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by nz 4y ago
In a similar vein, Age of Empire 2 had a very interesting resource-balance that few other games have managed to replicate. With 5 resources (food, wood, gold, stone, population), and each of those resources being good for very different thi
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In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays by Bertrand Russel (1915) [pdf](ia801603.us.archive.org)
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Pipino: Gentleman Thief(medium.com)
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The Ghosts of the Tsunami(longreads.com)
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by nz 4y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27439240
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Reinvent the Wheel(etiennefd.substack.com)
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How the Mountain Jews of Azerbaijan Endure(newlinesmag.com)
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The End of Adolescence (2016)(aeon.co)
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The End of History [pdf](tandfonline.com)
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The Return of the Lipstick King(restofworld.org)
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by nz 4y ago
Finally a comprehensive write-up about the crypto-space that involves careful reasoned analysis of the interests and motivations of the participants in the crypto-space. Addresses some favorite questions like the nature of money and propert
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by nz 4y ago
Dankon por cxi tio. Mi kutime uzas la vortaro cxe https://vortaro.net , kaj via vortaro estas pli rapida kaj pli ergonomia ol tiu.
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by nz 4y ago
It is not _too_ surprising, since Esperanto also shares some coincidental features with Chinese -- its regularity makes the word-building process similar to Chinese. Perhaps poetically, the regularity of roots and affixes does for the arbit
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Inside the plan to fix America's neverending cybersecurity failures(technologyreview.com)
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by nz 5y ago
I have written some (obscure) open-source software and have contributed to open-source code-bases. I can say that if you are doing it for some kind of recognition, then you are doing it for the wrong reason. I _do_ think that you (and many
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Marxism and Problems of Linguistics (1950)(marxists.org)
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Frank Herbert by Tim O'Reilly(oreilly.com)
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From Circle-of-Gold to Mega$Nets to Bitcoin(jpkoning.blogspot.com)
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Gin, television, and social surplus, or, “looking for the mouse” (2008)(gist.github.com)
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The Post-Keynesian Worldview in Five Principles(vebaccount.substack.com)
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Why Is Every Young Person in America Watching ‘The Sopranos’?(nytimes.com)
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by nz 6y ago
If you're going to down-vote me, could you at least offer an explanation as to why? As it stands, there's an infinity of possible objections you can have with my comment. It would help to know what they are, so that I can at least
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by nz 6y ago
In the same way that decaf is coffee without the caffeine, (and phone-sex is sex without sex), pseudo socialism is socialism without genuine socialists. In the USA -- and increasingly in Europe -- we've seen the socialists' ranks
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The Autodesk File(fourmilab.ch)
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Thiel Urges US Probe of Google's Seemingly Treasonous Acts(bloomberg.com)
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Hofstader's Law(en.wikipedia.org)
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by nz 7y ago
It is a way to circumvent the paywall.
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by nz 8y ago
Savielly Tartakower's take on the distinction: "Tactics is knowing what to do, when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do, when there is nothing to do."
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Americathon – Predictions(en.wikipedia.org)
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I, Pencil (1958)(econlib.org)
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