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by ciconia 8y ago
I find the article quite a bit hyperbolic, but it still rings true. Technology is a double-edged sword, and America's obsession with it is wreaking havoc. The more you use it, the more you depend on it. and the more people spend time t
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How Trump’s Election Shook Obama: ‘What If We Were Wrong?’(nytimes.com)
7 points by ciconia 8y ago|0 comments
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Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko shot and killed in Kiev(aljazeera.com)
2 points by ciconia 8y ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 8y ago
> Kind of ironic really. No, what's ironic is the best piece of real-estate for all life is right under our feet, no space ship necessary.
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What’s the world’s cheapest airline?(rome2rio.com)
2 points by ciconia 8y ago|0 comments
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Life as a stepmother(theguardian.com)
92 points by ciconia 8y ago|12 comments
907.
by ciconia 8y ago
Donating blood is easy! It takes just a few minutes (for whole blood donation, plasma and platelets donation is more involved), and there are health benefits [1]. More than that, helping to save lives is a great way to start your day. Good
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SpaceX flies upgraded Falcon 9(youtube.com)
2 points by ciconia 8y ago|0 comments
909.
by ciconia 9y ago
No need for hi-tech drones, you can just use a kite: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/massive-fire-after-kite-with-molotov-cocktail-attached-sent-from-gaza-1.6052362
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by ciconia 9y ago
It does read like propaganda, but you're saying an arms race is a better solution than a bit of regulation? I'm not convinced.
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Illiberal Israel(project-syndicate.org)
1 points by ciconia 9y ago|0 comments
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America is more diverse than ever – but still segregated(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by ciconia 9y ago|0 comments
913.
by ciconia 9y ago
About bloody time. I live in the country side and can see what's happening, though where I live nature is doing ok. City folks though have no idea how bad things are.
914.
by ciconia 9y ago
> I thought Dean and Bill, being highly accomplished engineers and mathematicians, would have good intuitions about how this process works. But they didn't, and come to think of it, why should they know about something so far outsid
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Back to the wild - letting Mother Nature reclaim prime farmland(dailymail.co.uk)
1 points by ciconia 9y ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 9y ago
The biggest turnoff about classical music is how so-called connoisseurs will dissect and analyse a piece of music ad nauseum, in order to provide legitimacy and authority to their aesthetic judgement of a piece of music. You like the music?
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What We Know About Last Week's Accident(tesla.com)
2 points by ciconia 9y ago|1 comments
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Land degradation threatens human wellbeing, major report warns(theguardian.com)
4 points by ciconia 9y ago|0 comments
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UN Chief Warns of Widespread Ills from Global Water Crisis(nytimes.com)
3 points by ciconia 9y ago|0 comments
920.
Linux – Writing a Simple Container App with Namespaces(devarea.com)
2 points by ciconia 9y ago|0 comments
921.
by ciconia 9y ago
Thanks so much for putting this on here. I have read Auslander's "Foreskin's Lament" and could deeply identify with his critique and eventual rejection of so-called "modern Judaism" (indeed - an oxymoron). I co
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Ultimate Guitar acquires MuseScore(scoringnotes.com)
2 points by ciconia 9y ago|0 comments
923.
by ciconia 9y ago
If you really want to make a change, leave the city and go live in the countryside. You'll be able to consume less, grow your own food and be closer to nature.
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Britain Was a Pioneer in Outsourcing Services. Now, the Model Is ‘Broken.’(nytimes.com)
1 points by ciconia 9y ago|0 comments
925.
So Many LEDs with One Raspberry Pi(urielguy.com)
13 points by ciconia 9y ago|4 comments
926.
by ciconia 9y ago
> My memory is terrible enough that I can't do those things myself. I get that all those services are helpful to someone who's easily distracted, but I'm afraid using them is the last thing that's going to help your m
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New York City to Exxon: Pay up for climate change costs(money.cnn.com)
1 points by ciconia 9y ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 9y ago
Having kids (a boy and a girl, 9- and 8-years old respectively, both adopted) changed my life in a profound way. I made me much more materialistic (as in providing for my family), more interested in day-to-day life than the myriad artistic
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by ciconia 9y ago
I've been watching Black Mirror recently and have reflected on this - human exceptionalism. We'd like to think of ourselves as gods, or almost-gods, and with technology we are surely achieving some god powers. But we always seem t
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Flying Pipistrel's Electric Airplane(youtube.com)
1 points by ciconia 9y ago|0 comments

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