rbanffy

✨ Seasoned software developer, proficient in Python, Java. Less proficient in Ruby and Lisp. A bit rusty in C and C++. Learning Erlang very slowly. Also a computer collector and restorer, lover of 8-bit computers, mainframes and interesting Unix workstations.

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Argentina is, indeed, quite puzzling. They shouldn’t be a mess, and they should vote better, but, yet, they never get to have a stable period of progress.
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Why is this being flagged? It’s the FT, it’s factual, and we can deal with misconduct by flagging the individual comments.
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He can fly out when it bounces off the fan but well before it splashes on him.
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It has been a prime destination for nazis for a long time. I guess they have a friendly government now.
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And she saved it.
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We talk about them because they are the ones who became famous. If they hadn’t existed we’d be talking about others that would most likely have done the same ish things with a couple decades of difference.
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The right monkey is the one we are reading from. All other monkeys produced equally likely timelines.
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Companies are not people, but they certainly are highly evolved collective organisms that extract resources from the rest of the ecosystem.
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Organisations have evolved to deal with them. In fact, all the rules and procedures, checks and compliance procedures are there precisely to allow the organisation to survive despite its members.
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It was filed under “unintentional allegory”. Or intentional, it’s hard to say.
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When you look at white noise from up close, you see dramatic changes, periods of calm, and what seems like patterns.

Only when you step back, you realise all that drama you read is mostly inconsequential. What will be the impact of Napoleon 1000 years from now? Of Columbus? If instead of Hitler Germany had Rohm? It’s all monkeys and typewriters all the way down. What matters are the structural forces, the natural resources, the geography, and so on. Chances are it’ll be all forgotten in a billion years.

Now, on a more serious note, did anyone else, at some point, started wondering whether the article was really about Wilhelm II?

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