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by 5040 2y ago
>Tough luck, then. You don’t have the right to shit on and harm everyone else just because you’re a greedy asshole who wants all the money It used to be that property rights extended all the way to the sky. This understanding was updated
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Semiconductor chip yield superstition
1 points by 5040 2y ago|1 comments
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by 5040 2y ago
Here's how Horace puts it: As leaves in the woods are changed with the fleeting years; the earliest fall off first: in this manner words perish with old age, and those lately invented flourish and thrive, like men in the time of youth
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by 5040 2y ago
Russia has gained more land since this was written almost two weeks ago, so I guess he was right?
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by 5040 2y ago
>I wonder what took Ukraine so long to go for it. All of their weapons were coming from America and its allies, and the Americans were somewhat concerned about escalation. The Americans set limits, which the Ukrainians didn't want t
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by 5040 3y ago
>In former times it was maintained that ownership of landed property extends from heaven all the way down to the center of the Earth, but this doctrine is obsolete, as evidenced by the flight of airplanes.
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by 5040 3y ago
Bogged has also come to mean something like 'having had drastic plastic surgery' in some circles, the expression being derived from 'Bogdanoff'.
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by 5040 3y ago
Often, they won't call them gift cards. They'll use things like "verification card." Newly arrived immigrants are often hopelessly confused already. They'll fall for fake job offers. These "jobs" will even
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by 5040 3y ago
This sort of service can be useful for gambling addicts too.
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by 5040 3y ago
A related problem is the 'sorites paradox'. >A typical formulation involves a heap of sand, from which grains are removed individually. With the assumption that removing a single grain does not cause a heap to become a non-heap
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by 5040 3y ago
This is the old 'violence in movies promotes violence in real life' argument.
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by 5040 3y ago
Comparing different versions of an adventure module that has been released for multiple editions can be instructive. When I did this, it seemed to me that each new edition was more explicit than the last, with more precise and simple langua
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by 5040 3y ago
When someone treats a rhetorical flourish in an overly literal manner, is he deliberately misrepresenting a group he dislikes, or is it just a misreading?
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by 5040 3y ago
I'm confused at the overwhelming hostility on Hacker News, of all places. Don't you guys like technology? These guys are pushing back on outsiders setting arbitrary limits on technological progress. Do you guys really think Americ
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by 5040 3y ago
>vast array of valuable services I'd argue that this is how libraries get into this mess. Instead of specializing, they adopt a scattershot approach to services, many of which aren't even related to taking care of library mater
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by 5040 3y ago
I didn't realize we were limiting ourselves to Western philosophy. Also, many mathematicians and astronomers have been philosophers--more so in elder days.
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by 5040 3y ago
The number 0?
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by 5040 3y ago
>The hedgehog/fox classification isn't mine, it is Philip Tetlock's I know it from Isaiah Berlin, but it looks like he took it from Archilochus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hedgehog_and_the_Fox
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by 5040 3y ago
Good point. Calls to mind the sharing of access control cards or the using of various means to prevent computers from locking in hospital settings, etc.
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by 5040 3y ago
>Humans are addicted to convenience no matter the cost. Another way of stating this is that people pay for convenience, and why not?
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by 5040 3y ago
I was recently looking for a shelving unit for vinyl records. The Ikea solution was 100$. Next step up were 1000$ home-made units on Etsy. In the end, I went with Ikea. Something in the middle would have been nice.
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by 5040 3y ago
Tangentially related: NG You know, I was in China in 2007, and it was the first ever state-sponsored, Party-approved science-fiction convention. They brought in some people from the west and I was one of them, and I was talking to a number
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by 5040 3y ago
Perhaps related: Aristotle (Pol. 6.5.4 = 1321b31, 7.11.4 = 1331bl5) records ύλωροί "forest-keepers," but does not specify the area or their duties. Sometimes I think about this.
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by 5040 3y ago
If you like listening to podcasts, I'd recommend the following episode on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TlXi3_Fyyg ‘If it became necessary immediately to discard every line and method of communications
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by 5040 3y ago
>you have to be able to see that "economic warfare" is preferable to "warfare warfare", right? Economic warfare can resemble the sieges of traditional warfare. Yemen was blockaded "economically" to prevent f
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by 5040 3y ago
The ancient medical schools varied quite a bit when it came to questions of evidence. Something to think about perhaps. > The Empiricists were sceptics in their attitude to causes, thinking that observation and report of evident conditio
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by 5040 3y ago
I see him as a tragic figure, despite having personally suffered at the hands of the American government, he's somehow become this great apologist for strong central power forcibly enforcing its dictates on unwilling populations.
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by 5040 3y ago
One is tempted to contrast this with a similar move made by Nintendo some years ago: >Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata will slash his pay in half for the next five months, following disappointing financial results for the Wii U and 3DS maker. &
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by 5040 3y ago
The book Spinal Catastrophism has a great section on "railway spine"--really weird stuff. >Of particular interest to me as a Victorianist is Moynihan’s account of “railway spine” or “Erichsen’s disease,” a name for an amorphous
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by 5040 3y ago
Why not blame the politicians?

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