mikehain

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   by mikehain 4y ago

   For years I've been engaged in an enormous decluttering project in the house I grew up in. Aside from filling a few huge dumpsters, I went on countless trips to scrap yards to recycle metal stuff, to Best Buy for electronics recycling,
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   by mikehain 9y ago

   I've been recently enjoying a YouTube channel by a guy who turned his yard into a sustainable "food forest" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng-VskDFPpM That is the video that led me to it, but after I saw it
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   by mikehain 9y ago

   I'm a fan of DuckDuckGo and I've found myself using it more and more these days. I actually had to change my launcher on Android because the default Google Go launcher that comes packed with the Moto X Pure has no option to remove
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   by mikehain 9y ago

   Relevant is this quote from another link recently posted here on HN: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/08/when-it-comes... "Europe has more stringent privacy regulations than the United St
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   by mikehain 9y ago

   I was reading Augustine one day and was struck by a passage that referred a silent reading in a way that made it seem quite uncommon in those days. Here it is, referring to Ambrose of Milan: "When he was reading, his eyes ran over the
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   by mikehain 9y ago

   Thanks for this site. I think the Snapchat breach finally explains why I've been getting so many scam phone calls in the past few years.
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   by mikehain 10y ago

   Philosophy often revolves around questions of purpose in life, and any non-mathematician might wonder why someone would devote their life to the study of advanced math. The question of purpose becomes even more interesting when a mathematic
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   by mikehain 10y ago

   I used to have an issue with writing classes in college. Since the writers-to-be in the class aren't experts in any particular field, they are forced to pick sides in ridiculous polemic topics just to fill a page. This transfers over t
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   by mikehain 10y ago

   This reminds me of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT9i99D_9gI It also reminds me of the "two dot" illusion from psychology: http://i.imgur.com/j8sEFuT.jpg If you close your left eye a
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    by mikehain 10y ago

    Another classic book to look at is "Letters from a Stoic" by Seneca the Younger, published by Penguin Classics. Seneca is perhaps my favorite of the Stoics.
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    by mikehain 10y ago

    That place was my home on the internet for nearly a decade. It was a wonderful community and I'm glad to have been a part of it. I'll really miss the "What Are You Reading?" thread. Everyone on there had such fine taste.