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essentialoils | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: macOS (command line) QRCode reader 

    diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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     #### What is this app?
     
    -This is a simple Command Line based QRCode Reader simple command line QRCode Reader for Mac
    +This is a simple command line QRCode Reader for Mac.
     The app accepts any image format supported by Apple's CoreImage API (pdf, gif, jpg, png, tiff etc).
     
     ### Usage

essentialoils | 5 years ago | on: Do games like Factorio or Eve Online sap the intellectual potential of humanity?

does it? we're simply considering input -> output. society does not own your brain, do with it whatever pleases you. how you feel about your responsibility, if any, to your species is entirely your business, not mine. that's basically belief system (secular or spiritual) territory. do i have rights in respect to society? does society have rights in respect to me? these are interesting questions, but not what i had intended.

to be verbose: since smart people are a limited resource it is imho correct to note that an intellectually, emotionally, and life-focus demanding activity, such as chess, that has not (and can not) ever transfer knowledge gains in that closed system to other domains of concern to our species, is in fact, as a matter of simple math, sapping a precious resource.

(but i'm open to the suggestion that maybe chess is keeping society safe from otherwise unoccupied mad geniuses -- calling B.F. .. :)

essentialoils | 5 years ago | on: Do games like Factorio or Eve Online sap the intellectual potential of humanity?

> Does Chess sap the intellectual potential of humanity?

arguably, yes. it's a closed universe which at best provides entertainment for outsiders, unlike writing fiction which can inspire even revolutions, to say nothing of enriching minds and widening the emotional and intellectual horizons of individual readers. not sure if you were being serious about higher mathematics.

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