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by lkrubner 4y ago
I do not know a single person who thinks that, but I know a very large number of people who like emphasize that most slave catching was done by Africans. When I lived in North Carolina and Virginia this fact was offered by someone in the gr
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By this chain of logic, no article is complete unless it mentions all of the other related topics that it could have mentioned, if it didn't mind being infinitely long. When writing a book about the Holocaust, one could also mention ge
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"The involvement of Africans in the slave trade is conspicuous in its absence from the article." Because it is completely irrelevant to the article. "Whenever that fact is obscured, we promote the false perception that slaver
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>> I would love to know a way this can be solved as its painting a depressing picture. It's possible that the answer is for society to simply go back in the other direction. Despite the initial promise of the Internet, it's
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> A serious take on a contract-based language In Shen, the contract rules applied on each function are themselves a Turing complete language:: https://thestrangeloop.com/2014/shen-a-sufficiently-advanced... https:&
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The current spike in inflation is a world-wide phenomena, effecting every country on Earth, and therefore it seems unlikely to have much to do with the USA's creation of new money. The USA printed trillions of dollars of new money afte
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A Mystery: More Jobs Filled, but Lower Output (Productivity in Decline)(nytimes.com)
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For perspective, here is a cult the Neanderthals were running 175,000 years ago: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2090183-neanderthals-bu... By comparison, Stonehenge happened yesterday, and this other cult was the
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This place is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing valued is here. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.
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This is a bit of advice that I give to all of my clients (who are mostly the CEOs and CTOs of startups): You might be thinking, “What is wrong with group meetings? I love group meetings. I get to talk to everyone at once, which is much more
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Peter Godfrey Smith covers some of this in his book Metazoa but he rejects pan-psychicism and tries to make us believe that pure materialism can explain consciousness, as it emerged in animals over the last 750 million years, going back to
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by lkrubner 4y ago
“* I’m looking to understand why Germany should have to manage its economy based on the aims of the rest of the EU and not their own*” Because Germany has renounced part of its independence and sovereignty by joining the EU, so now it has t
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I don’t think it is illegal but it was hurtful to the EU overall: https://archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/0... Of course, you could make the argument that it violated the spirit of the treaties.
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by lkrubner 4y ago
I had some illness for much of 20 years. Doctors were uncertain about what it was. They eventually called it Lyme disease because they weren't sure what else to call it. But I was stuck taking antibiotics for 20 years. I tried several
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by lkrubner 4y ago
The most expensive software failure ever: ---------------- The Advanced Automation System began, in concept, in 1981 and ended in 1994, “terminated for convenience” by the government. Billions of dollars were spent on it. It is hard to desc
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by lkrubner 4y ago
This article is ludicrous. The only accurate sentence is the one where the author admits the opposite of what they otherwise argue: “OK, if you want to blame someone for the emphasis on monetary policy and the de-emphasis on fiscal policy,
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by lkrubner 4y ago
To bring up an issue relevant to Google and tech, this was my main criticism James Damore, and why I thought Google had grounds to fire him. The First Amendment gives him the right to write an incel-inspired manifesto if he wants to, but th
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by lkrubner 4y ago
The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714 By Christopher Hill Copyright © 1961, 1980 by Christopher Hill In 1601 a member of Parliament asked, when a list of monopolies was read out, ‘Is not bread there?’ His irony exaggerated only slightly. I
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by lkrubner 4y ago
In her book SPQR, the historian Mary Beard emphasizes that the Roman Empire was unable to conquer anything. The Roman Republic conquered the Mediterranean world, and then the Roman Empire failed at everything: https://www.amazon.
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The Permian/Triassic mass extinction seems to have been the turning point. The creatures that have not changed much since that earlier time are the creatures that don't age. But when life revived at the end of the Triassic, the wo
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by lkrubner 4y ago
(quoting book) Amanda Nock, a tech leader and devops expert who posts frequently to Twitter, offered this in response when I posted on Twitter about how to hire good people remotely, “When I hire remotely, I ask about their online friends.”
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That is not economic growth. A valuation of some companies on the stock market has noting to do with economic growth. "Create more than 2 orders of magnitude in terms of economic value" never actually happened.
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If that was true, why has the economy since 2000 never hit the speed of growth that it had in the 1990s? It seems the big economic gains of the Internet came early, and what we've seen since is the Law Of Diminishing Returns: increasin
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A bit of humor from an old blog post: Critic: Even if Helm and Helm Charts makes it easy to install a set of apps into a Kubernetes cluster, surely some actions are more complicated than a simple install? What about upgrading a PostGres dat
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Clojure has established the gold standard for beautiful abstractions that unify broad categories of data types. It's seq interface is elegant and powerful. Python's efforts towards option data typing or strict data typing looks es
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You call this "censorship-resistance" but it seems to be "law-resistance." This is a point that critics of crypto have been making for awhile: crypto's only use-case seems to be to avoid the law. At least in the USA
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Ask HN: Can I trigger events off of outbound HTTP requests from an EC2 instance?
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There are other aspects of the origin story that seem to be myth. For instance, the idea that the Internet was designed to route around damage, and could also treat censorship as a form of damage, and therefore it was resistant to censorshi
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I'm pleased to say I managed to invent a system so crazy that it actually caused a planet to reverse direction and go counter-clockwise around the sun before slingshotting wildly out of the solar system. Very fun to see what craziness
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" Few technologies have a clear start point. Did the internet start in Tim Berners-Lee in 1990? Or in 1982 with TCP/IP? Or in the 1970's with CYCLADES? Or in 1969 with ARPANET? Or in 1965 with the invention of packet switchin

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