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   by derrida 11y ago

   Bro, do you even Zen? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAjTN2eYKqQ ) Quite sincerely, my understanding of the Soto zen tradition is "Sit & face the wall. Sit sincerely. Just sit." Everything else is extra. Inclu
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   by derrida 11y ago

   Meditation is "good for nothing". http://www.tricycle.com/interview/good-nothing
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   by derrida 11y ago

   > I see no problem at all with that. Thanks for the heads up.
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   by derrida 11y ago

   I guess someone could do something about that. Stallman thinks Uber is a good candidate for a GPL clone. Smartphones, servers & drivers.
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   by derrida 11y ago

   I love simply raising my arm to have a driver arrive to take me anywhere, having a conversation in a way that two only two total strangers can, & arriving at my destination for the equivalent of one hours work on minimum wage (Sydney).
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   by derrida 11y ago

   Secular meditation. The second half of this helped me with the effects of my doubt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmEG3zzCUQs The thing I did was to hold my doubt like a mother cradles a baby, don't deny it, acknowle
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   Financial sector expansion slows economic growth, widens inequality: OECD(abc.net.au)

   2 points by derrida 11y ago|0 comments
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   by derrida 11y ago

   > 15 years later Oh, come on now. Things aren't that bad. If that's a snag, it's probably best to not work there.
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   by derrida 11y ago

   If an employer doesn't hire someone because they are open to talking about their wellbeing, and the true capacities of human beings, then it's probably a GREAT thing that you don't work for them. Dodged a bullet there.
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    by derrida 11y ago

    The term libertarian was first coined by Joseph Déjacque https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_D%C3%A9jacque ... a French anarcho-communist, to describe, himself. It's important to note, that the US is the exceptio
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    by derrida 11y ago

    ADHD :)
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    by derrida 11y ago

    > So if the professor doesn't do that and has TAs to do it for them... then what? You're in a feedback loop of incentive caused bias and your own personal hell if you're not lucky enough to have a personality that's c
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    by derrida 11y ago

    What's the point of books?
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    by derrida 11y ago

    Further to what DanBC said, the fallacy is this: The guy who plunged his plane into a mountain had depression. The Unabomber was a mathematician. Hitler was an artist. Artists are evil!
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    by derrida 11y ago

    I mean, I can understand it, in the sense of, someone has a limited picture / a busy day / not the time & emotional resources for which to be able to also think compassionately about someone else in need. Or sometimes responsi
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    by derrida 11y ago

    Oh that one was "In Xanadu" - William Dalrymple. I should probably revise "some shitty paperback", what I mean is, I picked it up for $2, creased and it's a "travel writing" genre page turner. Time reading
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    by derrida 11y ago

    > I can understand the school not wanting to be the next stage for another tragedy similar to Virginia Tech. How can you understand this that way? I can't. I can't understand it because I know lots of people with depression, an
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    by derrida 11y ago

    Read books. [1] Go to pub for conversation. Don't listen to normative cunts like me. rm -rf / that shit and get out there. [1] EVIDENCE IN WHICH I PRESENT THE NOVEL AND FAR FETCHED IDEA THAT BOOKS ARE GOOD (tm): Last night I read
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    by derrida 12y ago

    I'm planning to compete in a 75km race with 4 1000 meter vertical assents in October. This is about as mountainous as you can get in Australia. This is a walk in the part compared to the races in Europe, New Zealand and North America,
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    by derrida 12y ago

    What game can I play?
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    by derrida 12y ago

    takes the bait Q: "How to go from a nobody to a somebody"? A: "Learn that everybody is a somebody."
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    by derrida 12y ago

    I read the first three sentences, and came back here to comment. Each is a fabulous joke, and I had 3 lol moments, and I wonder if anybody else laughed like I did? I am a big fan of DFW on the basis of reading "The Pale King" alon
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    by derrida 12y ago

    Yeah I understand it now! Those instruments are "tools" :-) A music collection is also understandable, but I generally stream, since various services I can run simply from my work environment (Emacs). I'm sort of scared to ev
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    by derrida 12y ago

    I'm an engineer & I've been using a single 60gb SSD for over a year. I run a few virtual machines and when I'm done I delete shit I don't need or store it elsewhere. What do you use 4TB for? I could only imagine usin
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    by derrida 13y ago

    "My mum writes optimizing compilers."
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    by derrida 13y ago

    You didn't have access to the source of the video driver. Not an example of having the source being & difficult to fix.
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    by derrida 13y ago

    HN is awesome. Democracy is fair. Jesus Christ is Lord. Praise be to Allah. Human rights are essential. The functioning of ideology. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology Silicon Valley has its own ideology, and HN is
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    by derrida 13y ago

    Angry Birds. Flappy Birds. Call it "Operant Conditiony Birds!". Catchy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber
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    by derrida 13y ago

    You are commenting on someones English from India. Remind me to do that to a Canadian, American or South African next time. India has the second most English speakers of any country in the world. It's an official language.
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    by derrida 13y ago

    We live among the dinosaurs!