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by lurcio 9y ago
As for the 'British' Crown, if my memory serves me right the Domesday book records that William the Conq. did a 50/40/10 land split with the Church and his nobles. (To this day a significant percentage of land is not eve
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by lurcio 9y ago
Yes, especially when compared to suicide rates, occupational or traffic fatalities.... or numbers like 2 Kings 19:35
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by lurcio 9y ago
Please.... anything but Active Desktop again
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by lurcio 10y ago
Archaeology of the End. Can't elaborate 'til I finish it.
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by lurcio 11y ago
I'd rather take evidence from observation than from QM: let theory burn, as the current paradigm surely will if science ever trumps politics and regains its senses.
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by lurcio 11y ago
...and yet, might we not also consider that oral traditions could serve to persist knowledge too important to be committed to perishable archives. Even now in the West.
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by lurcio 11y ago
So i ran Watson's output through Watson: You are confident, generous and helpful. You are assertive: you tend to speak up and take charge of situations, and you are comfortable leading groups. You are empathetic: you feel what others f
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by lurcio 11y ago
Today, most money aren't even in physical circulation. Most of the gold in the world sits in some cold dark vault. 'Gold as money' is still very much in circulation. Even as it sits in CB vaults.
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by lurcio 11y ago
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by lurcio 11y ago
"I'm sure you'll be very fulfilled at the trailer park you live in near the industrially-contaminated river while going to your minimum-wage job wiping old people's asses or working 14-hour days picking crops, competing
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by lurcio 11y ago
I'm sure that's not an artifact of policy.
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by lurcio 11y ago
"Sales is a job for people who can’t code." On the contrary, coding is a job for people who can't sell, which is the more demanding and more valuable skill.
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by lurcio 12y ago
I was under the impression a lot of people use it for idea generation/competitive intel & that (in marketing terms) PH is a (small) traffic/link hack... In other words I'd be interested to find anything on the quality of
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by lurcio 12y ago
And this video from he site is a treat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivOUPCpE5BU
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by lurcio 12y ago
"We don't know how to do this" In truth, no one does. Through history it seems that rights and representation have typically only manifested after long periods of peaceable post-conquest oppression.
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by lurcio 12y ago
I for one don't mind that they use tax payers money - because for all its many and varied biases* (national & cultural blindspots, party political) - its output is valuable and often of benefit/interest beyond Blighty. * BBCs
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by lurcio 12y ago
Steve Fuller's "The Intellectual" is an amusing take on the history and role. (It's quite anglo-centric & comes from a more liberal reference point than Sowell).
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by lurcio 12y ago
The internet has always put me in mind of Dostoievskys under-appreciated story Bobok. "It may be so, but think of putting it so bluntly into print. In print everything ought to be decorous; there ought to be ideals, while instead of th
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by lurcio 12y ago
Dark Matter, or dark energy: i can't but think its this era's ether. That is, an impasse waiting for a sizeable conceptual clarification/shake up.
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by lurcio 12y ago
"To know but not to do is not to know."
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by lurcio 12y ago
I'd suggest the Unquiet Grave (Cyril Connolly) as an older but richer and more creative examination of the issue. If I took my lead from Palinurus, I'd remark that 'the war of art' demonstrates the cultural penury of our
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by lurcio 12y ago
This exchange made me smile. It got to the benefits in the end though. How about 'Run X in Y minutes' (somewhat after the Learn X in Y series).
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by lurcio 12y ago
Not in anyway financial advice, but maybe a good idea if you do so with position protection. If that makes no sense - then only invest based on your risk appetite.
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by lurcio 12y ago
I think they have always fought on too many fronts. Perhaps because of their dominance, they didnt know how to ignore opportunity, which of course was everywhere for them Still - as they say in Italy - a fish rots from its head. Thats where
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by lurcio 12y ago
"all the fun of schizophrenia in a hat" ?
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by lurcio 12y ago
Retain ownership in a trust or more perpetual vehicle
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by lurcio 12y ago
Many countries don't even have a single working system of address...let alone town planning.
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by lurcio 12y ago
Wowed by the engineering brilliance. Ambivalent about the social cost-benefit. Creative destruction indeed (for the lower and middle orders, anyway). "First it came for the factory workers,...and then the medics and lawyers..."
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by lurcio 12y ago
Great post, thanks for this.
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by lurcio 12y ago
"Because most of the countries of the world are not actually at war and are not likely to go to war..." I don't agree with that assessment, on many levels - finance, state actors in territorial/resource disputes, nationa

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