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He started his essay w/ the example of a gay person. If you want to be outside of the herd in thought, it would aid you to be something alien to the majority. edit: you're right.

The Library of Congress archives tweets.

Sorry a little too drunk to scan your post, but have considered this before. I think Archive dot org as they said on Science Friday podcast are not legal archive or otherwise final…

Do you think you would be better off not knowing that everything is futile according to physics?

I used to play it with the source code in the other virtual console. So that'd be a yes. 301 gold pieces to the priest, not 300.

I think the appeal of basic income to HN crowd is that is a solution that an engineer would like. Very neat. Some people can't manage their money though, however complicated that i…

I read this with an eye out for what electronic surveillance they did but it doesn't seem like there is anything documented here that is too outrageous.

I would have thought that past 1,000,000 downloads you could trust the plugin but that is shown to be wrong. With Windows software I do a skim of the Wikipedia article for controve…

May be relevant: https://www.reddit.com/r/no_sob_story/ This is a subreddit of images with the possibly made of story removed. No story about the girlfriend etc.

From the article: "Mother Night marks the first appearance in Vonnegut’s novels of a word that would become increasingly important for him: schizophrenia." I was surprised to find …

I was basing this on an ipv6 book I read a while ago. Just used wikipedia as the reference.

"In IPv6 when using address auto-configuration, the Interface Identifier (MAC address) of an interface port is used to make its public IP address unique, exposing the type of hardw…

"More time passed and we got to Korea, 1950. By that time, Madison Avenue had learned well how to manipulate the language, and the same condition became _operational exhaustion_. I…

I think it started with the first actor President. I should re-read _America_, 1988, Jean Baudrillard. "You have the same difficulty today distinguishing between a process and its …

If you're unconscious, you're not a threat any more. Live to fight another day.

It's from Mercola if you want to read more about it.

The funny thing is that if you take a bunch of different antidepressants then you will become bipolar.. perhaps. Then you need more and different medications.

Not to argue, but is being knocked out bad? It seems like a common occurrence to a fight is go to unconscious. Some people have strong chins. Would they do better in a no rules fig…

My first thought was that a chin may take a punch better...

Just a word of caution. Sometimes I read "OffTheRecord" chatlogs that have been posted on Cryptome. A false sense of security can be more risky business than weak security, as pert…

Reminds me of a "too long; did read" psychoanalysis link: http://rint.rechten.rug.nl/rth/dennen/a-panal.htm Freud had it that sublimated aggression provides energy. Like all things…