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by adriand 7y ago
Here's a link to the donation page in English: https://www.betterplace.org/en/projects/77946-save-berlin-s-... This is a great initiative, but man, it really brings home the fact that we are truly in danger o
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by adriand 7y ago
Absolutely. There is little reason to trust anything that comes out of the US administration, and the ongoing reporting of leadership dysfunction at the highest levels of the country does not lend credibility to containment efforts. There a
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by adriand 7y ago
> I can't help but wonder where I would be now if I had focus from the last 5 years instead of chasing 'whatever excited me'. The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The next best time is now. Stop wondering about w
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by adriand 7y ago
> It's not just that money has decreasing marginal value. It's about what life you want to live. I reached a point where I realized that the life experiences I was having were essentially the same as what much richer people are
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by adriand 7y ago
I found a mere four items in my activity list, all from several months ago, probably when I mistakenly used the wrong container or had uBlock turned off. It's nice to see all my anti-tracking software is working!
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by adriand 7y ago
> As someone who doesn't have any contacts with companies (I'd assume this is true for most people here), any pointers on how to go about doing this? You need to develop contacts at companies! There are lots of different ways t
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Atomium(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by adriand 7y ago|0 comments
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> People are still totally willing to be part of something like that; people are as haphazard and risky as they ever were. I think people were much more willing to risk their lives (and risk other people’s lives) in the past than they ar
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by adriand 7y ago
Suicides are common in hotels because people don’t want to burden their loved ones with the shock of finding their body or having to clean up the mess.
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by adriand 7y ago
He does explain it. He says he uses something called "Callrail": > By syncing Google Ads with Callrail, your name and address is tied to your click (and all your other data) when you conduct a certain action on a website that a
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by adriand 7y ago
(2 + 3) and 5 are not “the same”. If we’re using ordinary English language to discuss this issue I think “equivalent” is a sensible choice.
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Exactly right. It's polarizing. Very polarizing, if this comment thread is any indication. And the pole of people who absolutely love it will buy it. That group of people does not need to be large for this to be successful. This is a
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by adriand 7y ago
> Seems like a bit of a tail wagging the dog situation. How do we know the more relaxed/organized schedule leads to success, and not that success leads to a more relaxed/organized schedule? That's a facile rhetorical quest
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Not to mention changeable! The ability to erase items, or to rearrange your diagram (and to have the lines between items automatically reflow) is another key reason to use a digital format.
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by adriand 7y ago
People keep referring to tree planting as the thing that these offsets are funding. Of the featured projects funded by the company I purchase offsets from ( https://www.less.ca/en-ca/projects.cfm ), none consist of tree
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by adriand 7y ago
Here's a list of featured projects associated with the nonprofit I buy offsets from: https://www.less.ca/en-ca/projects.cfm
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That doesn’t sound like a well-informed opinion to me. Have you looked at rigorously certified carbon offset and capture programs? It is not just treeplanting.
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I offset all my flights now (I probably fly about three round trips per year). My wife and I recently went to Greece (from Toronto), which were two trips of 10+ hours and IIRC almost 7 tons of carbon emissions. I purchased $170 CAD of offse
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by adriand 7y ago
I think this is a reasonable comment to make (perhaps unworthy of downvotes, which it seems to be accumulating), but I will note that the article defines "successful modern tech companies" as generally having five principal featur
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Ford and VW Agree to Share Costs of Self-Driving and Electric Cars(nytimes.com)
121 points by adriand 7y ago|179 comments
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These are YouTube videos. I don't think the Youglish TOS has any sway over them. Besides, I'd rely on the fair use doctrine, which I think applies in this case.
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This is also an amazing tool for anyone making electronic music that is looking for samples! I've been looking for something like this for quite some time: a tool to find audio clips on YouTube that match a particular phrase. Nothing l
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Chirp – Send Data with Sound(chirp.io)
1 points by adriand 7y ago|0 comments
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The reason the author's viewpoint is compelling is because it is somewhat unique. Your viewpoint is the standard one. Most people share it and that's why most people do exactly what most people do: work their tails off to try and
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by adriand 7y ago
Be yourself (if you're awkward/weird/whatever, that's okay - embrace it), be kind, be genuinely interested in other people, try to make other people have a good time, try not to worry about what they think of you and ins
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by adriand 7y ago
I understand this perspective but I feel like it's unnecessarily negative. I certainly agree with you that living in another country would be a unique and mind-expanding experience, but not everyone has this opportunity (or takes it wh
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by adriand 7y ago
You do seem a bit pessimistic and I'm not sure that your negativity is entirely warranted in the case of Indigo. The products they stock are certainly not high-end, but nor are they dollar store crap. Most of the items are decent and
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by adriand 8y ago
I grew up in a conservative, Protestant family and I might be able to shed a little bit of light on this. A few points, simply based on the environment I grew up in, which means of course this is just one perspective on just one religious
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by adriand 8y ago
Most emoji could likely be replaced with, "And when I say that, I mean it in an X way", where X equals "humourous", "joking", "angry", "flirtatious", etc. Which would be incredibly tedious.
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by adriand 8y ago
A wise and correct perspective. Grief is an emotion and emotions are inherently subjective. Our cat died two years ago and although we've had a few cats over the years, this cat was special. I was totally unprepared for the grief and

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