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by jimmyed 5y ago
Things were different in the era immediately after WW2 and now. Power and wealth is distributed amongst more countries now. The US cannot do much with the Taiwan situation for example.
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The problem with the new far left (and new politicians in general) is they are corrupt for power, whereas the swamp is corrupt for money.
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by jimmyed 5y ago
Are you suggesting that far left politicians are less corrupt?
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Well, thank you. The reliance on external "consultants" seems like a cabal, much like the ones you find in the Pakistani army. How rampant is corruption in the states?
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Tl;dr anyone? I'm guessing it's something to do with the US dollar being overvalued.
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Another book which talks about this: Information. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Information:_A_History,_...
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The author, J Wiegley is the maintainer of Emacs too. He's a heavyweight.
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by jimmyed 6y ago
I think the Indians are being smart by teaching their kids English. It's the language of the world and it enables them to get jobs in the global market. Also, your assertion that Indians don't actually understand English is stupid
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by jimmyed 6y ago
I never really understood these pep talks, given by strangers but like they really know you. I see this on twitter too: "Hey you, you are beautiful" "Hey, you are doing a great job this week, I'm proud of you" The T
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by jimmyed 6y ago
> Myself, I would like to see data query/manipulation language as a total functional language Erm, like PromQL?
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by jimmyed 6y ago
Does the French preparing for war mean anything at all? The French are horrible at preemptive preparation, much less actually fighting. No one has forgotten the second world war.
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There's no other reason than the fact that abusing cows is widespread. When everyone does it, it becomes normalised.
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by jimmyed 6y ago
One can only wonder what Mirza Dara Sukoh would have called himself.
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by jimmyed 6y ago
Hmm, you are right. Akbar is "great", "big" etc. I know the Padshah was also called "Shadow of God on Earth" - do you happen to know the Farsi for that?
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by jimmyed 6y ago
Mughals were famous for having very cool names. Akbar - means son of God Shah Jahan - king of the world Alamgir - One who snatched the world for himself Shah Alam - king of the universe Bahadur Shah Zafar - Brave, victorious King
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by jimmyed 6y ago
> "When Did Life First Emerge in the Universe?" > "We don't know ..." Why does SA have to use such a clickbait-y title?
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by jimmyed 6y ago
Is this standard DSL for formal logic? What's it called?
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by jimmyed 6y ago
This is in large part due to the attacker having physical access of the asset. This complicates the security. Something like, how do you ensure the user is not running a modded app to send requests to the backend?
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Not having MMU means there's no virtual memory and instructions refer to physical memory addresses, cmiiw? You say Linux won't work without MMU, it can't handle physical addresses? Moreover, why won't fork() work without
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by jimmyed 6y ago
This article does the difficult job of actually saying nothing interesting but still giving the impression that it holds some great newly discovered insight about Roman doll playing.
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by jimmyed 6y ago
Only you have to be a billionaire to use the confluent cloud.
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by jimmyed 6y ago
No tempaccount99, that would be a regular amendment. Not a fascist dictatorship-ish "loophole"
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by jimmyed 6y ago
> Gödel responded "Oh, yes, I can prove it," but the judge declined to pursue the matter. Such a mundane judge. It's as if someone says to a physicist "I have the General Unified Theory" and they decide to not l
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by jimmyed 6y ago
How is it the halting problem?
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Slanted Journalism and the 2020 Election [video](youtube.com)
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They might just think you have a lisp.
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by jimmyed 6y ago
OP = original poster GP = ?
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My stomach was ready to drop towards the end of the sentence, but the climax made my heart soar.
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by jimmyed 6y ago
This is egregious. Saying Europe is doing badly implies a hijacked account? "All their recent posts are broadly political" Show me a single political post and I'll delete this account.
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Once you see this, you cannot help but wonder, we aren't so special afterall. Intelligence and consciousness could be just information processing done at scale.

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