Lives of eminent philosophers
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…guidance. Instead of being impressed and delighted by his request, Diogenes asked Alexander the Great to move to stop blocking his sunlight. Unfortunately, most of his primary sources have been lost besides "Lives of Eminent Philosophers." His stories offer great levity and fresh perspective.
on “Ask HN: Who’s the most underrated person in history?” ↗This year I've read: Maxims - Epictetus The road to serfdom - Friedrich Hayek De officiis - Cicero De divinatione - Cicero Lives of eminent philosophers - Diogenes Laertius Confessions - Al ghazali Illiad - Homer Odyssey - Homer Influence - Robert Cialdini Guns, Germs and steel - Jared Diamond Poor Charlie's Almanack - Charlie Munger - 2nd reading…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2017?” ↗…but when again he saw interpreters of dreams and diviners and those who attended to them, or those who were puffed up with conceit of wealth, he thought no animal more silly." The life of Diogenes in Lives of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius*, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...
on “Nvidia LHR Lock Officially Cracked Bringing Full Crypto Mining Speeds” ↗"Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture room with the words, "Here is Plato's man."" (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers)
on “Faster CRDTs (2021)” ↗It's a reference to Ecclesiastes (5:10) and Diogenes (Lives of Eminent Philosophers, VI.2 stanza 50), both probably well known by Timothy and the jews he was evangelising among. I'm not sure whether Diogenes used the word philargyria and can't be bothered to try and dig it up, but I…
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