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Wow never thought I would see an article mention Shinryu Suzuki, very cool. I read Zen Mind Beginner’s Mind as a kid and I still remember practicing the sitting and breathing like it was a magical tome.

The hardest part I remember is the nothingness of meditation and I remember his warnings not to fixate on trains of thought. I should probably reread it sometime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_Mind,_Beginner%27s_Mind

> If cobalt never existed in DRC, what exactly would they be doing for work and subsistence? Is this horribly unsafe and in-humane form of work a step up from whatever alternatives they have, or perhaps from nothing at all. Again I am not condoning it, I am just wondering

Is just wondering the new just asking questions?

Clearly they would be doing something else, perhaps what they did before the mine opened.

I feel by framing it as either a step up from nothing at all or from something lesser, you've already condoned it.

As a history enjoyer I have actually heard of this:

> The Black Legend (Spanish: leyenda negra) or the Spanish Black Legend (Spanish: leyenda negra española) is a purported historiographical tendency which consists of anti-Spanish and anti-Catholic propaganda

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Legend

I learned by making a paracord sling and flinging marshmallows.

I like to believe it’s so fun because I’m tapping into some primordial fascination with spinning objects, like a dog chasing a wheel.

What a stunningly myopic conclusion.

I hope one day you are able to acknowledge all the people in this world that live for purpose instead of for making Lumberg’s stock go up half a point.

> they sent a 30 day notice to license the product or they’d sue

This tracks with what I saw, one day there was an email sent out to make sure you don’t have docker desktop installed.

It was wild because we were on the heels of containerize-all-th-things push and now we’re winding down docker?? Sure whatever you say boss.

As someone who thought they used obsidian somewhat well, I feel like a caveman/casual after reading that.

I mean that as praise, it reeled me in as both a puzzle (what am I even reading right now) and a conclusion (the bleeding edge of obsidianmd space is like XKCD straws).

For what it’s worth that tracks with me experience in video games.

When I sat with 30 other testers for 6 days per week I achieved mastery I did not believe possible. Eventually I could cakewalk even the most difficult challenges in those games and I was generally recognized as a highly talented tester.

Meanwhile I’ve sunk more cumulative hours alone into Elden Ring and I have accepted I will never reach that same level of mastery.

It’s a humbling realization how much of my prior greatness was actually just my environment at the time.

Thanks for the paper.

It starts boldly by redefining the “american dream” into “line must go up” which ironically sounds like boomer logic being projected onto millennials.

I don’t know about the Fed but my dream as an American isn’t to accumulate more wealth than my parents.

Fwiw, the American dream in my neck of the woods is financial independence from landlords and bosses.

> something as simple as a parking ticket is borderline life threatening

I always lived in fear of being pulled over and getting busted for not having the insurance I couldn’t afford.

Eventually get pulled over and ticketed, cough up $1000 for proof of insurance to bring to court then get a payment program to pay off $1000 fine.

Once the proof of insurance expired, begin the cycle again.

Until I finally got enough earnings to always pay my bills every month on time, my entire financial existence hinged on how often the police stopped me.

I lived in the UK briefly and this episode broke my brain Series 3 Episode 53:

> Host Forbes Robertson, the only man in the group, is Ayr's answer to Donald Trump, and his menu plan includes pigs' trotters, which don't appeal to his guests

This isn’t about eyewitnesses, it’s about looking at historical pictures of the sky before the advent of space flight.

> Villarroel and her team used the digitized scans to study the night sky as it was before the 1957 launch of the first artificial satellite, the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1, to eliminate the possibility of seeing space-based interference from human activity.

> Under the auspices of Villarroel’s Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations (VASCO) project, they identified more than 107,000 transients.

In the recent UAP hearing, whistleblower Borland talked about how financial ruin is the real fear holding whistleblowers back:

> Are you scared for your safety?

> … I am not scared for my physical safety in the sense of an agency or company coming to kill me, but I have no job. My career has been tarnished. I'm unemployed. Living off of unemployment for the next three, four weeks until that's gone. So it's a complicated question.

https://www.rev.com/transcripts/house-uap-whistleblower-hear...

Very cool and fun toy.

I thought it would be a few trivial steps to reach the Emperor Maurice from Belle’s dad Maurice, but the best I could do was 5 torturous hops between List of Beauty and the Beast Characters and the Maurice disambiguation page.

https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=List+of+Disney...

Thanks for sharing this

> I don't live in the US, but there is nothing in the Constitution, nor in federal law, guaranteeing that you have the right to use cash.

They have the right to use cash, even if the vendor chooses not to accept it.

I learned this by trying to pay a fine with coins, which are NOT legal tender like cash is.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_tender

> Each jurisdiction determines what is legal tender, but essentially it is anything which, when offered ("tendered") in payment of a debt, extinguishes the debt. There is no obligation on the creditor to accept the tendered payment, but the act of tendering the payment in legal tender discharges the debt.

> commoditizing their complements

Feels like a modern euphemism for “subjugate their neighbors”.

You seem so certain on the betrayal of the content-creators.

> Read up on vid.me, which broke YouTube's "monopoly" back in 2016-2017

Okay, sounds interesting.

> May 21 (Reuters) - Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google has persuaded a federal judge in California to reject a lawsuit from video platform Rumble (RUM.O), opens new tab accusing the technology giant of illegally monopolizing the online video-sharing market.

I see what I expected: that google cheated and got away with it. Where is the betrayal?

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/google-defeats-rumb...

> In my estimation, all nations are lagging in the definition of what constitutes a public utility. In a decade we will be facepalming why advertisements were even needed for this common infrastructure.

I’m just glad others feel this way.

Why the hell can’t I have my own spam free email account from the post office? Because the ads, the precious ads.

Luckily it is immortalized in GTA5, when playing as Trevor at least. I found it the easiest phone to use in that game.

> As a fast measure, Google created "Android Go" as a stripped-down Android variant for lower-spec hardware, exactly to respond to Firefox-OS.

> After the threat was gone, "Android Go" was discontinued again

Sometimes the invisible hand of the market is just a middle finger pushing on the scale.

Read to the end and did a double-take: that's the game programming patterns guy!

He has a voice I enjoy and I'm glad I got the chance to read this.

> how do companies...

> Do you need...

> Will work scope down...

Sounds to me like a list of problems for market forces to solve.

Wow amazing work.

I tried parsing wiktionary once and gave up in frustration.

I open up your code to see the magic and this instantly caught my eye.

> import mwparserfromhell as mwp

Perfect lol.

Thanks for the nudge, a well told story well worth the read.

Back at THQ we published this. The story goes that there’s some language in the deals between Pixar and Apple that forced Disney to publish a Mac version of all Pixar-based games.

There was Mac hardware that was only used for testing Pixar games; the testers there are the ones that told me the story.

Also I remember now some tester made a Redman/Methodman music video with video clips from the first game and was of course fired.

Unsolicited oral history of the Incredibles games I guess.

It’s like you’re mad at the house slaves because they have it so good.

That person is basically you under less dire circumstances.

White chess is another amazing piece

https://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2015/07/14/notes-on-...

As an unscientific layperson this was a riveting analysis, thanks for interesting reading.

As a libertarian skeptic, this was a delightful tale.

At Disneyland? Where there’s a union for food and beverage workers?

> We perform everything from preparing and creating treats like turkey legs and churros to serving grant and exquisite meals at the famous and exclusive Club 33. If you are eating in the parks, our members are making that happen.

https://workersunited.org/joint-boards/local-50