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Pakistan opens public school for transgender students
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Lyft files first for IPO in litmus test for the industry
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Dredg - Scissor Lock (2002)
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Brain-imaging modern people making Stone Age tools hints at evolution of human intelligence
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You Don’t Need All That Complex/Expensive/Distracting Infrastructure
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Status as a Service
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MISTER FPGA: The Future of Retro Game Emulation and Preservation?
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My new croissant machine can do things I can't
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Where does London stop? | Unfinished London
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The darkness
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Getting rich teaching Hong Kong's kids
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This Week's Releases 01/03 - Solange, Pond, 2-Chainz and more.
Releases of the week 23/02/2019 - 01/03/2019 Featured Release Solange - When I Get Home (Neo-Soul, Alternative R&B) Solange has unveiled her new album, When I Get Home. Spanning 19 tracks, it...
Releases of the week 23/02/2019 - 01/03/2019
Featured Release
Solange - When I Get Home (Neo-Soul, Alternative R&B)
Solange has unveiled her new album, When I Get Home. Spanning 19 tracks, it marks Solange’s fourth album to date and serves as the follow-up to her 2016 opus, A Seat at the Table.
When I Get Home was written, performed, and executive produced by Solange herself, but she was hardly in the studio. Among the album’s many contributors were Earl Sweatshirt, Panda Bear, Tyler the Creator, Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes, Sampha, Pharrell Williams, Gucci Mane, Playboi Carti, Raphael Saadiq, Metro Boomin, The-Dream, Cassie, Abra, and The Internet’s Steve Lacy.
“Y’all! I’m filled w so much joy right now!!! Wow! I can’t thank y’all enough for this moment and for all the feelings i feel in my body!” Solange wrote in a tweet. “I’m bringing home w me everywhere I go yalll and I ain’t running from shit no more. Your love lifts me up so high. Thank you!”Other Notable Relases
Pond - Tasmania (Neo-Psychedelia, Psychedelic Pop)
2 Chainz - Rap or Go to the League (Trap Rap, Southern Hip Hop)
Sun Kil Moon - I Also Want To Die In New Orleans (Contemporary Folk, Spoken Word)
T-Pain - 1UP (Alternative R&B, Trap Rap)
Feel free to discuss or feature any and all other releases in the comments below
Discussion Points
Have you listened to any of these releases?
What are your thoughts?
What are you looking forward to listen to?
What have you enjoyed from these artists in the past?// All feedback on this format welcome.
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Robert Smith, Toti Panzanelli, et al. - Not in Love
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Hindu monastic order is reclaiming transgender people’s status in Indian society
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What is your first-hand experience with the "Dunning–Kruger effect"?
In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people of low ability have illusory superiority and mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it...
In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people of low ability have illusory superiority and mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is. The cognitive bias of illusory superiority comes from the inability of low-ability people to recognize their lack of ability. Without the self-awareness of metacognition, low-ability people cannot objectively evaluate their competence or incompetence. (Wikipedia)
Some of my fellow programmers seem to think the world turns around their knowledge as if there was no valid reasoning whatsoever beyond math and computer science. They seem to think logic (a tool with multiple uses which exists since at least 380 BC) is merely an attribute of computer science. It's not uncommon for them to think they can understand the intricacies of every phenomenon under the sun.
I have to control myself to avoid countering each of their flawed arguments. To my own detriment, I'm not always able to do so. I feel surrounded by arrogance and cognitive bias, and have to silence my better judgment in order to avoid constant conflict.
To be clear, I'm not looking for advice, as I already know the "solution", which is no solution. You can't use reason to fight something that is not motivated by reason. I'm posting to know your stories and maybe find some solace in the knowledge that I'm not alone.
Have you ever had to deal directly with people who grossly inflate their own competence, possibly stretching it to an unrelated field? if so, what's your story?
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Inside Facebook’s war on hate speech: An exclusive embed with Facebook’s shadow government
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Battles - Ddiamondd (2007)
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Five emerging Australian authors talk about writing their breakthrough novels
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I made a 2,000-word analysis of Robert Heinlein’s "All You Zombies" (with visuals!)
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Altered MTG Commander Deck - Elves
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Magic the Gathering announces "Modern Horizons", the first set designed to skip Standard legality and go straight to Modern
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Recommended two-player board games under sixty minutes
Hi there! From time to time, me and wife enjoy playing 7 Wonders Duel on our weekends and we like that it's not that long because we always have to do other things. Of course, always playing the...
Hi there!
From time to time, me and wife enjoy playing 7 Wonders Duel on our weekends and we like that it's not that long because we always have to do other things. Of course, always playing the same game starts to get old (even though 7 Wonders Duel is quite great).
My wife was not totally excited by Jaipur, Santorini and Patchwork, for example. So, which board games would you recommend for two players where the playing time doesn't exceed 60 minutes? The board games don't need to be 2-player specific (like 7 Wonders Duel), though.
Edit: For future reference to other players. Besides the great recomendations in this post, I also found other very interesting 2-player games under 60 minutes. They are, Hanamikoji, Kodama Duo, Yokohama Duel and 13 Days: The Cuban Missile Crisis. I actually bought Hanamikoji because it's so cheap and fast. Great game too!
