stuckinbathroom
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stuckinbathroom
1d ago
Incidentally, based on your reading, would you agree with the pithy summary that someone else here posted/quoted a while back: “I [Kamala] didn’t not pick Buttigieg because he’s gay—I didn’t pick him because he’s gay and we only had 107 days”
Mark Koran, a Republican state senator and former tax official who has worked closely on the fraud issue for nearly a decade and who I met in Saint Paul, said that millions of dollars in such proceeds were taken to East Africa in cash.
Mark Koran identifies cash being funneled to radical Islamists? Nominative determinism strikes again!
stuckinbathroom
7d ago
the ever-intensifying gender war in China.
Can you tell us more about this? Has it reached South Korean levels of intensity?
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stuckinbathroom
9d ago
Not quite: the claim is that in any Turing-complete language, it is possible to write a program that cannot be algorithmically proven to halt on all inputs by another program written in a Turing-complete language.
stuckinbathroom
9d ago
Yep, essentially you have to give up Turing-completeness to get provable correctness: no unbounded recursion or loops allowed. To formally verify, using a Turing-complete verification language/proof assistant, the correctness of an arbitrary program written in a (possibly different) Turing-complete language is tantamount to solving the halting problem, which famously is logically impossible.
stuckinbathroom
10d ago
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stuckinbathroom
11d ago
Depending on how you define “neoliberal”, not necessarily! As always the devil is in the details—I’m sure some self-described neoliberals would advocate for a measure of protectionism in industries relevant to defense and national security, for instance—but one plausible neoliberal response to a foreign country engaging in so-called anti-competitive trade practices (e.g. dumping) would be “Keep the goods flowing; why should we say no to their foreign aid?”
stuckinbathroom
11d ago
It’s a mercantilist take; as far as I know, the Austrian school has nothing against trade deficits and indeed would support even unilateral free trade.
stuckinbathroom
11d ago
lol, the sigh was intended in resignation, something like “Indeed, it really has been around for a long time: at least 12 years! And wouldn’t you know it, things are no better than they were back then”, rather than an exasperated “lurk moar scrub”
stuckinbathroom
12d ago
sigh Scott covered it in 2013 no less
stuckinbathroom
15d ago
(dowry is a negative bride-price)
Yes and no; it is an expense paid by the bride’s family, but it’s not necessarily given to the groom. In some cultures, the wife retains ownership of her dowry upon marriage, as a form of insurance against her husband’s death, infirmity, abuse, or other inability to provide for her.
stuckinbathroom
20d ago
Indeed, particularly in the age of DoorDash and Amazon, there are always delivery people coming in and out at all hours. It’s completely trivial to tailgate into the building behind one of them.
stuckinbathroom
21d ago
Half-out-of-their-minds meth junkies committing a family annihilation crime of passion during a domestic disturbance aren’t usually that precise. 70 stab wounds a piece I would buy, but not throat-cutting.
Only Imperial stormtroopers are so precise.
stuckinbathroom
25d ago
Southerners would often argue that Southerners could be friends with individual blacks but disliked the black race, while Yankees claimed to love the black race but couldn't stand to be friends with blacks, and I think there is truth to that.
I’ve heard this phrased: “In the South, the Negro can get as close as he likes, as long as he doesn’t get too high; in the North, the Negro can get as high as he likes, as long as he doesn’t get too close”
If I understand correctly, genes are an emic unit and alleles would be the corresponding etic units (since they are the concrete, reified variants of a gene).
Thus, Church One through Church Four would appear to be different surface representations of the thene that codes for “church as a social organization”. Not sure what to call such units though.
I do like the word. Thenetic disorders. Human Thenome Project. Epithenetics. Thenetic drift. Thenetic fallacy. The possibilities are endless.
Fascinating, thanks for the summary! I gather the book does little to combat the perception that Kamala is an entitled airhead with a princess complex from having failed upwards her entire career and having never been told “no” by anyone in the Dem machine thanks to her unassailable idpol trifecta (Black, Asian, female)
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