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by newer_vienna 6mo ago
The French might say "merde" (literally: sh*t) to mean good luck, like when Americans might use "break a leg", since if there was a big pile of horse manure in front of a theater then it meant the show was successful
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by newer_vienna 6mo ago
Commissions, grants, advertisements, sponsorships, donations, teaching... There's already an enormous ecosystem of artists and authors who work outside of the copyright realm (blog writers, substackers, social media artists, youtube cr
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by newer_vienna 6mo ago
Colby went to Harvard and Yale, and worked at State. Of course he knows history. Would be like claiming a Stanford guy doesn't know programming
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by newer_vienna 6mo ago
Anyone in a diplomatic role is briefed and trained by domain experts. I know many of these staff assistants in DC myself. But my point is that even a novice diplomat has historical knowledge to know about Avignon
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by newer_vienna 6mo ago
A true Straussian would never have spoken so clearly
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by newer_vienna 6mo ago
Eh I'd expect any diplomat to have the historical knowledge to reference important Church events, especially if there's time to prepare before speaking with church representatives. It was a very significant political period in Cat
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What's Your Political Unconscious?(political-unconscious.millermanschool.com)
4 points by newer_vienna 6mo ago|2 comments
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by newer_vienna 7mo ago
That's not what I said. To feel an emotion is morally neutral, while to use your emotions to cause harm is wrong.
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by newer_vienna 7mo ago
https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2037543413512303018 I really don't like how all new frontend code looks vibecoded to me. I think it's the css rounded corners
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by newer_vienna 7mo ago
Regardless of the condition of your life, harboring anger and malice never leads to fulfilment.
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by newer_vienna 7mo ago
I cannot get over the malice seeping through this author's writing. Happiness does not come from making others miserable.
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by newer_vienna 7mo ago
Still up here in the US
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by newer_vienna 7mo ago
I'm quite fond of the caption, which describes a "a proof-of-concept technology demonstrator that aims to demonstrate technologies and concepts"
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DARPA’s new X-76(darpa.mil)
229 points by newer_vienna 7mo ago|221 comments
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White House Turning to Private Firms in Cyber Offensive(bloomberg.com)
6 points by newer_vienna 10mo ago|0 comments
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by newer_vienna 11mo ago
Total Copyright Death. I am unconvinced that we need copyright at all, if there are strong antifraud laws that prevent people or corps from saying "I am the originator" when not the case. Copyright stifles distribution, derivative
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by newer_vienna 1y ago
https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/08/uberfact-ul... would be an answer form an old school blogger
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by newer_vienna 1y ago
Getting the cloudflare error as well. Nevertheless this reminds me of an old Curtis Yarvin post on his proposal for a meta-wikipedia. "Uberfact". He's not everyone's cup of tea but I quite enjoy this article of his - ht
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by newer_vienna 1y ago
Stock price dropped over 15% as a result of the news
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AppLovin Probed by SEC over Data-Collection Practices(bloomberg.com)
2 points by newer_vienna 1y ago|1 comments
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by newer_vienna 1y ago
p(new high) in a static normal distribution is significant when there are 365 samples of it per year
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by newer_vienna 1y ago
"Here's a scientific study that shows that trees and shelters are nice because they provide shade" thanks, I guess. I didn't need a study telling me something I already know and agree with
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by newer_vienna 2y ago
Interesting proofs, though I would love more of the examples that show the dataset and the unexpected results, as well as describing what may lead to these traps and how to avoid them