FD4280
10mo ago
A new insight to fill the last gap in my last graph theory paper. It was incredibly bitchy to prove the nonexistence of a counterexample in generality, but there suddenly appeared a bijection with a large but ultimately finite family of strings that could be ruled out case by case.
I’ve had the feeling before (research, homework, Project Euler). The secret sauce is 20+ hours of fruitless struggle beforehand :)
FD4280
1yr ago
If you go by awards, start with NK Jemisin; I can’t speak for the content, but the style is an unhappy marriage of a spellchecked Eye of Argon and concatenated Bulwer-Lytton contest entries.
That said, there is plenty of good fiction out there. It’s just not pulling awards anymore.
FD4280
1yr ago
Somewhere downthread, Kanye West was said to have written some of the best wordplay of the past few decades. Could anyone cite some examples? (ideally text rather than video links)
FD4280
4mo ago
Haley is the same old establishment. Ramaswamy bugs me on some level. De Santis would be preferable if he were not a lawyer.
FD4280
4mo ago
Maximally offensive version: StarCraft-style base trade. They capture Mecca and/or Medina.
Slightly less contentious version: they plop down in a no-man’s land somewhere between the Donbas and the Dnieper to act as a buffer between two countries that both hate them less than they do each other.
Maximally lazy version: they capture a chunk of Cyprus. It’s close by, and if Turkey can do it, why not them?
FD4280
8mo ago
There were a couple of Jewish PMs in early 20th century Italy, and iirc one in interwar France.
FD4280
9mo ago
Apparently there is now AP precalculus. Just go with the flow and make everything AP.
FD4280
11mo ago
More information needed. If the threats are significant and development is high (Taiwan, for example) I’d choose 1, whereas a safer, poorer country like Sri Lanka is probably better off with 3.
Ideology: anti-globohomo, I guess. Different places and peoples require different things from their governments.
FD4280
1yr ago
Meta question: are subthreads disappearing without a trace, or am I losing my mind? I could have sworn that there was a thread here on Jewish power with an eloquent effortpost by Ilforte about a day ago.
FD4280
3mo ago
I can’t speak for the Silicon Valley comparison, but you are wrong on the second part. I’d prefer nearly anyone over Dems or neocons, and actual social conservatives of non-Islamic flavor are nowhere near the bottom of these preferences.
FD4280
4mo ago
Add a rough neighborhood, minimal natural resources, a national language virtually unused outside its borders... I was only addressing the overstatement of its human capital.
FD4280
7mo ago
IIRC the 9/11 impacts would not have brought down the towers without the subsequent fires (from lots of aviation fuel) weakening the building frame.
FD4280
1yr ago
Somewhere downthread, or perhaps last week, conversion therapy was described as akin to the Ludovico treatment from A Clockwork Orange. Let's say that this assessment is plausible. Why hasn't an effective version been developed for some (not necessarily gay male) sexual preferences? Surely there is no shortage of adults who would like to reprogram themselves but lack the means to do so.
FD4280
22d ago
Why are dandelions so prevalent in cities, in absolute terms as well as in comparison to other weeds?
FD4280
1mo ago
Given your constraints, Coeur D’Alene or its suburbs would be excellent (with international groceries, cultural stuff, and a major airport fairly close by in Spokane when you want them).
FD4280
2mo ago
Is there a term for the joining of two phrases or expressions with the last word of the first phrase starting the second phrase? For example:
Mobius strip club
Augean stable genius
FD4280
4mo ago
Most of said capita are either not Ashkenazi or economically unproductive Haredi.
By household. They commonly have households with several working adults.
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