jacknobody

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   by jacknobody 3y ago

   I thought this was good :) I stood on the porch tonight— which way do we face to talk to the dead? I thought of the new rose, and went out over the grey lawn— things really have no color at night. I descended the stone steps,
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   by jacknobody 3y ago

   Ha!
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   by jacknobody 3y ago

   Some think that if white people had been a dark colour, photography of dark skin would have been a priority, and the technology would have been developed accordingly.
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   by jacknobody 3y ago

   Aha. Then photographic consumer technology is racist. Things have always been built for the privileged...
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   by jacknobody 3y ago

   Of course with good equipment and care I'm sure you're quite right. I admit that I should have specified "casual" photographs, and I now sheepishly acknowledge great advances in camera technology since I followed that c
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   by jacknobody 3y ago

   In northern Cape York (Australia) I have several friends who cannot be successfully photographed because their skin is so dark that cameras are unable to resolve their facial features. I don't expect facial recognition to be much use
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   by jacknobody 3y ago

   Sad and weird, in a guy who was going to lead us out towards the stars. I don't think I'd give this guy the smell off my
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   by jacknobody 3y ago

   So in the end, the customer finds that she is expendable. It's just so much easier to shift the blame, and it's not like anybody actually makes friends through good service in this anonymous world. With no penalty for a low rate o
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   by jacknobody 3y ago

   In New Zealand our eggs come in trays made of pulped newspaper. Here's a link to a photo: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d1/2d/25/d12d25728bff56b50396... I've seen people cover their walls with
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    by jacknobody 3y ago

    Long ago I read a similar opinion about tobacco, saying it was harder to get off than heroin. I asked an ex-junkie friend which was harder. She stared at me and said "Heroin - I reckon!", and I'm pretty sure she'd say th
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    by jacknobody 3y ago

    I'm very careful with my grammar when posting to HN - does that count?
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    by jacknobody 3y ago

    I think the world is fast-tracking to hell, right now. Le Guin's protagonists know spiritual effort and reward, and her novels encourage me to believe that there's more, and better, to be gained in life than material gain at the e
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    by jacknobody 3y ago

    Then we would have transcended earthbound, mortal illusion, and would also have transcended the need for speech... ??
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    by jacknobody 3y ago

    Desperate! How about we pull our collective head in, and learn to be content with what we have. (???)
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    by jacknobody 3y ago

    Thank you :)
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    by jacknobody 3y ago

    Hi :) I had a related idea a few years ago... Multiplication might be a good way to associate nouns with adjectives, but isn't kingship a quality of something? And what can we do about the confusion when the French King, a man, is also
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    by jacknobody 3y ago

    (Y)
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    by jacknobody 3y ago

    hp48gx (as emu48on Android) is so much quicker to program than Scilab, that the slower machine gets me answers faster.
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    by jacknobody 3y ago

    There's so much to say, that there's nothing to say. Except that I've known so many lonely men, like myself, and that the only thing that helps me is to make others' real happiness the goal of my own life.
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    by jacknobody 3y ago

    Intelligence and goodwill towards others are often conflated by the good-hearted, whereas people are not always motivated by lovingkindness - and surely not always in the case of self-made superbillionaires.
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    by jacknobody 3y ago

    In fact a silly idea I had
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    by jacknobody 3y ago

    There the piece suggests that KCl conduction is sufficient to enable the electric- acoustic effect, and brine is sea water, which also conducts. So maybe a matrix of sensitive microphones in the sea can detect the direction of a radio signa
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    by jacknobody 3y ago

    Interesting. Then I suppose a broadband RF detector can be made by aligning a tube of brine towards a source. Alternatively a 3D microphone array could be employed in an ocean. External noise floor probably sets the maximum sensitivity, bu
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    by jacknobody 3y ago

    Or a way of looking at things. Probably you're right:) I'd really like to follow the ideas up, is much of my motivation. Thank you
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    Essay on Structure of Consciousness

    4 points by jacknobody 3y ago|4 comments
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    by jacknobody 3y ago

    Neither is anybody else really. It'll be as big as electricity and at least as dangerous. I wish I didn't live in such very interesting times.
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    by jacknobody 3y ago

    Why, indeed? But don't think it's all the one way. A particular reason that many men have difficulty with relationships is neglect - maternal neglect. A victim of severe maternal neglect is usually also a victim of violence, eithe
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    by jacknobody 3y ago

    Then I expect him to pull the pin out very shortly.
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    by jacknobody 3y ago

    ... and whatever happened to that rotating superconducting spacecraft project? Sounds like it would be a lot easier to test that "crazy?" notion.
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    by jacknobody 3y ago

    Frictionless bearings... Isn't it also thought that superconductors can carry heat without loss?