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[Trong một xưởng hàn nhỏ. Ở giữa phòng có một bàn thao tác, trên đó là một khung cầu nhỏ bằng thép. Trên giá cạnh bàn treo một mũ hàn và một mỏ hàn. Máy mài đã tắt, nhưng quạt hút bụi vẫn chạy ầm ầm. Bảo mặc áo bảo hộ rộng, đội mũ, đeo kính và khẩu trang lọc bụi, nên giọng nói nghẹt qua lớp khẩu trang. An bước vào, cũng mặc áo bảo hộ đơn giản, kính bảo hộ treo ở cổ, tay cầm hộp dụng cụ và một tập…
Cette fois, ce ne fut pas La Fontaine, mais Ronsard que je mis en musique. Pourquoi l'Ode à Cassandre m'occupa-t-il l'esprit tandis que je m'asseyais devant le piano de ma sœur? Peut-être indirectement via une suggestion en-ligne de mon oncle? Toujours était-il que c'était un des rares poèmes que je connaissais presque par cœur, même si je me demande parfois ce est arrivé à ces beautés, les…
I fully agree with Bryan Caplan in favor of Open Borders as an economic, moral or legal issue. But there remains the political issue. The real problem with mass immigration is that of birth citizenship. Immigrants don't just partake in the economy, they change the polity. And not only will the current prevailing ideology not allow a permanent second class of hereditary metics—such a situation…
Many present post-WWII Germany as a “model” for Palestine, explaining how the Allies rebuilt Germany and were otherwise so nice to Germans, after which Germans became “democratic”, and friends and faithful allies of their new victors. That is a very selective reading of Propaganda as History to say the least. Might Germany be a model for Palestine? Maybe, but not in the naive way suggested by the…
Archeologists often explain the reason why (Proto) Indo Europeans and their descendants conquered most of Eurasia, and, eventually, the entire World, is that they mastered Iron, or Nomadic Animal Husbandry, or Chariot Warfare, or Horseback Archery, or some other military technology of which they have direct material evidence. But I can't shake off the notion that the greatest technological…
Tonight, I watched “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” (1966) with the kids. A western movie, but “made in Italy” though shot in Spain with American stars; a road movie without roads, that takes you through the deadly desert, lively towns, and concentration camps; a buddy movie and antagonistic movie together, with a pair extended to a trio; a treasure chase, a gangster movie, a war movie, and a…
Some Libertarians scoff at NH libertarians getting elected as Republican, and showing no respect whatsoever for the Libertarian Party. What they fail to grasp is that if the Libertarian Party ever managed to gain any meaningful electoral traction, at the very next election it would be conquered from within by power-hungry LINO rejects of other parties assaulting primaries with so far unprecedented…
I found in a book sale and eventually read “Trapped on Zarkass”, a 2022 English adaptation of “Piège sur Zarkass”, a 2013 Science Fiction comic book based on an eponymous 1958 novel I read in my youth. The result is somewhat entertaining, yet the thought it inspires me is: Oh how the mighty have fallen. The original is a classic French Science Fiction novel by Stefan Wul, obviously inspired by the…
The myth of the day is that of Man and Machine being at odds: Machine will eventually be created by Man to be superior to Man in every respect that matters or suffices to establish Dominance—and yet, in many myths, Machine will still lack some mysterious soulful quality that somehow makes Man morally superior. And then, lacking that “soul”, Machine will have nothing better to do about Man than to…
Yesterday, I watched Siddhartha (1972), a beautifully made movie based on Hermann Hesse’s novel. The protagonist, contemporaneous and homonymous with the famous Buddha whom he meets, wastes his life, and later those of his lover and his son—in a pointless Quest for the Transcendent. To reject, seek then forfeit worldly pleasures and attainments is not the opposite of vanity, but triple vanity.…
Tonight I somehow watched "Tokyo Chorus", a 1931 silent movie by Yasujirō Ozu. It tells the struggle of a middle class man to do what's right in tough situations: standing up to your boss, not lying to children, eating humble pie to feed your family, befriending and helping the people around you, cultivating community with your former comrades and colleagues. The story is nothing grand, yet this…
I would like to express my outrage at realizing that my children have been propagandized by the despicable organization "DARE" regarding the use of drugs with the complicity of their school. To ingest or inject psychoactive substances in their own body is a choice that many individuals freely make. Whether well- or ill- advised, it should remain a private matter of corporal, mental and moral…
