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To add, the platforms which make this instant dopamine available are marketing platforms, and they encourage (reward) a social posture of self-marketing. So not only do us 'users' become products, but we are rewarded for selling o
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In short, one's a castle, the other is a prison.
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And I'm just excited to be able to 'visit' a museum from the internet :-)
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To pair with a book: blank paper and something to mark it with To pair with a stick, when old enough: a knife.
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Zen saying: "You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day. Unless you're too busy, then you should sit for an hour." Gandhi: "I have so much to accomplish today that I must meditate for two hours instead of one.&quo
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I use cron; I think it's pretty neat: /$INTERVAL * * * /usr/sbin/screencapture $CRONSHOTSDIR/`date +\%s`.png and then to make the timelapse: ffmpeg -r $FPS -pattern_type glob -i "*.png" -vcodec li
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I highly recommend "On Politics and English." https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_poli...
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Thank you, that's a great site.
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I love this [philosophy,mindset,culture].
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What are some major issues/concerns that you see for the present or near future of Germany?
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My finger gently depresses the black plastic key. As the machine begins to pull in data from the net I shift my weight back in the chair and look up over the top of screen, out the window at the lunch hour foot traffic passing silently by b
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Thanks! that'll keep me busy. I was thinking of something general like 'classical-vocal' - I've been listening to Bach lately, so I know of cantatas at least. Opera suggestions are much appreciated.
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I'm just getting into this kind of music - do you have any recommendations?
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But does it create a good springboard for language design?
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As a sporadically avid reader I wish I could impart my experience directly, but I'll try to describe briefly the wonderful moment of the 'flip', when, after working at a book for some time I become absolutely hooked. Then it&
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I am not "HN", just one human, one mind (more or less). Communication is what we are doing here. When you propagate a message to many people, then it's propaganda. Once upon a time the word had no negative sense. Then it did,
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The creation of the term "Public Relations" is an example of skillful propaganda.
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I suppose the real way to win would be to add a fake hoax to that page...
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On the other hand, absolute freedom (and convenience) of expression for each of our disembodied and anonymized selves is problematic in the opposite way. To bypass the sources of those chilling effects by remaining anonymous may in fact onl
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phonestoned
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When I think of vast I think of Tolstoy (War and Peace). Have not read Hugo, yet. Will do!
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I think all the 'social media' platforms really want you to install their software onto your device anyway. I suspect they could make it work in the browser if that made sense for their business, but they would rather be on your h
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your pocket tablet is a computer
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Hamlet is what rerevealed Shakespeare to me. Now, speaking of forest and trees, what's even more mindblowing is to consider all those plays together, all the characters, (and the sonnets). What range! What scope! Who else? Melville&#x2
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Perhaps because too much of it is designed to turn people into products, rather than producers.
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The terminal was made for e-ink displays ;)
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I want the dialog to be part of the browser, not the website. Similar or same as the "corporation.com wants to know your location" pop-up box. in the browser's settings: [] only allow login cookies (and maybe some other
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I would prefer to (and do) just add the pipe myself. More often I pipe to grep.
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> Another factor is that many Americans may now assume that their privacy is already shot. This is it for me, or the apathetic part of me. After a few revelations you can infer the not yet revealed. Hey, information wants to be free, rig
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I use { } to move by paragraph/block quite a bit. / or ? to search forward or backward. C-f and c-b to go a full page. U and d are half. But for me it’s not only about speed. I guess it just feels nice to use the keyboard, even wh

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