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by toyg 2y ago
You're looking at it wrong: why ever renounce anything that is already yours ? Oracle should be assumed to always take the greediest and most antisocial position in any legal or economic matter.
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by toyg 2y ago
> This shows that the poem quickly found an audience that was not familiar with all the references. It think it's a bit of both. Dante moved in high circles, particularly after he was exiled; and as an intellectual at court, he wa
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by toyg 2y ago
Yeah but the pope was the main power behind the ruling faction's coup at the time. It's like saying that the death squads in South America (financed and trained by US agencies in the context of Operation Condor) were not executing
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by toyg 2y ago
I don't fundamentally disagree on the overall strategy of the Catholic Church throughout the millennia, but it's also true that its position in the Middle Ages cannot be reduced as a "permanent inquisition". In fact, as
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by toyg 2y ago
For anyone who understands Italian, I would recommend Alessandro Barbero's lecture on Dante - which covers his personality and life as well as the historical context. The Comedy can feel like a ponderous, unwieldy work, particularly as
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by toyg 2y ago
Kudos to you for being an interesting person. I guess this is the Vellutello version?
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by toyg 2y ago
If Andy Warhol is in Paradise, then the Catholic doctrine is completely wrong...
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by toyg 2y ago
Apart from the fact that it's a mistranslation as others said, it should be pointed out that the medieval comedy is just a generic term for play or story , and not necessarily funny. The term defines the intellectual level of the
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by toyg 2y ago
Is virtualization really a growing pie, these days? Big players eat everything, and they have their own solutions typically.
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by toyg 2y ago
Lauryn Hill is a fantastic talent. Like many other fantastic talents before and after her, at some point she lost humility and her mental state degraded.
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by toyg 2y ago
Homicide is more like a prequel - the source material is the same as The Wire but was developed a decade earlier. WOTC is indeed a follow-up of sort (same author as The Wire , produced recently), but the real follow-up to The Wire
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by toyg 2y ago
The F-35 has never been one of the "most commercially successful airframes". 670 sold is actually a pretty low number, considering its supposedly multi-role capabilities and its rare VTOL feature. The sales pipeline started being
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by toyg 2y ago
China still has a humongous "market of last resort": the internal masses, which can be leveraged with public money (i.e. the state could pay poor people to buy cars). This can keep manufacturers alive until the trade war cools dow
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by toyg 2y ago
Trump is critical of big tech that doesn't help him - I'm happy to bet he will oppose breaking up X as long as Musk is in his cabinet. Trying to describe Trump on a coherent ideological level is a fool's errand, like most s
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by toyg 2y ago
That strategic relevance has long gone. The current relevance is strictly dictated by internal political and demographic balances in the United States.
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by toyg 2y ago
> C# devs can open decade+ old solutions without issues For some definition of "without issues"...
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by toyg 2y ago
So many factors contributed to big investment in the mid-90s. Windows had exploded, followed by the Playstation a few years later; 3D became relatively easy to use in all games; the US economy was doing well; the internet was full of promis
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by toyg 2y ago
I've used Nespresso for ages (still do at my partner's house), and it beats a Bialetti any day, but it's not cheap. I found a good sweet spot (for me) in a Kamira: it's not as good as a proper espresso and maybe even Nes
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by toyg 2y ago
Toto is failing with their prices. I know they can print money in Japan, but it looks like they don't really want to be competitive elsewhere. Sooner or later someone will persuade the right influencer to start a bidet craze and they w
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by toyg 2y ago
In which case you really shouldn't tell a public forum about it. Maybe it's my jaded European mindset, but - rich people have been a target since the dawn of civilization, flaunting wealth is a good way to attract attention from b
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by toyg 2y ago
> as someone who has no clue what to expect from QNX Apple doesn't have to explain on their homepage what they do. QNX, in some sectors, has been a very well-known brand for a few decades, which is probably why their marketing mat
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by toyg 2y ago
As you say yourself, those things are typically bullshit anyway (mostly targeted at disenfranchising minorities), and they're definitely not something that can substantially and continuously influence a presidential election in a singl
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by toyg 2y ago
> it's made up of humans who are unlikely to be 100% loyal to their boss If true, that obviously cuts both ways. But really I think you're just being paranoid and somehow biased against state employees - who are definitely no
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by toyg 2y ago
> I don't think anyone seriously disputes ... that the federal "deep state" doesn't matter, since elections are handled at the lowest level by state authorities - which are tightly controlled in red states, as much
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by toyg 2y ago
> right wing commentators are saying that Trump won't actually do what he promised I expect a lot of voters actually thought that would be the case: "yeah yeah he has to make noise during the campaign, once he gets in he&#x27
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by toyg 2y ago
Among humanist sciences, history is probably the most satisfying one for geeks, because there is a concept of truth that, once established, is almost as indisputable as a law of nature. We know Julius Caesar was publicly stabbed by multiple
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by toyg 2y ago
Doesn't work for me (toyg). After processing, it just prints out my tagline.
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by toyg 2y ago
Yes, Google's calculation.
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Manufacturers started pivoting almost immediately when the iPhone debuted. Yes, eventually it delivered, but nobody waited for that before they started aping it.
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by toyg 2y ago
> implying that the trial was some external event In many ways, it was. The political stars aligned "just so", in a way we've not really seen before or since. Many, many other companies got away with much more egregious

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