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Re:Vine founder launches TikTok competitor on Sunday January 26, 2020 @04:23AM (#22151231)
You can share links from the app
Re:Vine founder launches TikTok competitor on Sunday January 26, 2020 @04:22AM (#22151227)
I don't think you have to make an account to use the app
Re:The Impact of Meditating Every Day on Friday August 16, 2019 @11:18AM (#20716027)
I recommend the book "Inner Engineering". The book is written by a man that goes by the name Sadhguru. He's spent the last 30 or so year spreading classical yoga around the world. He founded the Isha Foundation. They initiate people into classical yogic practices that involve asanas, kriyas, and different types of meditation. The movement has grown a lot of steam in recent years. Recently Sadhguru initiated 5000 people in Australia in an inner engineering mega program. Usually the programs are much smaller and led by teachers that he has trained for several years. I started my journey with Isha a couple of years ago when I found him on YouTube. He has a ton of content. I recommend watching his [Ted talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rETWfA3Sq8) if you're interested.

To give you a little background about myself, I'm a 27-year-old male software engineer. Before Isha I wasn't religious or spiritual, but I always thought some of the Eastern stuff (buddhism, taoism) I heard sounded interesting. I also had experiences with psychedelics that were very profound to me.

Anyway I found Sadhguru on YouTube one day and everything he was saying just really vibed with me. He's explaining millenia-old yogic ideas in modern terms, and it really resonated with my intellect as well as with my own personal experiences with psychedelics. They talk about nature in terms of space, time, and energy. They talk about the human mechanism and consciousness. They talk about yoga as a method of liberation or enlightenment, the end of suffering.

So then I started going to the programs and doing yoga. I've attended and volunteered at several programs. The people that go to these programs are all regular people like me. Maybe around two thirds are Indian, which makes sense because that's where yoga originated and where Sadhguru is from. I've met other engineers, physicians, professors, businessmen, etc. I would say that the common factor among all of us is that we each have a desire to have some deeper understanding of life, so we are willing to listen to Sadhguru and try out yoga.

It's been an awesome journey. Sadhguru and his foundation have had a huge effect on my life, and I'm very thankful for it.

Re:The Absolute Easiest Way to Debug Node.js – With VS Code on Monday November 12, 2018 @12:32PM (#18434035)
You can do this in VS Code as well. You create a launch.json file, and you can debug. A basic launch.json file is like 3 lines long, and VS Code makes it for you. There's no need for an extension. Maybe the author wasn't aware of that.
Re:The indefatigable efforts of J. M. Keynes on Monday October 22, 2018 @02:15PM (#18276925)
They already exist. Here are some articles from mises.org that look at it from the Austrian school's point of view.

https://mises.org/wire/how-artificial-boom-1914-1929-caused-... https://mises.org/library/great-depression https://mises.org/library/fake-history-depression

Re:Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful on Friday September 28, 2018 @04:00PM (#18096561)
Interesting point. But could they solve the issue?
Is the only reason to investigate the universe to look for ways to exploit it?