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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestake_Mine_(South_Dakota)

"The Homestake Mine was a deep underground gold mine (8,000 feet or 2,438 m) located in Lead, South Dakota. Until it closed in 2002, it was the largest and deepest gold mine in the Western Hemisphere. The mine produced more than forty million troy ounces (43,900,000 oz; 1,240,000 kg) of gold during its lifetime. This is about 2,500 cubic feet (71 m3) or a volume of gold roughly equal to 18,677 US gallons.

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In 1876, settlers Fred and Moses Manuel, Alex Engh, and Hank Harney discovered the Homestake deposit during the Black Hills Gold Rush. The Black Hills had been guaranteed to the Lakota Nation by the Fort Laramie Treaty, but the land was stolen for its gold."

When the illegal miners moved in on the Black Hills, Crazy Horse would on occasion raid them to sieze their gold, after which he would re-bury it.


> Crazy Horse would on occasion raid them to sieze their gold, after which he would re-bury it.

Holy fucking badass move.


Socrates was put to death for such.

Contributing to the community posthumously still counts as contributing.

Kafka did publish some of his work during his lifetime, including The Metamorphosis.

Yes, but much of it wasn’t, which was my point, as it’s simply the first case that comes to mind where we know an author demanded their unpublished work be destroyed (Terry Pratchett is another). And Kafka didn’t receive widespread recognition until after his death, when Brod started publishing his writings en masse.

Hm, but I'm not sure I understand your point. Are you saying that Kafka is a counterexample to the need for external motivation? It's true that some of his best-known work was only published only after his death (which was against his wishes, though Brod had supposedly told him that he would not destroy his works). But he did still have external motivation, e.g. Brod encouraged him, and Kafka read aloud some of his work to his friends. Also, we should be careful about interpreting his wish to destroy his unpublished works in a certain way; much of it was unfinished, and he was kind of a perfectionist.

If they can do that, they are doing better than 2500+ years of human endeavours in the field of philosophy to date.


Thomas Nagel covers explores the subjectivity of consciousness extensively in What is it like to be a bat?, featured on HN previously [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45118592


It's difficult to get animals in captivity to mate, as environmental stressors affect them physiologically or they instictively know that conditions aren't right for raising offspring.

Applies to people as well in many developed societies.


Oh we still want to mate and fuck like rabbits, and we do, but we now have contraceptives widely available and culturally accepted.


You may be overestimating how much people actually want to fuck nowadays. There are much easier and less intimidating forms of entertainment available


If you like going through the historical back catalogue of original satellite images for a place you can try Lucky Satellite Pic [1]. There are often clouds but sometimes you will hit upon a gem. Apropos of another post in this thread that mentioned Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct here is an example [2]

[1] https://luckysatellitepic.com

[2] https://luckysatellitepic.com/x/SATL6AB5A57891542


A few tidbits I wish I had known about sooner:

bash: Ctrl-L to clear the screen

VSCodium: Shift+Alt+[arrows|mouse click] to select a rectangular block

scp for moving files (instead of ftp)


Ctrl-lpj is ingrained in my fingers.

Ctrl-l to clear the screen, Ctrl-p to select previous command, Ctrl-j to enter it again. I don't even use Enter key when in terminal anymore.

When you want to pause entering a command for a moment do Ctrl-a to go to the start of the line, and type # to comment out. Then Ctrl-j. You can return to that later with Ctrl-p, then Ctrl-a again and Ctrl-d to remove that comment.

To edit complex commands you might want to use Alt-e to enter $EDITOR.


Yes, but try rsync instead of scp. Mind the slash though!

Both rsync -avz /path/to/file user@server:/another/path/to/ or rsync -avz /path/to/file/ user@server:/another/path/to/file

Will create directory named /another/path/to/file which will contain all contents of the original directory (/path/to/file/*).

Basically, if you include the trailing slash in the source path, only contents of the directory will be copied (useful when you need to rename it).

    rsync -avz path/to/old_dir/ user@server:/path/to/new_dir
If you omit the trailing slash in the source path, rsync will create the target directory for you. See man rsync for more info.


if alcohol can damage your short term memory,

Imagine what effect alcohol has


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