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by pvnick 11y ago
Give it a rest
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by pvnick 11y ago
Indeed that is still a huge problem, but let's take some time now to celebrate the progress that has been made before doubling down and focusing on the other things. It's been a long time coming but we're actually seeing pr
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Nil(esolangs.org)
1 points by pvnick 11y ago|0 comments
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by pvnick 11y ago
This is an important article. Dialectical behavior therapy and other mindfulness-based treatments are rapidly becoming go-to therapeutic methods. While I wasn't depressed or suicidal, about two months ago I started DBT training through
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by pvnick 11y ago
>So for ideal health aim somewhere between the two extremes. This is generally good advice for everything in life.
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by pvnick 11y ago
This is a good idea, but I would go one step further - giving a reason should be required for downvoting, but not for upvoting. Praise is always more effective communication than criticism. Especially as more members join this community s
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by pvnick 11y ago
Is the Freedom act even relevant at the moment? Since a district court ruled that the bulk collection is already illegal under the current law and Rand Paul and Ron Wyden are threatening to filibuster the renewal of the expiring Patriot Act
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Rand Paul Plans to Filibuster Patriot Act(huffingtonpost.com)
10 points by pvnick 11y ago|3 comments
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Liberland’s leader detained while trying to enter the country he just invented(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by pvnick 11y ago|0 comments
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by pvnick 11y ago
Great to see a startup in the mental health sphere. There are a lot of people who could really use the tools that CBT provides. Best of luck to you guys!
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by pvnick 11y ago
Wait, you talking about Neon Liger? They shut down?
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by pvnick 11y ago
I just want to reflect everything you said. I wouldn't be half the programmer I am now without the experience I got working at Grooveshark, and not since then have I truly felt like I was doing something that was imminently changing th
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by pvnick 11y ago
How would you define "placebo meditation"?
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by pvnick 11y ago
Interesting that they mention mindfulness as we know it today is been gutted of theological meaning. I would say that is largely true of modern mindfulness, but it doesn't have to be the case. Christianity, for example, has a form of
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by pvnick 11y ago
That seems difficult for a sedentary adult living in suburban America who drives their car to work and sits at a desk all day, but for cultures that do more walking - ie in cities that are more laid out for walking and public transportation
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by pvnick 12y ago
We found the same issue with non-normal distributions in our time series data sets when using SAX (developed by this paper's authors - assumes normality for dimensionality reduction) and addressed it by using quantiles in the piecewise
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by pvnick 12y ago
That started out painful to watch as John Oliver kept interrupting Snowden, but as I reflected on it Oliver was making a fantastic point. Even though I'm a computer programmer and I generally understand everything I read from Edward Sn
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Uncompressed (high quality) music for classic video games(grantkirkhope.com)
1 points by pvnick 12y ago|0 comments
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by pvnick 12y ago
Now that's good customer service. The new message style is much more prominent and obvious. I wish you guys the best of luck!
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by pvnick 12y ago
I like the basic, easy design. One suggestion though (take this with a grain of salt though, since I am a backend programmer and not a design specialist). I didn't see the 20 euro preauthorization message the first time the new card di
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by pvnick 12y ago
I am so sorry that you were screwed like that. It sucks, but look at it this way: you learned a valuable lesson that likely helped you in your career, and the other guy has to sleep at night with the knowledge of the people he screwed weigh
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by pvnick 12y ago
It's interesting you mentioned that. I'm backpacking around Europe right now (doing the whole digital nomad thing) and every Australian I've met has had zero sympathy for those guys who got caught in Indonesia. Could it be th
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by pvnick 12y ago
Oh I see, please forgive my ignorance of the torrent protocol. I was under the (apparently mistaken) impression that, like Napster, one could enumerate a user's shared files simply by knowing their IP.
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by pvnick 12y ago
"Who is the author of this well-reasoned, thought-provoking comment? Oh." Not to sound like a major kiss-ass or anything ;)
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by pvnick 12y ago
How likely is this to be used for anti-piracy efforts? I don't hear much about en masse copyright enforcement these days, but it seems like the ability to quickly scan large IP ranges would allow one to periodically (every couple minut
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by pvnick 12y ago
That is just the coolest idea ever. For non-engineers, software can be a sort of black box filled with "code," whatever that means. This knowledge gap frequently leads to conflicts when engineers take longer to build a feature tha
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by pvnick 12y ago
I disagree. Preventing vulnerabilities is not primarily an "attitude problem." Writing code is hard enough as it is, and writing flawless code that can withstand hostile attacks is really hard. Odds favor vulnerability existence
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by pvnick 12y ago
> Even though pvnick was incorrect about their claim that the recession isn't over I was not, please see my reply adjacent to your's
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by pvnick 12y ago
Your narrow technical definition of the word "recession" is by no means universally accepted [1] [2]. In addition, as another post adjacent to your's points out, there is a common meaning used by everybody outside of economic
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by pvnick 12y ago
"The recession is over" has always struck me a political double-speak. We never left the recession; mainstream America just collectively forgot how it felt to have enough money. We have become accustomed to the 60 hour work weeks

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