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by slurry 7y ago
4000 years old and it's already the Fifth Dynasty. In another professional life I was a classicist, and I thought I dealt with old stuff there, but Egypt is just so impossibly ancient it makes the Greeks look like a bunch of Johnny Com
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by slurry 7y ago
Except when it wasn't for a few notable decades.
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by slurry 7y ago
That's simplified history at best. Greek texts were much (much) better preserved in the Byzantine empire, and were lost to the West mostly because people forgot Greek and copies decayed.
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by slurry 9y ago
Read Coase's book on the theory of the firm. The short answer is yes, firms are just like gosplan. We put up with them because they reduced transaction costs.
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by slurry 9y ago
>the corporation has no way to compel me What? A big corp can't hire a couple of goons?
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by slurry 9y ago
Your comment assumes that Trump/Brexit/Le Pen voters are trying to "do something" with their votes. What if they're just trying to do as much damage as possible, knowing the system has it out for them?
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by slurry 9y ago
Maybe the first time I've ever agreed with valuearb.
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by slurry 9y ago
> The greatest scientific creative genius of recent memory, Richard Feynman I was going to pick apart the whole comment, but then this stuck out at me. WTF? The Feynman cult truly knows no shame or rational bounds.
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by slurry 9y ago
It was 3/5, not 2/3, to break a filibuster, and the use of filibusters had been getting to unprecedented levels. The argument above was that constitutional change should be hard I.e. require a supermajority. The Senate rules as fo
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by slurry 9y ago
> Don't corporations have growth targets and multi-year plans? Don't they (mostly) have a top-down management structure, where freedom of action and collective intelligence are constrained the further you get from the Central C
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by slurry 9y ago
The occult writer Arthur Edward Waite - of Rider-Waite-Smith tarot fame - used to work for Horlick's, a fact for which he was much mocked by Aleister Crowley.
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by slurry 9y ago
Local people's congresses are directly elected. Higher levels up to the National People's Congress, are indirectly elected by the level below. So imagine you vote for town council. The town councils in your county elect a county c
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by slurry 10y ago
>Is Finno-Ugric a magnet for this kind of speculation? Oh my yes.
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by slurry 10y ago
Depends on the crop.
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by slurry 10y ago
I don't know, I was able to understand the initial problem statements, and even a bit of the numbered sub-problems, and I'm a trained classicist pig-ignorant in math.
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by slurry 10y ago
Name an animal that uses grammar, or something like it.
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by slurry 10y ago
I have been an emacs user for 16 years now, and I have come to this conclusion as well. I don't - like 99% of emacs users - use advance scripting capabilities. But even if I did, it would still be less efficient at the core task of tex
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by slurry 12y ago
Are Africans smoking more because they have more disposable income? If so, this may be an encouraging trend, in a way.
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by slurry 12y ago
Before about 1932, karate was written with the characters 唐手 (Tang/China hand). Then it was written with 空手 (open hand) - same sound, different characters.
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by slurry 12y ago
Awk for a web server? It's been done. http://awk.info/?tools/server
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by slurry 12y ago
Geniuses come and go, but being able to show up and execute still counts for a lot - in math as elsewhere.
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by slurry 12y ago
Directory yes, search no.
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by slurry 12y ago
Buried lede is how far India is lagging. Rural wages "[d]oubling in China in the last decade, tripling or quadrupling in Vietnam. A bit slower in Bangladesh, but still up by half." And yet the chart at the bottom shows India up by
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by slurry 12y ago
It's on the WIkipedia page.
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by slurry 12y ago
Vivekananda also lives on as an icon for the RSS and other extreme right wing Hindu groups. Here for example is RSS leader Mohan Bhagwat speaking in front of a big Vivekananda picture: http://samvada.org/files/Independe
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by slurry 12y ago
The certification model can work for lower level math and some social science or humanities subjects. But how do you certify in subjects like abstract algebra or Byzantine paleography or chemical engineering? A multiple choice test is not g
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by slurry 12y ago
> The thing is I'd rather take a course from a top instructor even at a massive scale, than to take a poor course made by a guy who doesn't have any real business teaching the class. There's an excluded middle here.
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by slurry 12y ago
The Bureau of Intelligence and Research at the State Department still puts out some fine work.
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by slurry 12y ago
Life, uh, finds a way.
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McDonald's Faces 'Millennial' Challenge(online.wsj.com)
5 points by slurry 12y ago|7 comments

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