Cybotron5000

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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
As you suggest, ancient Athenian democracy bore little resemblance to modern forms of representative democracy and no doubt appears very limited/odd to modern sensibilities. What you wrote doesn’t make what I stated about the derivatio
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
The CIA has certainly done some regrettable/shady stuff historically, as have almost all intelligence organisations that I’m aware of (reading about the history of espionage and covert activities, I often wonder how the people involved
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
The word democracy derives from the Greek words for ‘People’ - ‘Demos’ and ‘Power’ - ‘-cracy’. So, literally: ‘people power’ or ‘power of/to or government of the people by the people’. Originally, very roughly speaking, it was an alter
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
M1XOMATOSIS, M1G-29, M1XMASTRM1KE, M1CKEYM1CE, M1L1TTLEPWN1E…
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
I’d not heard of ‘Ikigai’ - what a lovely concept to have one word for - thanks for that! …for anyone else similarly ignorant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai
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…and Carthage famously, no?
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Now there’s a chap who was keen on dreams! :)
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
Very useful - thanks!
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
“…if Steve Jobs focused on what he was passionate about, he would be a Zen monk in some monastery…” - sounds like bunk to me - you won’t be surprised to hear I didn’t know the guy personally, but everything I’ve read about him and heard him
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
You beauty! Thanks so much! HN rules! :)
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Thank you for your thoughtful reply - you’re right, there are some interesting parallels! :) Perhaps the idea is that a greater knowledge of the formal or abstracted aspects of c.s. lends a kind of long-term versatility or adaptability to c
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
Hi - I’m a largely self-taught musician/music teacher/producer of 15 years+ experience …played in loads of bands in many different styles and am a huge fan of the Beatles... Both you and the article are misguided in your assumptio