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by dalbasal 5y ago
Wengrow has it out for Dunbar's number for fairly esoteric philosophical reasons. Dunbar is often taken as meaning that above a certain group size, direct, intuitive or emergent democratic organisation isn't possible. You need kin
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by dalbasal 5y ago
:) Final tip. The lard or (even better) duck fat used to preserve the meat can indeed be used like butter. But, by far, the best use of the fat is roast potatoes. Parboil peeled (preferably floury) potatoes. Whole or cut works. Àdd fat. Jig
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Ok, but where does Dunbar add insight. What would be different in our approach without Dunbar?
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I agree that there are elements like this that make intuitive sense. What I am saying is: After at these years on military/boardroom slides... what does Dunbar's tell us? How has it influenced how we do anything? What should or s
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by dalbasal 5y ago
So... I think Dunbar's number exemplifies a failing in our social science culture, or maybe our epistemological tendencies. .. or maybe it just shows what happens when MBA texbooks adopt something. We don't really know what to do
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Sounds like confit. The meat is often salted a little before cooking. Stored in cellar/refrigerator, it keeps a long time. You can also buy canned confit duck. Can be eaten straight from the jar, buy delicious and crispy when (re)cooke
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by dalbasal 5y ago
>> You dont loose credibility by acknowledging you were wrong, you do so by lying to protect your image despite knowing better. You being wrong isnt dependent on you acknowledging it. Unfortunately, in the public/political realm,
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Seems so. Tangentially, I think it's unfortunate that "hope" can't help form the frame here. I mean, it's an elephant in the room, but I think it's friendly.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I don't think this counts as "done something about it." At least not yet.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
This is an interesting little example of how "systemic" happens, or can happen. The list exists initially to support a feature, a utilitarian reason. Then, being in the list has SEO value or some such. The list becomes a legitimac
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Or rather... this specific class may be accumulating more women than men.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Interesting! I know those albums and the era better than any (teenage years), so it's fascinating hearing behind the scenes. I think a lot of what made that era productive was a peaking of tension between slick commercial music and gri
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by dalbasal 5y ago
The value of other assets can change. Only the USD is USD. It's still the case that users take all the long tail risk, and earn none of the reward.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
In that case, and with the caveat that deposit insurance is wired and uncertain at the best of times, that makes stablecoin a regulated bank. This makes it for for the user. I don't see how a bank can comply with banking law though. Ho
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by dalbasal 5y ago
A stablecoin is basically a bank, unregulated or poorly regulated. If the total outstanding coins isn't fully backed by real USD, then that bank will eventually run. Fine if you just need to conduct a transaction. You can risk it. Not
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I think Lebanon demonstrates, perhaps, more of a counternarrative. Even though the Lebanese currency collapsed while bitcoin exploded, crypto still is not being used for everyday uses. I suppose "something tradeable" is not an emp
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by dalbasal 5y ago
So... A few points. The first point is that future crops are at risk. It's not necessarily about current production. The second point is that numbers and qualifiers like 25% of exports , 1% of crop can degenerate into empty superlativ
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by dalbasal 5y ago
>>but has any government yet started planning for the relatively near-instant transformation of the Trucker and Taxi industry Let me put it this way.... How often do any governments have a plan for changes *beforehand?." Almost e
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by dalbasal 5y ago
There's more than one road to hell. All or nothing nihilism, that makes no major distinction between the US & china, Russia and Iran is also a road to totalitarian hell. It's a favoured rhetoric style if Putin and many reactio
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Political/funding decisions are part of the mix, but I don't think the daylight between highly funded and underfunded amounts to fundamental difference. Courts are extremely costly and/or low throughput. The vast majority
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by dalbasal 5y ago
This is fine. Only read what seems interesting. But... should you be voting based on what you think the article will probably say?
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by dalbasal 5y ago
The last sentence is an eyebrow raiser
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Idk, honestly. Maybe there's no way to answer all of these concurrently. I definitely here your point on non-intellectual populism. There's no requirement for everyone to be an intellectual and a worldview that does require this i
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by dalbasal 5y ago
There are elitist traps in here, somewhere. First, that a lot of people are too uneducated, stupid or uninformed to be responsible for the moral viewpoints. Hence why all blame should be foisted onto the "villainous leaders who manipul
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I think "shame" is the wrong anchor point. I don't like the "industrial-complex" framing much either. The design of twitter, FB or whatnot have something to do with this phenomenon. But, I don't think this is t
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by dalbasal 5y ago
A lot of shame relates to things outside of one's immediate control. " Son of a whore " is a old shame accusation. Shame by familial association is a very "traditional" part of shame. People who have suffered attack
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by dalbasal 5y ago
No analogy is perfect. That said. I think there's a pseudo-principle in here someplace. Behind that bridge are people, and work those people did. Someone fought for budgets. Someone did wildlife research. Someone overcame planning diff
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I'm curious to hear how these bridges end up affecting wildlife behaviour once everything matures in. Is the bridge itself territory for any territorial animals? Is it a dangerous bottleneck, where predators have an upper hand? Etc. Na
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by dalbasal 5y ago
You make tunneling cheap and easy.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I don't know if that is strictly pessimism. It is probably self defeating though. Sally has been on a diet for two weeks. Already, she looks visibly better. Her face is less puffy, complection has improved, etc. She feels more energeti

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