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by ckosidows 6y ago
I really wish I could get off Chrome on mobile, but it just works so flawlessly. I hated Firefox. It always felt like a second-rate mobile browser. I tried Edge and it's better than FF, but Chrome still just feels like how mobile brows
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by ckosidows 6y ago
I thought the term was negligible senescence?
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by ckosidows 6y ago
I do the same thing now, but the recommended section leaves a lot to be desired on mobile. There's no way to prevent songs from getting suggested (other than maybe blocking a song entirely?). My recommendeds don't seem to get upda
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by ckosidows 6y ago
Hopping on the IntelliJ love train. I've been using it for the last five years. It is the one piece of software I still get excited about. Heck they've even made fonts interesting.
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by ckosidows 6y ago
I read rather slowly. I've been setting meager book goals for myself the past couple years, hoping to up my goals over time. But I feel my reading speed hasn't improved much. Do you, or did you at some point, make a conscious effo
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by ckosidows 6y ago
I almost didn't understand this, but then remembered that growing up I didn't have a room and all my family members had televisions on in every room. The only way I could read was to put on headphones, turn them off and face away
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by ckosidows 6y ago
Also just finished Can't Hurt Me. It's probably not for everyone. Goggins has a pretty unhealthy view of himself when he was 'fat' and his relationships with other people are kind of suspect. But it's an intense rea
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by ckosidows 6y ago
You can see its shadow clear as day right next to the pin
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by ckosidows 6y ago
Yep. The time is upon us. My friends who aren't even big into games are getting quests because of super hot and beat saber. And Christmas is coming around soon. If VR fails at this point I would be surprised. If Facebook got some compe
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by ckosidows 6y ago
Is it only in Canada? We have an A&W in town and I never would have thought to go there. But if they have plant burgers I might.
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by ckosidows 6y ago
As hopeful as I am for unconventional drugs to have more medicinal uses, is it unreasonable for me to think there's no good medicinal depression cure? Is it unfounded to think depression generally has its roots in being disconnected fr
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by ckosidows 6y ago
I wish we had a better way of conveying what goes on in our heads. I have dreams and I can visualize things, but it's never like I'm "watching" a dream or memory. While I'm dreaming it feels real, but when I recall
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by ckosidows 6y ago
It's the game of life, isn't it?
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by ckosidows 6y ago
My desktop has really flaky WiFi. Its WiFi adapter and a few peripherals are connected using USB3 ports. I just thought I was too far from the router (it's a room away through two walls). Is it possible switching them to the 2.0 ports
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by ckosidows 6y ago
Doesn't an event horizon imply a gravitational pull so strong not even light can escape? Isn't the effect of gravity the same at the event horizon for all sizes of a black hole? I thought the size only affected the "accelerat
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by ckosidows 6y ago
You've got a point. My argument was misunderstood.
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by ckosidows 6y ago
> You really think government should be telling people how and where to spend their money? Nope. And you are free to spend your money how you want. The point missed here is that when it's tax-deductible that money _would_ have b
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by ckosidows 6y ago
> Why would my charitable giving give me power in the government? I feel like I already outlined this, but it bears repeating. Taxation gives money to the government and the government decides how to spend it. If the government spends it
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by ckosidows 6y ago
> My belief is that forcing somebody to do anything against their will is inherently immoral What about enforcing traffic laws, or forcing children to attend school?
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by ckosidows 6y ago
Tax-deductible charitable giving means that people get to decide where their money goes on their own. There's no democratic process in the appropriation of their money. This means the wealthier you are, the more say you have in appropr
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by ckosidows 6y ago
Private charitable givings are tax-deductible (to an extent) so some of those donations aren't entirely, or at all, altruistic. How much of this charitable giving can be attributed to our nation being altruistic and how much of it is j
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by ckosidows 6y ago
I've read a lot about community, or the sense of being part of a community, as being the most important factor in human happiness. Winning the lottery doesn't automatically put you into any community and I would argue it actually
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by ckosidows 6y ago
I've started leaving my phone out of my gym time as well. It feels like the right thing to do, but it definitely feels odd or like I'm different somehow. At the gym I go to everyone listens to music while lifting and it's alm
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by ckosidows 6y ago
20 AU per year is a tremendous distance. Pluto is apparently right around 25 AU. Is this speed actually feasible even with solar sails? Big layman here. I only skimmed this link but this stood out to me.
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by ckosidows 6y ago
I'm probably near your age. We also had typing classes. I took them in elementary school and junior high. There were classes offered in high school but after years of Runescape I didn't need to take a typing class anymore. I wonde
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by ckosidows 6y ago
Water bottle or thermos?
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by ckosidows 6y ago
I didn't finish Infinite Jest. I found it kind of insufferable. I really don't want to detract from anyone who found it enjoyable; it's surely a monumental work. But personally it felt incredibly depressing and that made it h
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by ckosidows 7y ago
Perhaps it's different with a store like Home Depot where products are much bigger and perhaps harder to scan, but do people actually dislike self checkouts? "Doing the work for the store" seems like such a non-argument to me
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by ckosidows 7y ago
Agreed. Each time I see something about DDG on HN I try to switch and it never lasts. I don't like the results on DDG and as much as I'd like to move away from Google they've got search on lock.
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by ckosidows 7y ago
If it's an arbitrary point how could it be anything but subjective? You're saying _some_ actions are universally evil. Personally I disagree that such actions exist. The world is a complex place and humans are complex beings. Nobo

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