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Unfortunately, the evolutionary perspective is an incomplete measure of success. It judges everything by the criteria of survival and reproduction, with no regard for individual suffering and happiness.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
With an iterable argument, Array.from(iterable) works like the spread operator [...iterable] does. It is also a simple way to make a copy of an array: let copy = Array.from(original);
JavaScript
David Flanagan
He felt a dreadful longing to get back on the couch and turn the Machine on, despite all the many reasons that would be a terrible idea. Unspace had always horrified him, an enemy he set himself against every time he did his job. But now he heard the Sirens calling from those unreal depths. What truths you could learn! The Machine had turned his entire perspective inside out. His hands were shaking just thinking about it. They made me an addict to revelation.
Eyes of the Void
Adrian Tchaikovsky
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