How to Swim Against the Stream: On Diogenes

Re:How to Swim Against the Stream: On Diogenes by koolba on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @12:26PM (#34429781)

Technically you can. You just have to flow back down a different one to the source again.

The professional analogy would be quitting a 9-5 to do you own thing, building it up, getting acquired, and then repeating the process.

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Re:How to Swim Against the Stream: On Diogenes by guerrilla on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @04:15PM (#34433186)

You missed the Heraclites reference.

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Re:How to Swim Against the Stream: On Diogenes by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @10:31PM (#34436395)

Yeah, but the good news is they'll never miss the same reference again.

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Re:How to Swim Against the Stream: On Diogenes by koolba on Thursday January 19, 2023 @11:27AM (#34442079)

You’re grossly overestimating my long term memory.

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Re:How to Swim Against the Stream: On Diogenes by coldtea on Thursday January 19, 2023 @12:04AM (#34436901)

>Technically you can. You just have to flow back down a different one to the source again

It wont be the same, as all arrangements of molecules would have changed, not to mention be entirely different water molecules.

Which was Heraclitus point (metaphorically): the things we wish to do again ("twice"), we'll always have to do them in a changed environment.

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Re:How to Swim Against the Stream: On Diogenes by loa_in_ on Thursday January 19, 2023 @08:57PM (#34448266)

So it is when you blink while swimming in one stream

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Re:How to Swim Against the Stream: On Diogenes by tom-thistime on Thursday January 19, 2023 @08:51AM (#34440227)

You can deal a second hand of cards from the same deck. You can't* deal exactly the same hand you dealt the first time.

*Limiting case given enough cards. We shuffle before each deal.

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