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Following ostensibly cherry picked anecdata Might adjust your weights for the necessary details 刘慈欣's father was at a (branch of) the 煤炭设计院 in Beijing. Rustica

Following ostensibly cherry picked anecdata Might adjust your weights for the necessary details 刘慈欣's father was at a (branch of) the 煤炭设计院 in Beijing. Rustication turned him into a 矿工 and his wife into a 小学教师 in the provinces.. Fwiw I don't think the Brits had a equivalent (on paper) process of sending a mildly disgraced admin to the colonies as a common soldier. If anything, the process was more aligned withe p-principles, modulo the too common examples of eg TE Lawrence decommissioning himself to Aircraftman and later commentators eliding citations (case studies: ) Lagniappe would be how the heirloom of smuggled jules Verne from the elder liu was pivotal ?

082349872349872 2y ago
Do people still read JGV? I've read "Journey..." twice now (alas no times in FR), but I'm pretty close to 大刘's generation. Wonder what his father had done? (also puts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Village_Teacher_(short_story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Village_Teacher_(short_sto... in perspective) G&S' The Mikado has a Victorian fantasy of the punishment fitting the crime; if so, I'd guess working conditions might be much safer if the designers had any idea they might be labouring in their own creations someday — if not, at least it beats the reputed 焚书坑儒*! Edward VIII abdicated rather than playing his part ("England Expects..." etc.; should he have been resigned to looking at the ceiling and thinking of England?), but I suppose you're right: these exceptions are (in)famous because they were. I think the common sol'n, at least in Edwardian and later times, was to send too-disgraced younger relatives off to the farther colonies to live as "remittance men". Lagniappe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41209040 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41209040 (EEPH) * there is a story about Genghis promising "no bloodshed", but ATM I'm not sure if it was really part of his propaganda, or of his enemies'.
- gsf_emergency 2y ago
  One might reread JGV if only to figure out how much propaganda little Liu has been writing against 兄貴: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41895524 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41895524
  - 082349872349872 2y ago
    The Nautilus as predecessor to the Arcadia? If his propaganda turns out to be more effective than 林白乐's, maybe I'll have to call him 刘仙? [could that last character really be read as a combination of its radicals or am I overinterpreting?] EDIT: was this straight from the horses' mouth (hooves?)? https://blog.sina.com.cn/lcx https://blog.sina.com.cn/lcx if so, what are the funny sN hosts?
    - gsf_emergency 2y ago
      [verily you nailed it,historically 仙 is cognate with demigod, but the urge to find citations to complete the etymology sets off the procrastination alarms] So what do you think? Little Liu tries valiantly not to be political? Much Better Herbert? Sensible M9ldbug? sN as in Saturday night ?
      - 082349872349872 2y ago
        sN as in http://s3/ http://s3/..., s11, etc. eg: http://s8/mw690/001xqTDizy6VCUk3eqXe7&690 turned out they were refs to images that loaded very slowly, so maybe they aren't even hostnames and get substituted via a JS helper?

082349872349872 2y ago

Do people still read JGV? I've read "Journey..." twice now (alas no times in FR), but I'm pretty close to 大刘's generation. Wonder what his father had done? (also puts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Village_Teacher_(short_story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Village_Teacher_(short_sto... in perspective) G&S' The Mikado has a Victorian fantasy of the punishment fitting the crime; if so, I'd guess working conditions might be much safer if the designers had any idea they might be labouring in their own creations someday — if not, at least it beats the reputed 焚书坑儒*! Edward VIII abdicated rather than playing his part ("England Expects..." etc.; should he have been resigned to looking at the ceiling and thinking of England?), but I suppose you're right: these exceptions are (in)famous because they were. I think the common sol'n, at least in Edwardian and later times, was to send too-disgraced younger relatives off to the farther colonies to live as "remittance men". Lagniappe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41209040 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41209040 (EEPH) * there is a story about Genghis promising "no bloodshed", but ATM I'm not sure if it was really part of his propaganda, or of his enemies'.

gsf_emergency 2y ago
One might reread JGV if only to figure out how much propaganda little Liu has been writing against 兄貴: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41895524 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41895524
- 082349872349872 2y ago
  The Nautilus as predecessor to the Arcadia? If his propaganda turns out to be more effective than 林白乐's, maybe I'll have to call him 刘仙? [could that last character really be read as a combination of its radicals or am I overinterpreting?] EDIT: was this straight from the horses' mouth (hooves?)? https://blog.sina.com.cn/lcx https://blog.sina.com.cn/lcx if so, what are the funny sN hosts?
  - gsf_emergency 2y ago
    [verily you nailed it,historically 仙 is cognate with demigod, but the urge to find citations to complete the etymology sets off the procrastination alarms] So what do you think? Little Liu tries valiantly not to be political? Much Better Herbert? Sensible M9ldbug? sN as in Saturday night ?
    - 082349872349872 2y ago
      sN as in http://s3/ http://s3/..., s11, etc. eg: http://s8/mw690/001xqTDizy6VCUk3eqXe7&690 turned out they were refs to images that loaded very slowly, so maybe they aren't even hostnames and get substituted via a JS helper?