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Comment · 4 years ago
Now let's look at market cap. Redemption is no longer "looked at" but in progress.
Comment · 4 years ago
Not just anti-imperialism but many other political and philosophical opinions too.

Many things in history and politics are dense. It's expected that people will disagree on these things.

But every so often something happens which is genuinely quite simple to understand. This Ukraine invasion allows you to discriminate between those who are still committed to reality and those who are not.

If you cannot understand that countries desire to join Nato (because they understand the Kremlin better than most Westerners); that ex-KGB Putin holding a candle once a year doesn't make him the grand protector of Christendom; that Russians are victims of this regime too; that this invasion was predicted by many (see Kasparov); etc etc... Then I really cannot take you serious anymore.

Comment · 4 years ago
First, at least his big scheme wasn't "fake it till you make it"; it was explicitly and intentionally criminal from the beginning.

Second, I doubt whether serial delusions of grandeur would be unanimously lauded on HN.

Comment · 4 years ago
It's amazing how some people are so optimistic and self-confident that they are simply incapable of learning. Reis kept going for "easy money" and risky ventures until the end. Complete lack of moral character aside, he apparently never accepted that, given the way in which he approached things by cutting all sorts of corners, the fallout from his failing schemes kept destroying the gains from his successful schemes, both for himself and for others.
Comment · 4 years ago
Pls, tell us the answer.
Comment · 4 years ago
War ain't over. Next week I'm going to plant a few rows of potatoes as a supporting food.
Comment · 4 years ago
+1 pls tell us more :-)))))
Comment · 4 years ago
Not as an investment vehicle but as a savings vehicle: it did better than the average 800-year old bond or 800-year old company share. Numismatic premium aside; the gold maintained its value throughout war, tyranny and pestilence. It would presumably also survive a G8 summit ordering major internet providers to block port 8333.
Comment · 4 years ago
...some of which claim to be eye witness accounts, being weirdly restrained in describing the highly miraculous, placing these miracles against a backdrop of great received wisdom and mundane details, all the while sounding as if they actually have the personal backgrounds, sources and motives they claim to have.
Comment · 5 years ago
No it's actually two book reviews, mixed up with the reviewer's own convoluted and confused mind map regarding the words "Catholic" and "CIA".
Comment · 5 years ago
This article seems to be coming from 5 directions at once and I genuinely fail to bring it all together. I see a huge enumeration of various catholic laypeople. Do these people represent the supernatural Catholic Church, the Vatican or the magisterium? And who are these “right-wing bishops appointed by Popes John Paul II and Benedict”? Are there many of these or just a few? What is their exact relationship to the CIA, if any? And how does Trump (following a peculiar “prosperity gospel”) fit into all of this? What is the relation to the Second Vatican Council? What is the connection between a Church Council and the CIA? Does being conservative in liturgical and theological issues make you a political right winger? Is it related to being “impervious to facts”? Could we replace “Catholic Church” with “Hollywood” or “shoe industry” and get a similar article? Help me out here.
Comment · 5 years ago
God desires that we make our own choices and then we are shown that reality is still constructed in such a way that all this freedom and these choices intersect to serve his timing.
Comment · 5 years ago
What are good introductory books for logic (classical and intuitionistic)? For category theory? Do you know any similar representation of paraconsistent logic?

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