Diff of Quotes at 23d8f0e
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* "Here, gentlemen, good does not ultimately triumph at the expense of a few bruises and a non-threatening shoulder wound. Here, evil is generally defeated by a more organized kind of evil."
-* "Censorship is like telling a man he can't eat a steak because a baby can't chew it." - Mark Twain (attributed to him; possibly not said by him)
+* "Censorship is like telling a man he can't eat a steak because a baby can't chew it." - Mark Twain (attributed to him; possibly not //actually// said by him)
* "The laws of Australia prevail in Australia, I can assure you of that. The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia." - Malcolm Turnbull when he was Australian Prime Minister
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* "An apoc eclipse occurs when the Great Beast 666, with seven heads and ten horns, and upon the horns ten crowns, and upon its heads the name of blasphemy, gets between the Earth and the Sun. Extremely fatal."
-* "A Java eclipse occurs when your IDE gets in between you and your code." ()
-* "The Earth is built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne ball of iron. It has taken more devastating asteroid hits in its lifetime than you've had hot dinners, and lo, it still orbits merrily. So my first piece of advice to you, dear would-be Earth-destroyer, is: do NOT think this will be easy."
+* "A Java eclipse occurs when your IDE gets in between you and your code." ([[https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/05/02/little-known-types-of-eclipse/|past three from here]])
+* "The Earth is built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne ball of iron. It has taken more devastating asteroid hits in its lifetime than you've had hot dinners, and lo, it still orbits merrily. So my first piece of advice to you, dear would-be Earth-destroyer, is: do NOT think this will be easy." [[https://qntm.org/destroy|- Sam Hughes]]
* “Helpfiles are traditionally outnumbered by no-help files, which superficially resemble a helpfile in form but not in content because they don't actually tell you anything you don't already know, or they answer every question except the one you're asking, or you open them and a giant animated paper clip leaps out and cheerfully asks where you want to go today. And wikis are worse.” ― Cory Doctorow, The Rapture of the Nerds
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* "Eventually all the people who hate this kind of thing are going to be dead, and the ones who use it are going to be in control." - Patricia Cukor-Avila
-* "I carry around a key to a helicopter. The key fits all Apache helicopters." -
+* "I carry around a key to a helicopter. The key fits all Apache helicopters." - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/dj65o9/what_is_most_useless_item_you_carry_with_you_all/f42pzpg/|reddit]]
* "Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home." - also Good Omens
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* "Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes." - David Wheeler, maybe
-* "I've realized over time that "common sense" is a term we use for things that are obvious to us but not others" - "Shog9"
+* "I've realized over time that "common sense" is a term we use for things that are obvious to us but not others" - "Shog9" [[https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/335708/under-what-circumstances-will-stack-exchange-inc-share-private-sensitive-infor/335749#comment1106974_335749|here]]
* "You cannot stop people from doing things by simply prohibiting them - always dig for root causes and offer alternatives"
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* "There are 3.7 trillion fish in the ocean. They're looking for one."
-* "I promised that I would give you an answer; I never promised that it would be truthful or good or satisfying or helpful. An answer is only a reaction to a question. I reacted, so that was your answer." -
+* "I promised that I would give you an answer; I never promised that it would be truthful or good or satisfying or helpful. An answer is only a reaction to a question. I reacted, so that was your answer." - [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13451176/9/Chili-and-the-Chocolate-Factory-Fudge-Revelation|this very weird story]]
* "libgen/scihub are of such monumental social/moral worth that their illegality delegitimizes the law as a whole" - @alicemaz
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* ""the threat model for AGI is being able to punch many people at the same time" really does sum up earth culture, doesn't it"
-* "all men want is a lot of hbm and some missiles"
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+* "all men want is a lot of hbm and some missiles"
+* "What are some good beliefs for a guy trying to get into contrarianism?"
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