It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide.

The concept of smart contracts is like, “you know how no one reads license agreements?  and you know how reading other people’s code can be a challenge even when you’re cooperating on a project?  well, what if we replaced ‘reading a license agreement’ with ‘reading other people’s possibly obfuscated-on-purpose, possibly buggy code’”

These “Russian trolls” I’m reading about sound basically just like people having opinions online, and pretty good opinions, even

What if it turns out that, in fact, everyone on tumblr.com who has ever made a good post is in fact a Russian government agent, and that the only real Americans on here are a collection of, like, approximately eight neo-Nazis and three North Korea stans

He (Evagrius) also said, “A monk was told that his father had died. He said to the messenger, ‘Do not blaspheme. My Father cannot die.’”

(from Sayings of the Desert Fathers)

This is, in three distinct ways, a “dad joke”

There was something wonderful about that brief period after people on my tumblr dash had started getting into arguments about “antis,” but before I got wise to what the word “anti” meant in that context, so that it was possible for me to entertain the idea that I was witnessing a Skub-style abstractification of all human disputes

horny on master branch

horny in main()

horny in production

In the original, serialized version, Pinocchio dies a gruesome death: hanged for his innumerable faults, at the end of Chapter 15. At the request of his editor, Collodi added chapters 16–36, in which the Fairy with Turquoise Hair (or “Blue Fairy”, as the Disney version names her) rescues Pinocchio and eventually transforms him into a real boy, when he acquires a deeper understanding of himself, making the story more suitable for children. In the second half of the book, the maternal figure of the Blue-haired Fairy is the dominant character, versus the paternal figure of Geppetto in the first part.

Pinocchio died for our sins, and was then resurrected through divine (i.e. editorial) intervention

That doesn’t necessarily mean you need a treadmill desk, which some research suggests can hinder learning, attention and typing skills. Rather, find ways to move while you’re sitting and standing. On your feet, for example, use a foot rest to take the weight off of one foot and then the other. On your caboose, try reclining so your legs and torso form a 135-degree angle – the healthiest seated position, Tameling says. (That’s opposed to, say, sitting straight up at a 90-degree angle, or hunching forward.) “It might be making you look like you’re lazy, but you might be coming up with that next big idea.”

The rigid, neurotic, unhealthy 90-degree-pose Virgin and the relaxed, healthy, doesn’t-care-who-judges-him, disruptively innovative 135-degree-pose Chad