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Climate change: Angela Merkel welcomes school strikes
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Revealed: Facebook’s global lobbying against data privacy laws
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What are the best vegan or vegetarian burger options out there?
I just had an "Impossible" burger here in Vegas. I honestly couldn't believe it wasn't meat. I'm not vegan or Vegetarian, but I eat it from time to time. Any other good recommendations out there...
I just had an "Impossible" burger here in Vegas. I honestly couldn't believe it wasn't meat.
I'm not vegan or Vegetarian, but I eat it from time to time.
Any other good recommendations out there for good meat substitutes?
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Bernie Sanders gets personal - the 2020 US hopeful is opening up about his upbringing, recognizing that his singular focus on issues wasn't enough last time
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Why Doctors Without Borders is suspending work in the Ebola epicenter in Congo
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Feature suggestion: Bookmark posts from front page
I'd like to be able to bookmark posts from the front page. Right now it really isn't an issue yet since posting frequency is low, but I often quickly check the front page for interesting reads,...
I'd like to be able to bookmark posts from the front page. Right now it really isn't an issue yet since posting frequency is low, but I often quickly check the front page for interesting reads, while not having the time to actually read them. I'd like to see a "Bookmark" button on front page posts that allow me to save those posts for later when I actually do have time to read the posts.
For quick scrolls over the front page, tapping the post and then bookmarking is one click too many.
You could argue I'm lazy, I call it efficiency.While on the subject, if I click "bookmark" on a topic, it'll read "bookmarked" but does not offer an "unbookmark" option until I refresh the page. Since I have big thumbs(large bones) I often tap wrong, so it could be nice if there was a quick way to undo this, similar to how we can undo votes.
Edit: this seems to be a bug: it does work for comments.
Edit2: Made this into an issue.24 votes -
Millennial masterstroke: All credit to Afterpay in generation grab
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The marriage of SpaceX and NASA hasn’t been easy—but it’s been fruitful
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Former officer Mohamed Noor pleads not guilty to Justine Ruszczyk Damond’s death
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Sydney's 41st Mardi Gras parade celebrates the fearless and the fabulous
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Rich Felker, the creator of musl libc, asks the community for financial support via Patreon
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Jimmy Eat World - Pol Roger
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Canada has formally commenced the process to extradite Meng Wanzhou, CFO of Huawei to the USA
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Going to work in South Africa, with a depression prescription
Good news: I'll be starting my new work in Cape Town, South Africa soon. Not so good news: I have depression, and is currently on the antidepressant Sertraline. My question would be the following:...
Good news: I'll be starting my new work in Cape Town, South Africa soon.
Not so good news: I have depression, and is currently on the antidepressant Sertraline.
My question would be the following:
How are prescriptions of the antidepressant handled in the South African health care system? Can I obtain, from either a GP or a Specialist, a sort of "long-standing" prescription, valid for (say) a few months, that will allow me to refill at pharmacies or dispensing GPs, without me having to be referred to a Specialist each time I need a refill? I understand that recurring examinations by a Specialist are likely necessary, but I don't expect those to be frequent, as my condition is fairly stable now.
Also a related question: I'm otherwise young and physically healthy, not affected by chronic conditions except depression. However, it seems that any health insurance schemes there that cover my condition would be rather expensive. Those policies typically include a broad coverage of chronic conditions, most of which I don't foresee a need. For one like myself, what suggestion would you give in terms of health insurance selection?
Many many thanks <3
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Amazon to launch new grocery-store business, distinct from Whole Foods
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Any tabletop RPG players?
Any other tabletop RPG fans here? What system do you play and what kind of character are you currently running? I'm in two D&D 5e campaigns at the moment. In one I play a Gnome Mystic, and in the...
Any other tabletop RPG fans here? What system do you play and what kind of character are you currently running?
I'm in two D&D 5e campaigns at the moment. In one I play a Gnome Mystic, and in the other I play a Tabaxi Monk.
D&D isn't my favorite system, but it's difficult finding groups for other systems. I'd prefer playing something where character ability progression is more freeform, like GURPS.
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Not all sleep is equal when it comes to cleaning the brain
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Socialists win big in Chicago
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Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un summit ends in disarray but there are lessons to be learnt, experts say
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Can we make the new "Back to top" link optional?
I just noticed we got a back to top link, floating on the bottom right. It is easy to block on desktop, but on mobile, not as easy. I think it'd be great it we had an option to disable it in user...
I just noticed we got a back to top link, floating on the bottom right. It is easy to block on desktop, but on mobile, not as easy. I think it'd be great it we had an option to disable it in user settings.
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The top six medical inventions during the American civil war
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Pakistan shoots down two Indian fighter jets: Military
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Disney's Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge is a tour de force of technology and world building
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Tesla launches long-awaited standard Model 3 starting at $35,000
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Not another boring creatine guide: Answers to FAQs and lesser-known benefits
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The latest diet trend is not dieting
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Galaxy S10 Plus review
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