lmoml

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   by lmoml 6y ago

   I'd posit that the passing of substantial wealth and capital between generations is one of the chief drivers of social decay. In the long term, it causes an immense amount of power to devolve into the hands of a small group of people
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   by lmoml 8y ago

   OP seemed to be referring to Normans. The whole cow (English) -> beef (French) is a classic linguistic example to cite with regard to them.
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   by lmoml 8y ago

   Agreed. Roman Republican ethics (2000+ years ago) held as a core value the idea that your legacy is more important than personal gain, and that just because you _can_ do a thing, that does not mean that it is best that you do it. Taking a
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   by lmoml 9y ago

   Back when propaganda was first being developed as a field, particularly between the two World Wars, it was greeted with a great deal of excitement by the powers that be precisely for this reason: It provided a non-physical means of coercin
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   by lmoml 10y ago

   I feel compelled to speak up on behalf of Un Chien Andalou. You know that scene, right at the very beginning, where an unseen person strops a razor before the famous slicing with it? Four strops are given four shots, alternating angle with
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   by lmoml 10y ago

   I'd consider NNs total overkill for this problem (though not if it were a more general problem of which this was just a test instance). Then I'd make my own hand-wavy assumptions about using any array of sensors (of which CCD, CM