inglor_cz

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by inglor_cz 3d ago
Freedom of religion is also freedom from religion and a right to be disgusted by particular religious figures. No one owes even an ounce of respect to any bearded prophet out there, this is literally the essence of a liberal society: the
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by inglor_cz 4d ago
I agree with you, but that also means that no one can claim to be a parent of terrorism. It is just one long series of bastards from the eve of civilization up.
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by inglor_cz 5d ago
They are wrong. Muhammad's terror campaigns predate the US by more than a thousand years.
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by inglor_cz 5d ago
A Pakistan-Iran war was not on my bingo card.
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by inglor_cz 5d ago
IIRC their official slogan has literally "Curse the Jews" in it.
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by inglor_cz 5d ago
We seem to be in need of a mercenary Uber, where individual mercenaries will have their reputation and the potential customers will be able to check it.
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The Death that Would not Die(komando1.substack.com)
1 points by inglor_cz 5d ago|1 comments
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by inglor_cz 5d ago
Jan Masaryk, the Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, died a violent death. His body is now, 78 years later, again subject to forensic examination.
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by inglor_cz 6d ago
By now, I am so influenced by Tolkien that I expected "gulves".
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by inglor_cz 6d ago
I used to be a young mathematician once. Hashing out a problem is a complicated thing. From the point of the AI, or another person, even a negative suggestion ("I tried computing those Jacobians and they showed nothing of value")
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by inglor_cz 6d ago
A lot depends on the concreteness/vagueness of the idea. "Just use some polynomial" would be an idea so generic that it wouldn't merit attribution. "Just use a cyclotomic polynomial of degree 24" is a lot more
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by inglor_cz 6d ago
Same with electricity, dentistry, antibiotics...
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by inglor_cz 6d ago
Public transit would also benefit from self-driving, as bus drivers and their salaries are a major limiting factor to how many lines you can run. Bus drivers are a limited and very moveable workforce, and if you have huge economic differenc
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by inglor_cz 9d ago
Slovenia is also a rainy country with lots of rivers and snow in the winter. I am not sure how "right to water" would work in arid parts of the US. You cannot legally demand what physically is not there.
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by inglor_cz 11d ago
The EU-related structures in Brussels are about as united/fragmented as the US Congress, indeed. But the national governments are nothing like US state governments. A lot more political fragmentation, plus they still consider themselve
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by inglor_cz 11d ago
Bodybuilding it quite an unnatural activity in itself, and the practitioners try to achieve levels of fat that are basically unseen in normal Homo sapiens.
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by inglor_cz 11d ago
Personally, I am sorry that the British left, but coming from a small nation which had their sovereignty often trampled upon, I believe that consent of the governed matters fundamentally and that there is no project important enough to forc
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by inglor_cz 11d ago
Russia is on the hook for a lot of damage done to Ukraine.
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by inglor_cz 11d ago
The entire leadership of the IRGC can burn in hell as far as I am concerned. But that does not mean that launching an assault on Iran at Netanyahu's bidding was a smart move. Especially if it turned out that US arsenals were half empty
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by inglor_cz 11d ago
Um, the actual violent history of Europe? Plenty of governments ended up in exile during the last 250 years, and it is better if your gold isn't suddenly in hands of someone like Goering or Stalin.
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by inglor_cz 11d ago
is now a pariah and traitor state which will also be defined by abandonment and disloyalty to the EU project of total integration. Ugh, your concept of EU is closer to the USSR or maybe current Russia than to the actual EU. I sincerely ho
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by inglor_cz 11d ago
That shipping container could not be easily lifted, right? The bottom would simply rip off under so much weight.
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by inglor_cz 13d ago
"GLP medications blunt your appetite so you eat less, but you still end up feeling completely drained because your body lacks fuel." How many people report that? Not that many, AFAIK. "GLP drugs cannot distinguish between nut
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by inglor_cz 14d ago
My main point was that they recycle lazily, producing slop before the name even existed. Not every adaptation is lazy, I'd say that Odyssey is quite good, even though the original work is 100 generations old.
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by inglor_cz 14d ago
* a good and cheap solution * You mean public transport? I live in a country with one of the best public transport systems in the world. I enjoy it, but please don't fool yourself into thinking that it is cheap. It is not, very much N
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When Worthless Cash Floated in the River(komando1.substack.com)
2 points by inglor_cz 14d ago|1 comments
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by inglor_cz 14d ago
The Czechoslovak currency reform of 1953.
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by inglor_cz 15d ago
In most Western countries, you cannot just confiscate someone else's property without adequate compensation. "That costs the government nothing" It does - it costs you your international reputation, willingness of other count
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by inglor_cz 15d ago
Fanfic is subject to the Gauss curve like everything else. The Lord of the Rings is sorta-kinda fanfic to Beowulf, the Witcher is fanfic to Slavic and Celtic mythology. Neither of these two authors started as "big published renowned au
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by inglor_cz 15d ago
I know, but my point (I could have made it clearer) is that you cannot do the same with Geralt or Frodo Baggins.

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