clock_tower

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by clock_tower 9y ago
I can't say that I'm a great coder, but I learned from ZZT and Megazeux back in the early-mid 1990s. No idea if something like that would work today, though, and both ZZT and Megazeux seem to be stagnant at present...
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by clock_tower 9y ago
Experience is a good teacher. Dalrymple remarked on this in _Utopias Elsewhere_ -- how it sometimes seems that every society has to learn that Communism won't work the hard way.
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by clock_tower 9y ago
> My observation about conservatives on this issue has been that they become defensive when they hear "conservatives have caused global warming with their capitalism, and the only solution is to repudiate the entire conservative wor
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by clock_tower 9y ago
> what we learned from the unrest that the U.S. faced during the Vietnam war era. That the counterculture and the Communists were actively trying to make us lose a war? The author of this discusses real problems with the US -- situations
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by clock_tower 9y ago
Microsoft's sponsoring Mono now, and they've always been pretty benevolent towards game companies, especially with how seriously they take backwards compatibility. I wouldn't worry too much, at least not at this point.
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by clock_tower 9y ago
What I'm most surprised by is their straw-man alternative: "unalterable traits or unattainable pedigree," _in 2017_. "I say, Langley, HBR is pure bosh. They've no respect at all for proper breeding, and their attitu
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by clock_tower 9y ago
Speaking as a Catholic, I have no idea how people can break a treaty and think they're fighting for God. Isn't He traditionally called to witness that treaties will be kept sacrosanct?
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by clock_tower 9y ago
Heil Hitler! /s (Seriously, read Snyder's _Black Earth: the Holocaust as History and Warning_ for how Hitler saw the US as a role model.)
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by clock_tower 9y ago
Maybe in Wales? Modern England (and most of modern Scotland) is mostly Anglo-Saxon, not Romano-British.
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by clock_tower 9y ago
I'd always heard "Europeans", not "European people"; if Google is just confused (and I wouldn't rule it out -- look up "Goofle Translate"), I think it's because "European people" is a p
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by clock_tower 9y ago
From the grandparent's post: > "The hottest part of the day usually starts at about the end of the prime solar hours."
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by clock_tower 9y ago
More like how IBM held off Sun Microsystems.
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by clock_tower 9y ago
> What does "backed by the full faith and credit of a stable entity" even mean? Why does it matter? I understand it to meant that the country in question will be a currency-recipient of last resort: the country will always acce
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by clock_tower 9y ago
I'm not surprised that Westinghouse behaved idiotically; they've always struck me as the Ford of washing machines, and I can only imagine what they're like at utility scale... It sounds like the best course of action is to br
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by clock_tower 9y ago
> The management competence and institutional knowledge needed to build these large, insanely expensive projects seems to have disappeared. And whose fault is that? Not the fault of nuclear-power supporters and advocates! Nuclear didn&#x
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by clock_tower 9y ago
> "2. Western civilization. 3. Winning." It sounds like he needs to make up his mind. The core of chivalry is willingness to lose, if winning would violate your principles; think of how Richard the Lion-Hearted died, mortally w
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by clock_tower 9y ago
Someone had remarked that the SS is what you'd get if the Pentagon hired the Church of Happyology to create a new branch of the military. I thought this was hilariously on-point; but then I refreshed the page to see more discussion, an
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by clock_tower 9y ago
Absolutely true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce
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by clock_tower 9y ago
Uber (and presumably Lyft) does the same -- the theory being that they can destroy taxi businesses, then set their prices at anything less than a towncar service.
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by clock_tower 9y ago
The failure mode of a big company is the same as that of a communist country, too: elite disconnect with real conditions, then stagnation, then bankruptcy, then horrible effects for the places that were dependent on it. Look at Seattle in t
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by clock_tower 9y ago
I hadn't heard of that before, but I'll keep it in mind for sure. I was going to say that the obvious solution is to not play -- to buy and hold based on fundamental value, and specifically seek out promising but undervalued stock
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by clock_tower 9y ago
> The final solution to the underclass was thus implemented. If "final solution" refers to relocating people, what term will you use if they're deliberately killed?
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by clock_tower 9y ago
"Lunch break" sounds like it's paid or semi-paid; it seems a bit deceptive here. It sounds from the article like the Spanish are putting in 8-hour days, but interrupting them in the afternoon, so that instead of working 9 to
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by clock_tower 9y ago
"All fat with a tiny smidgen of protein" is an interesting way of describing egg yolks and olive oil. (Not saying that Helleman's is anything more than soybean oil and 3% egg solids, though.)
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by clock_tower 9y ago
"Behaves like the thing in every meaningful way" needs to include nutrition -- and even then, sometimes where it came from and how it was made are also part of what it is. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appell
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by clock_tower 9y ago
Income will definitely be affected by getting on this list. See above, where tptacek says: "More likely, since pretty much every VC in the valley needs access to the YC dealflow, becoming persona non grata with YC will force VC firms t
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by clock_tower 9y ago
Sounds like C64 emulation isn't particularly robust or mature. For the opposite extreme of things, look at something like DOSBox or ZSNES.
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by clock_tower 9y ago
Rory Stewart, _The Prince of the Marshes_. It's about general dysfunction in the early Iraq War, but it's also about the meaning of life. Perhaps it's just how Stewart writes? (His _The Places In Between_ is also well worth r
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by clock_tower 9y ago
Not a bad idea -- I've only read his book on the formerly-Ottoman world (_Eastward to Tartary_, I think), but this sounds worth looking up. Have you come across Tony Horwitz? He's goofier than Kaplan, but his writing scratches the
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by clock_tower 9y ago
(Sorry for the late response!) "Better" here just involves the assumptions that pain is worse than not pain, and that human life is intrinsically valuable. I'm fine with making both assumptions -- especially since I've r

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