Wabisabi.
Minnesota, USA
Joined August 2011
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Thorbjorn MacBain retweeted
We had the re-education schools for those who disobeyed the government under communism. The purpose was to transform/re-educate/force people into the image of the communist party.
I thought I would’t see this happening again, but here we are 30 years later and in Canada. Wow.
Thorbjorn MacBain retweeted
The only 10x engineer xitter.cf/PsychologyDoc/status/1…
Thorbjorn MacBain retweeted
"But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understands, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.” --René Descartes, born OTD 1596.
Thorbjorn MacBain retweeted
0/ Remote work isn't exceptional as companies that are spread around multiple offices have done it for the last many years. The special sauce is communicating asynchronously as the default 💡 Here's a thread about why.
Thorbjorn MacBain retweeted
Riddle #67. Elephants, because of their huge size, should have a large number of cancerous tumors, since elephants have more cells. But actually, elephants are largely cancer-free, given their size. Why is that?
Thorbjorn MacBain retweeted
I saw a similar phenomena years ago a (unnamed) games company was using Erlang to great advantge I said “can we tell people” answer “no we’re telling everybody we’re using Java”
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Thorbjorn MacBain retweeted
We often say protons are made of 3 quarks, but that's a gross simplification. The 3 quarks contribute less than 1% of the proton's mass. The other 99% comes from a frothing sea of quantum fields that permeate the proton.
Thorbjorn MacBain retweeted
George Gamow, an early pioneer of cosmological theory--who once attempted to defect from the Soviet Union by paddling across the Black Sea in a kayak stocked with coffee and chocolate--born OTD 1904.
