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by swombat 7y ago
I think you speak here to an important potential misunderstanding about self-distancing. It shouldn’t be about eliminating emotions, it should be about seeing them clearly. Even the first example quote about LeBron makes the point... he say
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by swombat 7y ago
A kind of pay gap can still sneak in by having roles that are typically favoured by women being less well paid. Also via women being penalised for taking time off to have children (in the US, probably quite a significant thing given the pau
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by swombat 7y ago
TechCrunch have UK based staff, though... there should be a way to have an impact.
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by swombat 7y ago
You forget that the cloaking devices have weight too... maybe that's where it's gone.
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by swombat 7y ago
At this point in time, Slack is a billion dollar unicorn that can magic money out of wherever it needs to keep going as long as it wants. It's not going away any time soon. The worst case scenario for Slack is acquisition and long slow
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by swombat 7y ago
That actually would probably work... especially if the vigilantes masqueraded as the “genuine” hackers convincingly. Then you (or the companies covered in TFA) would just have no way of knowing whether there is any chance of recovering the
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by swombat 7y ago
America: land of the free (of worker rights)...
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by swombat 7y ago
I haven’t watched TV in years... when I’ve caught some movie on TV at my parents’ or my in-laws’, I’ve found the ad breaks to be a great opportunity to... leave and do something better with my time than watch this movie with stupid ad break
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by swombat 7y ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hutta#Old_High_German > From Proto-Germanic hudjǭ (“hut, shelter”), from Proto-Indo-European (s)kewdʰ- (“to cover, wrap, encase”), from *(s)kew- (“to cover”). So the article is indee
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by swombat 7y ago
Sounds like the TV version of what happened to most news sites, with ads everywhere.
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by swombat 7y ago
TFA explicitly excludes fractures and “catastrophic injuries” from this suggestion.
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by swombat 7y ago
I travel a lot (about 100 days in another country in the last year). I live in the UK. I am not implying my anecdote is data - just adding another anecdote to the pile.
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by swombat 7y ago
Counterpoint: I’ve had the same number for 20 years. In all that time, I’ve had maybe 5 instances where I needed to get a confirmation number and couldn’t get enough reception. It works well enough, the vast majority of the time, for the va
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by swombat 7y ago
Since we’re trading theories, I’ll jump in! My theory is that we are destroying the environment because of our anxiety. It leads us to want to control things and accumulate safety in tangible, physical and dollar form. And the more we do th
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by swombat 7y ago
That way, when they finally invade, their ads will have insane conversion rates.
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by swombat 7y ago
Way to go throwing epithets around. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_the_United_Kin... > In Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland), prostitution itself (the exchange of sexual services for money) i
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by swombat 7y ago
Stories are what the world is made of. They shape how we think. They determine what is “common sense” to us. Change the stories, and you change the reality that we live in.
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by swombat 7y ago
My experience of this was that the sad music could connect to where I was, and once I had connected, I could actually slowly shift my mood by gradually changing the music (had to be gradual though). I kind of stumbled on that, and it worked
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by swombat 7y ago
But... why... Pigs don’t eat human faeces...
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The black hole picture is both an astonishing achievement and a deceptive image(prospectmagazine.co.uk)
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by swombat 8y ago
Presumably, offer a sense of relaxation and peace - mostly through a combination of the placebo effect and not spending so much time looking at the internet, I guess!
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by swombat 8y ago
Thank you for this. Didn’t know this was the etymology of vaccine!
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by swombat 8y ago
This seems a bit niche...
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by swombat 8y ago
On HN? Never!
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by swombat 8y ago
Neurofeedback therapy seems like a good candidate for that - helps train people to self-regulate/calm their brains by engineering a computer game that makes them feel good (by giving them rewards when their brain is in the right state)
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by swombat 8y ago
I know it’s meant as an image, but it’s an unhelpful image I think. No, wrong decisions/luck in a startup setting can’t kill you. They can just make your startup fail. You’ll be absolutely fine.
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by swombat 8y ago
Well, no, not unless you define speed as “bandwidth”. If it takes 1ms for the 1 bit to get to the other side, it’s still going to take 1ms for N bits to get to the other side, even N-multiplexed. It’s the bandwidth that’s improved with mult
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by swombat 8y ago
That's already achieved with the iPad Pro Keyboard case keyboard. If they wanted to make water-resistant Macbooks today they could (or at least the keyboard is not the main block).
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by swombat 8y ago
Based on my experience visiting Japan and talking to both expats and expat-friendly locals there, I think the issue is more cultural than political. If you live in Japan but don't look Japanese you never really feel welcomed as a Japan
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by swombat 8y ago
I don’t strictly disagree with anything you said, it all seems sensible, and yet it also seems quite narrow and I long for you to also allow small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri to be small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri...

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