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prisonality··on Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths
> I'd guess the same could be said for Buddihsm

From your link, Suffering in Buddhism is prescribed as the First Noble Truth:

> Now this, bhikkhus, is the noble truth of suffering:

> birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering;

> union with what is displeasing is suffering;

> separation from what is pleasing is suffering;

> not to get what one wants is suffering;

> in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.

Which part of it is true that "life is about suffering" ?

As for Buddhist monk, you could try looking up Ajahn Brahm - that might offer a different perspective.

prisonality··on Bhutan, after prioritizing happiness, now faces an existential crisis
Like you: I too - is part of said brain drain.

Though, my reason - or rather: my litmus test, is much simpler.

For me, it all comes down to drinkable / potable tap water. That's it. That's all I care.

prisonality··on 1 in 5 Japanese Workers in Their 20s Turn to Resignation Agencies
In that case, I don't think Resignation Agencies could help to get them to spit out letter of recommendation.

But the again - these agencies might be solving an entirely different problem.

prisonality··on How to (and how not to) design REST APIs
what's your opinion of using suffix like '_list' to differentiate it ?

ie:

GET /species

and

GET /species_list

?

prisonality··on How to (and how not to) design REST APIs
how do you differentiate between plural vs singular of:

`GET /staff`

?

prisonality··on How to (and how not to) design REST APIs
I use singular too, but I always wonder to those sticking with plural - what's the convention for words which plural and singular are the same.

ie - like 'staff' or 'species' or 'aircraft'.

Then I can add suffix to those singular ie - 'staffList', 'speciesList' etc

prisonality··on Five mildly anti-Buddhist essays
> 1. The goal is to end suffering, so if a practice is making you suffer stop doing it.

That's correct: the goal is to end suffering - by means of understanding it.

Thus the understanding is important to distinguish there's indeed suffering that leads to the end of suffering -- like Ajahn Chah using analogy of going to the dentist (in itself is a suffering) to end the suffering of dental pain.

prisonality··on Five mildly anti-Buddhist essays
It feels the entire article is one big strawman: I tried to find for words like: "four noble truth" or "eightfold path" and couldn't find them -- I'm not surprised.
prisonality··on Five mildly anti-Buddhist essays
> He made mistakes and learned from them (even after nirvana)

His very first attempt to transmit the Dhamma ended up in failure (the guy before the first five) - and that made him to question, worked on and fixed the way it was delivered.

prisonality··on Git undo: We can do better
> Git should store the commands that "did" the operations on a repo.

is `git reflog` not enough for your use case ?

prisonality··on Show HN: Beekeeper Studio – open-source, cross-platform SQL client
Looking great !

Any plan for Query Plan diagram / visualisation ?

prisonality··on McMindfulness: How mindfulness became the new capitalist spirituality
the latter involves a conscious decision making of breathing in a specific way. whilst mindfulness is a conscious decision of knowing how and when one breathes, without necessarily forcing breathing in a specific way.
prisonality··on McMindfulness: How mindfulness became the new capitalist spirituality
As with everything - context is required.

Mindfulness is only one aspect that is part of a system that is the 'eightfold noble path' which have to be taken wholesome:

right view, right motivation, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right endeavour, right mindfulness, right collectedness / stillness

They're of equal importance, if not higher: particularly #1, #2 and in the context of the discussion: #4: right action.