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by ctrlp 11mo ago
I'm not trolling, just disagreeing. I personally wouldn't argue that everything we're discussing is "made up." I'm arguing that "rule of law" is a particular legitimizing myth or political narrative
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by ctrlp 11mo ago
It depends on the politician. And not whether they should but whether they could . That's the critical distinction. One that gets lost when ignorantly amplifying misquotes. The actual quote from Trump was that he could do so and not
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by ctrlp 11mo ago
You are right without meaning to be. This is actually the correct interpretation. Who else decides if the country is in a state of emergency? That is politics. Upon hearing these words, pqtyw was enlightened.
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by ctrlp 11mo ago
"Corruption" is a term for proles. It's better understood as a political word that loosely translates to "what my opponent does." If you think only one party's members are guilty of technical crimes, then we ar
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by ctrlp 11mo ago
There is no such thing as the "rule of law." It is a political myth useful as an organizing principle for regime change or as a legitimizing myth for an established political class seeking stability, but that doesn't make Law
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by ctrlp 11mo ago
That matters little. It's a category error. People say things like "no one is above the law" but that isn't true. Not because of corruption, but because of the nature of politics. Law is downstream from politics and ther
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by ctrlp 11mo ago
This is hopelessly naive. Heads of state should not be prosecuted in democracies. It sets a bad precedent and there is no easy way to apply the rule of law to the head of state. There are too many examples in history of abusive lawfare prac
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by ctrlp 11mo ago
Zork
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by ctrlp 11mo ago
For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings; How some have been deposed; some slain in war, Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed; Some poison’d by their wives: some sleeping kill’d; All murd
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Building an 11.6lbs Canoe(urbanboatproject.weebly.com)
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by ctrlp 11mo ago
Regardless of efficiency, it is very difficult to find a newer refrigerator whose compressor doesn't emit a very irritating high pitched whine almost continuously.
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by ctrlp 11mo ago
Warmed over esotericism. Ficino, Mirandola, some others, were picking up an esoteric tradition dating back thousands of years. The neoplatonism, kabbalah, magic... it's all of a kind. The common thread being that all is one, that man i
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by ctrlp 1y ago
The likelihood of those criteria might be vastly different in a younger universe than in this one, no?
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by ctrlp 1y ago
Honestly, it's less about the lack of punctuation and more about the apparent lack of cohesion or even relation among the list elements. It sounds like these are just what items occurred to the writer's mind in a sort of ecstatic
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by ctrlp 1y ago
Ah, yeah... It makes sense for why the publications push certain writers, but then where is the reader? Are we to assume the public fans are just hypnotized by critics? I wonder how many people take their cues (and taste) from book reviews
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by ctrlp 1y ago
Appreciate your sharing your experience. I can hear Jim Morrison's incantatory rhythms as you point out..."Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding. Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind." But as
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by ctrlp 1y ago
Not trying to piss on the fire but that's almost exactly the kind of thing I'm unable to enjoy. I guess I wonder "Who speaks like that?" It's wooden and affected to my ear. It comes across as needlessly obtuse. I&#x
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by ctrlp 1y ago
Someone who enjoys this please enlighten me or show me a way into McCarthy's prose using examples of what's good. I tried several times to read his novels and I'm sorry, but it's just terrible. It's hard to put my f
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by ctrlp 1y ago
There is almost no good reason to keep up with current events in a "news feed" style. I'd maybe like a feed that has a 1 month window summarizing any news cycle that survived 3 days. If it came and went in one cycle, then jus
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by ctrlp 1y ago
Didn't feel the need to check the grammar of the title as the essay no longer aligned with goals and interests.
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by ctrlp 1y ago
Where in nature/reality do we actually see exponential trends continued long? It seems like they typically encounter a governing effect quite quickly.
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by ctrlp 1y ago
That's surely true, but maybe you're generalizing from a smaller sample than I am. For context, I've spent significant time (years) in Boston, NYC (Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn), LA (West Side and Downtown), and several smalle
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by ctrlp 1y ago
In the US, libraries are free, have bathrooms, and you can spend the whole day. Hence, urban libraries have become de facto homeless shelters with all the social problems that implies. Suburban libraries are still pretty great places to wor
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by ctrlp 1y ago
Very nice. Beautiful UX.
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by ctrlp 1y ago
I don't see why there's an expectation that a "non-developer" should be able to understand documentation or tutorials written for beginners. It's a specialized field with technical jargon. There's a reasonabl
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by ctrlp 1y ago
The most incredible part about this story is that Will Smith is still a performing (and touring ???) musician with any audience at all, AI or otherwise. I thought he was an actor now. Wut happened?
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by ctrlp 1y ago
If the government passed subsidy laws or building requirements that caused your loss, then you might expect compensation. Did you disagree with bailing out small businesses shuttered during COVID and their furloughed employees? Same princip
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by ctrlp 1y ago
is there any difference between a dep and a convenience store or bodega or tabac? all look the same. all pretty crappy.
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by ctrlp 1y ago
I typically do this too rather than use MCP. Have the LLM write the tool, along with tests to get it working, then use the tool.
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by ctrlp 1y ago
Ironically, I instantly didn't trust this essay as I scanned it. The design and photo at the end confirmed my mistrust.

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