poormystic

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by poormystic 6y ago
Here's a similar link... https://hackaday.com/2020/08/22/stealing-keys-from-the-sound... "Researchers in Singapore reported that analyzing metallic clicks as the key slides past the pins gives them
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by poormystic 6y ago
Beautiful. I'm glad to have read this.
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by poormystic 6y ago
Only putting in loving effort for the sake of others seems to make me really happy.
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by poormystic 6y ago
So you're asking, which stupid seeming ideas are really brilliant but misunderstood. Yes an important question. ;)
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by poormystic 6y ago
Monsoon buckets
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by poormystic 6y ago
The last decent book I read was 2 yrars ago. It was Rane Willerslev's "Soul Hunters". I enjoyed the book for its depiction of an a-logical style of dealing with the world. The book describes the animist world view of a Siberi
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by poormystic 6y ago
Like the music it accompanies, it is probably very good.
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by poormystic 6y ago
... only when the last tree is chopped down, will they understand that you cannot eat money.
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by poormystic 6y ago
Wouldn't it be even better to use a nano-manufactured flat lens? I've heard that, through nano- manufacturing techniques, the speed of light c can be specified for some materials. Possibly there's a suitable plastic.
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by poormystic 6y ago
Poor people are often poor because they're sick or poorly nourished.
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by poormystic 6y ago
"We are near the end of Darwinian evolution" according to the link. What kind of blinkered arrogance is this? I say the human race is in real trouble. I say the natural course of events for species like humanity is to achieve a pe
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by poormystic 6y ago
Proposition 1: People are interested in new ideas and new ways of looking at things. Proposition 2: Some people are more able to come up with good new ideas than others. Outcome: A place like HN, which is for the discussion of highly intell
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by poormystic 6y ago
Wow! Sure looks good
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by poormystic 6y ago
HP calculators work just fine. I use a 48gx I downloaded from play store. It's the best calculator that's ever been designed.
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by poormystic 6y ago
The fundamental truth received by mystics is: There is only ONE. It's interesting to see this convergence which must horrify physicists.
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by poormystic 6y ago
That sounds like a Freudian remark- the stock exchange is in fact gambling for many people.
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by poormystic 6y ago
All vectors are not complex because complex numbers involve the square root of negative 1. Complex numbers can be treated as vectors, but vectors are not generally complex.
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by poormystic 6y ago
No, because archives should ideally be collected all in 1 place.
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by poormystic 6y ago
I discovered that doing the work of love makes me happy, so I began to spend my time in unselfish service, and became both happy and beautiful according to the goodness of my work.
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by poormystic 6y ago
Try Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age :)
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by poormystic 6y ago
There's been a suggestion that re-running the election might save America from civil war. Is it wise, then, to impeach Trump?
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by poormystic 6y ago
Billy's Coffee at 57 Sheridan St, Cairns, Queensland, Australia. It's a pleasant social scene, especially in the early mornings. Nice coffee too :) At Billy's I never get hacked or spammed, and am able to engage in healthy,
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by poormystic 6y ago
I kinda wonder if he'd end up getting hacked at pretty hard. I can't see him establishing a secure network very easily - he's made a few enemies from what I can see.
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by poormystic 6y ago
We might be better off without a centralised service - perhaps you are the one we need, to build a system-to-system app with no need for 3rd party assistance.
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by poormystic 6y ago
everything, please
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by poormystic 6y ago
Love is a phenomenon which bears comparison with electricity. E.g. A home cooked meal has more love in each portion than does a restaurant meal, and does more good than a restaurant meal. E.g. A loving act generates Happiness in the actor,
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by poormystic 6y ago
I'm "enlightened". By saying that I am asserting that I have had a mystical experience (satori) and have integrated the experience into my world view. The experience of satori brought me to understand that the Cosmos is an ar
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by poormystic 6y ago
you are made upside-down
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by poormystic 6y ago
I think people might be more impressed if this idea can be used to make some sort of prediction that standard physics cannot. Einstein explained both Mercury's orbital precession and the bending of light rays. These triumphs validated
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by poormystic 6y ago
I've discovered that an area is most easily filled when the shapes of the individual components used to fill the area are similar. So, rectangles with rectangles and ellipses with ellipses. That's how I increase packing density b

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