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by xekul 2y ago
A post on Slashdot says that Merlin patched the CVS in March. Merlin also patched the EOLed RT-AX56U, which Asus isn't providing an updated firmware for.
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by xekul 3y ago
Language in Thought and Action by S.I. Hayakawa Metaphors We Live By by Lakoff and Johnson The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker Tao Te Ching (various translators)
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by xekul 3y ago
Despite the costs starting to creep up as my sites start taking up more space and bandwidth, I continue to host my sites and register my domains on NFSN because of the geek/DIY/libertarian ethos and the excellent support provided
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by xekul 3y ago
Since the start of the pandemic I've been self-hosting a Jitsi instance on Linode for my hypnotherapy business -- partly to transmit high-bitrate audio, partly for privacy and partly for compatibility, since it works in most web browse
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by xekul 4y ago
For Canadian equities, especially mining stocks, ceo.ca seems to have a lot of knowledgeable participants. Otherwise, maybe a Bloomberg terminal, though it's out of reach for most people. The high price to entry is a feature, not a bug
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by xekul 4y ago
Hypnotism and applied life philosophy from a humanistic/naturalistic perspective: https://www.youtube.com/morpheushypnosis
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by xekul 4y ago
In some ways yes (inward focus, suspension of analytical thought, nonjudgement of the feelings or memories that arise), but in other ways no. Hypnosis doesn't usually incorporate the bilateral stimulation that's central to the the
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by xekul 4y ago
It's also that meditation is usually observant and not goal-directed, or at least it's taught that way, while hypnosis is usually used to achieve a specific goal, which means the hypnotist is intentionally making an effort to infl
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by xekul 4y ago
I'm a professional hypnotist (15 years of practice) and this is hands-down the best mainstream article on hypnotism I've read in years. Fitting phenomenology into science has often struck me as trying to shove a square peg into a
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by xekul 5y ago
The patents that were sold had to do with BlackBerry's legacy non-core business (mobile devices) and don't comprise their entire patent portfolio. They've specifically said that the patent sale won't affect their existin
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by xekul 5y ago
The first two books are extremely useful for preventing people from taking advantage of you, if you are naive as to how manipulative people can be: that's what I got out of them when I read them early in life.
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by xekul 5y ago
I'm a consulting hypnotist (hypnotherapist), albeit with a strong technical side (e.g., I've trained my employees to use desktop Linux for remote work). I'm essentially in the business of thinking clearly about client problem
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by xekul 5y ago
Kobo has Pocket integration.
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by xekul 5y ago
The Unihertz Titan could be described as a spiritual successor to the BlackBerry Passport: similar form factor, rugged build quality and long battery life, but runs Android 10. I'm typing on one right now.
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by xekul 10y ago
The original is interesting and relevant even if you never intend to touch a tennis racket in your life.
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by xekul 10y ago
A lot of sites let in traffic from Google so that their sites will be indexed and rank when people search for them.
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by xekul 11y ago
T.S. Eliot. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" perfectly captures the essence of a middle-aged man's insecurities, and Eliot wrote it when he was 23.
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by xekul 13y ago
The Blackberry Hub (i.e., the unified inbox) is one of two reasons I'm still using a Blackberry (the other reason, of course, is the physical keyboard).
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by xekul 13y ago
Back in 2011, I mined enough BTC on my $1000 mining rig to eventually make a 5x profit, but there's no way I'd be able to make a profit today at the current difficulty/prices.
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Canadian Startup eBounties Launches, Makes Getting What You Want Easier(techvibes.com)
1 points by xekul 13y ago|0 comments
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by xekul 13y ago
This is a Show HN. Over my life, I've often thought, "I wish I could find an xyz. Surely somebody on the Internet knows where I could find one. I'll even pay them to find it for me!" So I created a website to enable that kind of search.
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EBounties: Find (Just About) Anything by Tapping Into the Knowledge of the Crowd(ebounties.com)
1 points by xekul 13y ago|1 comments
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by xekul 14y ago
We do have audio samples (they're halfway down the sidebar on each product page) and we offered a discount way back in January when we launched. If you're interested in trying it out but the price is holding you back, here's what I can do f
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Disrupting Hypnotherapy: My Vision for Hypnotizr(hypnotizr.com)
2 points by xekul 14y ago|2 comments
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by xekul 14y ago
I switched from Blackberry to Android (Samsung Galaxy Glide) last week and I'm mostly happy, except for some features that I had taken for granted as a BB user (good physical keyboard, notification LED, and stellar battery life). If RIM wer
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by xekul 15y ago
For cultural rather than technical news, with an intelligent and vibrant community, Metafilter: http://www.metafilter.com
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by xekul 15y ago
I'm aware of two ways to do this with the content network: - Bid on specific placements. If there's a blog or blog post post I want my ad to appear on, I can tell Google that I want to raise my bid for that specific URL. - Bid on specific k
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by xekul 15y ago
I don't know exactly how the content matching algorithm works, but I know that search traffic produces a higher conversion rate than content. A big part of that is because a content click doesn't have the same intent to buy that a good sear
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by xekul 15y ago
I've heard these numbers from multiple sources and I believe they are correct. The highest costs per click listed in the infographic are for specific, long-tail keyword phrases (three or four words long). These keywords can convert at an ab
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by xekul 15y ago
I know a lot of Internet marketers. The ones who can get results consistently and who care about optimizing those results are already making a ton of money promoting their own businesses or selling other people's products through affiliate

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