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jcrubino | 1 year ago | on: Shakespeare's Game of Thrones Trilogy on Stage in Minneopolis

At Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater, "Richard II," "Henry IV (combined)" and "Henry V" bring Shakespeare's English histories to life with the edge of the seat gripping themes of struggle, providence, and duty. The ensemble cast shines in their portrayal of these historic tales, while bringing a contemporary energy to the roles without detracting from the story staged before the viewer. The content and thematics are strong and especially good for those making "one more, last attempt" at understanding Shakespeare's prowess in storytelling that remains in contemporary times.

While the audience can participate in singular performances, those that make the 11.5 hour marathon performance commitment will kindly be guided in an intimate journey from text book word wizardry of Richard II to the a fantastical dynamic story telling of Henry V that only the likes Shakespeare can reap critical acclaim for in a historical drama. The Guthrie Theater's staged and cast performance does not disappoint.

jcrubino | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2024?

Paged Out! Institute https://pagedout.institute/

# What is Paged Out!?

Paged Out! is a free experimental (one article == one page) technical magazine about programming (especially programming tricks!), hacking, security hacking, retro computers, modern computers, electronics, demoscene, and other similar topics.

It's made by the community for the community. And it's not-for-profit (though in time, we hope it will be self-sustained) - this means that the issues will always be free to download, share, and print.

> Reminiscent of the vintage original Freaker/Hacker Publications, though clearly devoted to one page technical articles.

jcrubino | 2 years ago | on: Vice files for Bankruptcy

Wars end and it must be difficult to convince Simon Ostrovsky and Ben Anderson to stay on or even captain their own ship in the fleet let alone get Morris to do something other than pharmacopia.

jcrubino | 4 years ago | on: Ethereum Fork Fails on OpenEthereum

New implementations are generally regarded as good in the space because they help solidify the underlying protocols and add established libraries and routines in a new programming language.

jcrubino | 5 years ago | on: A Model of the Cosmos in the Ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism

Thus my "musing conspiracy"....

Thanks for posting the link. Much of my commentary comes from past research on Archimedes... so I am biased and amused.

If I recall the founding of Syracuse is by Spartans and Corinthians... Archimedes society cared enough about knowledge that he was sent to Alexandria to study. Syracuse was a melting pot of cultures from the start and the Phonecians and the roman conflicts reinforced that to the end.

jcrubino | 5 years ago | on: A Model of the Cosmos in the Ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism

The Roman were truly a successful agrarian civilization, but became lackluster in progress from there.

They never made an overwhelming shift to mathematical / science based civilization. They took over Syracuse with a mandate to keep Archimedes alive, but that failed. Some scholars say the only roman contribution to math was numerals.

Basically they reaped the profits of empire, and fell into the cargo cults of opulent success, abandoning the prior agricultural based common sense by never integrating new ideas in the Aristotelian domains except for to pay homage to the originating culture enough to collect taxes.

jcrubino | 5 years ago | on: A Model of the Cosmos in the Ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism

Great tip.

Archimedes in the Sand Reckoner cites to be solving on a problem from the "Eastern Philosophers". The problem is also in the Vajra Sutra where the numbers of sands in the cosmos is contemplated.

Archimedes Father was an astronomer.

Great parallel lives material that never maid it into the original.

The Antikytheron is written in a Corinthian dialect, from where Archimdes father is said to have come from.

My musing consiracy theory for the Roman sacking of Syracuse was for the Antikythera from which harvest and thus taxes could be better calculated - i.e. Thales.

But the Romans killed the only guy who understood how the Antikythera worked.... so it became a generals paper weight.

jcrubino | 5 years ago | on: Ethereum Isn't Fun Anymore

The key innovation and premise behind Ethereum was to use a virtual machine to enable smart contracts on blockchains. Now virtual machine interpreters for blockchains is common if not standard. Tough to imagine Ethereum failing any promises based on that premise.

jcrubino | 5 years ago | on: GitHub is fully available in Iran

"Strategery"

If the current military gulf presence escalates to armed conflict having software open to the Iranian population keeps communication tools available until the internet gets cut.

jcrubino | 5 years ago | on: Bitcoin is a disaster

The point is the commenters here on this thread listen to too many youtube crypto channels for an accurate analysis of what bitcoin is and wants to be.

jcrubino | 5 years ago | on: Bitcoin is a disaster

You are all missing the the trend over the last 7 years for bitcoin is to create a digital asset that is a store of wealth. To say bitcoin is a payments system in the sense of cash is to miss the executed tech roadmap where cheap one off transactions is a secondary concern (not bitcoin core's). Listen Saylor talk about MicroStrategy's investment in bitcoin. He is very clear that is a store of wealth and appreciating asset on the books, not a payment rail for MicroStrategy subscription base.

jcrubino | 5 years ago | on: It’s dangerous to think humans have a destiny outside Earth

You would think Trump & Company could capitalize on "This Earth First".

Technology has a cost in that people expect to be paid for their participation in the sector. Economies built on "defense" have huge technology capital in terms of knowledge and skill workers. This begs existential questions on the goals of productivity shared as nations and humans.

Tangentially, if the captains of Space really believed in life on mars or the moon, why aren't terraforming efforts being undertaken as center peices to the master plans to inhabit the moon or mars?

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