non-Dhamma, but useful

  Yeonmi Park is a human rights activist, her life story is incredible.  This interview video is long, 2 hours, but totally riveting and worth watching. Turning on CC for text of her Korean accented English may be helpful.  If you're not familiar with her, she has a 10 minute TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLzTo-y8Ef0 Some spoilers from that 2 hour interview,  if like me, you're skeptical about spending 2 hours of your time and need some justification. She escaped with her family from North Korea into China, where she's part of China supported human slave trafficking (sex slave included) starting at the age of around 13. She, her sister, and mom were all sold into slavery. China supports this, because of the one child policy causing so many female fetuses to be aborted,  they have 30 million men with no potential female partners. China is also propping up the North Korean gov't.  She became a mistress of a slave trader, who was violent, abusive, but did help

  Convenient links to bookmark ☸24🐘     🚣     ☯🦍 ☸24🐘 is really all you need, everything else is listed on the homepage there, or one level down from the homepage. Those 3 above are the 3 links I use the most. 🚣 has audio links for the most important suttas.   EBpedia📚 serves as a website index of all the articles, as well as being an EBT wikipedia of the most important terms. frankk‍ : has links to my forums and blogs What I do and you should think about doing, is making your own browser homepage, containing all the useful links above, and sorted in a way that's useful to you instead using browser bookmarks. to do that, just save this email or cut and paste everything into a microsoft word document (it will copy html and save the hyperlink info). Then save that microsoft doc file as an html file.  Load up that html file with your web browser, go to your settings page and it has an option for you to set current page as your home page for that browser. For example,

This is my paraphrase, not his exact wording. He says this around 32min mark. The host asked him, what is the single most important piece of advice he would give someone. Ed responded, "What I learned from giving people important advice,  they don't take it." (after laughter from audience, he explains): People have to test things out, and internalize for themselves before they can absorb important advice and be able to use it.  A quick story about who Edward Thorp is, and why you should pay attention to what he says. One time at a party he asked Richard Feynman (Nobel prize physicist) if it was possible to beat the casino at the roulette wheel. Feyman said it was impossible. Normally, when a genius tells you something is not possible you believe him. Thorpe didn't believe him, and went on to team up with another genius Claude Shannon (father of the Digital communication industry, he invented the theory behind digital computers before there was even computer hardware!

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/neuroscience-says-doing-this-1-thing-makes-you-just-as-happy-as-eating-2-000-chocolate-bars?utm_source=pocket-newtab Neuroscience Says Doing This 1 Thing Makes You Just as Happy as Eating 2,000 Chocolate Bars It also gives you the same neurological boost as receiving $25,000. Inc.     Melanie Curtin Read when you’ve got time to spare. Getty Images Wanting to be happier is a universal trait. It's rare to find a person whose reply to, "How would you like to feel today?" is, "Morose, please." The scientific study of happiness (aka positive psychology) has mushroomed over the last two decades. Major research institutions have taken on substantial and often thought-provoking forays into the joy of joy, with surprising and often enlightening results. One such study took place in the UK, where researchers used electromagnetic brain scans and heart-rate monitors to generate what they called "mood-boosting values" for differen

  The way reflowable html tables work, such as the pali and english translation in lucid24.org, is that they try to automatically balance the column widths. But what really screws up the table is if there are invisible non breaking spaces, making words that are super-long that the html reflowable table won't break apart, so that's what causes some sections to have super imbalanced column widths in pali and english. to get rid of non breaking spaces, in text editors with regex such as notepad ++, replace hex character :  \xA0 with: regular space character   

 from forbes.com  | Daily Cover|1,242,126 views|Sep 15, 2020,06:55am EDT Exclusive: The Billionaire Who Wanted To Die Broke . . . Is Now Officially Broke David Cantwell for Forbes Steven Bertoni Steven BertoniForbes Staff Leadership Forbes VP & Senior Editor: Forbes CEO Network, Tech, Investing It took decades, but Chuck Feeney, the former billionaire cofounder of retail giant Duty Free Shoppers has finally given all his money away to charity. He has nothing left now—and he couldn’t be happier. Charles “Chuck” Feeney, 89, who cofounded airport retailer Duty Free Shoppers with Robert Miller in 1960, amassed billions while living a life of monklike frugality. As a philanthropist, he pioneered the idea of Giving While Living—spending most of your fortune on big, hands-on charity bets instead of funding a foundation upon death. Since you can't take it with you—why not give it all away, have control of where it goes and see the results with your own eyes?  “We learned a lot. We woul