The foundation for the right of mothers to abort: MYOB. Mind Your Own (Goddamn) Business. The only acceptable justice is retributive justice. Unless you're the fetus, you haven't been harmed by abortion and have no leg(al interest) to stand in court. The only acceptable police is to repel a threat. You are not being threatened by abortion, unless your own mother wants to retroactively abort you.…
You know boy, it's a bad strategy to pick fights with old men. Sure, in most cases, you're a muscular punk used to street fighting, while he's an old fool who's got no fight in him, so you'll beat him easily—so easily in fact that there's no glory in it whatsoever. But in some cases, you'll find an old man who has got some fight in him. And then he's the kind of guy who's got some fight in him,…
Leftists constantly harp about the evil of a supposed "American Empire" to denounce US foreign policy. As usual they are doubly wrong: the US foreign policy is precisely not an Empire, and not being an Empire is actually what makes it wrong. Empire is power exerted to rule over the conquered. Hegemony is power without the responsibility of actually ruling to establish order. There is an American…
After some sad news, Jacques Brel has everyone in the assistance sit around, and invites whoever volunteers to say something to turn sadness into gaiety. The group thins down as the speakers are not Brel himself singing. Another group of latecomers forms as audience to the few that stayed in the first group. One of the "speakers" heckles me to speak about Glow . I am wondering what story I can…
In my morning dream, I was inside a computer role-playing / adventure game, but following the instructions in the manual didn't have the expected effect. Interestingly, said manual had funny text alignment and spacing—It turns out, to leave space for extra text that only appeared when heat was applied, and deeply changed the meaning of the text. This mechanism was not only a copy-protection…
In France, there are always enough polling stations. Schools and town halls are polling stations. More people whose ballots to count? That's automatically more people to run polling stations and count the votes. The very notion that some areas may be disenfranchised by lack of polling stations is inconceivable. In France, people must show ID to vote, and must register in advance where they will…
Regarding Slave reparations: About everyone in Europe was a slave (in Latin, "servus" — serf) since Diocletian's socialist "reforms". Emancipation came very slowly through the emergence of free cities, literally the first meaning of "bourgeoisie" — people living free in cities rather than slaves on the land. Only "blue blood" descendants of the conquering German master race who reigned for over a…
People who call for "unity" as the only imaginable solution to violence thereby admit that they are incapable of imagining non-violence towards members of an outgroup. Theirs is the very emotiology of hate they falsely claim to "fight"—because their only vocabulary is violence. Emotiology—it doesn't even pass the bar of an ideology. There is no claim and no attempt to coherence of ideas, logical…
Mes amis étatistes sans cesse me demandent comment telle bonne chose pourrait possiblement exister sans les tas (de parasites légaux): l'informatique, les routes, les pompiers, l'école, les chemins de fers, la musique, la charité, etc. Et pourquoi pas l'amour pendant qu'on y est? Car chacun sait que toutes les bonnes choses sont inventions des tas (d'irresponsables institutionnels). Le summum de…
Alors que Véra apprend à chanter ma version de la fable de la Fontaine, le corbeau et le renard , je m'aperçois que je n'avais toujours pas publié l'autre fable que j'avais mise en musique, il y a pourtant de nombreuses années, avant sa naissance. Voici donc la cigale et la fourmi . Comme toujours avec moi, la chanson suit le texte, avec cependant deux répétitions de vers, pour satisfaire le…
This short essay describes some challenges I leave to the next maintainers of ASDF, the Common Lisp build system, related to the "magic" involved in bootstrapping ASDF. If you dare to read further, grab a chair and your favorite headache-fighting brewage. ASDF is a build system for Common Lisp. In the spirit of the original Lisp DEFSYSTEM, it compiles and loads software (mostly but not exclusively…
"What is the Matrix? Control." This essay was originally written by Daniel A. Nagy and published on his Facebook page on April 2nd, 2017. It is the third part in a series. The first two parts are available here: Part 1 , Part 2 . All three parts were originally published on facebook: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 . This is the third part in a series. The second part is available here , the first part…
Dear crypto-currency hacker friends, I had the following epiphany about decentralizing crypto-currency transactions, into a network of repudiable centralized operations with ultimate decentralized arbitration, thereby achieving ledgers with both high-throughput and high-trustworthiness. I would appreciate you helping me find out whether it is original, already well-known, or well-debunked. A short…