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I initially bounced off the parts of this essay that deal with the theory of ideas and assumed that part was just a tangent to spice up an overlong typology of crises but on coming back to it after reading some Hume I consider the theory of ideas articulated here is an excellent start to treating the method of creating new ideas mechanically as a process to conduct step-by-step.

The phrase "ideas are cannibals" implies that we should think of new ideas we have as eating old ideas we have, but that's a myopic reading, even if the syntax suggests it. Ideas that we have can eat ideas that anybody else has, anybody else's market share, anybody else's PMF.

If you haven't read the link and are confused by the content of this comment, rest assured it makes a lot of sense in context.

The book you want in this case is Gross, Yellen & Anderson, Graph Theory and its Applications, 3rd Edition.

There are plenty of ways to get a copy.

Part of the purpose of rigorous education is to make sure that students are competent for the academic labor force, but that's only half of the story. The other purpose is to preserve existing knowledge and prevent its loss to the force of entropy eating away at texts, files and neurons. If there's no preservation of knowledge in the academic form anymore we have no choice but to rely on AI, which has a massive downside:

In the event that the cascading metal mining yield declines aren't solved by new tech and we do lose AI, we are now in the state that we will probably also lose calculus, liberalism and the ability to design a steam engine.

Everybody with any interest in their work not being ephemeral and out of their control should self-host it and syndicate it elsewhere. I believe the acronym other prosyletisers of this approach use is POSSE but what's important is that the idea is made into a consistent best practice.

Costs aren't just up on the shocks of this year. The daily production of all diesel and jet fuel per capita has been declining month on month since 2008.

The per capita part is very important to explaining the figure, don't ignore it, but if you break oil (and related products like kerogen, bitumen and NGL) into light, medium and heavy we hit peak medium oil in 2008.

"You're going to begin to see demand destruction based on the pricing environment." - Bob Jordan, CEO of Southwest Airlines, April 23rd

Wouldn't this be attributable to the change in international agreements about bunker fuel composition to have massively less sulfur?

The UK populace has immense opposition to Westminster's handling of the events because of a great lack of transparency.

If they were told the truth (that the country has to do what the White House says or else the new blackshirts do to Downing Street as they've recently rehearsed in Southampton, Belfast, Rotherham and Hull, plus the UK police and troop numbers are too small to affect the outcome) they could start to think more realistically about the situation.

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