Hailong Hao

Writer / Translator / Publisher of @linzhonglaixin / Chinese chirps see @haohailong / Reading War and Peace with #TolstoyTogether

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To get a head start in #TolstoyTogether 2021, I begin to read War and Peace today. The version I'm reading is translated by Anthony Briggs, and I will share my thoughts on this thread. #Haoread

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Full text: https://t.co/2COwHm716g

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#Paper The Hierarchy of Randomness in Success

This paper proposes a new hierarchical model of achievement attribution: Luck > Courage > Intellect > Effort.

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Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

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If you often re-read some books on Kindle, then buying an extra paperback is like buying an extra Kindle (but much cheaper).

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In Chinese, “nationalism” is sometimes a euphemism (or a justifiable straw man) for “patriotism.”

What’s interesting is why we need this euphemism ….

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Isaac Asimov once said, "When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent."

But today's problem is that people are becoming stupid because of their patriotism.

#methinks

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When we are talking about the real world, utopia has the same meaning as dystopia. Ah, it also holds for most fictional worlds.

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@goodreads Thank you. But I don’t think it’s about a new idea. You just canceled some old function. Anyway I will take your words as “I am not authorized to respond to this.”

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Hi @goodreads, I don’t know why only librarians can add new books now while anyone could do it before. Provided so many Chinese books are missing in your database, this new policy is quite inconvenient for a Chinese reader.

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@ripppleapp is there anyway to share or get the url of a public list?

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@ripppleapp Awesome! Thank you.

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#TolstoyTogether Day 30:4
> Prince Andrey, whose speech was usually so easy and fluent, had some difficulty in expressing himself as he talked to Speransky. He was preoccupied with observing the personality of such a famous man. (V2P3C5)

Speransky had a reality distortion field.

[Hailong Hao @hailonghao]

To get a head start in #TolstoyTogether 2021, I begin to read War and Peace today. The version I'm reading is translated by Anthony Briggs, and I will share my thoughts on this thread. #Haoread

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#TolstoyTogether Day 30:3
> ‘It’s her again! It almost seems planned!’ he thought. (V2P3C2)

He’s falling love (again)?