Is this open sourced?
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The more we learn about animals (see the article on HN ~2 days ago that bees engage in play) the more it seems like they're a lot more like us than we'd like to think. We're smart, and we can try to explain every thing away (like you do in your comment), but there's a pattern that's emerging. It's an uncomfortable pattern and I get why we try to convince ourselves that animals are fundamentally different than we are, but I'm more and more believing that we're all actually a lot more similar than we'd like to think.
A lot of my current thinking is from the book How to be Animal by Melanie Challenger. I recommend it!
Hearkens back to that feeling of all of us being internet citizens and laughing that I'm not the only one that makes this mistake.
Maybe I'm looking into it too much, though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's akin to saying "Just choose to read a book. Drop heroin".
We'd like to think we have such control, but the fact is that these things are addictive and one can't simply "just stop" without a process and a culture that promotes these processes.
Phone, wallet, keys, Kobo. That habit was a much easier lift than the guilt-inducing "must read X pages/hours per Y" demands on myself, and it led to more reading.
(sarcasm, obviously, but unfortunately a common undertone with a lot of conversations in general but specifically on covid.
For the non-Hebrew speakers, Hebrew has some letters that change form when placed at the end of the word. The Hebrew keyboard has these forms in their own key, but colloquially they're the same letter.
Also the concept of "high-involvement cooperative overlapping" is something that was recently pointed out to me by my brother, and honestly once it was named, solved a lot of marital issues between my wife and I. I would constantly interrupt her as a way of communicating that I was ardently listening and sympathizing and she'd get offended. On the flip-side, I'd be emoting to her and she would just sit and listen to me without interrupting and I would feel like she wasn't paying attention.
Once we realized this was a real cultural difference, it was something we're able understand about each other.
I couldn't ask him if his taste has diminished. All I knew was he was having sever upper respiratory issues.
We've paid ~$10k in medical expenses up until now, and daycare is ~$2k a month (context; Long Island, NY).
The medical expenses PILE UP. Obviously the birth they filled up my wife's deductible, but then (and I should have predicted this) they started filling up our newborn's!
Our 3 month old then had a cold so we took him to the doctor who checked for RSV and covid with one swab. We got a bill for $1600.
And daycare? You need a VERY flexible job to handle a kid in daycare. LO gets his normal vaccines and springs a fever? He needs to stay home for 2 days. Daycare also took a long memorial day weekend AND the last day of June was off too for "between semesters".
Having a kid in daycare is a part-time job with unexpected hours that you pay a ton to have.
Thank God I work at a wonderful company that is SUPER understanding because I don't know what we'd do if it didn't.
I moved countries and I am now locked out of my bank account abroad since they verify logins via OTP over SMS.
This reminds me of the Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS.
Does pouring a bucket of ice water over one's head cure ALS? Obviously not.
Did creating a trend that went viral help take strides towards curing ALS? Yeah! According to Wikipedia[1] this meme brought $220 million to ALS research.
So I'm not sure you can simply say "why not donate the money instead of buying NFTs" since NFTs are what people are interested in now!
Maybe this is an instance of meeting your customer where they're at.
I too have no social media nor smartphone, but this made me cringe...I TOTALLY understand his pain-point and it's tough to not be on Whatsapp, but to go above-and-beyond for privacy reasons, and then install an app on someone's phone without their consent?
But it is a great article! I love the watch and it's something I'm going to look into for myself!
With the creation and proliferation of Modern Hebrew, there was a cost, though. Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic (the language Maimonides wrote a lot of literature in), and Ladino were victims of the centralization of Hebrew as the common language for Jews.
Yiddish is a German dialect, Judeo-Arabic an Arabic dialect, and Ladino is a Spanish dialect and are all dying/dead languages with attempted revival movements in their own right, but nothing with too much steam and this article lays out a potential reason why; aside from traditional, historic, or cultural reasons, there's no real societal reason for these languages in today's world.
So it's not Robinhood, persay, but rather Citadel.
Why did Citadel block purchasing of GME stock? Because Citadel just invested 2 billion dollars in Melvin Capital Management; one of the hedge funds that has a lot to lose as long as the GME stocks keep going up.
I'm not saying it's not "better" (however you measure that) but I think it's very wordy and that's always been a turn-off and barrier of entry for me.
some examples:
pwd --> Set-Location
ls --> Get-ChildItem
cp --> Copy-Item
I totally understand how bash's sometimes seemingly random shortcuts or acronyms can ALSO be a huge barrier of entry (just as it was for me!) and the straightforwardness of Powershell is a lot clearer, but personally now that I'm "in" on the short-hand of bash, it's been hard to start using Powershell.
I asked how much it would be without insurance and they quoted me $350.
Cosmetic surgeries are elective, where as surgeries that the patient is made to believe will help them with an ailment but wont, are useless.
I don't work for them and am actually a new customer, but getting your domain safe from a DMARC perspective SOUNDS easy until you realize you do want SOME people "spoofing your emails". Mailgun, SendGrid, Greenhouse, Shopify, Google Calendar, etc.
We live in a world where our companies outsource a lot of the logic and many send emails on our behalf so to discern between that and "spoofing" takes some config that DMARCian was super helpful with.
I'm just a happy customer and wanted to share!