2019-01-08: Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood (***). 462 pages. Published in 1988. 2019-01-07: You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself by David McRaney (***). 302 pages. ...
One way to wean yourself from spending inordinate amounts of time on your phone is to silence it. Part of the problem is the Pavlovian reaction we have when a notification chime rings out. You hear that "ding," and you automatically want to pick up your phone. That innocent notification ...
Concept phones and devices have always been around at MWC, but there seemed to be even more than usual on display this year — and they were all doing something different. Probably the concept phone that received the most attention isMotorola’s Adaptive Display Concept, which uses its innocen...
“Do this so that innocent blood will not be shed in your land, which the Lord your God is giving you as your inheritance, and so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed...You must purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, so that it may go well with you.”Deuteronom...
ResearcherZero•March 1, 2025 1:31 AM @Clive Robinson I think what is referred to as “free speech” in the US today is an attempt to outwit reality itself with ‘slick’ or ‘smart’ words which attempt to defy very real limits and tolerances. One might believe they are clever and...
She’s better at this game than I am. Well done, babe, she says, her voice full of enthusiasm and serenity and distance. I miss her a lot. I don’t know when I’ll get to see her again. I have a flatmate. I have some hens I can visit without the risk of contaminating ...
18/The third critique I call the “innocent” one —“Are there enough sufficiently compelling uses cases for Bitcoin to succeed at scale?” — Marc Andreessen (@pmarca)January 5, 2015 Let’s acknowledge this: When you’re talking currency and payment systems, the use cases and relevant user...
18/The third critique I call the “innocent” one —“Are there enough sufficiently compelling uses cases for Bitcoin to succeed at scale?” — Marc Andreessen (@pmarca)January 5, 2015 Let’s acknowledge this: When you’re talking currency and payment systems, the use cases and relevant user...
The question you might want to ask yourself is 'in the story of my life, am I the good guy?' Not 'am I successful?,' not 'am I winning the game?,' but 'am I helping the people around me, making their lives better?' I know it may sound like grownup nonsense to a 6th ...
I am a social worker. I wanted to tell everyone about my very dear friend who passed away a few months ago.I met him many years ago while doing my internship (实习)in the county prison. He was __ a program he had designed to help prisoners with drug and alcohol problems. He was ...