ehecatl

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by ehecatl 7y ago
And chess pieces: https://www.houseofstaunton.co.uk/chess-pieces/mammoth-ivory...
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by ehecatl 7y ago
And "To whom are they speaking"? What you are giving a succinct overview of is Aristotle's _Ars Rhetorica_ Cracking read, BTW.
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by ehecatl 7y ago
I'll just leave this here: “How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?” ~~ Ecclesiasticus 38:25
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by ehecatl 7y ago
I can think of two very influential books that have caused (are still causing) untold human misery.
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by ehecatl 7y ago
> The more you pump the place dry, the more the place sinks lower. See also: Mexico City
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by ehecatl 8y ago
Aristotle's already got you covered with "aporia". _Ars Rhetorica_, BTW is great read.
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by ehecatl 8y ago
Oh my. Cucumber! There really is nothing quite like it to my nose. I've only known two other people who are quite as sensitive... and one of those is my eldest child. I've come to physical blows with asshats who think it is funny
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by ehecatl 8y ago
Seems to me that the more we sharpen our mental and methodological tools (in all areas of human inquiry), the weirder and more interesting things become. Shit's messy, yo!
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by ehecatl 8y ago
Here's a thought... Americans can't live with ambiguity.
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by ehecatl 8y ago
Spectacle is nice, but may I direct you toward hammerspoon (general purpose OS X workflow 'wrangler'), e.g window management: http://thume.ca/2016/07/16/advanced-hackery-with-the-hammers...
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by ehecatl 8y ago
> It's problems are more corruption and political than anything else. So it's different from any other country how?
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by ehecatl 8y ago
I had never thought of that. That's cynical genius of the highest order. AND they get to play the moral high-ground card of "seriously, we're sorry! We're on your side-- look at what we're doing to help!"
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by ehecatl 8y ago
On the totem pole of tech nous, I am very close to the bottom. So can someone explain to me "remote browsing" is not a thing? Login to your VPS (or whatever), start and encrypted X session, and browse away. That is very unusual tr
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by ehecatl 8y ago
True. But the water company should not bill me differently if I choose to water tomatoes, but not chillies.
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by ehecatl 8y ago
>Maybe when I have children and they are pre-teen / teen then I will be able to understand their needs again. My eldest is about to turn 15, and he and his mates use IRC. He's a wee bit geeky, so "retro", "techie
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by ehecatl 9y ago
>> I thought he’d live forever... In one of his universes, he does.
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by ehecatl 9y ago
>> that their decisions are based on past experiences and that their free will is actually just the evaluation of their perceptions (of their truth) This might be pretty close to the mark, actually. Our conditioning to past, even coll
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by ehecatl 9y ago
When (if!) the US legalises at the federal level, you can bet the UK will follow shortly thereafter.
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by ehecatl 9y ago
Do you now of any research on the potential downsides of the opposite of this? I have a pre-teen son whose confidence with-- and enjoyment in-- maths outstrips his ability (although this might change in either direction). He's not cock
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by ehecatl 9y ago
>> of those who sleep in him Interesting. I've always thought of the ocean as being female, like the earth.