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+# Apatheia
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+*Apatheia* (*Greek: ἀπάθεια; from a- "without" and pathos "suffering" or "passion"*), in Stoicism, refers to a state of mind in which one is not disturbed by the passions. It might better be translated by the word equanimity than the word indifference. 
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+WIP utilities for using Chronos async with threading. The desire is to provide safe, pre-tested constructs for using threads with async.
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+Goal is to support orc and refc, however, refc requires extra copying for data like strings.