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by justupvoting 11mo ago
Depends on the source. I've been doing nogi BJJ (not on the comp team: I am old, we train hard but not competition hard) about ten years or so. People training technique will grey out pretty much routinely as they talk through things w
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by justupvoting 1y ago
If you say so. I think we could agree that when it comes to McCarthy, one has to grade on a curve.
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by justupvoting 1y ago
It's funny you mention it; I have a friend who writes books who had trouble with McCarthy and I recently mentioned this same criticism. I suggested ATPH to her and this same character came to mind as a decent piece of work on that subj
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by justupvoting 1y ago
I don't think so; preserving goodness and decency comes at little personal cost to most of us, but McCarthy's effort in the book is at its core a depiction of these things surviving even the apocalypse, and at an incredible cost.
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by justupvoting 1y ago
I think McCarthy is one of the greatest American writers, but I will say my two main gripes with him are his tendency to drift over the line into overwrought (sometimes the biblical language is incredibly powerful, sometimes not), and his u
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by justupvoting 1y ago
I can't think of a single character in the book for whom nihilism is their defining trait, and certainly not the primary characters. The effort to preserve goodness in the world only really matters when it's hard, when it comes at
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by justupvoting 1y ago
The point is that everyone is doomed (even if you imagine we can survive the civilization-murdering tools we've cobbled up, we can't outrun physics), but that even at our most vulnerable , since the book occurs during a period di
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by justupvoting 1y ago
I hope, at least, you managed to watch the films before you had an opinion on them. Tarantino's, I mean. The Road is not a violent or pessimistic book, tho there is violence and pessimism in it. Don't confuse the set and the setti
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by justupvoting 2y ago
"A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God
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by justupvoting 3y ago
Hadn't seen it mentioned anywhere, but thought it might be interesting for you folks who do technical and scientific work: https://nautil.us/the-kekul-problem-236574/ McCarthy's perspective on language is int
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by justupvoting 4y ago
Well that'll do for my dose of weltschmerz today, thanks.
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by justupvoting 5y ago
Rational motives can produce irrational actions, and do so somewhat reliably.
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by justupvoting 5y ago
Kronos private cloud. Wouldn't be surprised to see disruption to UKG. https://community.kronos.com/s/feed/0D54M00004wJCdJSAW?langu...
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by justupvoting 5y ago
Spoken like a religious tenet, detached from everything interesting. Which board? What implementation of capitalism? You don't pretend that the States are running a free market or anything absurd like that, do you? The States have a Cr
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by justupvoting 5y ago
The ever coming year of the linux desktop. Full disclosure: I dual boot, but only to game. Linux been my daily driver since before 7 went eol. I am that linux fanboy. Debian, primarily.
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by justupvoting 5y ago
Well, that's the baby out with the bathwater, then. Defense in depth, always.
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by justupvoting 5y ago
I know it makes me a terrible asshole, but reading this makes me seethe about the infant who was brought into existence without her consent only to suffer and die (like all of us, but this is a terrible compression of that sequence with lit
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by justupvoting 5y ago
Jack Weatherford's book on the history of money was pretty good. Lots of tracing the transitional periods as valuables give way to abstractions give way to further abstractions on the abstraction-- and documenting where they chafe (rel
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by justupvoting 5y ago
I think my use of the word 'credit' was a distraction here and that's my bad, but folks absolutely walked around with valuable metals to use as a medium of exchange when moving other valuables was very difficult or impossible
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by justupvoting 5y ago
You're still kinda waving that broad brush. For one, not every consumer is most concerned with primarily with convenience (lots of scams are convenient as hell), especially tech-savvy folks in 2021 who have begun to internalize the fac
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by justupvoting 5y ago
Folks didn't 'enthusiastically abandon' sound money for credit (or even the early IOUs which were a sort of primitive cash) the moment they could. You're retconning a bit there. Folks were extremely reluctant for a long
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by justupvoting 5y ago
This implies the cs agent was able to view the password in plain text. Yikes. Big bank?
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by justupvoting 5y ago
Only thing I can think of off the top of my head is optics (most of the installed userbase for signal has probably only ever heard of monero in a negative light).
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by justupvoting 5y ago
A lot of clever folks in here attempting to tailor the Emperor's new clothes. As to whether church membership slipping below the 50% mark is a good or bad thing for America, I'm agnostic.
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by justupvoting 5y ago
No 0-day here, more of a supply chain attack, but your point stands. This actor was determined
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by justupvoting 6y ago
These are examples of specific, ahead-of-time rules for entire types of stocks, not a sudden, reactionary move against particular names .
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by justupvoting 6y ago
You're going to have to source that claim, friend. There is nothing more fundamental than supply and demand. The action to allow people to sell but not buy is not overly cautious, it's obviously advantageous to the short interes
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by justupvoting 6y ago
Another not-insignificant intellect wasted on the contents of its own bellybutton