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Bill Clinton to Nelson Mandela:
“Tell me the truth. When you were leaving prison after twenty-seven years and walking down that road to freedom, didn't you hate them all over again?”
Mandela:
"Absolutely I did, because they'd imprisoned me for so long. I was abused. I didn't get to see my children grow up. I lost my marriage and the best years of my life. I was angry. And I was afraid, because I had not been free in so long. But as I got closer to the car that would take me away, I realized that when I went through that gate, if I still hated them, they would still have me. I wanted to be free. And so I let it go."
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Satoshi himself uploaded the Bitcoin whitepaper to bitcoin.org. It's linked too from millions of pages, and cited by thousands of academic papers . Us removing it would be a betrayal to his legacy. It will never happen.
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Signal is now the top free app in the App Store, and the funding structure is pretty interesting:
Developed by the Signal Foundation, a non-profit funded by a loan from Brian Acton (co-creator of WhatsApp) of $105m, repayable in 2068 at 0% interest.
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Biology nerds:
The Venus flytrap seems like a good pick for the most animal-like plant.
What is the most plant-like animal?
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Tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of Oregon's attempt to clear a sperm-whale carcass off the beach. The method? Obliteration via 20 cases of dynamite.
It's an event that led to what is surely one of the greatest local TV news segments of the century:
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After Pfizer announced a coronavirus vaccine with a 90% efficacy rate, Ticketmaster announced plans to check ticket-holders' vaccine statuses before concerts p4k.in/logqzWB
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“The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.” — Tom Robbins
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New: Dutch researcher @0xDUDE hacked Twitter account @realDonaldTrump last week, using password 'maga2020!'. 2FA was not enabled, according to researcher. Experts consider his claim (and the screenshots) reliable.
volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achterg…
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The more you read food labels the more clear it becomes that big food is low-key waging chemical warfare against the general population.
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Fast, lift, sprint, stretch, and meditate.
Build, sell, write, create, invest, and own.
Read, reflect, love, seek truth, and ignore society.
Make these habits. Say no to everything else.
Avoid debt, jail, addiction, disgrace, shortcuts, and media.
Relax. Victory is assured.
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Sustainable forestry: lumber without cutting down trees. Daisugi is a Japanese forestry technique where specially planted cedar trees are pruned heavily (think of it as giant bonsai) to produce "shoots" that become perfectly uniform, straight and completely knot free lumber.
