🐦 @.jimmpierce
The Intricacies of Desire, a thread.
Unexamined desires run rampant throughout the life of the average person.
With these desires comes pain.
Desire, fundamentally, is a response to a feeling of incompleteness.
A human being wants something that will fill the holes he feels within himself.
When desires are fulfilled, they result in happiness.
When unfulfilled, sadness.
Both keep one hooked in an endless cycle of craving.
What is one to do?
cond.
There is nothing to be done.
The very question of how to free oneself from desire stems from the desire not to desire.
There is no “doing” that will lead one to freedom from desire.
Rather, one must proceed by way of understanding.
When desire is sufficiently understood, it ceases to cause problems.
At the center of all desires is the very one that is never examined: the desire to become happy.
Atomic Habits summary - best book on building new habits
> #Astrology is a system, not a science. That doesn't mean it's bad or false, it means you can't create replicable experiments about it with unambiguous results.
Saw on, Reddit.
>Proof-of-Work In Colonial Maryland: Burning Tobacco For Paper Money, Burning Electricity For $BTC @.fernikolic #bitcoin
Xerox launches a hostile takeover bid for HP
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/23/tech/xerox-hp/index.html
😲
>The first 20 years you measure success with grades, only to realize that the real value is in learning to learn and critical thinking.
>The second 20 years you measure success by how much money you made, only to realize that how you spend time, and with whom, is most important.
🐦 @.ValaAfshar
>Europe is getting ready for green QE
🙄
>“Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.”
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News: The best nondiary milk for you
Me: 🤨
News: and, environment
Me: 🙄
Loneliness epidemic, reminds me of "The Bulls and the Lion story". Who's the lion here? 🤔
🤔: Where did you find that? I've been searching for it everywhere
😊: I created it myself
Via, WA.
#bitcoin onboarding, and for payments.. P2P way.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/dyclf8/list_of_bitcoin_persontoperson_p2p_bitcoin/
Observable universe. Just this volume could be anywhere, may not be at the center as shown in this picture.
@.Forbes.
Stock markets are grossly overvalued, but Trump’s not going to burst the bubble in an election year | South China Morning Post
https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3047397/stock-markets-are-grossly-overvalued-trumps-not-going-burst-bubble
Maybe bears timing next crash, near 2020 election.. 🤔
Stock markets across the world have price-to-earnings ratios well above their 15-year averages. But with accommodative monetary policy entrenched, and Trump sure to keep up pressure on the Fed, expect easy credit to continue to push markets to morbid heights, for now.
>If you create it for yourself, it’s art. If you create it for others, it’s business @.naval
What's Linux? 🤔
>75 years ago today, more than 7,000 prisoners of the Nazi Auschwitz concentration camp were liberated by the Soviet Army.
>In the previous 1,689 days, at least 1.1 million people were murdered there.
@.uberfacts
>One of the strange possible solutions to this paradox is that black holes are actually two-dimensional entities.
>When we say two-dimensional, they are not like our television screens. Rather, two-dimensional here is like a hologram, with information of three dimensions saved on a two-dimensional surface. Unlike a flat picture, if you turn a hologram, you can see information from all three dimensions of the object
@.forbes
R3 (R3 LLC) is an enterprise blockchain technology company. It leads an ecosystem of more than 300 firms working together to build distributed applications on top of #Corda (known as #CorDapps) for usage across industries such as financial services, insurance, healthcare, trade finance, and digital assets.
Wiki
>Henry Ford would replace gold with energy currency and stop wars. December 3, 1921 — 98 years ago
🐦 @.FloridaHodl
>Valuable information is increasingly free. The focus to learn and apply it is increasingly rare.
@.TheStoicEmperor
Power button on servers, needs to be replaced with some kind of pat gesture input.
WA.
>Family first
>Be honest
>Do not respond to negativity
>Be kind
>Fight against entitlement
>Be humble
>You are not your job
>Forgive first
>Keep in touch with friends
>Know when to leave
>Sleep more
>Do not brag
>Learn to learn
>Be on time
>Write more
>Drink water
>Eat less sugar
>Exercise daily
@.ValaAfshar
>A good idea is a bad idea + a day of rethinking it.
>Good writing is bad writing + a day of revision.
>Quality is a process
@.TheStoicEmperor
Atom, size comparison;
Say, diameter of electron is 1mm (0.1 cm)
Then, diameter of,
proton 1m (1000x electron)
nucleus 10m (10x proton)
electron orbit 100km (10000x nucleus)
>"You don't smoke because you need something to do with your hands, or because you love the ritual of it, or any of the other excuses people make. You smoke because you're addicted to a powerful drug called #Nicotine.
Get it clear in your mind.
#Cigarettes don't fill a void. They create one."
- Allen Carr, "The Easy Way to Stop Smoking" (1985)
Allen Carr also says that the best, and easy way to #stopsmoking is to quit cold turkey.
>Though it feels unpleasant, and people will sometimes ridicule you for it, the more you feel like a noob, the better.
Being a Noob
http://paulgraham.com/noob.html
>“I think the next four to five weeks are going to be critical. It’s either going to start peaking and go into a downturn, or it’s going to explode into a global outbreak.” - Fauci NIAID #coronavirus #2019nCoV
@.V2019N
>This is me using @.ln_strike in our Boulder store: buying a 10-cent product with the app over the Lightning Network; bitcoin instantly received in our store's Zap wallet.
>No bitcoin required on my end, just my debit card. No fees! And no cap-gains tax on the purchase. Brilliant! https://t.co/zoCIPr9bxL https://twitter.com/bitcoinmom/status/1222969746452180992
@.bitcoinmom
#Bitcoin L2 in action.. $0.1 payment demo, no custodial wallets, buyer has no btc, spend $ directly from bank account to ₿.. via, #Strike
@vjy
Interesting discussion in that article, but its absolutist tripe. You wouldn't see it today, it highlight the naivety of people at the time. #HenryFord himself would become a patsy to the international bankers he proports to fight in this article. He would go on to sell his engines to #nazis (#American, #British and #German varieties thereof) in his pursuit for "peaceful" #energy.
Hitler would go on to have a poster of Ford on his wall.
So many useful idiots - wars thrive on them.
Vijay
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