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There is an extremely wide spectrum of how buddhism is practiced and I'd argue most ways are "wrong" and violate things the buddha very specifically said not to do (e.g. don't worship him). There are no "requirement
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About a year ago FF said they had no current plans to remove V2 support, and if they did, they'd give at least 12 month notice. Which to me is basically language saying they absolutely will remove it at some point, otherwise they
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I would recommend Refuge Recovery over AA any day. It's still buddhist inspired but it doesn't ask you to believe in a deity and basically just sticks to principles of buddhism like "be nice, be compassionate, to both yoursel
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i use throw-away email aliases then set them to bounce/reject all email after im done with them i discovered a quest lab in my area that was either hacked or had someone working there that sold my email address to scammers since it was
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mandating changes for power generation to stop polluting as much, for car manufacturers to make safer cars, for chemical plants to stop dumping toxic waste in water supplies all also cost a lot, but we make them do it anyway
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its a visual blight for scuba divers everywhere. it kills millions of fish. the wave patterns caused by the turbine cause chronic headaches for miles. the production process for the turbine actually creates more carbon emissions than just b
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this assumes you're using it for a service that has your name/address/birthdate/social. i use it for stuff like scammy dark pattern photoshop trials, and i can use a fake name and address. i wouldn't use it for stuf
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its ability to understand tasks and execute them in a way that works without having it try again over and over 10x
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i think you're missing the point. my point is that free software exists, and i recognize that the people who build it arent paying the bills with it. i'm saying there's no logistical reason why the vast majority of software p
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you're saying that george steph. deliberately lied so that trump could sue him and he would be "forced" to pay trump $15 million? so he could bribe trump with $15 million but not be seen as actually willingly giving trump thi
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there are tons of free mastadon servers that cost nothing to end users and perfectly capture the functionality of twitter/facebook/whatever. yes there is root cost at its core, but its distributed across people who volunteer to pa
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i wish firefox would have hoarded away their billions of dollars they've received and simply run as a lean mission-oriented company for the next 20 years from those funds. get rid of expensive execs and middle managers and sales and wh
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been a firefox diehard for over a decade. moved to librewolf recently because the amount of ad-infested settings and "oopsie" default reversions to my settings that expose me yet again to ads and i yet again have to turn it off is
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people didn't vote for shit, if they could vote they'd vote for no ads and no cost. companies like google destroyed this option on purpose. there is no reason why the vast majority of apps and services online can't be both
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to be fair ive used hcknrews exclusively for years and if anything it helps reinforce the perspective of HN moderation being fair and well balanced. stuff gets removed sometimes but its entirely bc its rage bait/bad content and appropr
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literally my first google search and result (for "cnn lawsuit") showed a multimillion dollar successful lawsuit against CNN for defamation (which requires that it be a lie): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN_c
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i didn't say more than ever, but in fact in a way it is: having a job and being able to support yourself is increasingly knowledge and skills based work, whereas in the past things were much more labor focused, which is a better fit fo
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this is like saying someone with depression is choosing to be sad. this lack of executive functioning is a cornerstone of ADHD. this isn't a controversial opinion, it's universally accepted fact of the disorder
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i wish more people used hckrnews.com front end, it prevents issues like this
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okay, but these are future purchases. these companies already have a fleet of diesel trucks that are working. and at some point they need to expand and replace existing, and they're clearly fine waiting for a better product at a better
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this is exactly my point. right wing politics in the US is absolutely uniquely harmful, they are objectively worse than left wing parties. however to think that the WSJ, CNN, WaPo, etc don't routinely lie/distort/twist/m
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this response is like hearing someone has crippling depression and telling them "have you tried just thinking happy thoughts? have you tried thinking about things in a happier way?" here's the real thought process (edit: the
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i would encourage everyone to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. you interact with these people in passing, they deal with themselves all the time. you might find them grating or difficult to work with, and that's fair, but i woul
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All corporate media has done this. For example, it's made left leaning people think that only Fox News is the issue when it's all corporate media
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Volvo: 600km range, 82k lb capacity, 60% charge in 40 minutes, $350k Tesla: 800km range, 82k lb capacity, 70% charge in 30 minutes (with a much higher capacity battery), $250k Telsa would also probably have better dealer network, better sof
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a narco sub could easily be 50x the weight, needs to move significantly faster (RCTF boat is going like 5mph tops), and is fighting against extremely strong currents and waves (RCTF is on extremely still calm water).
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it'd be really silly to have a long distance anything with full starlink bandwidth and not transmit images or video. they would have seen law enforcement catch it and poke at it for sure. and even if it was just telemetry, they'd
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Sure but that point we're idealizing a society where humans are just... not humans. The occasional violence is going to happen amongst humans for a long time, there is a lot of basic evolutionary wiring in us that is going to lead some
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I agree that's both the historical basis and continued reality of what policing is in the US (and also probably elsewhere). It's interesting to see how quickly and ravenously cops respond to businesses calling in reports, and crim
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The accounting department that does what the CEO tells them to do?
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