Konohamaru

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by Konohamaru 4y ago
Of course it would. Buddhism teaches karma, the law of strict retribution from which there is no escape. And because there is no loving creator God in Buddhism, there's no one you can appeal to for mercy, grace, or forgiveness. A perfe
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by Konohamaru 4y ago
The clock is going backwards.
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by Konohamaru 4y ago
You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!
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by Konohamaru 4y ago
I have a tip on a strange clique like the one described in that article. Where should I submit it?
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by Konohamaru 4y ago
The answer to the title's question: "There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of pow
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by Konohamaru 4y ago
(This is from another commentator on HN). You should know that if childhood trauma were correctly understood the DSM would shrink to the size of a pamphlet. Learn what type of person your child is and nurture him or her.
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by Konohamaru 4y ago
Every nationalist is honored when a foreigner takes a keen interest in his or her culture, regardless of the reason. It brings so much dignity to a country when a foreigner loves it. They might cringe when they see the "weeb"... b
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by Konohamaru 4y ago
Mindfulness is one of the eight components of Buddha's eightfold path. You're getting nothing out of it because you can't separate one of his points from the rest anymore than you can separate holy communion from Christianity
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by Konohamaru 4y ago
Somebody needs to figure out how to merge language models with theorem proving. In fact, that might be the first step to AGI.
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by Konohamaru 4y ago
Pray to St. Raphael the Archangel, patron saint of true love. (Read the Book of Tobit)
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Don't worry that it's not good enough... for anyone else to hear...
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by Konohamaru 4y ago
This has a name. It's called "Fundamental Attribution Bias."
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Why would you agree to do such a job? "Because it's my job!" <- if someone paid you an obscene sum of money to bonk random people over the head with a baseball bat, would you take it? No? Then what's the justification
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by Konohamaru 4y ago
The problem is that the technology for nuclear power is the same as the technology for nuclear weapons. Do you want every country to become a nuclear state?
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by Konohamaru 4y ago
The emphasis on nuclear is a game the fossil fuel industry is playing. They know it will take a lot of time to build nuclear power plants, which means more time for them to extract $$$ from oil.
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by Konohamaru 4y ago
> Imagine assigning every single living human being a dedicated 24/7 con artist to follow them around and convince them of something. This sounds like traditional Christian teaching of the role of demons.
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by Konohamaru 4y ago
If speaking kindly to plants helps them grow, imagine what speaking kindly to humans does!
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by Konohamaru 4y ago
> No wonder Walter's name is "Bright"! And he made a video game called Empire. I wonder if his character name is Heisenberg....
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by Konohamaru 4y ago
"Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, and those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink." - Mark Twain, Notebook, 1898
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by Konohamaru 4y ago
What software would you use if you wanted to model the world?
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by Konohamaru 4y ago
"[Solar] climate is what you expect, [solar] weather is what you get." - Mark Twain
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by Konohamaru 4y ago
Ouch. Thanks for informing me the person who coined that phrase was an asshole.
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by Konohamaru 4y ago
Here's a rule of thumb: anything with the name "big" before it is bad. Big oil. Big bad. Big lie. Big brother. Big apple. Etc...
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by Konohamaru 4y ago
"Dismal science" is half-correct: the dismal part.
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by Konohamaru 4y ago
Don't forget Dandelion Wine.
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by Konohamaru 4y ago
> Vector fields are the mathematical way of expressing the continuous aspect of the universe. Woah
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by Konohamaru 4y ago
KJV is in the public domain.
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by Konohamaru 4y ago
> Assigned was a discursively long letter by Pascal to translate. The initial excitement of getting to read some Pascal wore thin as the letter went on and on and on. You should write a letter to Niklaus Wirth complaining to him for maki
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by Konohamaru 4y ago
What a worse world that would have been!
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by Konohamaru 4y ago
Refutation: Any morning you're on this side of the grass is a good morning.

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