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by mjklin 8y ago
Also from ancient India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prana
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by mjklin 8y ago
International Championship for Tonsil Removal is held among USA, UK, and DDR teams. Results: US 5 min, UK 4 min, DDR 4 hours. “Well you see in DDR you can’t open your mouth, so they had to go in the other way”
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by mjklin 8y ago
You’ve brought up a good reason why Americans should learn manual: in case they rent cars in other countries. I rented a car in Costa Rica whose clutch had been destroyed by the previous renter, which fact did not make itself plain until we
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by mjklin 9y ago
Not to mention that Burr had fought a duel on the exact same ground with Hamilton's father-in-law in which both their guns jammed, they both laughed it off, and they were joking with each other on the boat ride back to Manhattan (anecd
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by mjklin 9y ago
The sociologist Stanislav Andreski wrote much about societies that have traditionally been tribal in nature and that now are nominally democratic. The thing is, once sometime from your tribe gets into power, he is expected to help your trib
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by mjklin 9y ago
This has been a feature of American society as long as there has been an America. It was noted by Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. There were strict bounds on what people could discuss, though within those bounds they could say what they like
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by mjklin 9y ago
Insubordinate. And churlish.
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by mjklin 10y ago
Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 by Charles Murray. The author did statistical analysis to find the most influential figures in each field of endeavour, from philosophy to music.
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by mjklin 10y ago
Cannot skip, or even shut your eyes ! That was the part that punched me in the gut.
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by mjklin 10y ago
Memo to myself: Do the dumb things I gotta do. Touch the puppet head
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by mjklin 10y ago
If only Stan Rogers had lived to see it... "Ah for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage / to find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea..." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwe
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by mjklin 10y ago
There were huge complaints from viewers. Interesting write-up here: http://www.rotten.com/library/culture/the_prisoner/ Be seeing you.
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by mjklin 10y ago
Sounds like you're talking about stenography. Have a look here: http://www.openstenoproject.org
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by mjklin 10y ago
"Damn your eyes!" "Too late!" I laugh every time. And I can never meet a girl named Abby (including my niece) without murmuring to myself "Abby...Normal..."
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by mjklin 10y ago
With JB it was as much about the stage work as much as it was the music. That man just loved being on stage. Watch some videos of his dance moves. At some point in every show he would appear to break down from exhaustion, and his stage hand
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by mjklin 10y ago
Reading his recent statement here [0], I was reminded of William James's remark on J.S. Mill: "Mr. Mill's habitual method of philosophizing was to affirm boldly some general doctrine derived from his father, and then make so
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by mjklin 10y ago
This reminds me of the Critic's Lament: 1) Paint too bleak a picture: Most people will conclude there's nothing to be done, and take no action. 2) Paint too rosy a picture: Most people will conclude it's no big deal, and ta
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by mjklin 10y ago
Where I'm Reading From, by Tim Parks The Inevitable, by Kevin Kelly Ideas that Changed the World, by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto A Reader's Manifesto, by B.R. Myers Framed!, by Hari Singh Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman Why Educatio
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by mjklin 10y ago
To me the appeal of Soylent is this: most men are problem solvers. There is a problem that comes up several times a day called "What do I do about hunger?". There are dozens of ways you might solve that problem, but if you are j
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by mjklin 10y ago
IMO all the drama is not over the significance of the vote itself but rather what it might portend: * The end of the UK (not all parts voted to leave) * The end of the EU (starts a domino effect for other withdrawals) * The rise of the poli
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by mjklin 10y ago
Let me ask you a question... Why does someone with the username GeniusAtWork spend all of his time watching a children's cartoon show?
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by mjklin 10y ago
My favorite quote on chess: Why shall I not judge Alexander at table, talking and drinking to excess, or when he is fingering the chess-men? What chord of his mind is not touched and kept employed by this silly and puerile game? I hate it a
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by mjklin 11y ago
Your attitude reminds me of The Onion: http://www.theonion.com/article/nations-experts-give-up-682 and http://www.theonion.com/article/experts-say-best-option-now-...
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by mjklin 11y ago
So you're telling me Satan did not invent the barcode?
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by mjklin 11y ago
I just ran across this in the book Seeking Chances by Emanuele Bardone: > Interestingly, one of the techniques used by the banks to dupe the rating agencies [before the 2008 economic crisis] was to reverse-engineer the computer models
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by mjklin 11y ago
I've heard this about bar codes, so I guess it was inevitable for it to extend to digital money. http://www.theonion.com/article/satan-to-revise-bar-code-sys...
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by mjklin 11y ago
Also a major character in Tolstoy's novel War and Peace !
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by mjklin 11y ago
Now that I've thought about it more I think you're right, it probably was schizophrenia
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by mjklin 11y ago
This is similar to something I heard a psychologist say about mental illness. His test was to ask subjects "How did you come to be here today?" (with "here" being the treatment facility) and they would usually answer &qu
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by mjklin 11y ago
How about Roger Scruton? http://www.spectator.co.uk/2012/03/brain-drain/

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