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by neltnerb 4y ago
What scenario involves the UK losing an enormous amount of money would be one where they are attempting to "hold a peg"? I'm confused. Countries manipulate their currency supply in various ways in order to make their money ch
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And I first encountered it (2004?), exclusively verbally, as a way to soften asshole. As far as I could tell and assumed to this day, it was taken up primarily aesthetically (sounds nicer than asshole and looks nicer in text, literally aest
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Right, it would read it as "ay-one-one-why". And if you're trying to dictate it, you'd have to say "ay-one-one-why". I don't want to distract from the main point, which is that you should make your website
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And a screen reader would have no idea how to parse it without a special case... I've seen stuff tagged with this a lot and every so often someone mentions this issue and I've yet to find an explanation other than if you already k
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I myself just don't understand why any reasonable person would pick an existing common word for a project in 2022 instead of using the plethora of name generators that can give you something original without even trying. But like, peop
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It was a story that happened in San Francisco, I don't know what else to tell you. You can't decouple homelessness from the reasons why you might need to help someone in an emergency in that city. Draw what lessons you will, or te
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Nah, I'm not dismissive of it, it is extremely important. Self-love is critical to be able to love others. Still, my point is that compassion and actually helping people should be taught in parallel. It is better in a Sangha, of course
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by neltnerb 4y ago
Sorry, I can't actually find a reasonable way to view that instagram post. Odd, I thought they used to be viewable without an account. Assuming it's some stereotype about new age self-defined gurus, no, these were perfectly regula
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Oh, thanks for this insight, it's a useful one to me. I would totally believe that it was more an unpracticed response while in a relaxed and learning state of mind than anyone's actual underlying meanness, these were nice folks a
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Yes, something about living in the moment and responding skillfully and helpfully naturally. Doing those things naturally is what takes practice, you just don't get practice exercising those compassion-action responses if you only do m
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Putting a few numbers in your phone is something I did and would recommend to others in whatever city is relevant. These can of course come in handy regardless of whether you practice mindfulness meditation. My point was that the context of
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I didn't expect everyone to jump into action and mill around pointlessly, I expected them to pause long enough to help me, a newcomer to town, contact people who were trained to help... And to be clear, I mean this as an example and a
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I believe you, but if there's any situation in which people should perhaps practice a more compassionate response, that was it. Imagine if everyone had that response... I know it's fantasy, but I think that if you're studying
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My issue with this specific concept is that lots and lots of people are lazy and instead of doing compassionate things, they "feel compassion" as a generic emotion through the use of meditation. I studied Buddhism quite a while pr
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True Story. I was newly moved to San Francisco and enrolled in a meditation course on literally loving-kindness (they were all mindfulness, this was a focused seminar). When I was on my way in someone was having a mental health emergency ri
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And plenty have partners with one preference or another...
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I've replaced the blade on mine like once in years... I'm honestly surprised by the different experience. Maybe it's because I use a trimmer on the lowest setting before trying to do a real "shave", so any stubble i
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by neltnerb 4y ago
I don't want to link to vendors, but I've had the "Philips Norelco OneBlade Hybrid Electric Trimmer and Shaver" for years, replaced the blade once, shave with it at least every other day, and it's been closer than a
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by neltnerb 4y ago
And it's worth noting that a blade razor usually removes a bit of the top layer of skin, causing irritation, ingrown hairs (on top of avoiding injury from cuts). There are some really fantastic electric razors that are cheap and get cl
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by neltnerb 4y ago
What are the odds the router itself can act as a Mastodon server with some external storage? I'm not sure how resource intensive Mastodon is in practice.
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Fertilizer overuse causing runoff is half the concern, that part causes algae blooms. On the other half is that fertilizers are either mined (unlikely) or manufactured from nitrogen in the air plus hydrogen. The downside is that the hydroge
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by neltnerb 4y ago
For me #1 is "ever ask someone for money that's an investment instead of a sale". It's just like half your attention no matter how small the amount is, I'll self fund it for three years and miss the boat entirely ra
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by neltnerb 4y ago
I'm not sure this is a useful framing. If the chemicals used to make an aerogel are carbon sinks, the aerogel will be as well unless the energy use is higher than the sunk carbon. If it's not biological, it's usually not a ca
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Sorry to have confused you. I used simplified language because this is not a site filled with chemists and I wanted to avoid confusing people.
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Aerogels tend to be fairly brittle, but more recent innovations make them probably work. Fundamentally they are defined when you remove a solvent from a gel supercritically. High temperatures or pressures. Not very friendly for organics, bu
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My entire family, most of my friends... I hardly ever get a regular SMS, usually it's spam or a company message. Granted I did a little bit of work to convince them, but "you can use it on your computer and do video calls with you
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I also can't get past the paywall, but the virus in question is seemingly causally related to developing MS. If the data holds up (who knows) it seems like it would imply the latent infection is not only triggering but sustaining MS.
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by neltnerb 4y ago
Getting decent energy density requires thick walls and difficult seals at high pressure. Hydrogen leaks very easily. Conveniently, ammonia is quite energy dense at atmospheric pressure or a bit above...
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Yeah, ammonia and hydrogen as ways to store energy have significant challenges, they probably aren't worse than if we had to store natural gas. Ammonia is corrosive and needs to be cold, hydrogen needs to be compressed to be energy den
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Of course, a country that can shoot down a satellite can probably already launch a nuke, if they have one. And they likely have a bunch of stuff in space as well. There are a few counterexamples, but they wouldn't be, for instance, Rus

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