mellow2020

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by mellow2020 6y ago
Listing 3 things you are grateful for each day will improve your whole life and all your relationships. As something that is likely to do good and isn't much of a sacrifice, it's the same thing, and you didn't answer the ques
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by mellow2020 6y ago
I don't know what "scientific reality" is supposed to be, but even searching for it on a rather new search engine without mentioning Covid (!) brings up plenty relevant articles: https://infinitysearch.co/re
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by mellow2020 6y ago
I also saw US media describe a protest against the Iraq war by school children as "Hitler's Children: Pro-Saddam protesters in Munich" in the caption of a photo of a blonde kid. Yes, right-wing people are a large part of it,
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by mellow2020 6y ago
It's the patronizing way things get pushed that is a problem. Including you pointing out someone being in the minority, followed by asking a question: the answer is kinda moot if you already established might being right as valid in
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by mellow2020 6y ago
He was involved in a war of aggression, and his company made a bit of money both for destruction and rebuiling, did it not? And we can't even begin to guess how many "buddies" profited. At any rate, he's not in jail, and
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by mellow2020 6y ago
If the same machine can do it without hanging with better coded software, the hardware obviously isn't the problem.
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> Would you please stop posting generic ideological comments to HN? If you explain to me how the comment I replied to isn't just as generic, and what you mean by "ideological" that is present in my comment and not in the p
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by mellow2020 6y ago
You're shifting goalposts from official recommendations to those being trusted or followed.
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> This is a personal value statement Of course it is. What else could it be? > different people have different ideas of what dignity means Then they can come forward and state that theirs is compatible with being subject to totalitari
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> What exactly are you suggesting, other than "be a good person?" I didn't say "be a good person", so what exactly are you taking issue with, other than what it "seems like" to you? I even stated that I
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by mellow2020 6y ago
There's stuff going back to the 1940s that warning about totalitarianism and technology. There is also this from 1958: https://www.huxley.net/bnw-revisited/index.html Yes, the article is about that stuff in China,
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by mellow2020 6y ago
The movies "Baraka" and "Samsara", both by the same makers, come to mind.
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by mellow2020 6y ago
This is hardly "about China".
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by mellow2020 6y ago
"Predictions" are pointless. It's wrong, and just about everything that is good and decent about human life and the human mind is endangered by it. So I'm against it, regardless of the "chances" of whatever out
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> When books or pictures in reproduction are thrown on the market cheaply and attain huge sales, this does not affect the nature of the objects in question. But their nature is affected when these objects themselves are changed, rewritte
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> They were not responsible for the Nazis, they were only impressed by the Nazi success and unable to pit their own judgment against the verdict of History, as they read it. Without taking into account the almost universal breakdown, not
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> they just have different values than you do. Name them.
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> I know there's the sentiment of fear/hate/etc about Google taking over but... It's the other way around, for these and other such shennanigans by other such megacorporations colonizing our protocols (rather than &qu
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by mellow2020 6y ago
You said you had zero problems with police and did never encounter them mistreating others personally. I know you have internet access, so you're not looking beyond your own tiny physical bubble. That is what your words mean. Plus some
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by mellow2020 6y ago
Maybe, but if I had the option of recording something with noise, then filtering it out, and recording it without or with less noise to begin with, I'd always go for the latter. Never shun improving the initial data, regardless of what
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by mellow2020 6y ago
What point were you making? That in your personal bubble, beyond which you don't care to look, everything is fine, so it's fine and you vote accordingly, whatever that means? Or that most people who are happy will not compplain, i
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by mellow2020 6y ago
You already called it doxxing, don't shift goalposts.
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by mellow2020 6y ago
Doxxing is fine because it's not murder? You don't even have the beginnings of a point.
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by mellow2020 6y ago
Sorry to "hijack" this, but I wonder if someone can either debunk this being by Rosa Luxemburg, or give me a pointer towards a source? I love this quote, but I'm skeptical to say the least. My dear, Have you noticed how th
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> I now have Thunderbird exactly how I wanted it, but it took a few hours to set it up and it required some technical knowledge: calendar, tasks, Gmail like smart search, multi language corrections. If you haven't already, check out
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> Have you ever taken some deliberate time to really „play“ with those? I know just the thing! https://flexboxfroggy.com/ https://codepip.com/games/grid-garden/
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by mellow2020 6y ago
Using relative units makes it very easy to scale things. If you use pixels or other absolute units everywhere, you'd have to edit every instance of that, which can range from an annoying chore to being completely unfeasible. https:&#x
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by mellow2020 6y ago
ANY place one is in is exactly as small as the collar around one's neck is tight. > [..] any writer who adopts the totalitarian outlook, who finds excuses for persecution and the falsification of reality, thereby destroys himself a
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by mellow2020 6y ago
Do you know ConEmu? It has pretty extensive configuration and is under active development. Though I am not that much of a console user so I wouldn't know the pitfalls, if any, I just love it because it's so configurable, and it&#x
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> Why does the file size matter? Are the devices you use so short on storage that an extra 100 mb is an issue? No, but just about any aspect of computing benefits from smaller file sizes, or smaller data size in general, starting with CP

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