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by wombatmobile 5y ago
In this case, the question is informative and stimulating because it challenges the assumption that human interaction has a different dynamic to animal interaction. Bringing this question to conscious awareness is a different category of so
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
The soul is an emergent property of the mind and body interacting with the world.
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
… in the hope of avoiding shallow comments like this. Shallow? It’s profound. Have you tried to respond to the question, in the human context?
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
I know the code that I and my team contributed to Mozilla was only some trivial part of the whole beast, but for us it was drawn from years of work. And that’s the whole point. Mozilla has made a browser. So has google. Why make them out to
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
It’s your life, your money, and your choice.
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
Would your life be better if you spent $100 on junk food, alcohol, pot, gasoline or Netflix instead?
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
Soda is 98% water and 46% sugar.
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
> It's still significant because it speaks to people being more willing to admit to being part Native. More people are proud to proclaim being First Nations people.
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.” ― Anaïs Nin
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
I’m a big fan of H2O. The reason I’m posting that here is because for many years I don’t drink it. I was so used to hydrating from soda and other beverages advertised on TV I completely lost touch with plain old H2O. Then one day I rediscov
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
You're not stuck in some evil country. You have Mozilla. If you want to improve it, you can submit code to it. Or start a new browser project by rounding up a dozen friends who feel the same way you do and going for it. If you&#x27
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
> Why are we at the mercy of … We aren’t at anyone’s mercy. Nobody is forcing us to use browsers from google or Mozilla. We are all free to implement our own UA. The specs are all open standards. What stops us from writing browsers is th
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Microsoft has bought Activision for nearly $70B(gamesradar.com)
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
Amber is heterogeneous in composition, but consists of several resinous bodies more or less soluble in alcohol, ether and chloroform, associated with an insoluble bituminous substance. Amber is a macromolecule by free radical polymerization
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
How about in amber then? How long might we expect DNA to remain intact perfectly encased in amber?
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
A corporation is neither a human nor an AI. A corporation is a shield behind which humans plot and practice their most deliberate, libidinous schemes of avarice, moderated not by morality or community, but only by laws and markets. And for
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.11555 Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dinos-dna-demise-... The Royal Society https://royalsocietypublis
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
> Why isn't there a universal data format for résumés? There can be. You can create a universal data format for résumés. You can make the universal data format a world standard in 7 steps: 1. Create a committee comprised of st
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
> It seems impossible for me to recommend someone do this stuff without having that lifelong level of understanding and context and passion. Your lifelong learning and passion are a key part of your identify, and most probably the reason
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
> Bir Tawil is just a worthless desert To you perhaps, but outside of your imagination? “members of the Ababda and Bisharin tribe … carry goods, graze crops and make camp within the sands.”
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
How do you personally handle tipping, in a restaurant where you know the owner is paying $tiny/hr? What are the cognitive steps you go through to derive your tipping behaviour in each instance?
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
> Most of Amazon jungle was, essentially, a big orchard. What is your understanding of the word "orchard"? What is your understanding of the word "jungle"? > You have a great deal to learn about the prehistory of S
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
Just curious how you cogitate it?
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
> tips were probably 150% of my income That makes you an entrepreneur. But unlike other entrepreneurs, you don’t get to deduct the costs involved with turning up to the market.
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
Or else they might experience poverty and/or overwork.
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
Sounds like you are comparing the experiences of an American eating out in America with the experiences of an American dining in foreign countries. Some of your experiences were negative, and others positive. But none of your foreign data u
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
Not sure what you mean by "big Amazonian civilisations". It's full of trees. People traditionally live in small villages. There are no roads. The Inca didn't live in the jungle. The administrative, political and milita
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
How can the question be answered without first defining "heretical"? TFA seems to use the term to mean "mainstream" or "popular"? I'm sure it doesn't mean "sanctioned by the Catholic Church"
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
> I think there was a peak in hobby photography By "hobby photography" it sounds like you mean SLR hobby photography. Of course, hobby photography has boomed off the charts with phones. Meanwhile, professional photography is n
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Jailed 'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli ordered to repay $64m(bbc.com)
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