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by derrida 4y ago
Being a bit of a tool myself I'd like to define a .toolfile for the whole internet: Convert all data / markup to s-expressions Make all code lambda calculus in some paren form No more "xml being manipulated by a scheme design
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by derrida 4y ago
Did you intend to make the scavengers sound like saints?
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by derrida 4y ago
Yeah I how everyone who has a body.... a thing that is naturally subjected to ageing and death... has it in for surgeons when they are professionals at trying to reduce the impact of this inevitability. Its like we think our body is a car a
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by derrida 4y ago
> cynically read this as "we needed to get more money out of these patients" Unfortunately in the OECD I think its possie for an American to read it this way due to the unusual health system. Don't get me wrong... things a
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by derrida 5y ago
Whole Earth Catalog
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by derrida 5y ago
The Tao Te Ching
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by derrida 6y ago
It is also possible the other party is just down... I can think of 3 or 4 people I feel closest to in the world but I haven't replied to an SMS message from a couple months ago
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by derrida 6y ago
If you did that you might end up broke like him!
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by derrida 7y ago
What other things that exist offend you?
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by derrida 7y ago
I can. I mean, Australia is OH&S mad & really full on biosecurity. I do high risk work as a rigger, we need a whole bunch of random OH&S qualification, then on a job, might have rope access gear a bunch of tools, and that's
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by derrida 7y ago
Yeah, they are just outside Sydney. The thing I loved the most about living here was the wild, it grieves me that we have lost over a billion animals, not counting insects, fish and birds.
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by derrida 7y ago
And if you did, you would probably bring the diseases that wiped out this species that used to cover all of Australia and Antarctica and has some how miraculously survived in 1 hidden valley. So just don't. And if you know where it is,
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by derrida 7y ago
> We're talking about a national park in Australia, not the inaccessible depths of the Amazon encircled by the Andes. It is pretty inaccessible. Experienced hikers go missing never to be found all the time in the blue mountains - ju
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by derrida 7y ago
Yeah, I occasionally work in construction. In .au you have to have a Civil Engineer on site for anything like 2meters or more deep and so on, council approval, engineers reports, water course layouts, surveyors, soil experts, excavators req
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by derrida 7y ago
Maybe. Meditation can be about doing nothing. In fact, not even doing that. See: shikentaza, and a theravada monk advised just that to me last night ;)
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by derrida 7y ago
If you were talking 200-300/day revenue would you hire lawyers? It's in that zone where you have to seriously consider
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by derrida 7y ago
Mindfulness of body sensation (nama-rupa) is the first foundation of mindfulness in the satipattana sutta. There's 3 more... :) mindfulness of feelings, states of mind and conditioned/causal phenomena
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by derrida 7y ago
Standardizing and quantizing is also what enables conceptual proliferation which makes reality increasingly intractable. Understanding this is why China had Chuang Tzu and continuity in civilization. Things shouldn't be the slave of
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by derrida 7y ago
Who said anything relevant to this? Did anyone say "quantification is useless"? Read again.
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by derrida 7y ago
I clicked because I am interested in backpacks having seen someone hitch with like 8 possesions and no money from singapore to india just a month a go. As I was reading this article at first, It was choppy at the beginning... switching back
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by derrida 7y ago
"What dismays me about technology is this: not the machine itself but the way its architecture echoes outward, imposing a grid of quantification on everything it touches. The sadness of numbers interferes with our thoughts, begs us to
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by derrida 7y ago
I would expect that the type of attention is important. In meditation, when first instructed to focus on their breath, a lot of people alter their breath patterns. The practice is getting the attention that rests with the natural breath. Th
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by derrida 7y ago
"Teacher, billy punched sally and got away with it, that means I can punch johnny too!" As for the ethics of this CC deal: fuck 'em. :) Global speculative capital makes money on arbitrage and legal fictions that produce finan
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by derrida 7y ago
> Those employee wellness programs are being used as cheap place holder to cover up anti-social working conditions. Unpaid overtime and unhealthy working environment won't go away with Yoga. Even if it helps some to forget the actua
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by derrida 7y ago
I really like this since everything is changing and who knows what will be profitable or survive next year, but if you look back at what you directed your efforts towards, even if everything fails (which it will, eventually) you have hard t
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by derrida 7y ago
There's a lot of livelihoods that do not involve offices or even working for a company out there in the world today. But I can understand how it seems that if you were raised in the United States and aren't either really poor or w
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by derrida 7y ago
Look at the faces of people that have dedicated their life to yoga (or christian monk, or sufism or whatever), and then people who have dedicated their life to the profit motive & been successful (billionares). Who's happier?
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by derrida 7y ago
> There were even prizes for some categories for wellness categories, I want the "Bruce Industries LTD Competitive Meditation Champion Quarter 2 2016-17" t-shirt.
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by derrida 8y ago
Busyness is not a virtue. The consequences of your actions being good... that has always been the classic definition of virtue. Do good things. 1 small action can have massive consequences. Creating something good and useful to others, it d
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by derrida 8y ago
Busyness is not a virtue. The consequences of your actions being good... that has always been the definition of virtue.

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