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by smeej 3y ago
> Again, nobody in the entire world prays for a mediocre life, a mediocre health, a mediocre salary, a mediocre partner. There are plenty of people for whom mediocrity would be a big step up. If you have terrible health, having mediocre
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by smeej 3y ago
No? Being a mediocre hiker is perfectly adequate for a joyful day out with friends. Being a mediocre cook is sufficient for adding joy to your meals. Being a mediocre singer is enough to be a joyful and contributing member of a church choir
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by smeej 3y ago
Are these basically speed-controlled skates? Or do they have a bunch of other features like the kinds of balance systems in Segways?
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by smeej 3y ago
What part of where I said I knew that "Thomas" means "the twin," and that no one but apparently whoever wrote this website blurb about this Gnostic gospel has ever thought Jesus had a twin brother suggested to you that I
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by smeej 3y ago
Yes, I'm well aware of this. But this doesn't have anything to do with the fact that no one thinks Thomas was literally the twin brother of Jesus.
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Ask HN: Whispersync for Podcasts/Blogposts?
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by smeej 3y ago
Amazon had what they called "Matchbook" for Kindle for a long time. Not sure if they still do. Any print book you bought came with a free Kindle copy.
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by smeej 3y ago
Whispersync (Amazon's handoff product to switch from reading a Kindle book to listening to its Audible copy if you have both), but two-way for podcast episodes and blog posts. Subscribe to podcast feeds and/or blog RSS feeds. Podc
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by smeej 3y ago
Approximately a third of the people on earth belong to some sort of Christian religion. The virginity of Mary, the mother of Jesus, at least at the time of His conception, is a Very Big Deal to all of them, as are the stories around His bir
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by smeej 3y ago
> The Gospel of Thomas Reputedly the writings of the apostle ‘Doubting Thomas’. This text purports to be a collection of the sayings of Jesus. Traditionally Thomas was Jesus’ twin brother. This text shows strong Gnostic influence. I&#x27
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by smeej 3y ago
None of the incentives line up in a remotely rational way in academia. It's a large-scale boondoggle. Gullible young adults take on tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars of non-dischargeable loans, ostensibly in pursuit of either kn
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by smeej 3y ago
So when they say "more than half the time," they could very well be 9 and 7 people? No wonder they didn't cite the actual numbers in this summary write-up.
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by smeej 3y ago
I started so many replies with, "As I mentioned," that I needed a keyboard shortcut for it.
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by smeej 3y ago
Thank you for this link! I finally understand why one of my former coworkers' answers always frustrated me as much as they did. I would always ask my Slack questions in XY format, but lead with the actual question, followed by a full p
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by smeej 3y ago
The SEC is arguing that most cryptocurrencies, especially the ones that enable this level of control, are securities.
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by smeej 3y ago
If I forget that you were the source of an idea and fail to cite you for it if I make any form of expression about it (paper, podcast, blog post) and fail to cite you, people pitch a fit, even if the idea wasn't all that big a breakt
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by smeej 3y ago
The problem with copyright is that it tries to apply property laws, which mattered because property is scarce, to things that are not scarce. If you have an idea first and I copy the idea into my own mind, you still have your brain cell con
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by smeej 3y ago
I think this is an underappreciated reason. Stores have shifted their labor onto the consumers, which ostensibly keeps their costs down, but since it's happening at a time costs are rising, nobody's going to notice if the costs ar
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by smeej 3y ago
I got to be one of the people who learned today that it's "Dan G," not [only] "dang."
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by smeej 3y ago
Sure, but weakening the magnet lets it return to more or less "normal" functionality, not requiring you to reach over and stick a pin in a very small hole every time you want to change the disk.
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by smeej 3y ago
It does, but using it is really optional. It works equally well if you leave everything in the default Drive directory and use search to find whatever you need. If you're not used to thinking in terms of files, it just looks like a lis
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by smeej 3y ago
There was a time when I had as many living grandparents (5, as my mom's parents had divorced and married her stepparents long before I was born) as surviving siblings (1 of 3), cousins (2), aunts (1), and uncles (1 of 4) combined. Obvi
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by smeej 3y ago
Humans are used to dealing with natural intelligences all the time, in the form of other humans. Other humans often get a sense of what we're going to do next based on what we've done before and move to our next step alongside or
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by smeej 3y ago
I really love the way Logseq for desktop handles PDFs. That's the gold standard for me. I can highlight in four colors and add annotations wherever I want, and they're automatically pulled over into individual note blocks, which I
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by smeej 3y ago
I might be misunderstanding, but I tried what seemed like a pretty basic search, selecting Eastern Europe region and lake and hiking for attributes, and it didn't come up with anything. Are there more nuances I should be aware of when
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by smeej 3y ago
I love KOReader and also strongly prefer reading on my ereader (really an eInk Android tablet), but I've never found a great way to get the annotations and highlights out of KOReader and into my PKM, Logseq, where I could actually ma
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by smeej 3y ago
I don't still have it. It was years ago. I had the accident record pulled from the vehicular equivalent of my car's black box that said how fast I was going at impact. The distances involved made it such that I could not have brak
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by smeej 3y ago
Reminds me of that joke that crops up in April, about how grateful we are for all those hours in our high school math classes this parallelogram season.
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by smeej 3y ago
I think it would actually make sense as, say, an art elective or something. My school required six credits of some kind of art (music, visual arts, performing arts), and I can't think of any great reason this would be less worthy than
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by smeej 3y ago
I finished the AP Calc path my junior year, but was told colleges would still expect to see a 4th year, so I signed up for AP Stat. It was mind-numbing how easy it was by comparison. We got to the end of the semester and I realized we'

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