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by vwcx 7y ago
I’ve noticed amongst my peers in their 30’s that the action of trying new things is intrinsically linked with buying new things. Maybe it’s a product of being raised in 1980s USA, but it isn’t enough to just try to put new soup ingredients
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by vwcx 7y ago
Does anyone remember messing around with ‘chromeless windows’? A misleading phrase that means something completely different to a newer generation...
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by vwcx 7y ago
I love your CV. As a society, we don't talk enough about our failures, much less compile them as a list. But we all fail, and to pretend we don't is complete ignorance to the basic human condition.
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by vwcx 7y ago
I had a similar experience on a five-day isolated, silent retreat in a mountain hermitage. Losing track of the calendar and the clock was an incredibly disorienting, and thus fruitful, experience. By day three, I was estimating time with th
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by vwcx 7y ago
In my experience, editorial departments of most outlets are no longer separate from ad sales. On paper, maybe, and as a concept/line that too brass can say publicly, but the four major outlets I’ve worked all had edit staffs that end u
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by vwcx 7y ago
Your comment reminded me of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s thoughts - how wanderlust can keep us from leading meaningful lives. Worth a read: https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2019/04/wanderlust-keeps-...
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by vwcx 7y ago
The oldest millennials are now 38 years old.
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by vwcx 7y ago
The Community of Christ (formerly RLDS) began marrying and blessing same-sex couples in 2013: https://www.kcur.org/post/community-christ-oks-gay-marriage-...
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by vwcx 7y ago
Are you RLDS/CofChrist members, by chance?
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by vwcx 7y ago
Me too (Toyota owner all my life), although I can’t figure out/don’t understand the emissions fight they’re currently in regarding CA standards.
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by vwcx 7y ago
Honest questions: -why should I use your service when most therapists will still want to talk with me before taking me on as a patient, repeating the same problems I am facing and evaluating whether we make a good fit? -In my experience, a
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by vwcx 7y ago
Agreed. Regulations like keeping fires/campsites at least 100 feet from roads are important. A casual glance at rules like this feel overbearing, but without them, the whole feeling of the park would shift.
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by vwcx 7y ago
There was a shooting in my neighborhood just 12 hours ago. 6 in the hospital, 2 in critical condition, 1 confirmed deceased. Outside of the 'psych-it-up-to-light-it-up' mentality the shooter(s) would've needed to garner in th
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by vwcx 7y ago
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004) was technically a US citizen being tried by a military tribunal: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/542/507/
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by vwcx 7y ago
By no means am I implying that you offer negative intentions by your comment, but the “beneficial to all parties involved, and consented to by all parties involved” line was once how some described the system of chattel slavery in the Unite
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by vwcx 7y ago
Another worrying aspect is that many small towns contract with third-party companies to handle ticket processing, often tacking on extra surcharges (above and beyond a cc processing fee) to pay via credit card online.
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by vwcx 7y ago
I think we're all getting comfortable with the idea that humans are now regularly ingesting and breathing microplastic particulate matter, AND that we're not dying from the chemical accumulation of these particles. But that doesn&
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by vwcx 7y ago
This video (shot from a chase car) of a B2 landing demonstrates the challenges with an configuration closer to a flying wing than an airliner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih57FiOeZXU
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by vwcx 7y ago
Check out the coal and diesel haze over Mongolia in winter. This first video is brutal: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/03/mongo...
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by vwcx 8y ago
The OppsDaily newsletter (started by someone on HN?) has lots of these little tasks: http://www.oppsdaily.com/
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by vwcx 8y ago
“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” — Nelson Henderson
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by vwcx 8y ago
My dream is a mountain bike ride through the Wakhan: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/09/across-t...
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by vwcx 8y ago
It wouldn’t be surprising if the author made $500 or less from this piece.
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by vwcx 8y ago
But why do financial services bugs garner a higher penalty than one that exposes private photos? This is an argument for regulation.
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by vwcx 8y ago
Cleaning up gyres are important, but realize that when one removes trash from a gyre, more is back the next day. Stopping production is the most important first-step.
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by vwcx 8y ago
German writer Andreas Weber has a poetic, beautiful and nerdy book on the same concept. Highly recommended as a way to expand beyond the technical concept of microbial cooperation and think about the symbiosis that makes our lives possible
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by vwcx 8y ago
Not just a small plane. Even an Airbus A320 could handle a mile-long runway.
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by vwcx 8y ago
> I can imagine how the sperm whale sailors, candle stick makers and matchbox makers felt when the light bulb started to become commonplace and replace their jobs. And now the match industry has an upper-end, boutique product for wealthy
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by vwcx 8y ago
NYT has much more context on the scam: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/world/asia/nepal-everest-...
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by vwcx 8y ago
Personally, I think of the 312x multiple (or other obscene comp number) as a mind-controlling poison a board likes to force upon a CEO. The compensation is so high that the executive is forced to adopt a "company/profit-first&quot

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