SnacksOnAPlane

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   by SnacksOnAPlane 10y ago

   I started volunteering. Most Saturdays I'm out early in the morning building a house with Habitat for Humanity. Then I go home and nap, feeling content that I did something worthwhile with my weekend. After that, it's easier to
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   by SnacksOnAPlane 10y ago

   My thoughts exactly. Kind of like it's more interesting to see who's using encryption because they're probably the ones who are trying to hide something.
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   by SnacksOnAPlane 10y ago

   IIRC it was Pemulis who was explaining it.
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   by SnacksOnAPlane 10y ago

   Honestly, most of Infinite Jest is not like that. It's only like that when you're "in the head" of certain characters. But you have no idea what's going on in the book for the first 300 pages or so. It takes until
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   by SnacksOnAPlane 10y ago

   Fear Of Missing Out
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   by SnacksOnAPlane 10y ago

   Yeah, I don't think this is quite right. I think the only real difference is whether you charge yourself up by spending time alone (with books or something) or spending time with other people. I'm talkative in meetings and enjoy
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   by SnacksOnAPlane 10y ago

   I would say that, at least in my neighborhood (Midtown), someone saying that would be absolutely shunned. I can't speak for all neighborhoods, but I've lived here for about 30 years and I have never ever heard someone say that in
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   by SnacksOnAPlane 10y ago

   I got my Brother MFC for around $50 with some clever rebate-stacking. It's an awesome little printer that plays very well with Linux. Highly recommended!
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   by SnacksOnAPlane 10y ago

   I just finished Creativity, Inc. and it was a pretty good look at how Pixar evolved. Also highly recommended.
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    by SnacksOnAPlane 10y ago

    Oooh, I can break it down to just 2 personality types: men and women!
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    by SnacksOnAPlane 10y ago

    Yeah, but I think other people are handling that. There was an article in the NYT about doing it ( http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/opinion/anti-trump-republi... ).
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    by SnacksOnAPlane 10y ago

    I have trouble with the quantum immortality theory because people normally die in the 75-90 years range, and it would be supremely weird for you to just keep living while those around you all died, since in our reality humans tend to have s
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    by SnacksOnAPlane 10y ago

    ...and people wonder why ADHD diagnoses have been on the rise.
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    by SnacksOnAPlane 10y ago

    You seriously want to disallow gopher://? C'mon, man!
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    by SnacksOnAPlane 10y ago

    How can I sign up for a study on LSD effects? I really just want to do acid legally, and further human knowledge on psychedelics.
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    by SnacksOnAPlane 10y ago

    I feel like CBT can be counterproductive because it encourages you to ruminate on negative thoughts instead of just not thinking them. You have to examine them and put them into categories like "mindreading" or "catastrophiz
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    by SnacksOnAPlane 10y ago

    If they screw it up, we can always just move to an alternate system of DNS servers. We're all only on a single system by convention anyway.
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    by SnacksOnAPlane 10y ago

    How about allowing us to pay to not see ads? I still enjoy using Facebook but I hate seeing ads. I'd pay a couple bucks a month to avoid them.
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    by SnacksOnAPlane 10y ago

    I use LastPass, but I'm still fearful about it. It's such a rich target, and all a hacker would really have to do is to intercept when you put your decryption key in and send it off to their own server. Then they'd have acc
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    by SnacksOnAPlane 11y ago

    I find that ping-pong and watercooler discussions are necessary as breaks. Otherwise you burn out and you only get, say, 4 hours of real work done in an 8-hour day.
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    by SnacksOnAPlane 11y ago

    http://www.supergenpass.com/
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    by SnacksOnAPlane 11y ago

    The immediate effects are actually the same as the recreational effects. But there's a "halo period" after the psychedelic effects wear off during which the world seems friendlier, safer, brighter. This can last weeks or ev
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    by SnacksOnAPlane 11y ago

    Nope, taking it nasally also works for depression.
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    by SnacksOnAPlane 11y ago

    He meant the practice of sending the software engineers up on the first flight.
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    by SnacksOnAPlane 11y ago

    I think the point is that this is a USB drive that looks to the computer like a keyboard, so it will run without confirmation.
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    by SnacksOnAPlane 11y ago

    For 3rd world countries that actually want to join the 1st world, this is great. But I'm afraid that we're creating a global monoculture (spreading western-style capitalism everywhere) and this is not in society's long-term
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    by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago

    Sometimes doing the wrong thing (or at least "not the right thing") allows you to do a much bigger right thing in the end. For example, Bill Gates. We all hated on Microsoft in the 90s. But Gates has become an amazingly generous
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    by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago

    Hike the Appalachian Trail! I think it goes pretty close to NYC. You could get almost half of it done in 3 months, and I guarantee it'll change your life for the better.
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    by SnacksOnAPlane 12y ago

    It doesn't work that way. How could it possibly work that way? That would mean that the first item you buy each pay period would cost $1500 + its old price, and all other items were normally priced. Perhaps prices for all goods woul