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The Urgent Need for Democratic Tech Talent(campaignsandelections.com)
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by mike_h 5y ago
VR: https://www.vrfitnessinsider.com/best-high-intensity-vr-fitn... You can burn 600 calories/hr just flying through sparkly disco wormholes. That’s comparable to running, but an hour feels more like 20 minutes.
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by mike_h 5y ago
Anyone know the best legal way in the US to prevent yourself from being kept alive if you end up conscious but completely paralyzed? I know living wills can handle some medical scenarios, but I’m having trouble finding an answer on locked-
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by mike_h 5y ago
Seconding Hello Chinese as a fantastic app. But I just want to share the apparently unusual-around-here experience that Duolingo was one of my best tools for learning and retaining Chinese vocab. I suspect it’s because the whole experienc
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by mike_h 5y ago
Hadn’t heard of LingQ til now, this seems really good.
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by mike_h 5y ago
If the trickiness is from the tracker paradigm, the way I got into it was to take existing projects and study them one track (column) at a time. You can find a bunch at https://modarchive.org/ . Not sure if Renoise is comp
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by mike_h 5y ago
Maybe so, but that’s letting perfect get in the way of the good. A week in a new place can be life-changing. 3 months can feel like a year. Don’t need to set “really understand” a place as a requirement if your goal is just to enjoy your
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by mike_h 6y ago
Is there a better spam filter today?
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Exercise instructor appears to unwittingly capture Myanmar coup in dance video(theguardian.com)
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Why scientists are worried about the coronavirus variant from Brazil(npr.org)
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by mike_h 6y ago
It’s a handy assumption when you want to use straw-man arguments.
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by mike_h 6y ago
Elbow plus those two fingers implicates ulnar nerve, which passes from your lower neck (C8 and T1 vertebrae), through your clavicle and behind your elbow, into pinky and ring finger. If it gets entrapped by tight tissue anywhere on the way
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States with private prisons put more people in prison for longer(academictimes.com)
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First Rush interview since Neil’s passing(rollingstone.com)
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by mike_h 6y ago
Eerie indeed. Time to rethink my free will. It’s interesting, that study was 10 years ago. I haven’t heard of non-nicotine compounds becoming a part of the therapy since then. But what also happened in those 10 years was nicotine vaporiz
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by mike_h 6y ago
This is a good point. I didn’t want to mention it since I’d only ever seen internet claims, but you prompted me to do a new quick search and it’s true: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16139309/ Apparently tobacco is s
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by mike_h 6y ago
That is for sure. Impressive long-term self-discipline though.
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by mike_h 6y ago
Green tea can totally have more caffeine than coffee, especially if you re-brew like many people do. But the theanine in tea takes the anxious edge off.
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by mike_h 6y ago
If you look around on the internet (e.g. Reddit) for quitting plans, 2-3 weeks is the standard tapering time to avoid side effects. If you don’t have the measurement tools or discipline, there are products with pre-measured doses you can bu
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by mike_h 6y ago
Sub in good decaf for the eliminated amount each day and you can still have a full cup!
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by mike_h 6y ago
This. If you’re in the US, Blue Bottle is easy to get in the mail if not in most cities. Vertigo is another brand making my current favorite, it’s more complex than 80% of even caffeinated 3+ wave coffees. Those are if you drink black &#
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by mike_h 6y ago
For me I felt more rested and alert upon opening my eyes in the morning, since that was no longer the peak withdrawal time. And not riding a rollercoaster of cortisol all day made it easier to choose my own mind state, e.g. meditation or r
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by mike_h 6y ago
I think you're being earnest so I'll dive into this thread for a few more minutes before I go back to work. Because I'm being earnest too: If the West wants to influence internal China policy, it needs either a clear moral h
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by mike_h 6y ago
I doubt anyone in this thread is arguing that forced labor would be ok anywhere. But hypocrisy is its own destructive force in the world, and there’s a weird meme in Western culture whereby unsavory behavior in China is somehow a sign of e
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by mike_h 6y ago
That’s side-allegation, not what this article is about. And it’s a debatable one.
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by mike_h 6y ago
Your argument assumes the non-Chinese justice system in question is actually just in its enforcement of the laws and fair in its sentencing. If that system is the US, we can question those assumptions along a few lines: - racial bias in enf
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by mike_h 6y ago
“The article is about literal Chinese Slave Labor camps” Actually it’s not... did you read it? The central allegation is that a few thousand Xinjiang Muslims were offered employment possibly in exchange for political indoctrination. There’s
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by mike_h 6y ago
It’s not a solution because a critical mass of consumers aren’t going to boycott tipping in the absence of a massive and effective collective action. Organize this movement, give workers fair warning before acting, and then act – and then y
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by mike_h 6y ago
Can you give some examples? The ones that got any press/mindshare seem to be failing: https://www.eater.com/21398973/restaurant-no-tipping-movemen...
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by mike_h 6y ago
The cat is out of the bag. Without public policy declaring no more tipping, any business that moves away from it to higher sticker prices will be immediately punished by the market. What Grubhub is doing here is a calculated, likely-tempor

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