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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
LoA, I'm very ashamed to say, is in the category of: seen the inflight movie, but not even read "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" — should I remedy this sin of omission? Jack and Leopold may well be centrist; I know all the thinkbois
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
OK, tough question indeed! So is the basic issue (in Linebargian terms), how to offer decency, goodness, security, prosperity, authority, liberty under law to people who are searching for glamor, terror, inspiration, and romance instead? (p
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/education/learning-from-switzer... ... maybe I should've qualified, as our idea of "formal" has many more tracks? (I also may be the wrong person to talk with about this
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Telegraph Key(singular)board: Morse for the modern era(hannahilea.com)
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
Repatriated 20 years ago, according to https://www.srf.ch/news/wirtschaft/gold-in-den-usa-deutschla...
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
ok, so how representative are geohot and PH's son? I'm not seeing much of either over here, but maybe it's just a case of "try that in a small country?" [1] let's not forget "Joe Cool"; but then again
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
(Mostly just the jokes: Q. How did the hipster wind up in the emergency room? A. He fired his 3D-printed gun before it was cool. ) Not sure what you're getting at with cowboys, for me the intersection with SV is/was Gibson's
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
hmmm: an arbitrary finite automaton can be decomposed into a collection of edges; can we decompose a reasonable philosophy into a collection of memes/greentexts/whatever the kids are doing these days? (for that matter, I just assu
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
The 1% effort seems very close to what I've arrived at as a strategy for doing something both novel and good (where, if the status quo is decent, most attempts will be either novel xor good). But then again, I've slept rough in my
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
kith : people whom you have chosen to be in your entourage (friends, etc., as opposed to kin ) karass : (from "Cat's Cradle", 1963) "a group of people linked in a cosmically significant manner, even when superficial l
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
> emotionally satisfying I think this is the basic issue: politics is about satisfying objective needs, in terms of allocating public goods and coordinating independent actors; it's not about satisfying emotional needs. The latter i
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
Just about the time you've finished your reading, I may have located an english .srt for the "talking 'bout [his] g-g-g-generation". Currently only up to Andress-as-Inanna scene, and apparently she's had more troubl
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
I guess that's where we part ways: just as the US is the world's richest 3rd* world country, I'd call ERM the richest upper-middle-class person in the US, but not exactly upper-class... (just as a datum point: ERM is the oppo
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
Not sure if the birthright castes are any more stably stratified: according to https://www3.weforum.org/docs/Global_Social_Mobility_Report.... , the US actually ranked worse in 2020 than the UK for social mobility? (fo
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
Churchill's description of centre-left trolling centre-right and vice versa is his description of politics as being a collision sport where it's important to both be going in the same direction when you make contact, just pushing
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
You're welcome. A "lagniappe" is a bonus, so the videos are just bonus tracks. (if you want an exercise with them, however, attempt to figure out by which means the folks depicted in which video make a living: a) by what
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
Caste system, as in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XmB59Ax4cE ? Along the lines of https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel... , I'd maintain the US national fiction is &quot
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
「但它去哪裡打個洞，其實都不太會被關注。」 — thanks to the mods, who called out my numeric ex-handle yet have not deigned to comment on all the burrowing :-) 「...也沒有家庭托舉...」 — does this refer to financial, or emotional, support? I see Hainan has not only PLAN,
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
birefringence -> cloud dial ("I only count the cloudy hours") back from the days of "turn on tune in drop out": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eWqdLTii-I Generation 2 "P"hút Hơn? https:&#
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm24vjvy3n1o#:~:text=Trump... > Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told the audience that, in terms of Europe's economy, "you're dead". There w
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
presumably whoever develops all the (dual purpose) remote sensing gear will not be affected?
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
You can even become your own kingdom (see california, Hawaii, texas, ...) before becoming part of another kingdom. It may not be straightforward, however; as Linebarger states: > Formally, war may be defined as the "reciprocal appl
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
Pedantically, it takes 1 year to officially leave NATO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_from_NATO#:~:text=T... If they invade, I would guess they would (a) not bother to formally leave NATO, (b) just do it, an
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46676901
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
> Europe might have a unique opportunity to ally with China to pry it from Russia Sounds like it could be promising, but how in that world do you get containers back and forth between Europe and China, given that USEUCOM could mine Gib
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
muito obrigado! > “ They tried to put me on the cover of [Vogue]. But my legs were toooooo long. ”
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
Carney's talk certainly rhymes with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46617676
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
plattliggers, maybe? > ...they are more analogous to retreats and wellness centres They should have a recruiting arm placing young professionals, then they could (a) first treat the burnout, (b) then collect the commission?
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Visualizing Delaunay Triangulation (2022)(ianthehenry.com)
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
For a hypothesis concerning the precession of the equinoxes and religious pantheons, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38761574

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