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Why should I use this instead of appwrite or firebase?

I wish I had discovered Marcus Aurelius years ago. I would have had a much different life. "Meditations" has definitely changed my life. I have learned to be more patient and to no…

uBlock is starting to become a one-stop shop unicorn!

I'm surprised that it's only MacMillan and List for organocatalysis. There's plenty of others that come to mind, like Jacobsen. Regarding MacMillan, his student used proline (which…

I can't help myself but to write that Chef Kinopio is a yellow Toad who works at the restaurant in Overlook Tower in Paper Mario: The Origami King. :D

To be honest this is one of the more real proposals I've seen for an Interstellar probe, and there are still many problems to be worked out as both the paper and the comments here …

Today’s new motels are often branded as “boutiques” and charge four-star rates to match that kind of exclusive service and local experience. This is ridiculous... The idea of a "mo…

I love this: David Spade (Kuzco): It was me and Owen Wilson. We were going to switch jobs. I was an emperor and he was a peasant, and Carla Gugino was a princess. The first time I …

I've used a bunch of these tools in the past as part of tools like Wordstream and Opteo. While basic, they seemed to work well enough. What would make me use our service which does…

The subject of the antitrust suits filed against Facebook came up in a Facebook comment thread for me yesterday. Some guy piped up and stated, essentially, that "Zuckerberg is too …

Every time Facebook is buying something I feel sad and imagine Facebook like the black plague that will swallow that normal organism.

Buzzfeed News is actually a very respectable investigative journalism team led by a Pulitzer-winning journalist. It's funded by their clickbait site.

Isn't Godfrey-Smith's belief in fact also "just a byproduct of neural activity"?

I hear he once drank himself to pieces, and when he woke up in the morning and pulled himself together, he had inadvertently made a copy of himself.

I have used Dvorak everywhere for about 15 years, including at work (with a hardware-switchable keyboard so others can drive too). I was around 90wpm on qwerty when I switched and …

> selective voluntary amnesia I'm lucky (?) enough to have the involuntary form of this to some degree for media. I will often forget the plot points of a movie I've watched within…

The headline assumes a $1m house. From the article: > The empty-home tax will take effect by Jan. 1 and will be calculated at 1 percent of the property’s assessed value.

I agree with you. As a teenager, I seemed to have an intuitive ability to understand concepts that others struggled with. I tend to grok concepts very quickly and once I do, I don'…

This post was interesting, though less interesting than I expected based on the title.