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by rjbwork 4y ago
Peter Zeihan has been talking our ears off on this topic for a while, if one can be bothered to listen.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
That's correct. Prison populations are included in the areas they are located for census purposes, further skewing political power towards rural areas.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Well, now you've got Foundation.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Gotta love HN. The man himself shows up to explain.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Also, look at Logical Increments. It's a great site for figuring out what you should actually be buying at any given price point.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
While true, nobody asks you to turn a bridge into a tunnel the day after the first cars drive across it either.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Large Language Model, I think.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Telluric means relating to the earth. Thalassocracy means a state of the ocean. Or a maritime empire. I take their overall point there to draw a parallel to small states as islands, small spits of sand, connected by the thalassocracies, o
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by rjbwork 4y ago
I took it during summer, and there were some masters and PhD students in there, but I took it as an undergrad course. It was very intense, 3 hours per day, 3 days per week, and 1.5 hours per day the other two.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
>Probably my most useful class. Ditto. My teacher was hardcore. He was a graybeard who was around before Codd's now famous paper. He worked with some of the old pre-relational hierarchical databases. We had to take SQL queries, tu
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by rjbwork 4y ago
We should play semantics here. Elite liberals control the institutions, not some imagined socialist, communist, or anarchist boogiemen. Stanford is one of the most elite of elite institutions, and I don't see ANYONE there or any high
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by rjbwork 4y ago
You should check out EventBridge Scheduler. Just released last month and seems like the go-to solution for such things going forward. I especially like the "run once at this time in the future" feature.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Well, I'm American. The "we" I was referring to is the developed world. But, there is a massive effort underway in the UK, Ontario, and others, to cripple those systems in order to privatize them and profit.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Feels a bit like Bertrand Russel and Alfred North Whitehead's Principia Mathematica. They spend some 350 pages proving 1 + 1 = 2 from very primitive principles, including the existence of numbers themselves. Turns out, numbers, even O
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by rjbwork 4y ago
In the name of profit and efficiency, all slack as been wrung out of our healthcare systems. Systems with no slack are brittle and prone to failure under stressors. As for stressors... gestures broadly .
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Can't edit after like 10 minutes, unfortunately.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Right? He's one of my favorite niche internet personalities.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
You're right. I was thinking of the 3 months between the arrest and the sentencing, not the collapse and arrest. You'll have to forgive a memory 13 years hence. ;)
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Much sooner than I expected. Figured it'd be a couple of years before the AG was secure enough in their case to bring charges. This is MUCH faster than Madoff or Holmes. Then again, he's been much more out in the open about ever
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by rjbwork 4y ago
>In the end, it is still a system for producing workers that fit in whatever the current regime needs, and I think there should be some space for "i dont want to be a part of this, there must be some other way to live" https:&
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by rjbwork 4y ago
My defense against artillery is to take my 200+% movespeed sanguophage royal to meet them with an aerodrone salvo, then longjump back to base, suit up, and prepare to man the doors in the killbox, while my other colonists unload excessive a
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by rjbwork 4y ago
I read flagged and dead comments. Vagueposting is now getting you flagged and deaded anyway.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Well, there are a bunch of us in this thread, and I've heard many people talk about it over the years both IRL and elsewhere on the internet. Maybe "normal" is the wrong word, but it does seem to be exceedingly common. http
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Yup. I just say fuck and shake my head. Apparently this is rather normal behavior...
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by rjbwork 4y ago
There are human lifetimes worth of political philosophy that argues just that, yes. Many times that written about how land ought to be heavily taxed in accordance to its value. For some examples, see the Lockean Proviso, Mutualism, and Geo
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by rjbwork 4y ago
That's about exactly when I would have thought a massive privatization of public goods would have happened...
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Taxing desirable behavior. Wonderful idea. As they say, the problem with incentives is that they work. Instead, you should tax the consumption, and pay people who dispose of trash.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Pretty much. I hold the record for our coding question in my company - 3 minutes and 54 seconds. Granted, I'm one of the two people that put the question together, but still. We've had candidates with "20 years of experienc
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by rjbwork 4y ago
100% agree. Still primarily working in .NET (now core! oh wait, now just .NET again, lol) some 11 years on. Thanks Eric!
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by rjbwork 4y ago
I just substitute meat for legume or dairy based products. For instance, I love black bean burger patties and paneer. If I want to eat meat, I'm going to eat meat. Not some weird frankensteined up soy bullshit.

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