tkxxx7

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by tkxxx7 7y ago
If you're willing to drop 3.99, Echofon is still really good.
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by tkxxx7 7y ago
I find that any after-work meditation is necessarily prepended with 5-10 minutes of reflection/decompression - just fyi
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by tkxxx7 7y ago
You did - I should add that I didn't consider their breakdown sufficient enough: > In 2013, for example, the average poverty threshold for an individual living alone was $11,888; for a two-person family, $15,142; and for a family of
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by tkxxx7 7y ago
> a decade of strong economic growth This seems impossible to solve without considering which people were actually experiencing this growth.
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by tkxxx7 7y ago
> Modern games are very detailed, Detailing them is one thing, replicating them with physics is another (false equivalence from the author).
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by tkxxx7 7y ago
I was trying to figure out how to do the same, and it magically appeared about 7 minutes after I was approved.
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by tkxxx7 7y ago
> turned the thread green This is a short, colloquial way of expressing all of those frustrations. It’s assumed everyone knows already, not some aesthetic thing.
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by tkxxx7 7y ago
> But it will color the bubble green. And that's why they get locked out. You seem to be attaching too much significance to the color. It really is because the experience sucks over SMS. The annoyance with the green color is just a
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by tkxxx7 7y ago
> The reviewer is supposed to determine what goes in or not, so how can this be an opportunity to learn from what goes in? You specify multiple reviewers. That's it.
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by tkxxx7 7y ago
> And yet, we accept the risk. So this seems like a good baseline for what should be considered an acceptable risk. They are completely different playing fields. In a plane your life is in the hands of a pilot or two and a computer. On
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by tkxxx7 7y ago
Flippant comments like these are not only frustrating, they are misleading. I know you realize now that you were wrong, but your short, dismissive comment following a substantive paragraph makes it seem much less substantive without having
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by tkxxx7 7y ago
It certainly still does, but a lot of people don't know or have forgotten over the years.
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by tkxxx7 7y ago
> But the data clearly shows that the richer you are, the less likely you are to have children. How are you resolving that discrepancy? Without taking a stand on the greater discussion here, I'd just like to add: birth control is no
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by tkxxx7 7y ago
> and it gets filed away (organised) for me This is optional, there's a "let iTunes manage my music for me" checkbox somewhere.
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by tkxxx7 7y ago
Many meditation practices focus on how to objectively detach from and observe system 1 so that we can maintain control over 2
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by tkxxx7 7y ago
> According to that, everyone who isn't carbon neutral would be evil. While I agree that it's useful to maintain some nuance in our perspectives, generally I think it's better to recognize and realign our actions, not defi
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by tkxxx7 7y ago
> That isn't evil. You wouldn't call a hurricane or a fire evil. You wouldn't call a person who kills someone in a no fault car accident evil. All of these things are no one's fault. > Evil isn't about results
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by tkxxx7 7y ago
That's how you handle children, though. No one is going to ignore wrongdoings in hopes the perp will continue to play nicely.
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by tkxxx7 7y ago
> Facebook isn't actively trying to harm their customers, they simply don't care about them. That is amoral not evil. Don't bend yourself out of shape. Actively, happily ignoring the evil you have caused and continue to ca
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by tkxxx7 7y ago
> I want to read about politics from the political analysts I follow, but don't care about their cooking adventures on the weekend. I want to read about tech from the software folks I follow, but don't want to hear about their
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by tkxxx7 7y ago
It seems like you're making an implicit distinction between deciding to be a Christian and accepting God > But the Christian is not in the same position as either Plato or the atheist. Within the Christian's position, Yes, the
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by tkxxx7 7y ago
> Respectfully, I’m not though, and I have already said so. My original “poverty is a spectrum” comment still firmly addresses everything you’ve said, so if we still disagree, we can agree that’s ok.
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by tkxxx7 7y ago
Given the nature of your position it feels ironic to be saying to you that if you feel my family was amongst the worlds’ “elite” just because we lived in the US , then I believe you may need a more nuanced outlook on people. Also, there’s
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by tkxxx7 7y ago
I am aware of this, anticipated this response from you (as you’ve repeated in this thread), and addressed it at the end of the comment you’re replying to. I do not believe that a global perspective diminishes the argument in any way.
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by tkxxx7 7y ago
> Poor didn't have access, they couldn't afford a computer, much less an internet plan. Step out of the Hacker News bubble for a bit. I was very, very poor. So were most of the kids I grew up with. Most of us couldn't affo
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by tkxxx7 7y ago
Opposite for me. FaceID makes the activation so much quicker.
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by tkxxx7 7y ago
> Look at team sports as a counter example where the thinking is in terms of the individuals, not labels. You still have your best players starting and a number on the bench. This is analogous to specific software teams (front-end, back-
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by tkxxx7 8y ago
This is basically already happening. There is a long list of Amazon-owned brands - not just AmazonBasics anymore
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by tkxxx7 8y ago
This is another reason I don't want to leave Apple - they are far and away the best at detecting mis-taps.
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by tkxxx7 8y ago
They also paid some (undisclosed) amount of cash to the family.

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