If you're willing to drop 3.99, Echofon is still really good.
I find that any after-work meditation is necessarily prepended with 5-10 minutes of reflection/decompression - just fyi
You did - I should add that I didn't consider their breakdown sufficient enough: > In 2013, for example, the average poverty threshold for an individual living alone was $11,888; for a two-person family, $15,142; and…
> a decade of strong economic growth This seems impossible to solve without considering which people were actually experiencing this growth.
> Modern games are very detailed, Detailing them is one thing, replicating them with physics is another (false equivalence from the author).
I was trying to figure out how to do the same, and it magically appeared about 7 minutes after I was approved.
> turned the thread green This is a short, colloquial way of expressing all of those frustrations. It’s assumed everyone knows already, not some aesthetic thing.
> But it will color the bubble green. And that's why they get locked out. You seem to be attaching too much significance to the color. It really is because the experience sucks over SMS. The annoyance with the green…
> The reviewer is supposed to determine what goes in or not, so how can this be an opportunity to learn from what goes in? You specify multiple reviewers. That's it.
> And yet, we accept the risk. So this seems like a good baseline for what should be considered an acceptable risk. They are completely different playing fields. In a plane your life is in the hands of a pilot or two…
Flippant comments like these are not only frustrating, they are misleading. I know you realize now that you were wrong, but your short, dismissive comment following a substantive paragraph makes it seem much less…
It certainly still does, but a lot of people don't know or have forgotten over the years.
> But the data clearly shows that the richer you are, the less likely you are to have children. How are you resolving that discrepancy? Without taking a stand on the greater discussion here, I'd just like to add: birth…
> and it gets filed away (organised) for me This is optional, there's a "let iTunes manage my music for me" checkbox somewhere.
Many meditation practices focus on how to objectively detach from and observe system 1 so that we can maintain control over 2
> According to that, everyone who isn't carbon neutral would be evil. While I agree that it's useful to maintain some nuance in our perspectives, generally I think it's better to recognize and realign our actions, not…
> That isn't evil. You wouldn't call a hurricane or a fire evil. You wouldn't call a person who kills someone in a no fault car accident evil. All of these things are no one's fault. > Evil isn't about results. It is…
That's how you handle children, though. No one is going to ignore wrongdoings in hopes the perp will continue to play nicely.
> Facebook isn't actively trying to harm their customers, they simply don't care about them. That is amoral not evil. Don't bend yourself out of shape. Actively, happily ignoring the evil you have caused and continue to…
> I want to read about politics from the political analysts I follow, but don't care about their cooking adventures on the weekend. I want to read about tech from the software folks I follow, but don't want to hear…
It seems like you're making an implicit distinction between deciding to be a Christian and accepting God > But the Christian is not in the same position as either Plato or the atheist. Within the Christian's position,…
> Respectfully, I’m not though, and I have already said so. My original “poverty is a spectrum” comment still firmly addresses everything you’ve said, so if we still disagree, we can agree that’s ok.
Given the nature of your position it feels ironic to be saying to you that if you feel my family was amongst the worlds’ “elite” just because we lived in the US, then I believe you may need a more nuanced outlook on…
I am aware of this, anticipated this response from you (as you’ve repeated in this thread), and addressed it at the end of the comment you’re replying to. I do not believe that a global perspective diminishes the…
> Poor didn't have access, they couldn't afford a computer, much less an internet plan. Step out of the Hacker News bubble for a bit. I was very, very poor. So were most of the kids I grew up with. Most of us couldn't…
If you're willing to drop 3.99, Echofon is still really good.
I find that any after-work meditation is necessarily prepended with 5-10 minutes of reflection/decompression - just fyi
You did - I should add that I didn't consider their breakdown sufficient enough: > In 2013, for example, the average poverty threshold for an individual living alone was $11,888; for a two-person family, $15,142; and…
> a decade of strong economic growth This seems impossible to solve without considering which people were actually experiencing this growth.
> Modern games are very detailed, Detailing them is one thing, replicating them with physics is another (false equivalence from the author).
I was trying to figure out how to do the same, and it magically appeared about 7 minutes after I was approved.
> turned the thread green This is a short, colloquial way of expressing all of those frustrations. It’s assumed everyone knows already, not some aesthetic thing.
> But it will color the bubble green. And that's why they get locked out. You seem to be attaching too much significance to the color. It really is because the experience sucks over SMS. The annoyance with the green…
> The reviewer is supposed to determine what goes in or not, so how can this be an opportunity to learn from what goes in? You specify multiple reviewers. That's it.
> And yet, we accept the risk. So this seems like a good baseline for what should be considered an acceptable risk. They are completely different playing fields. In a plane your life is in the hands of a pilot or two…
Flippant comments like these are not only frustrating, they are misleading. I know you realize now that you were wrong, but your short, dismissive comment following a substantive paragraph makes it seem much less…
It certainly still does, but a lot of people don't know or have forgotten over the years.
> But the data clearly shows that the richer you are, the less likely you are to have children. How are you resolving that discrepancy? Without taking a stand on the greater discussion here, I'd just like to add: birth…
> and it gets filed away (organised) for me This is optional, there's a "let iTunes manage my music for me" checkbox somewhere.
Many meditation practices focus on how to objectively detach from and observe system 1 so that we can maintain control over 2
> According to that, everyone who isn't carbon neutral would be evil. While I agree that it's useful to maintain some nuance in our perspectives, generally I think it's better to recognize and realign our actions, not…
> That isn't evil. You wouldn't call a hurricane or a fire evil. You wouldn't call a person who kills someone in a no fault car accident evil. All of these things are no one's fault. > Evil isn't about results. It is…
That's how you handle children, though. No one is going to ignore wrongdoings in hopes the perp will continue to play nicely.
> Facebook isn't actively trying to harm their customers, they simply don't care about them. That is amoral not evil. Don't bend yourself out of shape. Actively, happily ignoring the evil you have caused and continue to…
> I want to read about politics from the political analysts I follow, but don't care about their cooking adventures on the weekend. I want to read about tech from the software folks I follow, but don't want to hear…
It seems like you're making an implicit distinction between deciding to be a Christian and accepting God > But the Christian is not in the same position as either Plato or the atheist. Within the Christian's position,…
> Respectfully, I’m not though, and I have already said so. My original “poverty is a spectrum” comment still firmly addresses everything you’ve said, so if we still disagree, we can agree that’s ok.
Given the nature of your position it feels ironic to be saying to you that if you feel my family was amongst the worlds’ “elite” just because we lived in the US, then I believe you may need a more nuanced outlook on…
I am aware of this, anticipated this response from you (as you’ve repeated in this thread), and addressed it at the end of the comment you’re replying to. I do not believe that a global perspective diminishes the…
> Poor didn't have access, they couldn't afford a computer, much less an internet plan. Step out of the Hacker News bubble for a bit. I was very, very poor. So were most of the kids I grew up with. Most of us couldn't…