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If you have an ad blocker on it won’t show
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That plus just having to deal with all of those different personalities. Sick people can be incredibly difficult to deal with. I was in the hospital for an extended period a few years ago. The nurse said she and her colleagues liked treatin
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We are all getting coronavirus
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Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court is about this as well. I thought it would be a silly story about a guy who get sent to the past but it is incredibly dark and pessimistic. The Yankee’s knowledge wows everyone, he’s p
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Sam Harris kinda does this in his guided meditations. At times he asks you to sit in a noisy public place. His aim seems to be to to try to get you to quickly turn your attention on the thing that is currently doing the noticing. The point
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What was most interesting to me about Shackleton’s story was how dangerous the leopard seals were. Never realized they were deadly. I talked to a diving instructor about this and he said seals were like Rottweilers with fins.
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357428572_Combined_...
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I’ll never forget him sawing through a turducken with his bare hand on TV as he explained what it was.
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It’s hard to concentrate on traffic when the clouds appear to be in flames.
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There are some really nice gyms out there that are almost like spas. You don’t have to go and work out like an animal every day. Sometimes I’ll go and do a light workout, maybe swim, and then soak in a hot tub. Some days I’ll run in the woo
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I thought it was Genghis Kahn.
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Aren’t prospective employers also able to check the credit agencies for salary information of applicants? I’d assume both jobs would show?
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As irritating as it is, the Head First book on OOP is actually decent for a novice.
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The castle is full of administrative offices and various bureaucratic departments that run the town. The protagonist gets the number of a bureaucrat and wants to contact him at his office in the castle. The fact that the number he’s given c
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In The Castle, any phone call from the town to the castle causes all telephones in the castle to ring. Anyone can pick up. I thought this was the origin of the name but I’m probably wrong.
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Say you use heroin or have used it in the past. Now you have to go in for some kind of surgery. Guess what? The opiate pain meds won't work for you! I've seen it first hand. It's awful. Hospitals are only allowed to give so m
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Pregabalin/Lyrica, I think. It's a seizure medication but as it was explained to me it increases the amount of signal your nerves can take, or it slows the signal, and that reduces pain. It helped me in the past but it makes you t
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Dutch ovens are great for baking bread too. They trap moisture in so you get a really nice crust vs just baking it in the open oven
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I posted this to HN 10 months ago but it got no attention. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/04/virtual-librar...
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Started off as a great story about a super AI then … alien dogs with some kind of mind reading distributed pack intelligence? Really disappointing. Didn’t bother finishing it.
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They don’t care. Why is that hard to understand?
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He has a pretty good course on master class.
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I bought an Oasis for the warm light option and it was well worth it. My use case is reading in bed and the old Paperwhite would hurt my eyes no matter what setting I used. The Oasis, with the the ability to use warm light and invert to lig
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the audible app has a sleep timer you can set that will turn it off after a specified period of time. 15 mins is usually enough for me.
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you can still email documents to your kindle
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If you’re going to force the vaccine if persuasion fails then why bother with persuasion?
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Wasn’t unemployment boosted?
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Would listening to music or a podcast or an audiobook interfere with the generation of ideas while walking? I love running and walking but I always feel like I have to have something playing in my ear during.
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My 10 year old Garmin still works and I can get updated maps on it if I ever need it.
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>Vaccination in NY/NYC is easily proven. Picture of your vaccine card is sufficent That’s easily faked. To prove vaccination, a picture of a card is not sufficient. If that’s all that’s required as proof then this won’t accomplish a

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