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by kranner 7y ago
If it's just about being able to keep your copy forever, you could buy the ebook and strip DRM. How does ebook price vs hardcopy price matter here?
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by kranner 7y ago
Isn't the Buddhist path supposed to lead to the end of aversion _and_ craving (or desire or attachment)? Wouldn't that make these so-called negative effects an expected outcome of the process? Maybe the problem is that the current
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by kranner 7y ago
I'm not sure how that is relevant to this essay, which I found almost unreadable.
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by kranner 7y ago
To OP -- in the spirit of the article -- it's an uphill task to separate the content from the witticisms here. IMO it would have been a better read with fewer jokes.
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by kranner 7y ago
Please cite a source for this. Ethics are supposed to help with Buddhist practices towards achieving enlightenment from what I’ve read, not the other way round. If they came about as a result of meditation automatically, the Vinaya would no
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by kranner 7y ago
> Acceptance of the present should not mean letting it stay the same forever. It's more "what's done is done". I'm not sure how mindfulness could possibly be construed to intend letting things stay the same forev
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by kranner 7y ago
> Other sources of cultural malaise are not discussed. The only mention of the word “capitalist” in Kabat-Zinn’s book Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness occurs in an anecdote about a stressed invest
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by kranner 7y ago
What Sam Harris teaches in his meditation app is not 'mindfulness' as commonly understood, i.e. in the vein of Vipassana or even MBSR. It's more like his own lite version of Dzogchen practices.
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by kranner 7y ago
Delhi had a Mir store?? I wish I'd known. My only access to Mir books as a 10-13 year old in Punjab was an annual 'book fair' consisting of a few roofless stalls of Mir books laid out in the local market. They were fantastic
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by kranner 7y ago
> They discovered that if you squirt air into the base of a card stack just right, you can make the cards separate themselves slightly. Then a vacuum picker can reliably pick them off one at a time. This is what I do every time I load mo
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by kranner 7y ago
Sidecar is officially supported only on 2016 and later MacBook Pros. https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT210380#systemrequirements I use a 2015 MBP too, so I'm glad to hear it does work and thanks for the workaround
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by kranner 7y ago
I've seen examples where they've deducted value especially when publishers' proofreaders are unfamiliar with obscure technical terms and mistake them for typos. This happens especially when changing a single letter would chan
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by kranner 7y ago
Background play is a Premium subscription feature on YouTube.
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by kranner 7y ago
Looks like OP's colleagues that made an account just to comment, not bots.
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by kranner 7y ago
As someone who identifies with the left in India (and has always been atheist), I have to say this is unfair and really quite silly. The Gita and other religious and literary texts like it are important cultural artifacts. They have existed
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by kranner 7y ago
Do you have a link for the recipe? The first page of Google results doesn't show anything called exactly that. It is also confusing because coffee is not a traditional drink in the Himalayan regions I'm familiar with. You didn&#x2
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by kranner 7y ago
I agree, these are not reasons not to support him.
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by kranner 7y ago
I have no way of knowing how much these people paid, if anything, to the dev's Patreon or Liberapay or Donate to PayPal. What they did do was spend their time reporting serious issues for zero payment. Bugs are important to fix, some b
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by kranner 7y ago
There are many other such instances in which the lead dev immediately responds to bug reports with 'works on my machine' without even asking for details to reproduce the bug. Any further words from the bug reporter are met with sa
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by kranner 7y ago
https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/853934
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by kranner 7y ago
To quote the old joke, confusing entomology and etymology bugs me in ways I cannot put into words.
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by kranner 7y ago
And less interference from neighbours' Wi-Fi.
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by kranner 7y ago
“Muschi” is German slang for vagina, apparently.
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by kranner 7y ago
> Most generations of iPhones and iPads are vulnerable: from iPhone 4S (A5 chip) to iPhone 8 and iPhone X (A11 chip).
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by kranner 7y ago
> While in reality the prices are way higher than the ready reckoner prices (generally 5 to 10 times) Sub-registrars often refuse to value the property at the ready reckoner price. I've seen transactions where the registered value w
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by kranner 7y ago
I'm well aware of the phenomenon but it is not the kind of interruption I'm talking about. To be clear, I'm talking about men-interrupting-men-and-women-because-they-are-interrupters vs women-interrupting-men-and-women-becaus
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by kranner 7y ago
Is there any reason to think women are less likely to be interrupters than men? I'm thinking of this in the context of my mother, who is let's say a well-established interrupter.
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by kranner 7y ago
> Although in other parts of Asia there were genuine Buddhist lay movements, in India Buddhism was the sangha and only the sangha. I'm not sure this is right. The Buddha himself laid out his rules for householders (the gahatthavatta
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by kranner 7y ago
> Incidentally, you are aware I hope that according to the Ashokavadana, a Buddha can only be born in a Brahmans or Kshatriya family. Thanks, I wasn't aware of that. Sounds exactly like the kind of thing Ashoka's minions would
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by kranner 7y ago
Women are mentioned as needing protection from being misled not just because they produce babies but because they are deemed incapable of protecting themselves from out-of-caste males, morally or physically. > Elsewhere Krishna Bhagavan

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