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by astrostl 11y ago
I love to support this guy. As great as the product is, his communication is even better. https://blog.pinboard.in/2014/11/new_pricing_policy/ - "Should I be worried? -> Only in the broadest, existent
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“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.” - Ernest Heming
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Amazon is a famous example of not maximizing shareholder value by reinvesting into R&D, no?
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UI/UX.
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I have a 2014 Kindle Fire HDX with FDE enabled, and the performance is fine.
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I don't know what kind of phone you have, but iOS has an option to automatically wipe the device after N code failures. Thus the whole San Bernadino phone situation. Fingerprints are not trivial to obtain, and are even harder to reprod
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RE: #2, it's an optional feature which is not enabled by default. And you have to dig for it. I'm inclined to think that the people who dig for encryption on a book-themed tablet are more likely to understand the potential perform
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by astrostl 11y ago
Upon re-reading the OP, let me stress: generally . As in, various reports and articles about meditation triggering anxiety and/or panic. I am by no means e-diagnosing or responding to anyone in particular! Just noting that Relaxation-
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I imagine this phenomenon generally has less to do with meditation/mindfulness, and more to do with Relaxation-Induced Anxiety: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22relaxation-induced+anxiety%22 . Which is its own problem, wit
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I hadn't donated either, and it's a killer app for me. Just fixed that.
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These are the kind of things that make me wish for ubiquitous micropayments. In the right space, you could ask for 0.000000001 BTC or whatever a comically trivial amount would be. Something large enough to cause friction, but small enough t
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I'm rooting for ya! (and me)
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The F5, F2, and ABO risk variants are for developing VTEs, a DVT is a type of VTE, and a PE is a DVT that makes it to the lungs. If you have one or more of the variants, it's already "on." I'm not a physician and don&#x2
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Would you prefer to have been randomly born at any other time than today? That's my heuristic.
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Strokes are the leading cause of death in my family. Grandfathered into "real" testing at 23andMe, I was unsurprised to learn that I have 2.9x the average risk of developing a venous throboembalism (VTE): deep vein thrombosis (DVT
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Hong Kong practices unilateral free trade, and it sure hasn't seemed to hurt them.
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Arq has a fantastic Glacier restore mechanism. You select a transfer rate with a slider, and it informs you how much it will cost and how long it will take to retrieve. It optimizes this with an every-four-hours sequencing as well. See htt
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"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced." - Frank Zappa
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"proprietary centralized system that can block or cut them off for any reason" Chat and ChatOps aren't going anywhere, and Slack already has a gaggle of nascent competitors, both commercial and OSS. If you build on Facebook o
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by astrostl 12y ago
I love how the Nintendo Animal Crossing series handles this: http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2014/04/23/re...
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by astrostl 13y ago
Hyper-simple alternative: I've switched to http://simplenote.com/
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Sweet sassy molassy, $5/user/month?