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For years I've been engaged in an enormous decluttering project in the house I grew up in. Aside from filling a few huge dumpsters, I went on countless trips to scrap yards to recy…

I've been recently enjoying a YouTube channel by a guy who turned his yard into a sustainable "food forest" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng-VskDFPpM That is the video that led m…

I'm a fan of DuckDuckGo and I've found myself using it more and more these days. I actually had to change my launcher on Android because the default Google Go launcher that comes p…

Relevant is this quote from another link recently posted here on HN: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/08/when-it-comes... "Europe has more stringent privacy regulations …

I was reading Augustine one day and was struck by a passage that referred a silent reading in a way that made it seem quite uncommon in those days. Here it is, referring to Ambrose…

Thanks for this site. I think the Snapchat breach finally explains why I've been getting so many scam phone calls in the past few years.

Philosophy often revolves around questions of purpose in life, and any non-mathematician might wonder why someone would devote their life to the study of advanced math. The questio…

I used to have an issue with writing classes in college. Since the writers-to-be in the class aren't experts in any particular field, they are forced to pick sides in ridiculous po…

This reminds me of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT9i99D_9gI It also reminds me of the "two dot" illusion from psychology: http://i.imgur.com/j8sEFuT.jpg If you close…

Another classic book to look at is "Letters from a Stoic" by Seneca the Younger, published by Penguin Classics. Seneca is perhaps my favorite of the Stoics.

That place was my home on the internet for nearly a decade. It was a wonderful community and I'm glad to have been a part of it. I'll really miss the "What Are You Reading?" thread…