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by philipov 5y ago
That's fair, since senatores was a political class, not an economic class, and equites was technically the top economic class. I tried to simplify things to make the analogy possible, and I think the spirit of it is instructive even if
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by philipov 5y ago
Calling equestrians the upper middle class is not accurate. They were firmly upper class, just the lower portion of the upper class. If the senatorial class was roughly the billionaires, then the equites were the ten and hundred millionaire
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by philipov 5y ago
Cicero wasn't murdered for any connection with the assassination of Caesar. He was murdered because Marc Anthony personally hated him for having denounced Anthony in a series of speeches known as the Philippics. When Octavian and Antho
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by philipov 6y ago
But this only makes any sense if you accept that, if you could somehow quantify happiness, that it is a quantity on which the operation of summation has meaning. But happiness is not even a quantity, it is a direction. It is not a destinati
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by philipov 6y ago
"Nerf rock" - Scissors
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by philipov 6y ago
I had one of those shirts.
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by philipov 6y ago
Replace mushroom with virus, and maybe that's what actually happened in real life.
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by philipov 6y ago
Something about how the images and their captions have nothing to do with the topic of the article seems very suspicious.
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by philipov 6y ago
I think that private entities being able to limit the speech that is performed on their property is an expression of their own free speech, and should be protected by the right that protects that speech from intrusion by the government. I a
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by philipov 6y ago
There's an essay in Castle of Days where Gene Wolfe wrote about his writing process. He would rewrite the manuscript for his books from scratch multiple times so that he could incorporate what he wrote later into the beginning of the b
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by philipov 6y ago
If corporations are people, you should be able to bring criminal murder and manslaughter charges against them, with the top-level executives acting as proxies to serve the jail sentence.
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by philipov 6y ago
It's still slow. The reason it's slow is because they use a complete SAT solver to do the resolution. So, it's slow, but it's also thorough. It gives some insight into why pip's dependency management is not thorou
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by philipov 6y ago
I saw a stream today where they were sponsored to play Cyberpunk. It reminded me to refund the game.
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by philipov 6y ago
You can't always just throw money at a problem to make it go away. The resources to make these vaccines are limited.
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by philipov 6y ago
Payment is not the primary incentive for artists to make creative works. The need for payment in order to survive is an obstacle that needs to be overcome so one can pursue their true incentives. If you are the sort of person whose primary
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by philipov 6y ago
"This site can’t be reached." Hug of death?
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by philipov 6y ago
Although that headline says she resigned, not that she was fired.
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by philipov 6y ago
Developing a game that competes with Roblox isn't close to the same magnitude of effort as developing a new mobile device and OS. The bigger the capital investment required to compete with someone, the lower the possible competition, a
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by philipov 6y ago
All the taxis in America aren't Yellow. In fact, I'd hazard to say most of them are Black. Only the ones in NYC are, and maybe in some other major cities.
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by philipov 6y ago
I'm paraphrasing Nima Arkani-Hamed in a lecture where he talks about the value of doing fundamental research, but I wasn't able to find a concrete link to it in 30 minutes of skimming on youtube, since there are many many hours of
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by philipov 6y ago
One argument I like is that if you're only interested in practical value of science, then consider that the data processing requirements for CERN operating the LHC were a large factor driving the development of cloud computing. The val
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by philipov 6y ago
Fair use is a right, and if the law doesn't accurately reflect that, then the law needs to be changed.
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by philipov 6y ago
Renaming things is a luxury only enjoyed by people who don't have other people using their code downstream. Once people have used it, renaming things becomes a breaking change others in your organization will oppose.
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by philipov 6y ago
Not to mention that Amazon invented the cloud, and that was built off the back of Bezos' demand that all software at Amazon have interoperable APIs.
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by philipov 6y ago
What are the popular message boards for practicing physicists and mathematicians?
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by philipov 6y ago
No, we know that the book has been published and the information in it has been released. That can't be stopped anymore, because the people who are interested in it already have it. What we don't know is whether the information th
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by philipov 6y ago
> It probably does not, otherwise, the government would be pushing to suppress it. The information is already released. Pushing to suppress it would be ineffectual while confirming that the book contains sensitive information.
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by philipov 6y ago
Yes, and choosing to have such a policy about political discussion is a political act that supports the status quo by quashing dissent. Therefore, many people who are not happy with the status quo are upset by companies that do this.
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by philipov 6y ago
> I've said quite clearly that I don't see anything wrong with gathering data on non-users. And I don't see anything wrong with wanting to destroy massive international conglomerates that see nothing wrong with bullying
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by philipov 6y ago
Yes! Please stop operating in Europe! Then, please stop operating in the US.

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