mkrfox

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by mkrfox 11y ago
Are you sure about this? I don't have any illusions about my place in the universe. I'm a tiny speck of dust in the grand machine of reality, and I'm okay with this.
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by mkrfox 11y ago
My go-tos are Lifehack ( not Lifehacker) and Tiny Buddha. The advice is often very practical and has little/no moralizing.
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by mkrfox 11y ago
Some of the better subreddits require a "submission statement," which is pretty much this.
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by mkrfox 11y ago
The fitness program is a nice perk.
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by mkrfox 11y ago
I wonder if this is any different for gay/bi guys. If what I've seen on Grindr is any clue, we'll probably look even pickier than straight women.
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by mkrfox 11y ago
I want a variety of options for dealing with people who aren't persuaded by "why do you even care though" or "love is love."
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by mkrfox 11y ago
That's not always the case. Personally, I lean toward bisexual homoromantic. This kind of split attraction is probably more common than it seems, but we didn't have language or a concept for it until recently. I know several peopl
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by mkrfox 11y ago
People still have trouble wrapping their heads around the fact that same-gender attraction (at least in humans) is about more than sex.
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by mkrfox 11y ago
Telegram already has all the pieces needed to add voice chat on all the platforms it supports. I wouldn't be surprised if eating Skype's lunch is part of their monetization plan.
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by mkrfox 11y ago
This would all make sense if D2D were a publisher. It's a distributor like Smashwords. I doubt the hits are doing that much subsidizing. eBooks are tiny files, and storage is cheap. All they did was clean up the .doc file for one book
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by mkrfox 11y ago
It's a no-brainer if their offering appeals to you. For me, it does not. I get the stuff they offer for free/cheap from other services, and they tend to have a better selection for my interests.
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by mkrfox 11y ago
Draft2Digital is much less of a pain. They'll even handhold problematic manuscripts through the process.
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by mkrfox 11y ago
I'm quite happy with existing speeds. The problem is data caps.
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by mkrfox 11y ago
There are many excellent, paying science fiction/fantasy collections out there. You need to set yourself apart in a way that convinces people to trust their stories to you (who we know nothing about) instead of someone else. Especially
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by mkrfox 11y ago
I don't buy enough in a year to justify it.
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by mkrfox 11y ago
Not exactly tech-related (aside from the abundance of furries in technology), but stories of organizational failure seem to do well here.
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RainFurrest 2016 Post-Mortem(orrery.prismaticmedia.com)
1 points by mkrfox 11y ago|1 comments
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On Transition and Unemployment(inatri.com)
4 points by mkrfox 11y ago|0 comments
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by mkrfox 11y ago
That data goofiness issue is pretty much use case #1 for Mechanical Turk. Pay a bunch of people a few cents to do a sensibility check on the data, collect 10 for each item, and put any that are less than 100% through another round. Not even
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by mkrfox 11y ago
That's why you don't see any cars in long exposures of highways.
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by mkrfox 11y ago
Contemplate the wisdom of depending on a company without a service level agreement.
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by mkrfox 11y ago
Or one of two dads/moms. All kinds of variety in families.
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by mkrfox 11y ago
Word can work in the same formats LibreOffice uses. Microsoft even provides a chart so you know what to expect based on your choice: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Differences-between...
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by mkrfox 11y ago
I solved this problem by unfollowing everyone and everything on Facebook. Now I mostly just post pictures of foxes. Foxes are a bipartisan issue.
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by mkrfox 11y ago
With Kindle, you just open the book on your phone (after you spend 2 minutes setting up the app).
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by mkrfox 11y ago
That's an annoying thing with short stories on Project Gutenberg. Half the pages are backmatter and frontmatter.
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by mkrfox 11y ago
The way they sold the Caterpillar plant down the road was by saying it might come out neutral with the tax incentives, but it would need a lot of other businesses nearby to support it. I don't know if that worked out, but Barrow County
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by mkrfox 11y ago
I saw a comic strip once where someone was talking to a nonbinary person. Somewhere in it, the (presumably) cisgendered person said "but then I won't know your gender!" And the nonbinary person replied "that's okay,
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by mkrfox 11y ago
I just wish they had "Nonbinary" for people who feel weird about the word genderqueer.
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by mkrfox 11y ago
I think we both know how hard it is for people to look critically at their surroundings before someone points problems out directly. You might get further with example threads, and maybe a few specific examples of the worst offenders (so no

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