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His mind refused to accept that what he was hearing was laughter, and that it was coming from a human throat. He scrambled backward, and the shadowy figure leaped forward, grabbing at his trailing leg with an outstretched hand. As soon as its grip latched onto his ankle, he started screaming and kicking. The figure laughed, fighting to snare both his legs, and his cries of terror brought the other two back. They loomed over him, faces that ..
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Neal Stephenson |
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you live in a shithole, there's always the Metaverse, and in the Metaverse, Hiro Protagonist is a warrior prince.
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Neal Stephenson |
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snow n... 2.a. Anything resembling snow. b. The white specks on a television screen resulting from weak reception. crash v... -infr.. . . 5, To fail suddenly, as a business or an economy. - The American Heritage Dictionary virus.. . . [L. virus slimy liquid, poison, offensive odour or taste.] 1. Venom, such as is emitted by a poisonous animal. 2. Path. a. A morbid principle or poisonous substance produced in the body as the result of some d..
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Neal Stephenson |
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Disaster' is an astrological term meaning 'bad star.
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Neal Stephenson |
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657da18
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Well," says Uncle Enzo. It is the "well" that begins the end of a conversation. "I was going to send you some roses, but you wouldn't really be interested in that, would you?"
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Neal Stephenson |
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El desarrollo de software comparte con el deporte profesional la caracteristica de lograr que los treintaneros se sientan decrepitos
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computer-engineering
computer-science
software
software-development
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Neal Stephenson |
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But thoughts of this sort were chased away by others. One of those moments had arrived: Jack had been presented with the opportunity to be stupid in some way that was much more interesting than being shrewd would've been. These moments seemed to come to Jack every few days.
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Neal Stephenson |
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Like two arms of a snowflake, Mind and Matter grew out of a common center--and even though they grew independently and without communicating--each developing according to its own internal rules--nevertheless they grew in perfect harmony, and share the same shape and structure.
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Neal Stephenson |
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The conventionally accepted explanation for this is that storytellers have a power of imagination that makes them good at inventing counterfactual narratives. In the light of everything we've learned about Strands at DODO, however, we can now see an alternate explanation, which is that storytellers are doing a kind of low-level magic. Their "superpower" isn't imagining counterfactuals, but rather seeing across parallel Strands and perceivin..
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It's a solid hit, as solid as you can get on this nebula of air, upholstery, paint, and marketing known as the family minivan.
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Neal Stephenson |
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58f2243
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One of the ice cubes in Doob's glass let out a little pop as it underwent thermal fracturing. Doob
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Neal Stephenson |
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In the bottoms, reeds grew thick and green in rain-swollen waterways; low, shrubby willows populated a patchwork of sandy islands; and other water-hardy stuff grew in such profusion that only the most wretched fugitives were to be found there. Merely to dwell in such a place was to confess oneself an outlaw or a witch. The valleys and ravines that drained into it were choked with trees, generally too small and mean to be of interest to any,..
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Neal Stephenson |
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Wolf-Rayet stars
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Neal Stephenson |
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his whimper dying in his throat. There had been a flash of white moonlight reflecting off pale skin, and when the second one passed, he clapped his hand over his mouth to stifle his cry of terror at what he saw. The
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Neal Stephenson |
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That's the bad news." "Okay, and what is the good news?" "All the people saying mean things about me on the Internet are gonna be dead in four hundred and thirty-three days," she said, deadpan."
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Neal Stephenson |
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We don't believe in anything as simple as metempsychosis--the movement of an individual soul from one body to another. That's not what we mean by reincarnation at all." "What"
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Neal Stephenson |
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Ymir," Luisa said, pronouncing it as she'd heard Sean do: ee-meer. A word from Norse mythology referring to primordial ice giants. Sean's code name for a particular hunk of ice that his project had identified, and that he meant to bring back. "Yeah."
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Neal Stephenson |
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It had come from one of two corgis who were even now slamming their preposterous bodies into each other not far away, trying to roll each other over, which runs contrary to the laws of mechanics even in the case of corgis that are lean and trim, which these were not. This struggle, which appeared to be only one skirmish in a conflict of epochal standing, had driven all lesser considerations, such as guarding the gate, from the combatants' s..
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playing
priorities
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The windows on the Dovetail side of the gatehouse were larger, and she could see the two corgi dogs outside, peering in through the lead latticework, flabbergasted that they had, through some enormous lacuna in procedure, been left on the outside, wagging their tails somewhat uncertainly, as if, in a world that allowed such mistakes, nothing could be counted on.
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injustice
outside
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Neal Stephenson |
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051bcc9
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Habia que humanizar los objetos, darles un nombre mono.
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Neal Stephenson |
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Antes de esta reunion escribi media docena de cartas de despedida a viejos amigos y familiares --dijo--, y cuando terminemos, voy a seguir con la lista. Quiza logre escribir la mitad de las cartas antes de que los destinatarios mueran por la Lluvia Solida. Supongo que pretendo decir que pienso como el muerto andante que soy en realidad; y eso esta mal. Deberia estar pensando en lo que tu estas pensando: el futuro al que vosotros y algunos p..
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Neal Stephenson |
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veering cars holding their horn buttons down in long Dopplered howls of protest. Another
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Neal Stephenson |
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On the social front it was a question of Amistics, which was a term that had been coined ages ago by a Moiran anthropologist to talk about the choices that different cultures made as to which technologies they would, and would not, make part of their lives. The word went all the way back to the Amish people of pre-Zero America, who had chosen to use certain modern technologies, such as roller skates, but not others, such as internal combust..
