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by virissimo 4y ago
The obvious thing you are missing is that many Europeans refer to the collection of EU treaties as a whole as a "constitution" and that most EU member states themselves have written constitutions, so there are many ways in which a
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by virissimo 4y ago
The code is open source, you can find it here: https://github.com/jaysonvirissimo/os-lusiadas . Feel free to fork or just use for inspiration. My email is in the footer of the website if you'd like to discuss furth
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by virissimo 4y ago
Ah, this looks like a generalized version of a tool I made specifically to learn The Lusiads (a Portuguese epic poem). It's called MemorizeOnline and you can find it here: http://memorize.online . Very cool project btw.
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by virissimo 5y ago
Panic rooms are already cheap for the "rich people" mentioned in the article, which is the point I was making by characterizing "cheapness" as being relative, not absolute, so the analogy holds.
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by virissimo 5y ago
"Cheap" isn't absolute, but is relative to your level of wealth. When airbags first hit the market, they were too expensive for most car buyers and, in fact, most cars didn't get them until decades later. Presumably, the
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by virissimo 5y ago
And interestingly, the owners who spoke to Robb Report noted only a handful of times their rooms were ever used in an emergency. The notion of safety, however, is perhaps priceless. The writer's implied argument can easily be s
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by virissimo 5y ago
There are many variants of Occam's razor, but one commonality among them is that it is for comparing hypotheses that predict the same data (namely, the the simpler one should be preferred). But in the case of COVID-19 lab escape versus
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by virissimo 5y ago
Perhaps politicians don't crack down on three letter agencies because when they try, their careers are ruined by those same three letter agencies. Here's an example: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions&#x2
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by virissimo 5y ago
Tuft & Needle | Multiple Engineering Roles | Remote (US) | https://www.tuftandneedle.com/ In 2012, Tuft & Needle disrupted the mattress industry by offering a customer-focused, digitally-native alternative to tradit
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by virissimo 6y ago
I read "The Crucible" in a high school English class and it significantly affected my political outlook, but having learned more of the history of that era (much of it not public knowledge when I first read it and certainly not wh
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by virissimo 6y ago
I definitely agree that SRS can reasonably be thought of as a learning superpower. I very much regret that I didn't start using Anki until college. To save my own kids from such a regret, I've created Boethius, a SRS web applicati
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by virissimo 6y ago
Fixed!
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by virissimo 6y ago
schoen, thanks for giving it a shot! You are absolutely right about the declension exercises: they are ambiguous. I'll add more context to the statement when I get back to my workstation. Gratias tibi!
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by virissimo 6y ago
Boethius ( https://www.boethi.us/ ) is an app I made for my 7yo son to supplement his homeschooling curriculum. It involves completed "daily workouts" of exercises drawn from the seven classical liberal arts (gramma
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Show HN: Boethius, smart flashcards for the classical liberal arts(boethi.us)
5 points by virissimo 6y ago|4 comments
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by virissimo 6y ago
I don't agree at all that the EU has handled the pandemic well. See https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS... for a comparison of the US, EU, and East Asia (a region that could reasonably be cha
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Open Source Coronavirus Risk Reduction Tactics(virissimo.info)
2 points by virissimo 7y ago|0 comments
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by virissimo 7y ago
Ah, they are free now, so perhaps my impression is out of date.
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by virissimo 7y ago
In general, Europe may have better provision of public goods, but I’m not sure this is true in the current context. For example, it’s much easier to find a free-to-use restroom in Phoenix, Arizona than in Paris, France.
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by virissimo 8y ago
It's terrible what happened to Bruno, but he was a mystic that engaged in rank speculation and did approximately zero science. It seems much more likely that he was killed for claiming that the devil won't be condemned and that Je
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Going Solo: A Blueprint for Going Out on Your Own(bigmachine.io)
2 points by virissimo 9y ago|0 comments
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by virissimo 9y ago
"The second-century Stoic sage Epictetus argued that "Your will needn't be affected by an incident unless you let it". In other words, we can be masters and not victims of fate because what we believe our capability to b
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A Priesthood of Programmers(jacobitemag.com)
2 points by virissimo 9y ago|0 comments