OneWordSoln

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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
No, happiness is the result of making others happy. Unhappiness is the same thing but for when you treat people badly. A person riding waves of happiness and unhappiness is doing so because they do not understand this fundamental reality of
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
When one strives for the happiness of others one has fulfilled the greatest purpose in life and the reward is a deep abiding peace and happiness, regardless of circumstance. All it costs is your entire life and the scorn of your fellow man
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
The price of a product is not the same as the wages a corporation pays its employees. Walmart's billions of profits could have been shared more fairly with its employees but that's not how the "Cult of the MBA" treats th
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
The platinum rule: do unto others as they would like to be treated. And, yes, that is (within limits, for we don't want to give the alcoholic more alcohol) the essence of religion. I don't know Tolstoy but we are only responsible
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
Your second paragraph is mostly correct. Furthermore, the vast majority of people who acquire great wealth have done so by taking advantage of many, many others, from the workers that they pay as little as possible (e.g. Uber) to their cust
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
It's just my guess, but I think that most people are so uncomfortable with their own thoughts and feelings that they have to continually drown them out with idle chatter. The problem is that they select those others very carefully so a
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
If he means, from a mathematical point of view, Mathematica's ability to both symbolically and numerically solve advanced mathematical systems of equations, he's not technically wrong, even if his oversized ego oozes out of every
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
I mean, Mathematica is a truly great, great piece of software, but his "New Kind of Science" was both utterly worthless and a fantastic treatise on how a person's grandiose religion of self leads to utter delusion.
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
And the same reason I returned it to Barnes & Noble within two days.
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
If you go to emptywheel.net and search for 'Haberman', you will see the many examples cited by the excellent Ms. Wheeler. There are 18 results. Perhaps they are not all critical of Ms. Haberman, but the one I chose to read (the 3r
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
I named the "obfuscators" just as I was asked to.
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
I mean obfuscation as in downplaying the seriousness of the crimes of Trump et al. She has been a part of normalizing their deviance and that is the single most effective technique the disingenuous can use to thwart the change we need so ba
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
Yeah, but the Guardian is, by my estimation, a truly bad-ass journalistic institution devoted to speaking truth to power.
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
The NYT employs enough disingenuous obfuscators that I will never pay them a penny, nor will I let them collect my information. Beyond that, what they don't realize is that other news sites will simply report on what is reported in the
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
That the vast majority of humanity choose to ignore their moral impulses only testifies to our free will being absolute and the callous disregard (or worse) of others in the choices they make. Simply put, most people simply choose to remain
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
I find it strange that the author didn't mention the incessant tracking and difficulty in making system changes. Note that in their quest to create a uniform installation, Microsoft has deliberately moved away from customization to the
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
Such haziness is only inevitable for those who don't know but wish to act like they know more than others. The first step to wisdom is in honestly admitting what one does not know. Most people are ego- and pleasure-driven and therefore
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
The Chinese govt's oppression of Christians, Falun Gong and Muslims is ABSOLUTELY fascist.
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
When one tells the truth there is no guarantee that the listener lives closely enough with the truth to recognize it as such, the filters of their life often obscurring the simpler reality that some few others choose to inhabit. All that is
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
Something special happens when one reads a piece of such ineffable beauty. Beyond thought or specific emotion, we are affected, taken to some other undefined place. It happens very rarely for me, perhaps due to my lifetime of tech-oriented
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
To some extent, I agree. However, 15-year-olds are the direct result of their parents' attitudes and teachings so their foundations have largely been established by that point. Put another way: if children are raised by bullshitters wh
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
Thanks. And yeah, WP is really only a broad, top-tier foundation that can (and has) grow(n) organically in a rather appropriately demand-driven way. [Of course, such human systems will always have problems on touchy subjects as digital info
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
Ultimately, Wikipedia provides an effective keyword lookup that maps to curated links. Regardless, the notion of a general web index is well nigh moot at this point due to its not having been built into the system from the get-go. Any such
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
Man, The New Yorker just churns my processor, making the fans crank up. What is it doing, mining Bitcoin? (I'm in FF 60.4, browsing with tracking protection.)
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
They are beautiful and it almost looks like silver. I loved seeing them when I was in Finland.
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
Just because you don't understand its reasons doesn't make it a random occurance. I'm guessing you were near a nest or a fledgling, but that's just my non-educated guess. Another possibility is that you looked like a for
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
Sorry, I think we (my kids and myself) got it as we were literally wondering just last week how to tell crows and ravens apart. (We are always scanning for wildlife of all kinds.)
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
Yup, last week my kids and I, who are always on the lookout for wildlife of all kinds, were wondering how to tell crows from ravens. So, yeah, very, very nice timing for us, too.
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
Does anyone know if there is a statistically significant difference between the electronic and paper machines in the swing states? I seem to remember hearing that Wisconsin had a very skewed correlation based upon county machine type, but w
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
>> Why the down votes? Let me offer a theory: It seems that we need a 'Law of Anonymous Social Systems Entropy' (not to be confused with the idea of 'Social Entropy') that states that every social system (including

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