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by someone7x 6mo ago
Wow never thought I would see an article mention Shinryu Suzuki, very cool. I read Zen Mind Beginner’s Mind as a kid and I still remember practicing the sitting and breathing like it was a magical tome. The hardest part I remember is the n
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by someone7x 7mo ago
> If cobalt never existed in DRC, what exactly would they be doing for work and subsistence? Is this horribly unsafe and in-humane form of work a step up from whatever alternatives they have, or perhaps from nothing at all. Again I am no
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by someone7x 7mo ago
As a history enjoyer I have actually heard of this: > The Black Legend (Spanish: leyenda negra) or the Spanish Black Legend (Spanish: leyenda negra española) is a purported historiographical tendency which consists of anti-Spanish and an
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by someone7x 7mo ago
I learned by making a paracord sling and flinging marshmallows. I like to believe it’s so fun because I’m tapping into some primordial fascination with spinning objects, like a dog chasing a wheel.
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by someone7x 7mo ago
What a stunningly myopic conclusion. I hope one day you are able to acknowledge all the people in this world that live for purpose instead of for making Lumberg’s stock go up half a point.
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by someone7x 8mo ago
> they sent a 30 day notice to license the product or they’d sue This tracks with what I saw, one day there was an email sent out to make sure you don’t have docker desktop installed. It was wild because we were on the heels of container
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by someone7x 8mo ago
As someone who thought they used obsidian somewhat well, I feel like a caveman/casual after reading that. I mean that as praise, it reeled me in as both a puzzle (what am I even reading right now) and a conclusion (the bleeding edge of
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by someone7x 9mo ago
For what it’s worth that tracks with me experience in video games. When I sat with 30 other testers for 6 days per week I achieved mastery I did not believe possible. Eventually I could cakewalk even the most difficult challenges in those
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by someone7x 10mo ago
Thanks for the paper. It starts boldly by redefining the “american dream” into “line must go up” which ironically sounds like boomer logic being projected onto millennials. I don’t know about the Fed but my dream as an American isn’t to acc
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by someone7x 10mo ago
> something as simple as a parking ticket is borderline life threatening I always lived in fear of being pulled over and getting busted for not having the insurance I couldn’t afford. Eventually get pulled over and ticketed, cough up $10
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by someone7x 11mo ago
I lived in the UK briefly and this episode broke my brain Series 3 Episode 53: > Host Forbes Robertson, the only man in the group, is Ayr's answer to Donald Trump, and his menu plan includes pigs' trotters, which don't app
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by someone7x 11mo ago
This isn’t about eyewitnesses, it’s about looking at historical pictures of the sky before the advent of space flight. > Villarroel and her team used the digitized scans to study the night sky as it was before the 1957 launch of the firs
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by someone7x 1y ago
In the recent UAP hearing, whistleblower Borland talked about how financial ruin is the real fear holding whistleblowers back: > Are you scared for your safety? > … I am not scared for my physical safety in the sense of an agency or c
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by someone7x 1y ago
Very cool and fun toy. I thought it would be a few trivial steps to reach the Emperor Maurice from Belle’s dad Maurice, but the best I could do was 5 torturous hops between List of Beauty and the Beast Characters and the Maurice disambiguat
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by someone7x 1y ago
> I don't live in the US, but there is nothing in the Constitution, nor in federal law, guaranteeing that you have the right to use cash. They have the right to use cash, even if the vendor chooses not to accept it. I learned this b
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by someone7x 1y ago
> commoditizing their complements Feels like a modern euphemism for “subjugate their neighbors”.
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by someone7x 1y ago
You seem so certain on the betrayal of the content-creators. > Read up on vid.me, which broke YouTube's "monopoly" back in 2016-2017 Okay, sounds interesting. > May 21 (Reuters) - Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new ta
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by someone7x 1y ago
> In my estimation, all nations are lagging in the definition of what constitutes a public utility. In a decade we will be facepalming why advertisements were even needed for this common infrastructure. I’m just glad others feel this way
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by someone7x 1y ago
Luckily it is immortalized in GTA5, when playing as Trevor at least. I found it the easiest phone to use in that game.
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by someone7x 1y ago
> As a fast measure, Google created "Android Go" as a stripped-down Android variant for lower-spec hardware, exactly to respond to Firefox-OS. > After the threat was gone, "Android Go" was discontinued again Someti
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by someone7x 1y ago
Read to the end and did a double-take: that's the game programming patterns guy! He has a voice I enjoy and I'm glad I got the chance to read this.
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by someone7x 1y ago
> how do companies... > Do you need... > Will work scope down... Sounds to me like a list of problems for market forces to solve.
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by someone7x 1y ago
Wow amazing work. I tried parsing wiktionary once and gave up in frustration. I open up your code to see the magic and this instantly caught my eye. > import mwparserfromhell as mwp Perfect lol.
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by someone7x 1y ago
Thanks for the nudge, a well told story well worth the read.
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by someone7x 1y ago
Back at THQ we published this. The story goes that there’s some language in the deals between Pixar and Apple that forced Disney to publish a Mac version of all Pixar-based games. There was Mac hardware that was only used for testing Pixar
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by someone7x 1y ago
It’s like you’re mad at the house slaves because they have it so good. That person is basically you under less dire circumstances.
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by someone7x 1y ago
White chess is another amazing piece https://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2015/07/14/notes-on-...
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by someone7x 1y ago
As an unscientific layperson this was a riveting analysis, thanks for interesting reading.
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by someone7x 2y ago
As a libertarian skeptic, this was a delightful tale.
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by someone7x 2y ago
At Disneyland? Where there’s a union for food and beverage workers? > We perform everything from preparing and creating treats like turkey legs and churros to serving grant and exquisite meals at the famous and exclusive Club 33. If you

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