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hackandthink
2,268karma·1,108submissions·October 2, 2022
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It is a gigantic waste. Fear of Russia in Germany is pure hysteria. Russia is also paranoid, but at least it has historical reasons.
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Kim Philby's memoirs read like a novel by John le Carré.
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Hitler was stateless from 1925 until 1932. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalization_of_Adolf_Hitler …
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Cloud is easy nowadays. There is everything: Servers/Storage/Network/Linux/Kubernetes Experts are still rare but people can learn.
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I guess it depends on the decade and the Bundesland. In the 80s, the Wehrmacht was still presented as a morally decent army. That changed in the 90s, partly due to the Wehrmacht exhibition. https:&#x…
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The largest german colonial project was based on starving millions of people in Eastern Europe mostly Russians. I did not hear about in school. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunge…
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FOL has serious limitations as natural language semantics (1). But with a good ontology you could certainly get relatively far, the authors have formulated it this way: "Correct identification of…
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"But I actually think that what’s going on here is that the West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path. And the end result is that Ukraine is going to get wrecked. And I believe that the poli…
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"If this view is correct, one lesson for those seeking to understand reforms in China today is that the leader, his competence, and his perceptions of how to enact reform can, at times, prove eve…
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https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8669 "Q2. What is a topological qubit? A. It’s a special kind of qubit built using nonabelian anyons, which are excitations that can exist in a t…
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Going by train in Germany is not so bad, most of the time you win the lottery and the train arrives. It should be better but I do not care transporting troops to the front in Ukraine. (the train netwo…
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Cannot find a reference to Chomsky's idea that the human language capacity developed late and suddenly during human evolution. But it sounds related.
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by Carlo Rovelli himself
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We can discuss nonsense. But Hegel is definitely not fashionable.
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Scott Alexander writes very well, perhaps he is blinding me. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-continued-defense-of-eff... …
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On the fringes of the rationalist community, there are obviously questionable figures who may be playing an evil game (Bankman Fried) or have lost their way intellectually and morally. My impression f…