trgn
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- trgnspain was no longer a major player in world politics by 1800s, but they had a good 2-3 century run. not sure if the monetary crisis was really did them in, or more just it being the ebb and flow of history. britain's world dominance is long over too. if they did "fuck up", it was because charles v was the first global hegemon, nobody know how to do that, he was in uncharted territory. and obviously no, the merino sheep weren't a better bet long term, that's absurd. global dominion required a cohesive domestic home country to serve as the wellspring of power, not the fractured foedal remnants of a mediaeval europe that required constant war to keep together. and then of course, industrialize early.
- best malick movie that wasn't a malick movie i saw recently was "here".
- atlas remain very high though. so what's different there that they're not eroded?
- what i'm reading here then is that those 7.999999999B others are braindead morons.
OP is 100% correct. either you accept that the vast majority are mindless automatons (not hard to get onboard with that honestly, but still, seems an overestimate), or there's some kind of structural unbalance, an asymmetry that's actively harmful and not the passive outcome of a 8B independent actors.
- Glad to see 2d mapping is still of interest. 20 years ago, information visualization, data cartography, exploratory analytics, etc.. was pretty alive, but it never really took off and found a reliable niche in the industry, or real end user application. Why map it, when the machine can just tell you.
Would be nice to see it come back. Would love to browse for books and movies on maps again, rather that getting lists regurgitated at me.
- i wish JS gurus understood this before jumping all in on hooks and bloating the runtime footprint of every web app out there
- that's great. because those cars trash the city.
- congestion pricing is the gift that keeps giving
- i think less. not sure if that's a good thing. but small little bugs and improvements get cleared so quickly now.
- > Also now using ChatGPT intensely since months for all kinds of tasks and having tried Claude etc.
the facts though, read like an endorsement not a criticism
- Crazy we need studies for this
- german precision shopper
- do people abandon carts there?
- you just explained it, they're not coin operated.
- most of her examples are incredibly patronizing and prying. these are tactless overbearing comments, and they can -if ever - only come from a place where there's already a mutual admiration or respectful bond.
- depressing
- > CSCI 2100: Unlearning Object-Oriented Programming
If anything, we need the opposite of this class. Learn OO well and create tight apps with a small runtime footprint, well isolated code boundaries, and clean interfaces.
- this shouldn't exist at all. if people don't know that junk food is unhealthy, no amount of adding signage is going to correct that.
- you're not applying for .net analyst at midwest regional bank corp.
- i am totally an advocate of the 15 minute city, but the strike thing is a genuine problem, it's total blackmail. yes, they are asking for better working conditions, but then you look into the details and it's because early retirement age has been raised from 56 to 58 and days off have been reduced from 28 to 26. that sort of thing cannot be indulged. i'm getting to an age where i know seniors in my european side of the family that have been retired longer than they have worked, but insist they deserve their yearly vacation. that social contract meme is real.