something people find relevant naturally. Whoa now. That may be true within a strict scope of the "arith
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by gadabout 2y ago
> I am not going to look for a source right now but I would venture that since the 1960's were part of the industrial era that food was even more expensive before the creation of the Haber process and gas powered farm tools. You are
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by gadabout 3y ago
I remember proto-Lockitron when it was a bunch of parts laying around a loft studio off College Ave. Hope you're doing well! -Sam
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by gadabout 5y ago
Agree, also podcasts in that genre are often more about "story telling" (which requires - dun duh dun - backstory), but articles do not. I do not mind 5 minutes of backstory on a 60 minute podcast. I do mind 2 minutes of backsto
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by gadabout 6y ago
I mean, my boss - who is the central hub for a lot of communication - can not live his life this way unless he finds a new job. Obviously that is a choice he has made but either way, I count myself lucky.
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by gadabout 6y ago
Culling down notifications was a life-changing action for me. Like you, I turned off almost all notifications. My only notifications were texts/calls from people that depended upon me (my wife, my parents, my best friends). Interacting
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by gadabout 6y ago
I understand your message and don't disagree, but I think choosing Alex Jones as an example for this message is crazy given that he has literally made his life's work giving a vocal platform to inflammatory content.
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by gadabout 6y ago
> He has guests from all spectrums, I believe it's healthy to listen to all sides and debate them on their merits. One could easily argue that Joe does in fact not debate many of his guest and instead allow them to use his show as
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by gadabout 6y ago
You keep assuming that the manager is only delegating via Slack pings, which is not my experience at all and also not what mumblemumble specified. The best managers know what the appropriate communication channel is for their employees and
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by gadabout 6y ago
I hate the vessel used for this article and would prefer it to be not something 2 clicks away from spending money. That said, I thought the article's upsides outweighed the possible downsides here, thus making it worth sharing.
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Some Boundaries Are Worth Preserving(patagonia.com)
1 points by gadabout 6y ago|1 comments
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by gadabout 7y ago
I am not defending HN/YC here, but the user's noted irony is referring to TFN, located at the-tls.co.uk, not talking about HN/YC.
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by gadabout 7y ago
I do everything you said with one additional combination from a Project Manager focus point: When someone voices a question/objection/important comment during a meeting, I will usually paraphrase what they said along with their in
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by gadabout 7y ago
Maybe I'm being dense, but how would that work without potential risk or inconvenience to the user?
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by gadabout 7y ago
I've used Pythonista on my iPad and I adore it. The physical keyboard is a personal must-have, but the experience is great otherwise.
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by gadabout 7y ago
Same experience for me. One huge upside is how great the Firefox mobile browser is (as an Android phone user; unsure for iOS). Having uBlock + Dark Reader on my phone has felt like a god-send.
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by gadabout 7y ago
Curious, where does 40% come from?
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by gadabout 7y ago
This seems like a purposely antagonistic comment? The user was stating how freedom is much more entangled into our everyday purchase and use of our devices. Also, what happens to your mindset when the "foreign countries" are no lo