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Neal Stephenson |
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As the sun went down on the opposite side of the world, the light on the New Jersey horizon focused to a steady, lambent core the color of a flashlight when you shine it through the palm of your hand under the bedsheets. Lawrence
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Neal Stephenson |
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NONE OF YOU WILL EVER STAND ON TERRA FIRMA, TOUCH YOUR loved ones, or breathe the atmosphere of your mother planet again," the president said. "That is a terrible fate. And yet it is a better fate than seven billion people trapped on the Earth's surface can hope for. The last ship home has sailed. From now on, launch vehicles will rise up into orbit, but they will not go back for ten thousand years." The"
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Neal Stephenson |
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The complications, as always, had to do with avoiding collisions and respecting what was still called "air space" around habitats, even though it had no air in it and might more properly have been called "space space."
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Neal Stephenson |
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If you posture defiantly, it tells me that you have not learned the skill of recognizing when you are running awry, and correcting yourself. And you must leave my house in that case, for such people only go further and further astray until they find destruction. But if you take this opportunity to consider where you have gone wrong, and to adjust your course, it tells me that you shall do well enough in the end.
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Neal Stephenson |
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Leibniz is proposing a strange inversion of what we normally mean when we describe a man as distinguished, or unique. Normally when we say these things, we mean that the man himself stands out from a crowd in some way. But Leibniz is saying that such a man's uniqueness is rooted in his ability to perceive the rest of the universe with unusual clarity--to distinguish one thing from another more effectively than ordinary souls." Roger"
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Neal Stephenson |
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nothing was worse than getting stuck in a situation like that with nothing to read. Elsewhere
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Neal Stephenson |
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It would be unseemly for me to beg for your succour so early in this letter, and so I shall divert you (or so I flatter myself) by relating my last conversation with my employer, Peter Romanov, or Peter the Great, as he is now styled--not without perfectly sound reasons--by many (I say "employer" because he owes--I do not say "pays"--me a stipend to act as his advisor on certain matters; my Mistress and liege-lady remains, as always, Sophie..
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Neal Stephenson |
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Nacida en Nueva York de padres huidos de la represion politica en Chile.
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Neal Stephenson |
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Izzy estaba llena de gente que se orientaba hacia el extremo Asperger del espectro social y la mejor forma de hacerla hablar era preguntarle por algun detalle tecnico.
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Neal Stephenson |
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For her, the electronic books were an insurance policy of sorts. The four-day elevator ride might be nothing more than a prelude to further journeys, some of which might take her to places with little to no bandwidth, and nothing was worse than getting stuck in a situation like that with nothing to read. Elsewhere
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Neal Stephenson |
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All she knew was that a large strawberry-blond man suddenly appeared in her shop, intent on hugging her. This was unusual. To put it mildly, the International Space Station, until now, had never been the kind of place for surprise visits. Larz
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Neal Stephenson |
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I think I'm in love," she said. He clapped a bag over his mouth and threw up. HOW"
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Neal Stephenson |
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I have spent enough time around Puritans in general, and Boston Puritans in particular, to know what these people will tell her: lock up the library! Or
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Neal Stephenson |
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dispossessed
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Neal Stephenson |
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extremely dangerous drug-related occupations for which decoy served as a paid audition of sorts. A start weapons system was a wise investment. The
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Neal Stephenson |
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Hmyz v dzungli vas povazuje za velke kusy ziveho, avsak neprilis dobre hajeneho jidla. Schopnost pohybu neni ani tak odstrasujici prostredek, spis slouzi jako nezfalsovatelna zaruka cerstvosti.
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Neal Stephenson |
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Jedna z nejdesivejsich veci na skutecnym intousovi pro vetsinu lidi neni to, ze se neumi chovat - protoze to zazili vsichni - ale spis ze se kvuli tomu vubec neciti hloupe.
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Neal Stephenson |
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Hollywood je jenom specializovana banka - konsorcium vetsich financnich entit, ktere najimaji talenty, temer vzdy za pausalni plat, naridi jim vytvorit produkt a ten pak prodavaji na kazdem predstavitelnem nosici po celem svete az do uplneho zblbnuti. Cilem je najit produkty, jake se budou prodavat vecne, i davno pote, co byl talent vyplacen a poslan do haje.
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Neal Stephenson |
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Il mondo moderno e un disastro per chi si diletta a scrivere haiku: quante sillabe ci sono in <>? Nove? Non ci starebbe neanche nel secondo verso.
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Neal Stephenson |
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My se ve svete protloukame, protoze vime, ze dve plus dve jsou ctyri, a drzime se toho tak usilovne, az je to kapku hloupy a obcas se to muze dotknout necich citu. Je mi to lito." ,,Cich citu jako? Lidi, co si mysli, ze dve plus dve je pet?" ,,Lidi, pro ktery je dulezitejsi spolecensky chovani nez to, aby kazda veta vyslovena behem rozhovoru byla doslovne pravdiva." ,,Jako, kuprikladu... zen?" Randy asi mili skripe zuby a pak rekne: ,,Pokud..
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Neal Stephenson |
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A man is talking on the phone in Cantonese, which means that he is, in fact, shouting.
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Neal Stephenson |