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by dbtc 3y ago
It is fatal in the worldly realm of growth and profit, but in the arts it is elixir vitae.
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by dbtc 3y ago
I don't know about on paper, but I have seen (videos of) people writing (chinese) calligraphy on pavements with water and big brushes, which fades in a few minutes as it dries.
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by dbtc 3y ago
Amazing how much the name we use can change the thing we see.
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by dbtc 3y ago
Check out Idagio for classical. No affiliation.
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by dbtc 3y ago
What are your preferred typed languages?
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by dbtc 3y ago
What phone would you buy right now if needed one?
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by dbtc 3y ago
Also you can ask.
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by dbtc 3y ago
We still have our stars.
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by dbtc 3y ago
I think it can be both. The few who stand out do so mostly or entirely because they are separated from mass mentality. Maybe a Chicken and egg sort of thing. And then the quote about the difference between genius and insanity comes to mind.
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by dbtc 3y ago
Also the rest of your body: especially head and shoulders, but core, hips, even feet are well worth attending to.
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by dbtc 3y ago
stock macos zsh's `..` just gave me 'zsh: permission denied: ..' zsh 5.9 (x86_64-apple-darwin22.0)
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by dbtc 3y ago
Sometimes I wonder what it was like to live in a time and place where I and everyone around me sincerely believed that an omniscient presence was observing each of us constantly.
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by dbtc 3y ago
Confronting problems with medicinal assistance. Intention makes a difference.
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by dbtc 3y ago
no strange no change
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by dbtc 3y ago
> If that exists, why would anyone buy the book? Because (if the book affords it), reading can be a form of psychic traveling. A reader enters an altered state of consciousness, lives in the world of the book, and comes back changed. A
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by dbtc 3y ago
Ah, thanks. I was hoping to send in a few (randomly generated) credit card numbers. I did that with the simpler version from before; the posts were received anyway, though I don't know what happened beyond that.
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Ask HN: How is this USPS 'incomplete address' scam supposed work?
3 points by dbtc 3y ago|2 comments
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by dbtc 3y ago
What if robots did it?
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by dbtc 3y ago
I thought the Foundation series was good.
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by dbtc 3y ago
Yeah, how are you going to get all that valuable data without some good engineers? I guess the real money maker is the hiring department.
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by dbtc 3y ago
soothe from Old English soðian ... from soð "true" (see sooth). The sense of "quiet, comfort, restore to tranquility," in reference to a person or animal, is by 1690s, via the notion of "to assuage one by asserting
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by dbtc 3y ago
It's not Japanese, but the animated series 'Pantheon' is very good.
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by dbtc 3y ago
To be more specific, these patterns come from business models which rely on the sale of our attention to advertisers.
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by dbtc 3y ago
The monkeys are metaphors.
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by dbtc 3y ago
It's really too bad that human conflict in the form of an arms race is what's driving the development of these things.
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by dbtc 3y ago
thanks for the book rec. Who are your other favorite radical psychoanalysts?
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by dbtc 3y ago
Used organic maps recently in central WA without cell service: fantastic app.
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by dbtc 3y ago
It sounds like you might have a case of the 'ai-ai-ai!'s Take a deep breath, step outside, look around and remind yourself: I am human and still top-dog on this planet. It's going to be alright. Don't forget to smile for
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by dbtc 3y ago
The humor is in YOU ;)
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by dbtc 3y ago
Wordiness is inefficiency but some things are better left unoptimized.

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