Telemakhos

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by Telemakhos 6mo ago
This is one of those places where Plato really is worth reading. Plato has levels of reality that correspond to numbers. The first level, forms (also called "the monad"), is what the statement "Picture a torus" engages
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by Telemakhos 6mo ago
That's exactly why my first point was that it was a civil lawsuit brought by the Attorney General, not a criminal case: the underlying overstatement of real estate values was not charged as the crime of fraud, which would have required
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by Telemakhos 6mo ago
One seems to be New York v. Trump, which was a civil lawsuit instead of criminal. The main charge in the case was overstatement of real estate values to secure loans, yet the banks lending the money (mainly Deutsche Bank, if I remember cor
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by Telemakhos 6mo ago
You've equated war and murder, but the distinction between the two is one of the brightest lines in many law codes. Murder is a private act committed by private individuals, while war is a public act of friend against foe (distinguish
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by Telemakhos 6mo ago
Investors do very much question how corporations use their money, and that is why corporations publish quarterly financial statements and have shareholder meetings and hire accountants and auditors. Investors want to make sure that they&#x
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by Telemakhos 6mo ago
The urban-rural distinction is one of the oldest ideological divides in human history, and that has built immense and unexamined prejudice. We have words like “urbane” and “polite” on the one hand and “pagan,” “villain” and “heathen” on the
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by Telemakhos 6mo ago
OK, I'll bite. I want to know more of the reasoning behind this, because I think it implies that S-expressions are alien to the innate/evolved syntactic knowledge in human languages. A lot of American linguistics, like Chomsky&#
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by Telemakhos 6mo ago
When the first-tier hostile leadership structure was eliminated in the first day of the war, and only after a month do the surviving enemies finally manage to damage a plane so severely that it can't return to a friendly base to land,
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by Telemakhos 6mo ago
I think you are right, and your "bet" about Zuckerberg checks out, at least according to media reports about his family. Still, asking someone to draw an inference based on three pieces of evidence, of which two are a bet and an
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by Telemakhos 7mo ago
In Latin it's a tuft of wool, best known for expressions of valuelessness like "flocci non facio," meaning 'I don't consider it worth a tuft of wool.'
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by Telemakhos 7mo ago
How does this square with regimes like Singapore, which is one of the least corrupt nations in the world yet also an authoritarian, one-party system?
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by Telemakhos 7mo ago
I remember seeing In the Mood for Love on the big screen in my local arthouse cinema back around 2000. It was shot with analogue film and projected as such, and the sheer details of the textures were astounding. It's not a bad film
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by Telemakhos 7mo ago
I don't think this is a left- or right-wing issue: Australia was one of the first to ban kids from social media, and Australia is not right-wing by any measure. Canada is hardly right-wing, but age verification is bill S-210 in their
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by Telemakhos 7mo ago
I really wanted to try this out, because it reminded me of a free version of Ulysses, which I used to (before it became subscription-based) find helped me be very productive. Unfortunately, the latest release wouldn't install: > &q
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by Telemakhos 7mo ago
Does the physical repair also help with the mental developmental effects? Children with spinal bifida often develop cognitive abilities much slower than children without it.
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by Telemakhos 8mo ago
I don't even use Google's regular search that often... but I'm addicted to Google Books, and nobody is offering to replace that. Google Scholar is also amazing. In those niche spaces, Google is a defacto monopoly.
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by Telemakhos 8mo ago
Audio and video surveillance via robot vacuum is a feature: you can control the vacuum, see and hear the world from its perspective, and spy on your cats. I wish I were kidding. https://youtu.be/TltYXEDoong?t=412
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by Telemakhos 8mo ago
> If everything is an emergency then nothing is, and that was clearly not congress' intention with those laws. The state of exception is the true test of sovereignty, and powers that crave sovereignty therefore seek out states of e
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by Telemakhos 8mo ago
The anthill garnet is mined by ants on a Navajo reservation. https://columbiagemhouse.com/pages/anthill-garnet https://myeldesign.com/blogs/journal/the-fabulous-story-of-a...
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by Telemakhos 8mo ago
Before the time you mention, the common model for TV was, you bought a TV, and you got as many channels as your antenna could pick up, all for free. Advertisers fought over the privilege of having access to your living room so much so that
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by Telemakhos 8mo ago
The big problem that the article glosses over is that "labrys" is neither Minoan (to our limited knowledge) nor Greek, but Lydian: the Roman-era author Plutarch in Ætia Romana et Græca tells us that the Lydians call the double-h
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by Telemakhos 8mo ago
That's what's taught in a lot of linguistics and language classes now: rules of spelling and grammar are power games designed to perpetuate one culture while repressing others, rather than tools for clarifying thought. It's
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by Telemakhos 8mo ago
I don't mean to sound like the old fart that I am, but you keep describing games in terms of "junk" and "as good as [junk]": maybe instead of giving a bundle of ad-free junk, none of which actually captures his atte
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by Telemakhos 8mo ago
There's more to this line of thought. The pilot movie isn't space opera so much as it is a murder mystery in space, and it's not the only episode like that. The security chief, Garibaldi, is a hard-bitten alcoholic detectiv
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by Telemakhos 8mo ago
Having been alive at the time, I can tell you that the effects were amazing then. B5 was one of the first shows to use computer graphics and partially-virtual sets. It wasn't limited by the number of times you could re-composite a ha
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by Telemakhos 8mo ago
Reuters has a slightly different take on this: > Three U.S. military officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said U.S. Customs and Border Protection had been using the technology without issues before Tuesday's shutdown a
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by Telemakhos 8mo ago
My microwave mainboard failed because I changed the range light bulb without unplugging the whole microwave first, which I would not have thought necessary. It seems that, without unplugging the whole microwave, the act of changing a light
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by Telemakhos 8mo ago
I'm using the older (non-subscription) Reeder too. How does NetNewsWire compare in features today?
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by Telemakhos 8mo ago
I never sent root over telnet, but I spent too much vacation time browsing the web via lynx on my school AIX account from a library near my parents' home, because it had a telnet client in addition to the card catalogue program on the
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by Telemakhos 8mo ago
“Ineffable” means “too great to be spoken in words,” so I’m wondering what you found sexualized about that.

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