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by vekker 7y ago
Luckily in Europe we have the GDPR in place to protect us against that.
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by vekker 7y ago
I don't know about that... for example, as smartphones become more and more ubiquitous, it becomes easy and cheap for people of all income levels to indulge in visual & auditory sensory overload. I'm currently traveling in Asi
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by vekker 7y ago
Do you really need that though? If revenue is not large enough to start a BV? You can still get insurance and separate bank accounts. I did it before with a Dutch partner, we just started a VOF together. Our plan was to turn it into a BV on
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by vekker 7y ago
IMHO there's different kinds of ignorance. There's a difference between the absence of knowledge and misperception of reality. The first is an intellectual type of ignorance: the lack of information. The latter is the lack of wisd
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by vekker 7y ago
You have other options, like VOF or CV, if you have funding constraints. Here in Belgium there's the "starters-BVBA" which is the equivalent of the 1 euro GmbH. Yes, there's paperwork and some investment involved, but IM
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by vekker 7y ago
> We're basically a cruel species lacking empathy. I don't think that's the case. It's just ignorance that can lead to cruel behavior, which is just amplified the bigger our society is. That's more actionable tha
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by vekker 7y ago
How does it disregard Occam's Razor? To me it's more mystical to invoke an outside, actual material reality existing, separate from our observer perspective. How can it not be the same?
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by vekker 7y ago
Exactly, it's this simple. I also like another definition proposed here by another commenter: "the ability to experience positive and negative mental states". I don't understand the confusion about the definition of cons
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by vekker 7y ago
> Well, I'm wondering if consciousness is even a real state that can be defined precisely, or is it simply a made up construct so we humans can feel better about ourselves. Statements like this always baffle me. People who straight
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by vekker 7y ago
> But not curious enough to expend any energy on it and that's exactly why you miss out on nightly dreams!
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by vekker 7y ago
Despite how much I love technology and innovation, that 2 minute video made me a bit nauseous. It reminded me of the last part of the Koyaanisqatsi movie.
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by vekker 7y ago
Hi, I just discovered this yesterday and wanted to say thank you! It's exactly what I was looking for. I'd like to concur with the other commenters here: it would be great to have some more information about the architectural choi
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by vekker 7y ago
I'm pretty sure that's wrong or the wrong data point. Livestock is the largest source of methane emissions and methane plays a larger role in climate change. Not to mention that eating less meat is just karmically/ethically w
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by vekker 7y ago
You can configure your email preferences and you can even delete your account. Setting up filtering rules on the word "LinkedIn" in the body of any email doesn't seem like the best strategy to me.
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by vekker 7y ago
Yeah I agree. This makes sense for a managerial role, not for tech roles. From the perspective of a hiring manager such a line looks like hiding behind the accomplishments of the team.
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by vekker 7y ago
Are you currently still on the antibiotics? I'm curious what will happen after the treatment. Apparently the parent poster tried antibiotics multiple times as well, not that I want to give false hope... Also, I am not a native English
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by vekker 7y ago
I think the trick is to reverse your thinking. Looking for answers to existential questions outside ourselves is just a rabbit hole leading to more questions. I'd love to be proven wrong, that would make things a heck of a lot simpler.
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by vekker 7y ago
Obviously there are many other factors for happiness. To say anything about the effect of religion on happiness, ideally you would compare people in the same region, in similar circumstances.
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by vekker 8y ago
Meditators still experience pain. They just train to "objectively" observe pain as pain, without creating more resistance - i.e. avoiding the "second arrow" https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/s
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by vekker 8y ago
I don't use finance tracking apps anymore. Using Tim Ferriss's advice "how can I throw money at this problem to solve it?", I pay my accountant 200 to 300 euros every month and as part of their job they handle my financi
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by vekker 8y ago
Good read, but the conclusions made in this 35-year old paper are a bit outdated. This reverse-learning idea has long been supplanted by the threat-simulation theory: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavio
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by vekker 8y ago
Sleep paralysis is only horrible when your mind makes it so. The sudden experience of not being able to move makes people panic, and that panic then snowballs into terrible hallucinations. If you know it is just your own mind you are witnes
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by vekker 8y ago
Ha! Thanks for that, I'm mostly a lurker here so I was surprised to learn HN puts everything on one line, I thought indenting it was the only way to have a bulleted list.
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by vekker 8y ago
This is a wonderful looking project, thanks for making it open source! I am thinking of forking it for my own side-project and contributing to the development if possible. As other commenters already noted, the UI/UX of the app will ne
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by vekker 8y ago
In other words, you are one of those people who uses the "I have nothing to hide" argument in favor of rampant personal data collection.