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  1. Jul 2025
    1. Find things that interest you, and experiment with them–preferably not with explosives until you’re ready–be methodical, and don’t be afraid of failure.

      So long as it is underneath an actual employer so that always have something to show for it.

  2. Mar 2025
  3. Jan 2025
    1. life as we currently know it cannot withstand the leap that’s coming next

      Gosh this is so anxiety-inducing. I just want to be able to live my low-tech life, spend time with people I love, and not have to think about technological singularity.

  4. Dec 2024
    1. who then had nightmares about being tortured for not donating enough to SIAI.

      This seems to (unintentionally) be nearing the kind of mechanisms the Catholic Church would use to get ppl to donate.

  5. Nov 2024
    1. This could even incept

      This gives the potential, if someone already creating a co-op takes the initiative to include WID. The principal struggle is to get companies to convert to co-ops in the first place.

      Unless there's some large point of friction keeping people from making online co-ops (eg. out of websites) presently.

  6. Sep 2024
  7. Aug 2024
    1. should

      Who will enforce this? Will the authors of Eutherium enforce this? How do we make sure enforcement is not an opt-in for those who run the netwprk? (Ie. They will only do it if they are aware of its benefits, which they most likely won't. Analogy: governments not using OSS software because they are too technically inept to realize its benefits)

    2. we support projects that contribute a small portion of their treasuries toward the public goods that make them and the ecosystem that they depend on possible.

      Open soirce software projects could be disciplined this way

  8. Jun 2024
    1. Flavoproteins play an important role insoil detoxification processes via the hydroxylationof many aromatic compounds

      Now that could be an interesting use: for bioremediation

    1. celebrate advancements made in the oil and gas industry as well as Canada’s prosperity

      They are clearly trying to make a link between canadian patriotism (an inherently emotional, ie. not logic-heavy, topic) and the oil industry, so that any initiative against the oil industry can later be labelled as unpatriotic.

  9. May 2024
    1. Council of the Islesof Scilly are all included, but the CityCorporation is not.

      Chaos in the types of council and the qonsequent need to explicitly name each in laws allows lawmakers to selectively 'forget' to update inconvenient parts.

    2. Corporation of Lon-don, as `local councils are not ``legisla-tures'' within the meaning of

      So the CoL may be given explicit legal advantages over other private corporations because it actually a local council, but it is not a legislature (which could concievably apply to local councils) because it is actually a corporation? This seems like the City's advocates can't decide what it is and choose whichever definition happens to suit them at the time.

      Such – very convenient – Schrödiger's entities seem to arise when they do not need to be registered/categorized in a predefined way (see Wiki: Unincorporated Association).

    3. whilstbypassing many of the mechanismsthrough which constitutional reformshould pass.

      A 'trivial' law had been passed ostensibly with the priority of a constitutional one, but with no clear or official explanation.

  10. Apr 2024
  11. Mar 2024
    1. Whitlam, as he had told Kerr by phone earlier that day, came prepared to advise a half-Senate election, to be held on 13 December.[77] Kerr instead told Whitlam that he had terminated his commission as prime minister, and handed him a letter to that effect.

      Zeman x Sobotka 2017

  12. Aug 2023
  13. May 2023
  14. www.londonstockexchange.com www.londonstockexchange.com
    1. I don't feel that minigolf is something that needs to exist as a publicly traded corporation. Because as the report states, it is a "traditional activity" that only needs some minimal equipment to function: a plot of land, a course, some clubs, and some balls. Once these have been secured, there is no room for meaningful growth. The only way that such a company can seek to increase its value is to bundle additional things that would be valuable by themselves along with the minigolf such as music, refreshments, coordination by staff, etc. and find the optimal combination of these to turn the minigolf into what they paternalisticly percieve the ideal 'day out' for the average customer would be. Only in this way can they expand on the value of a hundred year old game that has no -- and needs no -- real inherent growth potential. Since customers such as me are willing to create the surrounding 'experience' for themselves and are only looking for someone to provide them with a basic minigolf setup, the company's form as one that is publicly traded and hence pressured to keep somehow increasing its value is pointless.

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  22. Oct 2020
    1. In short, I simply do not think enough about human violence to be overly interested in violence.

      Fair point. A robot probably isn't too interested if this human dies or if that human dies, or the feelings that two unimportant humans feel towards each other which could cause this violence.

    1. This is literally happening in places like Hungary. 'Emergencies' like the Reichstag fire or migrant crisis are being used to justify the limitation of rights and strengthening of governments.

  23. Jun 2020
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  25. Apr 2020
    1. which published 300,000 copies (in a land of 10 million people), was produced by the Czech Writers’ Union.

      Why could such an influencial journal be run by such a small group of people back then when today they have to be owned by massive companies?

    2. the ideological and the journalistic mindlessness of our times that was on the verge of destroying cultur

      Interesting that this has (maybe) only come along in the 20th century. Nothing so homogenous before.

    3. symbolized the Czech homeland. Victor Hugo or Paul Valéry are representatives of France, as Goethe and Thomas Mann speak for Germany, if not all of Europe. Faulkner, as a great an

      Not anymore. Perhaps de-globalization would bring something like this back

    1. originally isolated from the skin of grapes (one can see the yeast as a component of the thin white film on the skins of some dark-colored fruits such as plums; it exists among the waxes of the cuticle)

      Interesting.