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7 votes
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The Impossible Dream - How have we come to build a whole culture around a futile, self-defeating enterprise: the pursuit of happiness?
9 votes -
Russia will begin delivering its S-400 air-defense system to NATO member Turkey in the coming days, in a deal likely to trigger US sanctions
15 votes -
Puerto Rico harnesses the power of the sun for a renewable energy future
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Amazon seeks permission to launch 3,236 internet satellites
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MoviePass suspends service for several weeks, citing technical problems and plans to recapitalize company
10 votes -
Japanese street food market with vegan sushi
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Largest earthquake in decades hits Southern California, measuring 6.4 magnitude
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Greed, drugs, dirty cops, and the bitter sibling rivalry burning up the $800 million Louisiana family dynasty of Knight Oil Tools
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Jacob Collier deconstructs a Stevie Wonder classic, 'Sir Duke' | Vox Earworm
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China Muslims: Xinjiang schools used to separate children from families
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Why stars won’t come to the Knicks
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Conservatives are nudging the Supreme Court to dismantle affordable housing policies
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The history of Rainbow Road world records
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River City Girls | Teaser trailer
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WayForward unveils the opening animation for the next Shantae game, animated by Studio Trigger (creators of Kill La Kill, Little Witch Academia)
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What was your most memorable gaming moment?
What moment from your games stands out to you? What was burned permanently into your memory? Is there an interesting story attached to it? Let me know!
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The oral history of the Super Soaker - How a NASA engineer accidentally invented the greatest water gun of all time
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Exploring the design of cat-in-a-mech metroidvania Gato Roboto
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Ecosia - The search engine that plants trees
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Looking for game recommendations to tickle my Tempest itch
For those who do not know it, Tempest is a classic arcade vector-based game, and I urge you to check it out. It is highly addictive and nowadays should fall well within the fast-paced retro...
For those who do not know it, Tempest is a classic arcade vector-based game, and I urge you to check it out. It is highly addictive and nowadays should fall well within the fast-paced retro fashion.
The problem is that for quite some years, I had nothing to scratch that itch. The last proper Tempest-like game that I played was Typhoon 2001 on Linux, which was a free/gratis clone of Tempest 2000.
Now it seems that in 2018 Tempest 4000 came out, but only for PC (a.k.a. Windows), PlayStation 4 and XBox One. As a Linux and Nintendo Switch gamer, that doesn’t help me one bit.
There are two FOSS versions: Arashi, which works only on old Macs, and Arashi-js, which is a JavaScript re-implementation of the former. Unfortunately, none of the two seem to work on my laptop.
So, here I am, itching for that Tempest fix, yet without a clue how to get something on either Switch on Linux (apart from perhaps Typhoon if it still works). Any suggestions would be more then welcome.
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The bitter truth behind Madagascar’s roaring vanilla trade
8 votes -
Distributional analysis of Andrew Yang’s Freedom Dividend
8 votes -
In the world’s northernmost town, temperatures have risen by 4°C, devastating homes, wildlife and even the cemetery. Will the rest of the planet heed its warning?
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history of the entire world, i guess
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hot dogs
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Rep. Justin Amash announces he's leaving Republican Party
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Can Racist Algorithms Be Fixed?
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Patriotism has always fueled marginalization
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iOS 13 redraws your eyes using ARKit so that you're looking at the camera instead of the screen
@schukin: How iOS 13 FaceTime Attention Correction works: it simply uses ARKit to grab a depth map/position of your face, and adjusts the eyes accordingly. Notice the warping of the line across both the eyes and nose. https://t.co/U7PMa4oNGN
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Userinyerface — A worst-practice UI experiment
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Master recordings matter: Taylor Swift's feud shows why ownership can be crucial to musicians
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Software woven into wire: Core rope and the Apollo Guidance Computer
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It is your responsibility to follow up
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Grazhdanskaya Oborona - Moja Oborona (My Defence) (1989)
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Reporting, illustrated
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A Great Big World ft. Futuristic - Hold Each Other (2015)
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How Britain can help you get away with stealing millions: a five-step guide
7 votes -
The strengthening anti-China bonds between Hong Kong and Taiwan
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Vintage Obscura Best Of 2019 Volume 6 (June 2019)
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YouTube now bans instructional hacking and phishing
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In love with Coco: An American teenager makes her name at Wimbledon
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Kuo: Apple will include new scissor switch keyboard in 2019 MacBook Air and 2020 MacBook Pro
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Fall Guys: The battle royale where you don't kill anyone, inspired by game shows like Takeshi's Castle
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How much money would you need to live the life that you want to live?
Consider the life you want to live, from the essentials to the luxuries. House, car, food, tech, kids, etc. Furthermore, consider where you want to live. Rural France? Downtown Tokyo? For the...
Consider the life you want to live, from the essentials to the luxuries. House, car, food, tech, kids, etc. Furthermore, consider where you want to live. Rural France? Downtown Tokyo?
For the purposes of the question I don't want you to think of the life of your wildest dreams (e.g. private jet, personal island, etc.), but I don't want you to think bare minimum either. Focus instead on "comfortable and fulfilling" according entirely to your own standards--a life that lets you live well and follow your aspirations with a sense of financial safety. Do not feel obligated to give a low, reasonable answer if your aspirations are higher, and don't feel obligated to shoot high if you're fine with a lower-cost lifestyle. Set your number entirely based around the desired archetypal life you want, rather than what you think is necessarily achievable based on your current financial situation.
Furthermore, don't anchor your hypothetical income to real-world standards. If you want to, for example, teach kindergarteners for a living and live in downtown San Francisco, and your desired income is $200,000 USD a year, that's perfectly fine for the purposes of this discussion despite the fact that you would be hard pressed to find a school there in real life that pays that much. I'm much more interested in the hypotheticals of the costs in your life rather than the feasibility of the income. Think of this less as a real-world budget and more of a thought experiment/personal reflection.
With all that in mind:
- What are the details of the life you want to live?
- Where do you want to live it?
- How much money would you need each year to make that feasible for you, and why?
I'm not interested in anything exact--just a ballpark estimate. And you don't need to give a full budget or anything. This should loose napkin math at best.
Also, to make things easier for everyone:
- Give your money as an amount per year.
- Give the currency you're using.
- Use combined income if your desired life involves multiple people.
- Do not judge someone else's desired life nor income.
Also, please specify which currency you are reporting in so that people can convert it to their local currency if needed to get a better sense of it.
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White supremacists and anti-fascists head to DC ahead of Trump’s July 4 celebration
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Client side caching in Redis 6
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Burying the Nakba: How Israel systematically hides evidence of 1948 expulsion of Arabs
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Absence of certain features in IRC considered a feature
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Welcome to the world of Manga! #MangaMonth
6 votes