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by mjklin 3y ago
Brook Ziporyn recently gave a short talk on his translation of this text, well worth watching: https://youtu.be/EJ1bB2w2gBk?si=qxBQq9KiL6pSom2Q
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by mjklin 3y ago
Rumor has it that many Taiwanese named ugly street dogs “Carter” for years because of what Jimmy Carter’s admin did with their recognition.
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ANDROMACHE. Doesn't it ever tire you to see and prophesy only disasters? CASSANDRA. I see nothing. I prophesy nothing. All I ever do is to take account of two great stupidities: the stupidities of men, and the wild stupidity of the ele
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by mjklin 3y ago
Warren Peace is working on his Dostoevsky bio
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Two from The Onion: New Envelope Pushes Envelope Envelope Supreme Court Rules Supreme Court Rules
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I agree with Darwin’s combination of rocks, thinking, and walking, they seem to go together. If you don’t have his circular path, you can put a handful of pebbles in your pocket. Then when you’re at a particularly stuck spot in your thinkin
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by mjklin 3y ago
I love how you can hear the clicker. Where would TED speakers be without the damn clickers?
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by mjklin 3y ago
Ducks Go Quack, Chickens Say Cluck https://youtu.be/tom6_ceTu9s
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by mjklin 3y ago
Sounds like he’s drawing on Aristotle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_causes
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Watch out for those gumption traps!
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by mjklin 3y ago
See Miller’s “Barbarians to Bureaucrats” for a description of the full corporate lifecycle. Barbarian -> builder -> explorer -> administrator -> bureaucrat -> aristocrat.
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by mjklin 3y ago
“I on the other hand will never die. Aluminum picolinate: every orifice, every day.” - Dale Gribble
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by mjklin 3y ago
For anyone interested in Chengyu, the book “Easy Way to Learn Chinese Idioms” by Yong He gives a good selective overview (by no means comprehensive). Link: https://archive.org/details/easywaytolearnch0000unse
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by mjklin 3y ago
Notable that both Hamilton and Madison both later went against some principles espoused in the Fed Papers, Hamilton in his support for a national bank that overreached the constitution and Madison in his support for the Virginia and Kentuck
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Nobel disease! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease
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In Chinese and Japanese animals are called 動物 “moving things” as opposed to plants 植物 “growing things”
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by mjklin 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_tempora,_o_mores !
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I still use it as my main app, and I’ll do so until it’s shut down.
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It is very difficult to estimate the sizes of objects in the sky. I once saw an odd machine-like object in the sky of Shanghai, China in broad daylight. I thought, why is nobody concerned, or even looking? After awhile I saw it sway a bit a
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by mjklin 3y ago
“Kids don’t vote” - Thomas Carcetti, “The Wire”
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“Applause is the beginning of abuse.” - Japanese proverb.
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Jazz too!
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by mjklin 3y ago
He was dramatically overserved (thanks to the author of this article for adding that to my vocabulary!)
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by mjklin 3y ago
By “outside view” I believe he is referring to the anthropological term “etic” so it is not made-up. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emic_and_etic
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Don’t forget the role of chance! “You know what Pasteur said: ‘Chance favors the prepared mind.’ Take one of the chanciest things in the world, like war. Both Kitchener and Frederick the Great, when they were considering a general's qu
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by mjklin 3y ago
I read a memoir once by a serviceman who heard endless complaints that things were screwed up in the service because the situation was “not real army”. He called it the “real army carrot” because it was intended to get you to stick around u
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by mjklin 3y ago
“Rick James dwells in the abyss” https://youtu.be/2278XhCy4Bs
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This is the first movie I ever saw that featured a realistic direct brain interface, in the form of a cable plugged into the back of a head.
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by mjklin 3y ago
It goes to the syndicate. And everybody has a share. The cork for New York, the shoes for Toulouse, the ham for Siam, the nails from Wales, and the tangerines for New Orleans. Didn’t you get your share?
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by mjklin 3y ago
“Anything too stupid to be said is sung.” - Voltaire

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