was the first american monopoly, founded by john d. rockefeller.
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love
"i opened the book, picking a passage at random, and came across a tale about alexander the great. the emperor, as the story went, received as a gift some wondrous glass dishes. he liked the gifts very much, but smashed them all nonetheless. "why? are they not beautiful?" he was asked. "precisely because of that," he answered. "they are so beautiful that it would be hard for me to lose them. and with time they would break, one by one. and i would be sorrier than i am now."
the tale was naive but it still astonished me. its lesson was bitter: one should renounce everything he might ever begin to love, because loss and disappointment are inevitable. we must renounce love in order not to lose i…
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standard oil
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primus inter pares
first among equals.
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cto
chief technology officer.
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users' favorite quotes
"love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves."
"two thousand years have come and gone--and not a single new god!"
friedrich nietzsche -
carpe diem
seize the day.
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healing
it starts the moment you accept the truth.
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bildungsroman
(see: martin eden)
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suicide note
reminds me of milton van sant's note. he committed suicide by jumping of the golden gate bridge. he had left this note:
"i'm going to walk to the bridge. if one person smiles at me on the way, i won't jump." -
be my eyes
an app that connects blind people and sighted people through their smart devices. official website
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ethereum
ethereum is a solution looking for a problem.
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bitcoin
bitcoin is the solution to a problem. started trading it in 2016.
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ffs
for fuck's sake.
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ez
easy.
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gg
good game.
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laser
is an acronym for light amplification by the stimulated emission of radiation.