awl130

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it reminds me of dungeon and dragons
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>Accounting is the language of business #warrenbuffet
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South Korea to spend $603 mn on space programme(geek.com)
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War is the natural state of man. Therefore peace must be vigilantly enforced through law.
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every time china has a prolonged period of peace, the nobility gets corrupt which then opens it up for invasion. culture may be the result of extended peace, but unity is only achieved through conflict. ironically, there is no peace withou
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the author is mistaken: single womanhood is not necessarily where female empowerment, or america, is headed. quite the opposite actually. women in scandinavia have been actively decoupling child-bearing from marriage for decades now, and t
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this sounds like a job for drones
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your implication is that it wasn't oddly timed at all, but perfectly timed.
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this belongs on medium.com
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lee, i copy/pasted one of my hn comments below, that describes my meditation. there's a lot of lingo in your link that i don't understand. can you comment on what i describe as stage 1 and 2 below, and if that is related to
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thank you, will check out
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i disagree. i don't think the author's search method is intuitive at all. i think, even for a journalist, it's normal behavior to search by proper nouns and words of specificity, rather than pronouns and what we normally de
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excellent, but please please please just invert the colors on the slider (so that the chosen range is a contrast to the background). it's an easy fix but would have saved me 30 seconds of confusion.
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i've been meditating for 6 yrs now and i'm interested in your meditation experience. do u have a blog or social media account or something publicly available about it?
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TED is now a full-blown lifestyle company like GoPro or Whole Foods, except instead of one or two celebrity endorsements, they gain a new implicit endorsement every time they book a new speaker. franchising TEDx was a brilliant move; first,
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nice PSA. good looking out
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clarification: i read the whole book (and fountainhead), both of which i enjoyed; i stopped reading galt's monologue 20 pages in. it's like when your friend starts rambling while he's high; i love u man but bro i'm goin
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i have nothing against drug use for creativity. heck the beatles must have taken speed for their "all night" recording sessions. but they didn't take their 12 hour recordings, put it on an album and call it art. they gave
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by awl130 11y ago
i stand corrected.
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you're a better person than me. i just couldn't stomach it after page 20.
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benzedrine is an amphetamine. what am i missing here? or did i use the incorrect slang? don't know, wasn't alive during the 60s. she was on benzedrine, then dexedrine and dexamyl http://randwatch.blogspot.com/201
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i have a lot of friends who are recovering meth addicts and so when i first read ayn rand's atlas shrugged and came across john galt's ridiculous 60 page monologue (and no, i did not elect to read it word for word, you are a fucki
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2009: 1 hr 2010: 30 min 2011-2014: 10 min 2015-present: 0-10 min these are my daily averages. i have one rule: before I go to bed, I must assume the lotus position on the floor in front of my bed. 2015 was particularly a challenging year fo
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ironically, women's empowerment could eventually lead a society back to pre-historic times in a genetic sense. imagine a society where women no longer need husbands or fathers for either income or childcare (which is the current trend
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just wow. it is played unironically, but so self-unaware that it then becomes funny, which must be enjoyed in an ironic manner. so: ``` def change_tone tone tone = ironic change_tone tone end ``` #change_tone :unironic #S
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evolved
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china will get its way. imagine china building a military base on cuba or hispaniola and see how well that sits with the us government, un commission be damned. as china grows it wants to secure it's geographical sphere of influence, a
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>Taiwan will join China in a manner similar to what happened to Hong Kong and Macau. this is not a foregone conclusion. it could in fact (and probably will) remain independent like Singapore.
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really? you just left out korea completely? that sucks. the confounding of north and south korea would have been informative nonetheless.
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this is essentially an options contract; if you can trade against irrationality then you will win every time; the data is clear that the difference between a couple's expectation of the success of their marriage versus statistical real

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