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by runeofdoom 3y ago
It is, for all practical purposes. The court posted the whole thing in an official document.
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by runeofdoom 3y ago
Except the real "Great Man" in this case was Sulla. Caesar was just copying him successfully. Once Sulla had broken precedent, more repeats of his "one neat trick" (of marching on Rome and taking power by force) were ine
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by runeofdoom 3y ago
As someone interested in the topic but without any particular knowledge of it, any pointers to peer-reviewed literature from either POV would be appreciated.
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by runeofdoom 3y ago
Same here. It feels like it takes everything, from classic B&W to modern SF extravaganzas, and turns them all into somebody's home videos. At the same time, I'm pretty confident that this is a subjective phenomenon. My parents
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by runeofdoom 3y ago
Balrog wings.
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by runeofdoom 3y ago
Makes the Space Launch System look efficient and productive by comparison.
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by runeofdoom 3y ago
If you're seeking weirdness and hallucinatory craziness, I think Peter Watts, Tamsyn Muir, and Charles Stross (among many others) can absolutely deliver.
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by runeofdoom 3y ago
Such members would be unlikely to support their "I've got mine, fuck you" ideology.
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by runeofdoom 3y ago
There are also fan-made "book edits" of LotR and the Hobbit that purge as much non-book material as possible while keeping th film coherent.
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by runeofdoom 3y ago
If you start thinking that CEOs aren't special and unique, then you might start thinking they don't need to be paid 350 times what the average employee does.
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by runeofdoom 3y ago
A lot of areas with lower population do not have the requisite internet infrastructure to support remote work. And the ones that do have seen their housing prices shoot up.
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by runeofdoom 3y ago
Purely a guess on my part: concrete or asphalt will be destroyed by frost heave[1] and be difficult to patch well, while pavers will endure it better and are easier to restore. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frost_h
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by runeofdoom 3y ago
Much like the US had weapons in Turkey (for many years, IDK if they still are), but those weapons were under US control. (Although if the combination on the safeties is still all 0s, that may be less than completely accurate.)
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by runeofdoom 3y ago
Or it could use the Low Orbit Ion Cannon.
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by runeofdoom 3y ago
Were the collisions due to mapping error or human error? Afaik, the USN hasn't said.
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by runeofdoom 3y ago
We must be headed into an alternate timeline. Hopefully it's a good one.
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by runeofdoom 3y ago
This. Over two decades, I have yet to see new senior management who didn't feel compelled to 'make their mark' on their new territory by changing something significant. Occassionally, they'll actually do something useful
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by runeofdoom 3y ago
Get real human beings to stop clicking on eyeball bait. Far easier said than done, when the bait is ultimately being generated not by other individual human beings, but corporations (effectively slow-AIs or Lovecraftian monstrosities) that
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by runeofdoom 3y ago
Umlauts.
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by runeofdoom 3y ago
I've sometimes wondered if Venus' runaway greenhouse had been caused (presumably unintentionally) by intelligent Venusians in the distant past, how could we find out? What bio- or techno-signatures would we still be able to find
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by runeofdoom 3y ago
With no buried fiber to feed on, the backhoes will starve.
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by runeofdoom 3y ago
Musk is in the driver's seat at Twitter. At SpaceX he's a frontman, carefully managed by people who know both him and rocket science.
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by runeofdoom 3y ago
Very well put. As someone who has been diagnosed and struggled with it all my life, you've captured it really succinctly.
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by runeofdoom 3y ago
Inadvertent githyanki genital exposure would present at least one contrary example.
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by runeofdoom 3y ago
I spent quite a few years working for a company unionized under the Communications Workers of America (700,000 members). Neither of these claims were true then or are true now. A specific job title would have a wage tied to the agreemen
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by runeofdoom 3y ago
Surely the FBI agents were cunningly framed by the real Dread Pirate Roberts.
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by runeofdoom 3y ago
We may be in the minority, you're certainly not alone. I prefer physical, tactile controls, especially for my home and appliances.
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by runeofdoom 3y ago
I doubt it's "we need marketing to sell stuff" that engineers hate, but rather the seemingly inevitable "marketing lies about what our product does".
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by runeofdoom 3y ago
There's nothing to prevent an older politician from advising their colleagues, serving on committee staffs or even lobbying. They're not prevented from participantion, they'd be prevented from being elected.
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by runeofdoom 3y ago
https://archive.ph/cBV45

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