@UnlimitedFFG I now immediately want a Command-Villainy card of 8 cost for “Execute Order 66” that uses an opponent’s units against their Force units in play.
Christianity is not a pacifist religion.
Every Christian should know the history of this misunderstanding.
The Church Fathers were less concerned with violence than idolatry.
A thread about empire, patriotism, violence, martyrdom, and loyalty in the Early Church.
I grew up with an alcoholic father.
I never saw my father for the hurting man he was.
In the end, his hurt cost us our home.
He didn't realise it, but his alcoholism taught me a lot of things about manhood.
Here's the top 5 facts ALL men NEED to know about themselves. 🧵🧵
The real irony about Sotomayor's dissent is that US law about ducks is actually incredibly specific. If anything, the adage "if it looks... etc" is the exact opposite of the statute. There is an annually updated list by which protected ducks are classified by 7-8 different parameters. It's over 1100 entries long. There's also a list of explicitly unprotected waterfowl that has hundreds of species, too.
Eight years ago, WIRED was worried that California is becoming too dry because of climate change. WIRED is now concerned that California is becoming too wet because of climate change.
I guess “the science” changed. 🤡
@colemanedwards I don't think that's the wrong take. I guess another question is at what point is any work not just inspired by prior work (as almost all art is) yet still original, and wade into outright plagiarism? Could we consider ML work as "being inspired" by the corpus it draws from?
If any of this comes as a surprise to the executive director of Human Rights Watch, we’re left to wonder precisely whose human rights the group spends its time watching. https://t.co/WYjdl1Sm3y
Mises/Hayek addressed this in the original Socialist Calculation Debate (and their answer didn't depend on processor speed or RAM). Besides incentives/institutional issues, consider: In market framework, today's computers can be deployed to do useful things besides plan economy.