curuinor

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by curuinor 4y ago
and seneca the stoic had 300 million sestertii total net worth, compared to the ordinary yearly wage of 200 sestertii, give or take! lots of rich religious folks out there in history. when they expropriated the buddhists in the huichang exp
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by curuinor 4y ago
he's had a decades-long tendency to just say that stuff has been invented before, sometimes by him, sometimes by obscure russians, that one time by Gauss. sometimes he's right, more of the time he's materially wrong, all of t
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by curuinor 4y ago
this guy put the fact that he's a gigantic pedant right up front in the blog title, what'd you expect? let him go and do the pedantry thing, it's instructive
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by curuinor 4y ago
they're working on the drone tanks https://www.thedefensepost.com/2020/12/21/us-army-drone-tank...
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by curuinor 4y ago
I write clojure all day every day for my job. Here's my tips: 1. Get on an nrepl. Not like, the non-text-editor repl, hook your text editor (or Cursive) up to the network repl and start evaluating sexprs from the text editor. doesn&#x2
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by curuinor 4y ago
it's locale specific, but it's like, locale specific to places that do the bunny stuff for easter, which is like a material proportion of the earth
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by curuinor 4y ago
rule of thumb: company A acquires company B, then company A does not change to become like company B, company B changes to become like company A. there are exceptions, but few. I think Slack's communications are going to become more cr
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by curuinor 4y ago
the OG disposable-characters RPG is Paranoia. Friend Computer has 6 clones of you in reserve for your messy demise!
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by curuinor 4y ago
I guess we're all the Mechanicus of Warhammer 40k now
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by curuinor 4y ago
well, it supports the argument that clojure peeps get paid more. can confirm, touchin the parens (now with square and curly brackets!) all day
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by curuinor 4y ago
they put up a non-adult to do these transactions? what the hell?
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by curuinor 4y ago
John McCarthy's mom was Jewish.
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by curuinor 4y ago
surely america's the eagle, and the brits are lions? heraldry is ancient and the US has got some, surprisingly enough
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by curuinor 5y ago
I'm a year and change into my job at metabase (metabase.com) writing clojure all day every day and I am still terribly surprised that basically it is all that it's promised to be. That said, you do need to actually use the repl an
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by curuinor 5y ago
This interpretation of what faith is was created during the Reformation. Which was unfortunately a few millennia after this episode. Ancient religions were definitely based on getting the goods by magic - they really did sacrifice those oxe
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My Software Estimation Method, Where Every Task Is Estimated at Infinite Time(howonlee.github.io)
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by curuinor 5y ago
the proper name of the glorious sultan of slack, j. r. "bob" dobbs, has the quotation marks and therefore is a great subject for this
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by curuinor 5y ago
Someone on twitter was talking about the Franz Ferdinand insane ripples of the man's decision to ban anime pornography on his site: 1. He bans it 2. One "moot" was then currently showing around his futaba channel clone "
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by curuinor 5y ago
1.7 billion fund to blackrock is nothing to them, shove like 5-10 peeps to it, tops also the vast majority of blackrock's holdings are unleveraged equity
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by curuinor 5y ago
They figured out how to jack up the price of ketamine 100x by making it esketamine - find an analog, shove in an acetyl group somewhere, something something chiral something
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by curuinor 5y ago
CGN has exponentially increasing cost overruns and delays like the rest of 'em. It's just cheaper to have the cost overruns and delays because of their low cost of financing - which in turn is a big ol' chunk of the underlyin
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by curuinor 5y ago
right. everything is a tradeoff. but in almost every other part of the tradeoff space you can do better than 6 mb/hour for 14 gigawatts.
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by curuinor 5y ago
I did do the reading. It's an O(n) db insert. The blockchain's the DB and the insert needs PoW. throughput of a blockchain is contingent upon tweaking but for the original bitcoin, still used, it's 6 mb/hour. electricity
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by curuinor 5y ago
it's as old as android with like 5 orders of magnitude less societal impact and worse societal impact when there is societal impact than android. it's eaten a material amount of all gains in renewable energy basically using cycles
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by curuinor 5y ago
How do you know that they didn't just watch a lot of American TV and YouTube and we didn't export our insanities into their heads?
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by curuinor 5y ago
bismark and metternich and so on managed to run around and mostly keep a general european peace with the balance of powers for 80 years from the 1820s on. too bad it all went to shit - but current events are not incompatible with the assert
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by curuinor 5y ago
if you don't have hegemony, you have the balance of powers: if you don't have the balance of powers, you have hegemony. if we're getting out from hegemony we'll go into the balance of powers (you can sort of see this in
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by curuinor 5y ago
there's the plant-based stuff and there's the stuff that's genetically indistinguishable from meat. the plant-based stuff is available right now, the genetic meat stuff is not available for ordinary consumption because it&#x2
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by curuinor 5y ago
something awful is still around, so is metafilter. structurally unspammable because of the paywall
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by curuinor 5y ago
the introduction to continental philosophy here is left as footnote, but the argument for understanding continental philosophy and not as a red-headed stepchild of analytic philosophy goes in saying that they've had as equal an effect

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