selune

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by selune 7y ago
I always used forvo.com for this kind of thing. Edit: It's a "pronunciation dictionary". Ppl just record how they say words and indicate their geography. Super useful for languages like English where there are a lot of region
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by selune 7y ago
Have been using Pixie since forever on Windows. Neat little tool.
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by selune 8y ago
Comments in this thread are kind of trippy but also so heartwarming to read. I was born in independent Ukraine but, unsurprisingly, I studied math and physics with the help of all of those Soviet handbooks: Perelman, Irodov etc, basically
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by selune 8y ago
Nabokov is absolutely considered a Russian writer by Russians themselves, both lit critics and casual readers. He wrote 8 novels in Russian and identified himself as both Russian and American and, according to his own words, loved the Russ
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The Mere Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity(journals.uchicago.edu)
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by selune 8y ago
I haven't played it too but from what I've read about it, I suspect it might cause a so called Tetris Effect when the game mechanics basically invades people's though patterns.[0] It can be used as a somewhat effective &quot
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by selune 8y ago
For someone who might be interested in reading some research on the topic: Videogames may help with anxiety. They may be used as a healthy alternative to otherwise compulsive behaviors (self-harm etc) and just as a general coping techniqu
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by selune 8y ago
You're not mentally handicapped, you're just in harmony with yourself which is amazing and very rare. :) I would advise your wife to try volunteering (for whatever cause she finds important) if she hasn't already. I've
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by selune 8y ago
The thing is that burnout among therapists is real , everyone I know who worked in counseling came with lots of, how shall I put it?, infatuation, enchantment and everybody got severely disenchanted at some point. So until the author has w
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by selune 8y ago
Yes, of course, there are lots of tech businesses that I would find myself content working for. I just don't really have the luxury of choice atm: started later in life, no solid CS background, immigrant, no real talent (to be hones
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by selune 8y ago
Interesting. I quit psychology/counseling and work in tech now and the thought of my work being absolutely meaningless gives me a lot of anxiety, I hope I'll come to terms with it one day. Correction, I'm sure I'll co
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by selune 8y ago
And risk ending up in jail, murdered or dying poor? One may love their country but loves their life/family more. I don't know where you're from but if you're from postsoviet countries you should know how freaking difficu
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by selune 8y ago
Huh? Whoever likes oligarchs in Russia? If you mean the popularity of Putin then propaganda and general low level of education of populace.
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by selune 8y ago
https://estoniaevoting.org/findings/paper/ TL;DR: It's not that good.
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by selune 8y ago
Wasn't it compromised a few years ago? [1] https://edri.org/estonian-eid-cryptography-mess-750000-cards...
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by selune 8y ago
I might be pessimistic because I am in close contact with that demographic (lots of my friends are young, educated, comparatively well-off guys from Moscow working in tech) and, pardon my French, they decide shit. Oligarchs decide the fate
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by selune 8y ago
You overestimate tech literacy of the majority of Russian population. Very small percentage is engaged with playing videogames or knows how to use torrents. People are given lots of distractions though - so many controversial, absolutely ab
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by selune 8y ago
I've been following Russian news on the matter pretty closely for the last couple of years (I do speak Russian). Most of these laws are absurdly nonsensical, people who are responsible for them (Yarovaya and co) have very vague unde
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by selune 8y ago
It's not like all wealthy people are some homogeneous entity where everybody dresses the same, looks the same, does the same business, spends their time in the same way and shares the same lifestyle, values and ambitions. Granted, I k
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by selune 8y ago
But is CEO going to live in a cheap apartment in a bad hood or entertain themselves via playing rocks they found on a street? I'm all for controlling our inner consumerism but I often find tremendous lack of self-awareness in the disco
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by selune 8y ago
Clothes have aesthetics function. I love my Chloe dresses, how they made, how they look and feel aka they make me happy. I'm yet to find similar dresses in mass market or even just in other brands. Most people who buy expensive clothin
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by selune 8y ago
I've read about wolves that they eat only the meat they are taught to eat (and different pack of wolves in different places hunt different animals.) So a wolf may literally starve to death while sitting near a corpse of some animal if
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by selune 8y ago
Everyone above some margin of income indulges in a consumption of luxury goods. I don't see how wearing a cheap t-shirt but driving a good car or playing Playstation sitting on a comfy expensive couch is smarter than buying a pair of
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by selune 8y ago
To be able to easily recognize people you want to hang out with? People do tend to gravitate toward people of the same economic class.
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by selune 8y ago
Reminded me of this https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/7xakd9/windows-31-is-sti...
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by selune 8y ago
Lots of animals pass mirror test, so we can safely assume that they are self-aware to some extent. This method is believed to be highly imperfect though as not all animals rely on visual perception as their main info channel. So some animal
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by selune 8y ago
Can you give examples? I'm a huge doc nerd and in my opinion we're in golden age of documentaries right now in terms of film-making. Documentaries have always been a way to express opinions though (personal or political), nothing
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by selune 8y ago
Orangutans are capable of planning their routes in advance. [1] I guess that does indicate some concept of future, albeit not a far one? [1] https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-09/orangutans-pl...
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by selune 8y ago
It has been speculated that elephants know bones of elephants from other animals and that they kind of "mourn" their dead [1][2] in a way. Most mammals would react to fresh corpses of members of the same species, most would feel w
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by selune 8y ago
There is Found object genre(?), style(?) of art so Starbucks coffee cup could be an art object/piece if presented in a specific context.

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