A clock is a device that tells the time.

A microwave is a device that gets told the time.

Stagnation is followed by shear.

(cf: the stick-slip phenomenon)

(This is a consequence of reciprocity.)

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[General Systems Theory]

Here is the link.

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[Mathematics]

[Geometry]

An upgrade is any change that supports constancy.

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[General Systems Theory]

[process]

God acts through circumstances.

Satan acts through point-of-view.

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[mo]

[method of operation]

The square root of 8

I am wont to state

To you

Is twice the square root of 2.

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[Mathematics]

– the ability, when ordering from an online vendor, such as Amazon, to specify, on an order-by-order basis, whether for the given order I am to receive both shipping and delivery notifications, or only delivery notification, or neither. For non-urgent things ordered, it is certainly an unnecessary interruption to be notified that they have been shipped, and maybe even that they have been delivered.

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[Information Technology]

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[levels of notification]