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You obviously have never used TikTok. Possibly the most ridiculous comment on HN.

Yep. Those were precious resting days and I took full advantage of them. Perhaps the lesson was death is nothing to be feared if life is 24/7 intensive meditation retreats.

Yes, it’s a night and day difference between who I was before as a layman and now. Hard to even say the same human being.

Sorry, I don’t really check HN. Breakthroughs in terms of understanding Dharma, the unending compassion for all sentient beings, and the overcoming of my own previous delusions and…

Sorry for not responding earlier, I rarely check hacker news. We did Seon meditation (Korea) which is a form of Koan practice (Hwadu). I’ve had a permanent change in perspective an…

During my years as a Buddhist monk, we regularly did two 90 day silent retreats(Summer/winter) and two 45 days (fall/spring) a year. It’s mostly a survival type period where you sl…

I’ve read virology reports that the virus originated most likely from bats but through an intermediary source — as to which animal, that’s unknown. Another thing I’ve been ponderin…

But China is weaning itself off fossil fuels? China has over 400,000 electric buses (99% of the world) and the longest high speed rail in the planet. High-speed rails carry twice a…

What’s missing from this article is that Nobu Iwatani previously worked for defense and foreign ministries in Japan. He is no “civilian”.

America’s been responsible for the death of 500,000 innocent Iraqi civilians since the start of the war not to mention countless Afghan and other middle eastern citizens. We curren…

It’s possible, but it’s important to note Kyle Bass has been short China for a very long time and has been spreading FUD (true or not) since 2008.

You should ask him about the World Bank and IMF debt traps to developing countries that have stricken those nations in poverty for decades. The Chinese are building critical infras…

Brushing off TCM as pseudoscience is quite ignorant. There are plenty of legitimate TCM research and verified treatments that have improved the lives of many in the world.

The sinophobia in these comments always makes me uncomfortable because it’s usually underlied with overall anti-Asian sentiment. It reminds me that I don’t belong in America, we st…

Thank you for sharing. This is why I never sign up for any fintech services. The amount of data I hand over is never worth the "benefits" they provide.

In the same vein, would you say precious metals are also a Ponzi scheme?

Pretty misinformed and seemingly bitter, especially for a self proclaimed yogi. It is liquid capital - and its value is $86mm since you could liquidate this at any moment without m…

Blockchain P2P lending would solve this particular issue very well, since its all recorded on a public ledger.

Thankfully built-in parking AdBlock on newer browsers is forcing domain speculators to start dropping their less valuable names, as parking pages are no longer producing any revenu…

I think it's cool, despite Hacker News' general bearish outlook on cryptocurrencies. +1 for not issuing your own tokens via ICO and using ETH instead.

I'd wait for the dip below $4,000, but in terms of TA (Elliot Waves) as well as Fib levels, we are most likely headed towards $5,000.

People have been calling Bitcoin tulips since 2011. It's still funny now as it was then too.

Mentally disturbed could mean sociopathic, which is likely the case here.

Don't know if this is recently, but as a US citizen, I've wired funds from an American bank successfully to BTC-e back in 2013.