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If a war against communications facilities were to break out, the scope of disruption would be such as to put us not far out of the Stone Age. The fragile glass network must seem v…

Good teachers try to teach their students to think. Every teacher understands that for teaching to succeed 2 conditions must be met: 1) the pupil must come to the teacher with a de…

Ohh... won't that just make America's enemies dig their toes in? does the human race think it's going to battle with itself for eternity?

We expect software to be updated with improvements to its functionality, whereas a novel is non-functional. (I'm not quite sure what non-functional means...) My other reply is that…

Thank you for suggesting that literature could be updated with improvements. <3 :) <3

I've seen an adolescent bush stone curlew with no prospects of a mate going absolutely crazy, all by himself, running and swerving and generally behaving like a sexually frustrated…

So much is in the domain of Captain Obvious. It's also true that both sides must want war for war to occur at all.

Your remark is so bleak, my brother, how can I help you?

Don't worry, manufacture tinfoil hats okay?

Yes and there are plenty of reasons for people to criticise me, too, but I'll nevertheless throw my infinitesimal weight behind Joni Mitchell and Neil Young to agree that covid19 m…

You've never seen a giant Tesla coil in operation have you? Believe me when you do you'll understand that you can absolutely not put such things into a public space like a science …

In satori I have been conscious of a usually unnoticed "time" which is certainly orthogonal to the "time" of daily reality. In such moments I see that the creation of the observabl…

But why publish this in HN, unless it's meant as an object lesson in poor experimental design.

Once, I tried teaching math to homeschoolers after a smoke. Nope, and never again. Doesn't exactly help programming either.

This is a weird article? First the headline - what does it mean? Then the illogical notion that antibiotic resistance causes death. What kind of thinking is this? Bacteria cause il…

When my brother Richard died I was overwhelmed by grief, so I developed a systematic way to get through it. I assembled a list of all his adjectives (dear, lovely, wonderful, artis…

No, because wealth is the property of greedy intelligence, whose great power protects that wealth. It's continuous rape, and the perpetrators don't want to get off.

"Facebook could be a force for good". Bleep

Spend lots of time looking after others without seeking reward for yourself. Then there will be love in your life, and happiness will inevitably follow. Happy people are beautiful …

No New Year Resolutions for me! I just don't believe I'd stick for even 5 minutes unless I really wanted to do [it] and if I wanted to do [it] I wouldn't need any more resolution, …

Get a good understanding of division.

Thank you Coolgeek, I had believed this was new news

Many people prefer to be thought fools. For example I personally prefer to sit quietly and observe until the need comes for action. I find that my actions (although effective) are …

Lots of people have difficult neighbours and mostly we just have to put up with them. Usually the friendliest approaches have the best chance of success. Forcing issues usually mak…

I like saving lives. I sometimes find myself in a position to help my friends when they are sick, and when I find a sick person without adequate care I step in to help, cooking and…