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by mjklin 2y ago
“The passionate state of mind is often indicative of a lack of skill, talent or power. Moreover, passionate intensity can serve as a substitute for the confidence born of proficiency and the possession of power. A workingman sure of his ski
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by mjklin 2y ago
That’s where a tool like TheBrain.com can come in, in which one node can have multiple parents and siblings.
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by mjklin 2y ago
Pascal was bothered by it. In the Pensees he said “The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.” Maybe you’d enjoy this blog post about it: https://www.steelsnowflake.org/post/pascals-terror
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by mjklin 2y ago
Version with puppets (Bernd the Bread is a popular German character): https://youtu.be/NkS4H5fLcq4?si=QOblB3_C8WeuB4jv
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by mjklin 2y ago
He also wrote a fascinating biology textbook (“The Science of Life”, with two co-authors) and a book about the economy entitled “The Work, Wealth, and Happiness of Mankind”. His nonfiction work deserves as much attention as his fiction, it
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by mjklin 2y ago
“Some people are so poor, all they have is money.”
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by mjklin 2y ago
Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard. - W.H. Auden
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by mjklin 2y ago
He also played the alien who prepared the “how to cook for forty humans” cookbook on Kang and Kodos’s ship
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by mjklin 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
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by mjklin 2y ago
82 F = 28 C is where I usually start
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by mjklin 2y ago
Everything was fine with our entangled photon system until the power grid was shut off by d*ckless here
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by mjklin 2y ago
Art Garfunkel often gives performances of music and spoken-word poetry, but he refers to the poetry as “vignettes.” I believe it’s to keep the audience from being turned off by the word poetry.
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by mjklin 2y ago
No mention of the competing MingKwai typewriter of Lin Yutang, the famous popularizer of Chinese culture to the west. Apparently his prototype suffered an embarrassing failure at an investor meeting and couldn’t get off the ground. But the
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by mjklin 2y ago
Alongside this I would recommend “The Art of Being an Executive” by Louis Lundborg, written by an actual CEO
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by mjklin 2y ago
Ross and Carrie covered this on their podcast back in 2017, they had out of body experiences I believe. Link: https://ohnopodcast.com/investigations/2017/10/21/ross-and-c...
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by mjklin 2y ago
In Chinese: “当局者迷，旁观者清”. The players are confused, but the audience sees clearly.
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by mjklin 2y ago
I’ve heard a similar explanation for why Goya’s imagery shifted so dramatically toward the end of his life: lead poisoning from his paints
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by mjklin 3y ago
Yes, like many plants and fungi, jellyfish exhibit “alternation of generations” with both an asexual and a sexual reproduction stage. Since the forms are usually far different in size, one biologist remarked it’s as if a woman gives birth t
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by mjklin 3y ago
It’s all fun and games until V’Ger starts seeking the Creator
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by mjklin 3y ago
Always nice for CNBC guests when they get to financial-splain industry terms to the audience, but when they’re asked for predictions they suddenly lose their tongues. “What will the market do?” “Well, it will fluctuate.” <-- great answer
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by mjklin 3y ago
For Sublime Text users, there’s a package called Markdown Slideshow that works well.
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by mjklin 3y ago
“Get a hobby: work with rocks and cement like John Dunsworth”[0] - you can tell that this actor really dug it! [0]: https://youtu.be/3mcQfP8k51s?si=UQCa_-tzkSDoEvMl
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by mjklin 3y ago
God cooking the earth in the kitchen: and just to make it interesting…a sprinkling of jerks! (Not that I think about this comic all the time interacting with you fine internet citizens)
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by mjklin 3y ago
They found out if you die in the metaverse, you die in real life
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by mjklin 3y ago
“Sounds like a subdural hematoma to me…” https://youtu.be/7-a2QBfFQeA?si=ApJLjBOf27ovN2kH
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by mjklin 3y ago
> Code Poems, which opens with Romeo and Juliet told entirely through signal-flag phrases Reminds me of The Semaphore Version of Wuthering Heights: https://youtu.be/kqiUGjghlzU?si=eBunlyjJa2S4XgoI
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by mjklin 3y ago
Exactly. The innovation was in belief that the theoretical could also be real, that the equations could be trusted. Just as with Maxwell predicting the speed of light or Darwin studying birds—these scientists had the courage to firmly state
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by mjklin 3y ago
I believe that book was the basis for the movie “The Grand Budapest Hotel” with Ralph Fiennes.
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by mjklin 3y ago
The boy who lost a billion? https://www.nadirkitap.com/newsweek-march-13-1995-the-boy-wh...
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by mjklin 3y ago
If they can’t find it they’ll build it in Kentucky! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark_Encounter

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