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by bananamerica 7y ago
Was business culture much different before? Edison literally sent thugs to tear down competitors' film equipment...
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by bananamerica 7y ago
Was business culture any different before?
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by bananamerica 7y ago
> (3) and (4) don't discount the problems inherent in altering one's perception of reality 1. AFAIK, Christianity does not negate the overall use of medicine 2. Mental illnesses are essentially a deviation from normal, healthy
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by bananamerica 7y ago
1. I'm a Christian myself, and I see no contradiction between my religious beliefs and the rational conclusion that science tends to provide the best answers for a vast scope of phenomenons 2. I would never use hallucinogens out of my
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by bananamerica 7y ago
You know, your position is very common. It stems from the belief that our brain is dissociated from our mind/identity, and therefore existential-like issues should be treated as separate from the brain. But that is incorrect, as any in
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by bananamerica 7y ago
I'd say that doing both things is not just common, but almost mandatory. I've been to a lot of psychiatrists in the last 15 years, and all of them made a point to tell me that I should also seek a psychotherapist.
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by bananamerica 7y ago
1. Maybe depression is a neurological phenomenon, which actually requires drugs (but NOT just drugs) to be endured 2. I wish antidepressants were as powerful as you think...
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by bananamerica 7y ago
> if the answer was, "The answer to your question is in the manual; please read it", would you consider that ok? YES.
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by bananamerica 7y ago
The RTFM conundrum is very simple to solve: 1. Install texpander ( https://github.com/leehblue/texpander ) 2. $ vim ~/.texpander/RTFM 3. Paste this text: "Please search the documentation before asking and
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by bananamerica 7y ago
The current meaning of RTFM is well established and it does not contain the word "fine"...
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by bananamerica 7y ago
RTFM is just a rude way to say "Please search the documentation before asking". If the amount of typed characters is the issue, I assume developers are more than capable of using system-wide text-expansion. In any case, even silen
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by bananamerica 7y ago
I frequently get good results from Google/Quora.
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by bananamerica 7y ago
I lived through hyperinflation. Sometimes products were updated mid day. Comics used codes that referred to a table because it was not possible to change the price on the cover.
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by bananamerica 7y ago
I happen to love hamburgers.
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by bananamerica 7y ago
Every time I try to set up an email client I end up going back to gmail.com. What are the advantages of the hassle? They never seem to do what I want them to.
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by bananamerica 7y ago
Calibre is the worst piece of software thar I also happen to love.
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by bananamerica 7y ago
Just use a real text editor that doesn’t embed Google Chrome just to write code. There are tons of quality ones.
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by bananamerica 7y ago
Hello my friend. I started using Emacs two years ago. Couldn’t be happpier. It’s an awesome a tool.
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by bananamerica 7y ago
I happiky use about 1% of Tmuz and and only truly understand half of that. Still super useful.
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by bananamerica 7y ago
Why people still use Avid?
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by bananamerica 7y ago
People in America seem to think free speech is an absolute right, but in a democracy no right is absolute. It must be weighed against all the other rights. If I wrongfully accuse "John" of sexual assault, while I know that John is
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by bananamerica 7y ago
As a reader, I find it slow and cluttered. It may have advantages for publishers, but I only open Medium links when strictly necessary.
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by bananamerica 8y ago
I wish I had an android to try it. The options for ios iOS are not good enough for me. But even so, I hear it is limited in functionality.
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by bananamerica 8y ago
I'm a happy Org Mode user, but it lacks a complete, reliable and easy to use mobile interface. It is and probably will always be a desktop-centric application.
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An Analysis of Robert Heinlein’s All You Zombies Paradoxes (With Visuals)(daviramos.com)
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by bananamerica 8y ago
I don't have any reason to doubt the truth and logic consistency of either Rich's post or your reply. The problem is not the logic, it's the rhetoric. For anyone out of the loop, he sounds like an interstellar douchebag. And,
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by bananamerica 8y ago
I can sympathize with that. But I think Rich made a very bad choice of rhetoric, and this is probably going to bite him in the ass.
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by bananamerica 8y ago
As someone not in the know, Rich's post seems like an extremely aggressive and arrogant piece. When you put it in context, it does make more sense.
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by bananamerica 8y ago
On Emacs, if you hit enter on a package after running (M-x list-packages), there's usually a brief summary and a link to Github. After you install the package, you have lots of commands to access documentation. Here's some of them