wu-ikkyu

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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
In the secular world, the mind is akin to the soul. Judging from the first sentence, that is what the author is referring to.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>listening to these lectures made me understand better the psychological and moral value of these stories You might enjoy the Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell.
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That's a catch-22 isn't it? Asking the most armed government in the world to eliminate gun violence, by using their guns?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>I cannot understand why the Government is not acting against the pharmas profiting from this crisis. $$$ > And why people are not revolting. Drugs are an effective and subtle form of chemical warfare. They keep the people docile and
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Wow, so, because I can’t prove anything exists outside of my own mind, I’m completely ignorant for being a solipsist. Can you prove that your mind exists?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Startups are not marathons. Working smart is better than working hard
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Was reading more into Tether and I thought this was interesting: Tether Default Swaps https://www.reddit.com/r/Tether/comments/7lx3bw/introducing_...
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
It's also worth noting that 2 of the Fed's main goals are 1. Achieve maximum employment 2. Maintain stable prices Both of which are counter productive to the goals of automation. This seems like the root of the problem to me, as t
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
There is such a thing as working too hard, to one's own detriment.
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If there is so much useless/wasted time at office jobs, what's the practical purpose of requiring them to be there for a fixed number of hours?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
This comment ignores the fact that wages have stagnated while productivity has skyrocketed.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
What advantages are there to storing BTC on Coinbase vs. your own wallet
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
When you openly put something on the world wide web, it no longer belongs just to you, it belongs to the world.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>So I guess my threat model is "generalized spying" In this case, you should be proactive not only against NSA, but GOOG, FB, your ISP etc. You should look into Tails OS if you haven't already.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Reminds me of when MSNBC cut off NSA criticism with "breaking news" about Justin Bieber https://youtu.be/GH68bSJXGE8
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This is a false dichotomy which is enabling to the surveillance state.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
The article was about loneliness not life expectancy. The family/social unit in tribal cultures is comparably closer on many levels than families in individualistic/civilized societies. In the former, survival depends on communi
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>How can a person be expected to be happy with, and in, themselves when the eternal message is: “Try harder, do better, climb higher, don’t fail”? "Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. What does it mean tha
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Is anyone seriously tracking where these "stolen" coins from these past several hacks are going? Yeah https://youtu.be/l70iRcSxqzo
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>According to the city of Bellevue, detectives used hidden cameras to document elements of the crime of patronizing a prostitute. “Unfortunately, audio conversations were unintentionally captured between the suspect and the undercover of
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
How is profit defined? If a bank creates the money for a loan on a house, the loan defaults, and the house is foreclosed on, does that foreclosed asset count as a profit?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Anyone interested in this should watch Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory.[1] Here[2] is an astonishing excerpt from the film where an unresponsive old man is given a pair of earbuds playing music from his era. The effects are profou
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
^Exactly what I thought when I read this bit: >We want Facebook to be a place for meaningful interactions with your friends and family — enhancing your relationships offline, not detracting from them. After all, that’s what Facebook has
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Now, what does all of this mean in this great period of history? It means that we've got to stay together. We've got to stay together and maintain unity. You know, whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong the period of slavery in Eg
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
It's worth noting the influence British colonialism played in emphasizing caste in India, a strategy otherwise known as divide et impera .
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>The Second World War wiped away domestic conflicts in the face of an existential threat, and gave a generation of men so much valor as to put them beyond reproach. This comment is ignorant of the reality of black military members, both
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Someone somewhere is pulling strings. From what I understand, isn't there a small minority of users who own a vast majority of BTC, meaning they could crash the market at will?
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>The original goal was good: encourage individual inventors to make technology that the whole society will benefit from at a price of some limitation on use by society for a short period of time I know this is the common belief of the or
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
I'd imagine the opsec would be much tighter for a presidential assasination/coup than Watergate. The punishment for the former would be execution, the latter resulted in a simple resignation.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>You're literally taking someone else's money, and giving it to someone else. You just decribed taxation in general. Should people be taxed at all? If so, should they have a say in how the money is spent?

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