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by wikfwikf 4y ago
But the words 'meant to' suggest that it is designed or intended to be read piecemeal over a lifetime, when in fact the history of what we call 'The Bible' makes it clear that this is not true. Your final sentence is
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
> Is something you're meant to read through out your life, not in one sitting. Meant by whom? The original authors of the Torah? The various prophets and Kings? The original authors of the New Testament? The Jewish scholars who comp
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
You are describing people mumbling through long and repetitive narratives about the history of the Jewish people without understanding or taking much in, because they believe it makes them closer to God, or simply reading the parts which fe
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
I don't think that this is really correct. For around 1500 years, most philosophical, political and religious thought in Europe had to be justified by referring back to the Bible. Therefore the arguments that equality, liberalism, demo
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
I would take a lot of the unevidenced narrative in 'Sapiens' with a huge pinch of salt. Both the book and the author have been criticized, rightly in my opinion, the former for elevating the theories of a very specific and ideolog
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
You spent some of this comment arguing that points and velocity are not upstream of nothing, and the rest explaining that it's ok if they are upstream of nothing, because the work spent on them justifies itself. This is exactly the ref
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
What upset me about story point estimation was that we never ever used it to influence decisions. Every single sprint planning meeting and every single retro around half the time was spent talking about points, discussing estimates and comm
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
There are plenty of accounts of drunk Victorian men letting their horses lead themselves home.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Buybacks are not alchemy; buying back stock just uses the same money that you saved when you issued stock instead of paying in cash. Of course, the stock price might have gone down, but also it might not. Companies don't usually time b
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Because there is never a point at which everyone knows that Netflix is going to jump 20% a year for 5 years. That's my point. There are times at which people think this is what it's going to do, and after it's done it lots of
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
https://xkcd.com/1827/
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
This is foolish. When public companies give stock to their employees, they dilute the stock as much as if they issued stock and sold it. So the cost of that compensation is the same as if it were in cash. If everyone knows that say, Netflix
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Why do you think there will be a long vesting period? Vesting periods are quite common in employee incentives but not at all common in mergers and acquisitions.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
You are technically correct about the origin of 'concentration camp'. But this point in relation to the Holocaust is so pedantic as to border on denial. Most people who died in the Holocaust did not die in 'concentration camp
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
This is simply untrue. Mass executions of (certain subsets of) the middle and upper classes, alongside electrification and land reform for the rural poor and trade unions and healthcare for the urban poor, meant an extremely significant imp
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
> it was sparse at the beginning (1941) and a lot of people declared themselve as "résistant" after the D day This isn't the refutation you think it is. Communists and fellow travelers were much more prevalent in the resi
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Do you know much about France? Almost all large enterprises in France are partly state owned (Total being the notable exception). Although they also have private ownership, it would be extremely hard for say Air France or Orange or Credit A
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
lol
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
The problem with this theory is: what is the part of a geometric proof which cannot be described or validated using a classical, discrete computer? There is no such step. All parts of mathematics which mathematicians are able to agree on ca
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
My sister is a vet. She works in a normal vet practice in our city dealing with mainly cats and dogs. Once I asked her why she doesn't work as a vet in the zoo, an extremely prestigious and wealthy institution with zoological research,
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Perhaps you are making the fallacy of comparing early 20th century communist regimes with today's capitalist society. If you compared them with early 20th century capitalism or colonialism they start to look much more benign.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Bonn was always a temporary capital, and East Berlin was the capital of East Germany.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Not in the school of architecture to which Niemeyer belongs. The internal concrete structure and non-load-bearing walls was key to Le Corbusier's tower blocks. You can see this by the fact that the walls often don't extend to the
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
You would have been much luckier if your worldview had allowed you to sell at $60k and buy back at $20k.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
That's not the whole story. When Bitcoin started it was used more as a currency than it is now. Firstly by evangelists who tried to establish a BTC economy, and secondly in the illicit economy. Bitcoin miners and devs took the project
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
But your brain is, presumably, doing finitely many cognitive steps, so it seems that a proof you can understand can also be expressed finitely?
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
The Goldbach conjecture is of very little interest to mathematicians, unlike either Fermat's Last Theorem or the Riemann Hypothesis. Statistically it is clearly true, in the sense that there are way more prime numbers than you would ne
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
This is the best example - before it was shown that the Continuum Hypothesis was unprovable, many people believed, like the GP, that only uninteresting and artificial statements could be shown to be unprovable. The CH is undoubtedly meaning
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Without necessarily agreeing with your characterisation, it can be true that achieving equality and plurality is difficult. However, there is a big difference between a government which is trying to resolve social problems and lead the popu
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
The point is not that they should be thrown out of the EU, but that the EU is now much more reluctant to allow another country with similar social and political problems to join.

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