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by pattisapu 6y ago
. . . anno mundi . . . ante meridiem . . . :P
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by pattisapu 6y ago
It would be amazing if some sort of wireless headphones like these Google Buds or Apple Airpods could be done over the ear, like: http://tinyurl.com/yb6qfpes (Koss over-the-ear headphones example)
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Boiled Peanut World(boiled-peanut-world.com)
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by pattisapu 7y ago
Swimming against the trend of the erasure of any locality of script, language, culture . . . someday I hope that we consider these things to be as precious as they are, like endangered species.
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by pattisapu 7y ago
"black hole story attracting all mass" Very well put!
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by pattisapu 7y ago
Reminds me of Mr. Tilapia in Eric Carle's book Mr. Seahorse: http://tinyurl.com/vmnlk27
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by pattisapu 7y ago
". . . these Magic-Eye moments single-handedly define faith for me." A Unix fortune today gave me this great quote by German philosopher and theologian Paul Tillich: "Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is an element of fa
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by pattisapu 7y ago
Kacper Wierzchos: “It’s a big deal as out of ~ 1 million known asteroids, this is just the second asteroid known to orbit Earth (after 2006 RH120, which was also discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey).” Amazing. I am surprised that this kin
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by pattisapu 7y ago
Wow! Interesting to see "firsthand" how the various bits of folk wisdom we come across make it into fortunes. Nice work on this project by the way!
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by pattisapu 7y ago
There's a saying in my family, which is full of good cooks: The sign of a great cook is not the ability to make great dishes -- it's being able to fix dishes that someone else screwed up!
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by pattisapu 7y ago
“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.”
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by pattisapu 7y ago
I wonder if this points to the problems in the concept of this diagnosis. It has been seriously questioned since World War II as to whether schizophrenia is even a disease. The questioners being mostly from the psychoanalytic school (some p
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by pattisapu 7y ago
You are right. I apologize for my overblown comment.
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by pattisapu 7y ago
Clickbait. "Lawyers, therefore, sustain a fiction by dressing up claims and placing them in opaque asset-backed legal entities and applying an alphabet soup of labels—" "The first thing we'll do..." A diminishingly
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by pattisapu 7y ago
Your comment reminds a bit of Umberto Eco's How to Write a Thesis. He gets down into details of using colored pens and index cards. Craft. https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/umberto-eco-how-to-write-...
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by pattisapu 7y ago
> a tourist of knowledge Well put!
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by pattisapu 7y ago
Nose jobs for all “result in prosocial, bonding-enhancing outcomes,” appear to be connected to reduction in anxiety and stress, and have been shown to have “increased the ratio of positive to negative communication behaviors.”
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by pattisapu 7y ago
"But children, I submit, cannot be fooled. They can only be betrayed by adults, not fooled—for adults, unlike children, are fooled very easily, and only because they wish to be. Children—innocence being both real and monstrous— intimid
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by pattisapu 7y ago
The shape of this argument reminds me of Pascal's wager.
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by pattisapu 7y ago
All of this ignores the elephant in the room. NetHack 3.6.4 released!
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by pattisapu 7y ago
"Your pen is Our business!"
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by pattisapu 7y ago
What? w3m is resulting in the same thing for me. No actual links to what pops up. Sometimes links to some videos.
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by pattisapu 7y ago
> It strikes me that it would be very hard to perform that act of self-transformation today with Google and Facebook monitoring my every move. Could social media make it _easier_ to do today?
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by pattisapu 7y ago
I like that. Might add a dash of the "prisoner's dilemma." But then I would get carried away with this stone soup and throw in love, honor, culture... ...and then end up back at "I don't know why."
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by pattisapu 7y ago
You gotta fight for your right to arty.
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by pattisapu 7y ago
Hard to square with: "And, unlike Tuesday, when people were turned away from the main hall because it was packed, there were mostly empty chairs as attendees headed for lunch or huddled in meetings."
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by pattisapu 7y ago
Maybe at a few spaced intervals a list of the texts received could be printed, with blanks in which to handwrite responses, to feed back in somehow later. Lots of fun possibilities.
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by pattisapu 7y ago
On these and maybe other measures you might prefer Prof. Donald Kagan's lectures on Sparta. (Granted, the following account's purpose and context are different from the parent article's.) [Video Part 1] https://www
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by pattisapu 7y ago
The ancient Egyptians trained baboons to wait tables. Source: Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts
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by pattisapu 7y ago
> In France, higher education is pretty much free ... Amazed to learn this, as a middle-class American with kids and a house -- my biggest expense, ten years out of school, is still student loans. My parents had similar higher education

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