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5 votes
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I accidentally uncovered a nationwide scam on Airbnb
36 votes -
Climate campaigners are taking Norway's government back to court to oppose its plans to open the Arctic for oil drilling
7 votes -
'Uncle' by Denmark's Frelle Petersen won the grand prix, the top award, and $30,000 at the 32nd Tokyo International Film Festival on Tuesday
4 votes -
The African-Italians who want to send migrants home
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New Orleans has failed over the last decade to do urgently needed lead testing, and then buried a 2017 report that would have alerted the public to the lapse
11 votes -
ISPs lied to Congress to spread confusion about encrypted DNS, Mozilla says
15 votes -
South Africa win Rugby World Cup 2019
11 votes -
Why 3D logos fell out of favor overnight
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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's...
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
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What editor/IDE do you use?
How fast do you think it is and what are your reasons to use it?
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Jackson Pollock deliberately avoided “coiling instabilities” when creating his paintings
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Zack de la Rocha interviewing Noam Chomsky (c. 2000)
7 votes -
Norwegian police have arrested a high-profile American white supremacist as he was scheduled to address a far-right conference in Oslo
24 votes -
Edmund McMillen explores the development of Bum-bo
5 votes -
Voyager 2 illuminates the boundary of interstellar space
9 votes -
Rich robbers: Why do wealthy people shoplift?
10 votes -
Designing Facebook's new company branding
10 votes -
Hackers can use lasers to ‘speak’ to your Amazon Echo or Google Home
10 votes -
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (1994)
7 votes -
Chinese professor sues wildlife park after it introduces facial recognition entry system
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What terminal emulator do you use?
What are your experiences with your current terminal emulator or former ones? What makes you use your current terminal emulator? What shell do you use?
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The Trump campaign has held at least 15 contests since 2018 offering the chance to win breakfast, lunch, or dinner with the President. There is no evidence anyone has ever won.
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First Contact (Internet at 50yrs old) - Dr Julian Onions recalls working to bring the Internet to Nottingham
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Let's talk bags
What are you using to carry your stuff? What stuff are you carrying? What's good/bad about it? What is your dream bag? Anything bag related is welcome.
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Death Stranding: Inside Kojima Productions
5 votes -
Marvel Unlimited offering two month free trial through Target
5 votes -
I Built the Sky - Up Into the Ether (2019)
3 votes -
Nara: Sacred images from early Japan
4 votes -
Fortnite Pastoral - They rebooted the world
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Ars Cardboard's picks for the best new board games from Essen Spiel 2019
5 votes -
Australia's idiotic war on porn returns, this time using facial recognition
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California contemplates a dark and fiery future
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Pete Buttigieg’s climate vision: Local fixes for a planet in crisis
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Iceland has become the world's leading miner of digital currency – then the crypto-crooks showed up
5 votes -
Sweden bomb attacks reach unprecedented level as gangs feud – thirty blasts in the past two months and 100 so far this year
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Firefox to hide notification popups by default starting next year
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What do you want to do/be when you grow up?
"What do you want to do/be when you grow up?" is a question we've all been confronted with, willingly or not, throughout our lives. It's intercultural, except for the increasingly rare instances...
"What do you want to do/be when you grow up?" is a question we've all been confronted with, willingly or not, throughout our lives. It's intercultural, except for the increasingly rare instances where it's culturally or familialy expected that you'll continue a family trade.
And then there are those of us who just can't pick the one true direction, or thought we had it right for a while, then abruptly got bored/burnt out and had to find a new career or calling. I've personally had no fewer than eight different or only tangentially related "careers", sometimes overlapping with hobbies, and I'm floundering a bit to find the next one.
I was just introduced to the "multipotentialite" concept today - see the TED Talk, Why Some of Us Don't Have One True Calling for details, and https://puttylike.com/ for the speaker's site and book information. As the video mentions, polymathy was once highly respected in the Renaissance, but it's been devalued in favor of increasingly narrow specializations in the industrial and information economies.
This thread is for the bewildered, the career peregrinators wandering with or without aim, who've been branded as flakes or losers, or are suffering anxiety/depression because the heavens haven't opened up and rained down purpose and meaningful work.
Tell your story to the extent you're comfortable, ask questions and seek support.
- What is it like to discover a passion?
- What is it like to find yourself losing that passion?
- How did you accommodate the change?
- What carried over successfully from prior careers?
- Did you experience pressure to stay with just one thing?
- Have you had disrupted relationships with family, partners, or friends as a result of these changes?
- Do you feel that you've made unique contributions due to broad experience and/or interdisciplinary knowledge?
- Do you feel discriminated against in the job market for lacking a clear career path?
- Did you suffer damaging mental distress before or as a result of making a career change?
- Is it exciting or frightening to make a change, and has it become more or less so with repeated changes?
This is also open to the people who were seemingly born knowing precisely what they wanted to do - were you successful in pursuing it, or did you have to make accommodations, perhaps discovering something else?
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Those people we tried to cancel? They’re all hanging out together
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The ham-handed, money-driven mangling of Sports Illustrated and Deadspin
6 votes -
The massacre that spawned the alt-right
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Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino criticizes Makoto Shinkai works for lack of sexual intimacy
6 votes -
Scientists figured out a cool way to make better gluten-free bread
10 votes -
The debate over Facebook's political ads ignores 90% of its global users
12 votes -
Why Americans hate taxes, and why some people want them to
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'They're madly checking their payrolls': The ugly truth of Australia's underpayment epidemic
8 votes -
What happened in Saudi Arabia that left WWE wrestlers stranded?: Wrestling Observer Radio
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Avoid News - Towards a Healthy News Diet [pdf, 2010]
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Alcohol breath tests, a linchpin of the criminal justice system, are often unreliable
10 votes -
Five things you didn’t know GPS could do
13 votes