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by b5 7y ago
You're taking that a little too literally. I wish they published more human-focussed, long-form writing on a range of topics that is readable and relevant even years after it's first published. It seems to have veered quite heav
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by b5 7y ago
This is one of my favourite New Yorker articles. I wish they published more articles like this. Suicidal thoughts are a really tough thing to deal with. I've struggled with them for my entire adult life -- more than 20 years now, a
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MacBook Pro 13“ Two Thunderbolt Ports 2019 Teardown(ifixit.com)
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by b5 7y ago
In an ideal world, they would be allowed to do that. As it stands, that would potentially be a quick way for them to lose their job. When I last worked in a supermarket (just over three years ago) taking home or giving away food that was d
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by b5 7y ago
You're refuting his view as rosy, but positing that the real answer was horror. It's almost certainly something in between the two. Personally, I think that the most likely explanation is that most mixing came through adoption of
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by b5 7y ago
They're not uncontacted, but if you're interested in very different cultures, the Pirahã are absolutely fascinating. There's a brilliant article in the New Yorker about them: https://www.newyorker.com/magaz
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by b5 7y ago
I read it recently and have mixed feelings about it. I'd recommend it to anyone, especially if you haven't read much on the topic and want an overview. I think it does an excellent job of ancient, pre-historical humans -- the var
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by b5 7y ago
Children of Time is excellent, and does a really good job of tracking the evolution and eventual ascension of the Portiid spiders. Tchaikovsky creates a really convincing civilisation based on the limits of the planet and the spiders: a
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by b5 7y ago
I have several of them, and love each of them. My phone has far more capacity, and could stream effectively unlimited music from Spotify, but there's something unique and special about the Buddha Machine.
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Avengers, MCU, Game of Thrones, and the Content Endgame(rogerebert.com)
1 points by b5 7y ago|0 comments
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The beauty industry generates a lot of plastic waste. Can it change?(nationalgeographic.com)
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Write Concentration: Using a Pen and Paper to Meditate(tricycle.org)
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by b5 8y ago
I still primarily use an iPhone SE, but every couple of months I'll "disconnect" by using a dumbphone for a week or two at a time. I use the Nokia 106: https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_int/nokia-106
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The Toxic Drama on YA Twitter(vulture.com)
2 points by b5 8y ago|0 comments
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The iPhone SE is the best minimalist phone(theverge.com)
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Yubico announces the first Lightning security key for iPhones(theverge.com)
7 points by b5 8y ago|0 comments
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by b5 8y ago
You're taking a bad-faith reading of OP's comments: they're not talking about the self-identified incels; they're talking about the majority of single men who are single involuntarily. The latter is the group of whi
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Kobo Forma Review: A Formidable Opponent for Amazon’s Kindle Oasis(arstechnica.com)
1 points by b5 8y ago|0 comments
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Sony using open source emulator for PlayStation Classic plug-and-play(arstechnica.com)
3 points by b5 8y ago|1 comments
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by b5 8y ago
Crikey. When I checked that page earlier, just before I posted, there was a second-hand copy for about £6. Perhaps someone from this thread bought it? As for my copy, I gave it to a friend when they went travelling. They came back, but t
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by b5 8y ago
People have been saying that about paper and books for at least 50 years, and we still have them and still use them just as much if not more. It's also a popular dismissive canard here on HN, which I suppose is to be expected in a sit
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by b5 8y ago
Herbert quite deliberately planned the Dune universe to be seemingly technologically backwards to remove the crutch of technology and focus instead on human potential.
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by b5 8y ago
Across the water in Scotland, the most common pencils in school were black and yellow striped -- the Staedtler Noris, back then made in Wales and stamped "Made in Great Britain". These were the ones the school provided and also t
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by b5 8y ago
Where did the money come from for the people who will never have it run out?
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by b5 8y ago
Not really -- it's incredibly thin. You'd need to write carefully, either with a pencil or a non-bleeding pen. You also have almost no space to write in: see this picture halfway down the NYT article to see how small the marg
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by b5 8y ago
It's a shame Kobo now only make 6"+ models. I really hoped that they'd release something with the form-factor of the Forma HD but with a 5" screen: https://uk.kobobooks.com/products/kobo-forma
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by b5 8y ago
They launched this format, calling it "Flipbooks", in the UK in 2011: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/mar/20/could-this-kil... It wasn't a success. In all, it looks like they only
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by b5 8y ago
Just because you own the tool you use -- be it a hammer, a screwdriver, or a car -- doesn't mean you own the means of production except in the very narrowest sense. The tools you use are worthless if there's no work to do with th
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Amazon’s Kindle Oasis has a new competitor: the waterproof Kobo Forma(arstechnica.com)
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by b5 8y ago
I consume content voraciously What kind of "content" are you "consuming"?

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