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Maybe an observer of the mass media from the last few decades would conclude that making fun of Islam sometimes results in murder/mass murder, but making fun of those other religions never does. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo_shooting
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-...
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." Sorry, I should've used a more objective phrase than "surprisingly large". I meant, I would have expected the group would have been crushed and noone heard about them around Germany during the war, let alone overseas, when instead, well, reading those two pages I was surprised, and gratified, by the impact they had, during WWII in Germany and around the world, and ever since. What else could my comment mean?!
> Of course that was right after Stalingrad
"Of course" is never a helpful phrase I think, except for patting oneself on the back. What is this, Peep Show?! I can't help hearing that in David Mitchell's voice. e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApslS7RKxYA
"Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development
We have heard about new ways of developing software by paying consultants and reading Gartner reports. Through this we have been told to value:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools and we have mandatory processes and tools to control how those individuals (we prefer the term ‘resources’) interact
Working software over comprehensive documentation as long as that software is comprehensively documented
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation within the boundaries of strict contracts, of course, and subject to rigorous change control
Responding to change over following a plan provided a detailed plan is in place to respond to the change, and it is followed precisely
That is, while the items on the left sound nice in theory, we’re an enterprise company, and there’s no way we’re letting go of the items on the right."
There's a lot more information about her group on this page. They seem to have had a surprisingly large impact even during WWII, in Germany and internationally.
p.s. The 2005 German movie Sophie Scholl: The Final Days is about the group's last 6 days.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0426578/ hash: 145cc9a0ee6337cc2fce407f930e7d71842d9272
Hammock Driven Development, Rich Hickey, Closure Conj 2010
"women in countries with higher gender inequality are simply seeking the clearest possible path to financial freedom. And typically, that path leads through STEM professions."
https://archive.org/details/myphilosophicald0000russ/page/21... (must be 'borrowed' to read)
There's a whole other chapter on Wittgenstein, The Impact of Wittgenstein.
https://archive.org/details/myphilosophicald0000russ/page/11...
Gee, Nietzsche's opinions of almost everyone go well past the libel border, and that's no exaggeration.
Russell's History is a good read, lots of good jokes as usual, but there are much fairer and more accurate histories of philosophy. e.g. I like Copleston's multi-volume History of Philosophy, or reading in the Stanford encyc of philosophy on particular topics/people. https://plato.stanford.edu/
My favourite historical philosophy book is Santayana's Egotism in German Philosophy[0], which covers from Leibniz to the Nazi philosophy - and was written in 1916! Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche etc. Santayana's sense of humour is much more gentle than Russell or Nietzsche's, more a wise twinkle in his eye. For example, Ch.2 The Protestant Heritage begins:
"The German people, according to Fichte and Hegel, are called by the plan of Providence to occupy the supreme place in the history of the universe. A little consideration of this belief will perhaps lead us more surely to the heart of German philosophy than would the usual laborious approach to it through what is called the theory of knowledge."
- comedic genius. He wrote other great historical surveys, e.g. Winds of Doctrine and Character and Opinion in the U.S. When I read him, on Emerson or Nietzsche, say, I'm always amazed how he puts his finger on the crux of the matter so elegantly, and describes so clearly what others can't even see.
[0] https://archive.org/details/egotismingermanp48431gut
(Am a huge fan of both Russell and Nietzsche, they're both among my favourite writers of prose.)
Four fake file systems! (9 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfHpDDXJQVg
i.e. screenshots, torrents, youtube, git.
Not really a great example. People used to say that 25-30 years ago, when the strongest human (Kasparov) and the strongest chess computer were of comparable strength. The article you linked to mentions "Advanced Chess", which seems to have been a thing in the late 90s, but dried up about 20 years ago, and no-one mentions it in the chess world these days. Except very occasionally as a historical curiosity, to contrast with the situation today and for a while now: the best engines, like Stockfish and Leela, are such strong players that even the strongest human chess players would have nothing to contribute in a human + computer team.
Or learn to drive, at least. I don't think lack of a licence would stop you driving in a real emergency.
What's that based on? I can't seem to find any mention (in this translation at least) of what Circe used. Beyond just "evil drugs", "baneful drugs" etc.
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Algorithms
And CLR (in a sibling comment) refers to the 1990 first edition.