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by dbtc 6y ago
If something ends in 'ist' or 'ism' it probably isn't rational. But then, perfect rationality is only possible if you can keep the irrational aspects of the universe out of your personal reality...
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Dreams can be pretty wild too
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The wealthiest people and corporations pay proportionally a tiny amount of tax and then they get subsidized and bailed out by the middling middle class. Canada doesn't have a ridiculous semiprivate health industry that could probably d
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by dbtc 6y ago
Or when the Spanish vini vidi vicied the Americas. But you could argue too that post nuclear has been continually the highest stakes by far.
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From the perspective of what you (and I) personally have around us, I agree. But if you think of it from the perspective of e.g. what ends up in landfills, then it's a bigger and more general, more interesting issue. I think the articl
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The advertisers are the buyers, the platforms are the sellers whose product is your well-trained eyes.
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And why variables (methods etc) are given names with human-language words.
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But a programming language has 2 purposes: to tell a computer what to do and also to tell a human what the computer does. That's why programming languages are between machine code and human language. Some weighted more one way or the o
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Over the past years I have started increasingly using paper for thinking - reading and writing. I have come to appreciate (fetishize?) the quality of wellmade paper products, the tactility and focus of them, even constraints like the higher
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Fascinating. It sounds like the exact opposite of "mindfulness".
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America has excelled in the manufacture of many things, but perhaps especially dreams.
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I vote for mass "social media" that raise rather than lower collective consciousness and individual quality of life.
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But the second biggest problem is that we can't agree on anything, including what the biggest problem is; however this is likely a symptom of the biggest problem.
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What do you think drives the unnecessary growth?
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I think at least a segment of (an, The?) economy grows from some kinds of unproductive churning. Maybe it depends how you define productive. I'd argue that gambling or gaming are not productive even though they are lucrative for some a
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Those downsides could also be considered upsides from a certain perspective: More work, more jobs; the industry grows.
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Ironic response.
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The plankton shall inherit the ocean.
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I think it is responding to a project as if it were a product.
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The shape of the earth is an open question too. Sorry. I have no idea what or who shakespeare was or how that identity has or hasn’t been confirmed. Still, just sayin’.
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Are Yemen and Somalia part of the congressionally authorized war in Iraq? It's not Trump's endless war, it's America's.
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Here's another (somewhat older) quote from a famous book from China: "If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself"
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Play vs work?
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One extreme: calm, content, happy, don't care about much, don't do much. Other extreme: stressed, unsatisfied, unhappy, always working, getting lots done. Maybe there is a middle way. A more nuanced definition of success.
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We don't know how many more did not write or share their writings
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I think maybe there aren't new or old wars anymore, just a single continuous amorphous conflict, against terrorism or whatever.
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Daniel Ingram said this (dharmaoverground, mctb) in a recorded conversation on youtube a few months ago.
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What sort of stuff do you use that machine for? Just curious how people use old (=not new) tech.
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Puns are my bread and butter but even I'd have to say you're really milking it there. And I suppose this kind of humor is not just everyone's cup of tea.
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This website also apparently sells a cooler with branding that matches Tesla's, and some planet-shaped lamps. Putting the 'hack' in hackernews, I suppose.

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