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by dottjt 3y ago
I was thinking about this recently, and I think the primary issue is capitalism. In particular, how it's completely taken over society and how we view worth and value. Capitalism doesn't care about families. The only thing capital
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Not to invalidate what you're saying, but surely every country has it's problems? While the problems you sight are significant, if this has been the case for a while, would they have been resolved if all the money had not been inv
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Incredible. If Ableton adopts this it'll be a huge thing.
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Not yet, but give it time. The concept of self-driving vehicles even a decade ago seemed absurd (or even AI for that matter), but now it all seems like a reality. And that's not even taking into account all the advances we'll have
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Oh wow, I'm completely fucked as a front end developer.
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The point is that it's not far-fetched that they're making roads out of plastic. It's a viable material for cars to drive on, which is the purpose of building of roads.
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Well asphalt is made in part from oil, so it's just another form of that.
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Sort of funny, because I remember in school we were taught "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" but maybe that simply doesn't work as a concept for most modern materials.
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Why all the hate for Shorts? I think they serve a purpose i.e. when I don't have time to watch a full video, I can just watch a Short. Basically when I'm on my computer, I don't watch Shorts. When I'm on my phone, and I
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As a self-taught programmer who started learning around 2015, Python was the least intimidating to learn. Although I'm a proficient JavaScript programmer now, the idea of curly brackets were genuinely intimidating. Just something about
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Thank you, this is very helpful. I wouldn't say it keeps me awake. Like I say, it's just the body heat that's the issue, once I do fall asleep, I stay asleep. And later in the night, my body isn't hot, either. My issue w
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Not a fever. Like I say, it just affects falling asleep. Once I do fall asleep (or when it's later in the night) my body temperature isn't an issue at all.
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Yeah I've looked into it, but it's several thousand dollars. Not sure I could justify dropping that much money for the time being.
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Yep, like I say I've tried all kinds of active cooling measures, but inevitably my body just comes back to heat. I think I pay attention to my posture. I have a standing desk I remind myself to stand up straight. I'm thinking mayb
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Ask HN: Does anyone here struggle with body heat in regards to falling asleep?
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No. I was making 2 separate points, I would re-read the last sentence again.
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You're not serious about this, are you? You realise there's almost a 1:1 correlation between energy use and GDP? We're not fundamentally reducing the amount of energy we're using, and there's nothing to suggest that
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Hence why democracy in it's current form (assuming democracy is the answer) doesn't work.
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They're not trying. They're just expressing with what little they have with what little we all have left.
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I wonder at what point humans go "enough is enough" and actual change happens. Or maybe it's one of those things that won't go out with a bang. It'll just be a slow whimper, as life degrades and there is no emergenc
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I'm not sure how the moderators are relevant. The communities still exist. The moderator isn't the community itself.
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The Sam Harris Waking Up meditation course is pretty good from a doing it point of view. But in terms of helping you understand why meditation is actually something you should do, there's a book called The Happiness Trap which outlines
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At least explain your perspective. How do you view meditation?
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Personally, I love the value of Reddit. How I see it is that it's a single account which allows me access to an infinite number of communities for me to ask questions about. Interested in fishing? Ask about it in the fishing subreddit.
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What if I don't really want to get to know my colleagues? What if I literally just want to do my work, and have as little of the other benign work shit in my life? I kind of see getting to know my colleagues as the same as having to co
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I think a key point that a lot of people miss is that meditation is just a single practice. The goal is mindfulness. This is to say that you can meditate mindlessly, as you can meditate mindfully. You can also be mindful without meditation,
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Although I never played Jazz Jackrabbit, I remember in our town there was this guy (I think he was a picture frame-maker) and I think my dad was friends with him. I remember going downstairs into the work area and I remember he was playing
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As a song writer who's tried to use ChatGPT to help with writing songs, what I realised in the end is that it's simply more effective to rely on your imagination. This isn't to say that ChatGPT isn't good at what it does
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For me mindfulness is about being present and aware of myself (including my sensations, thoughts etc.) and my surroundings (arguably the same thing as myself, since we are the ones perceiving) in the present moment. I genuinely don't g
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by dottjt 3y ago
I don't personally see that. What you're saying to me, feels like an interpretation of what you think mindfulness is. Which is perfectly valid, it's just I've never personally associated mindfulness with any of the thing

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