Mainan_Tagonist

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by Mainan_Tagonist 6mo ago
Such dickheads the Swiss voting public, how dare they exercise a direct democracy?! So inconveniencing!
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by Mainan_Tagonist 6mo ago
there is a time and place for everything. "Les règles de bienséance" matter more to me than the safekeeping of the exactness of English grammar, which as others have been keen to point out is hardly as strict as you seem to imply.
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by Mainan_Tagonist 6mo ago
Pedantry attracts dislike. One may be right to state something, yet wrong to call it out in public.
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by Mainan_Tagonist 1y ago
I shared the article with my Brother in Law (my better half is argentinean), he sent me this: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDUzqoRC1eZ/?igsh=aWpwbGJ1Znd...
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by Mainan_Tagonist 1y ago
Maybe because what you call "Fascism" isn´t Fascism and, as far as i know, nobody wants to gut our (varied) social programs, but we are just conscious that in some cases, said programs are failing, unsustainable due to resources m
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by Mainan_Tagonist 1y ago
Chip War by Chris Miller is a good read: https://www.amazon.com/Chip-War-Worlds-Critical-Technology/d...
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by Mainan_Tagonist 1y ago
what are those odds looking like in the mid future? How many european governments are currently considered on the "extreme" spectrum? And what makes you think the Euro implemented in 2002 is the reason for the non-reoccurence of a
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by Mainan_Tagonist 1y ago
You simply do not know if he is objectively wrong. On the basis of 25 years of Euro, what we have observed is that in the eurozone, capital follows productivity, and countries tend to specialise in line with what their factor endowment and
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by Mainan_Tagonist 1y ago
Same perception here, none of what is said by GP should be downvoted. Almost 25 years after its implementation, it's high time the overall impact of the Euro was assessed objectively.
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by Mainan_Tagonist 1y ago
Exactly, thank you for pointing this out. The Euro has hardly been the boon promised in many of the countries that have adopted it.
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by Mainan_Tagonist 1y ago
While it is most likely a very fanciful pet project borne out of post-apo fantasy doomporn, there is one fatal fly in the ointment: In a post apocalyptic situation, who will have THE TIME (nevermind the resources) to dedicate to "opera
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by Mainan_Tagonist 1y ago
Here in France, we were taught from fairly early on about Averroes and Avicenne (Ibn Sinna) for instance. There may geographical and societal reasons for these differences, but all in all that's besides the point i was trying to make,
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by Mainan_Tagonist 1y ago
ps: just want to point out that i'm not being snarky, just asking a question in good faith. I heard more than once on TV (incidentally by critics of the catholic church), that Copernicus or Galileo had been burnt at the stake for prov
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by Mainan_Tagonist 1y ago
Are these same average person able to tell what Newton, Copernicus or da Vinci discovered/invented?
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by Mainan_Tagonist 1y ago
What book are you referring to exactly? "History of the world in 10 1/2 chapters" is a fiction, by Julian Barnes. Is this the book you base your argument on?
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by Mainan_Tagonist 1y ago
I wonder if GP is trying to be witty or simply has an axe to grind. The transmission of knowledge between civilizational blocks is fairly well documented (I recently read Jacques Le Goff on this particular topic), and what is owed to the Is
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by Mainan_Tagonist 1y ago
I was thinking yesterday whether it would have a potential application in the field of low resources communication : you produce a QR code containing your info that you transmit over SSTV so the other party can get the message. Supposedly m
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by Mainan_Tagonist 1y ago
After several tries, i managed to play it, sort of, on Brave on my Samsung S9. Very impressive compression trick, as a proof of concept, it is worthy of praise, congrats. I imagine this approach could be used for much more practical uses.
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by Mainan_Tagonist 1y ago
I acquired that one in Argentina last year, will probably read it next week. I only ever read Lituma en Los Andes and El Sueño del Celta, they were nice enough.
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by Mainan_Tagonist 1y ago
I wonder how many of these Casios and Apple watches will be in working order, and as functional as day one.
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by Mainan_Tagonist 1y ago
The fact that she had batteries in those Cartier and Omega says a lot, and explains why the Apple watch had such an appeal.
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by Mainan_Tagonist 1y ago
Nobody asked you to care. As for co fusing soft from hard luxury... a Porsche Carrera or Bugatti Veyron will likely be worthy of consideration 150 years from now, a Hugo Boss suit, not so much..
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by Mainan_Tagonist 1y ago
So, 199 Apple watches Ultra in landfills 200 years from now. Congrats.
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by Mainan_Tagonist 1y ago
You should visit this museum : https://www.patek.com/en/company/patek-philippe-museum/the-m... Since mechanical watches are, by design, open source, there will always be a technician interested in keeping the
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by Mainan_Tagonist 1y ago
And in a way, it is...
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by Mainan_Tagonist 1y ago
I happen to work in this industry, and just a word for those that compare this with an Apple Watch or a Casio, this Vacheron-Constantin will likely be around 200 years from now, it will still be a testimony of the refinement and engineering
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by Mainan_Tagonist 2y ago
This reminds me of a early chapter in Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, where Shaftoe gets to meet Enoch (Red) Root.
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by Mainan_Tagonist 2y ago
The evolution of Ars Technica into what it has become today is much of the reason why I'd much rather read HN. More often than not, the technical discussions here flies way above my head, but at least (except for the political ones), i
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by Mainan_Tagonist 2y ago
VLC - VideoLan https://github.com/orgs/videolan/people As i recollect, GnuPG was also a one man band for some time.
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by Mainan_Tagonist 2y ago
It mobilises a number of resources to patch up a wounded/sick soldier. There is a myth that the 5.56 round was designed to wound and not to kill (contrary to the 7.62 round the soviet side used) as it would make war costly in a very vi

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