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by mjklin 4y ago
Back when we thought there would be tons of Voyagers (V’ger was meant to be Voyager 8 I believe)
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by mjklin 4y ago
“Imagine thinking this lol. This post made by Not Thinking This Gang”
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by mjklin 4y ago
“Clumsy writing begets clumsy thought, which begets even clumsier writing. The only way out is for the rest of us to look back to a time when authors had more to say than, “I'm a writer!” — when the novel wasn't just a three-hundr
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by mjklin 4y ago
I stayed up all night wondering where the sun went, then it dawned on me!
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by mjklin 5y ago
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” - Henry Ford
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by mjklin 5y ago
You may enjoy the story “Best Teacher I Ever Had” by David Owen: https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~tantc/cattywampus.html
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by mjklin 5y ago
Pro tip: go for the online urine streaming upgrade
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by mjklin 5y ago
https://www.theonion.com/eggs-good-for-you-this-week-1819565...
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by mjklin 5y ago
Indeed. Michael Milken was already wealthy when he committed massive fraud to get wealthier. It’s not just about the money.
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by mjklin 5y ago
https://drawdown.org/the-book
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by mjklin 5y ago
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.
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by mjklin 5y ago
“The foolish crowd is accustomed to place an equal value on the good and the bad: I give it the worst, for that is what it praises.” In this manner a writer of indecent farces was wont to excuse his errors and a sly poet who heard him answe
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by mjklin 5y ago
That’s funny, the same is the case with small children in China. Instead of “我饿了” (I’m hungry) they could say “人家饿了” which is something like “people are hungry”. This is also seen as cute and naturally goes away as they get older.
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by mjklin 5y ago
They made the same point in the documentary “The Face” with John Cleese. Pedestrians can see each others’ expressions and realize no harm was meant, not so in cars (so the documentary claimed).
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by mjklin 5y ago
The Onion once ran a headline: “All Corporations Merge Into OmniCorp”
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by mjklin 5y ago
The score is still Q to 12!
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by mjklin 5y ago
“I’ve got to get out of bed, get a hammer and a nail Learn how to use my hands Not just my head, I’ll think myself into jail Now I know a refuge never grows From a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose Got to till the earth if you want a rose
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by mjklin 5y ago
“History will come to an end either when the world becomes a menagerie or when man becomes fully human.” - Eric Hoffer
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by mjklin 5y ago
See submission and comments here for some good material : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24459997
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by mjklin 5y ago
“Suppose, for example, that a legislator should feel himself authorized to undertake the extirpation of drunkenness and fornication by direct laws. He would have to begin by a multitude of regulations. The first inconvenience would therefor
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by mjklin 5y ago
> The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, > But Here or There as strikes the Player goes; > And He that toss'd you down into the Field, > He knows about it all — He knows — He knows! - Omar Khayyam
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by mjklin 5y ago
That’s one reason I appreciate podcasts like “You’re Wrong About” that revisit past news stories and tell them properly.
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by mjklin 5y ago
In-depth interview here: https://www.alieward.com/ologies/gastroegyptology
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by mjklin 5y ago
Perhaps the influence of Hamilton[0] could bring this valediction back into fashion? [0]: https://youtu.be/V6_qvZFRlJQ
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by mjklin 5y ago
I got it from “The Man of Many Qualities” by R.G.H. Siu.
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by mjklin 5y ago
“In the winter of 1650, I was going into the city of Chiaochuan from the Little Harbor, accompanied by a boy carrying a big load of books, tied with a cord and strengthened with a few pieces of board. It was toward sunset and the country wa
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by mjklin 5y ago
The best search tool IMO is here: https://hn.algolia.com
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by mjklin 5y ago
Here, trilly trilly…
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by mjklin 5y ago
It’s been done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Qu...
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by mjklin 5y ago
And a plan by Edward Teller to create a harbor in Alaska using atom bombs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Chariot

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