robotomir | 2 months ago | on: Tao Te Ching – Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin
I am just noticing how those ideas are present in Wizard of Earthsea.
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robotomir | 6 months ago | on: Why is Venus hell and Earth an Eden?
What if the threat is not environmental collapse but hostile government?
robotomir | 7 months ago | on: Europol said ChatControl doesn't go far enough; they want to retain data forever
Do you think that monitoring and surveillance are less of a problem in the US? In China?
robotomir | 1 year ago | on: Stimulants in Germanic communities of the Roman period
Bronze pipes have been discovered in Roman-era settlements and even earlier sites. That's a long time before tobacco was available in Europe.
robotomir | 1 year ago | on: Diátaxis – A systematic approach to technical documentation authoring
>Diátaxis is similar to DITA
I don't see it. DITA differentiates between topic types such as task, reference, concept, etc., but a tutorial or a solution guide will be a combination of those topic types. Here I believe the focus is on deliverables that are larger than the individual topic.
robotomir | 1 year ago | on: The muscular imagination of Iain M. Banks: a future you might want
There are less than benign godlike entities in that imagined future, for example the Excession and some of the Sublimed. That adds an additional layer to the narrative.
robotomir | 1 year ago | on: Analysis of Greek prehistoric combat in full body armour
I am sorry for jumping on this opportunity to be a smartass, but this type of armor predates the sarissa phalanx by almost 1000 years.
robotomir | 1 year ago | on: ESA report shows unsustainable levels of orbital debris
You can deorbit debris without physical contact, but you could argue the method results in a weapon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_broom
robotomir | 2 years ago | on: 95% of container ships are now going around the Southern Tip of Africa
Not only that, people whose most fertile agricultural land is now under salt water.
robotomir | 2 years ago | on: 95% of container ships are now going around the Southern Tip of Africa
Yes, we might need to shoot at them.
robotomir | 2 years ago | on: 95% of container ships are now going around the Southern Tip of Africa
There is a non-zero chance we are headed for a situation where global warming and sea level rise will make hundreds of millions, mostly from equatorial regions, desperate refugees. It could be that an attitude of self-righteousness might become impossible to maintain. Friends come and go.
robotomir | 2 years ago | on: Acquia, my Drupal startup
What are examples of good CMS software that you've used?
robotomir | 2 years ago | on: Stanisław Lem's vision of artificial life
I would not put him in the same league as Lem. Or Banks or Reynolds, for that matter.
robotomir | 2 years ago | on: The story of titanium
I had a titanium Tissot watch and it scratched easier than steel watches.
robotomir | 2 years ago | on: Large amounts of carbon capture as a solution is an 'illusion'
I'm starting to think some kind of shade megastructure in orbit might might be the only solution to lowering global temperature. I know that light exerts pressure and that keeping it in place would be a major challenge, but still.
robotomir | 2 years ago | on: White House warns of ‘unprecedented’ Serbian troop buildup on Kosovo border
You use Balkan as a synonym for Yugoslav, which is wrong.
robotomir | 2 years ago | on: White House warns of ‘unprecedented’ Serbian troop buildup on Kosovo border
Bulgaria and Greece are Balkan countries. How are they much smaller than Serbia?
robotomir | 2 years ago | on: Plastics are poisoning us
Where's titanium on that scale?
robotomir | 3 years ago | on: Socialist Romania Computer Chips
Sadly, the "everything is bad" refrain which 10 years ago was invented by conservative eurasianists is today picked up by the new liberal left.
robotomir | 3 years ago | on: We Need to Talk
I will assume you're a fellow Bulgarian. At least find comfort in the fact that we've sold billions of USD worth of weapons to all those conflicts of the last 30 years. The part with the F16s is bullshit, as is most of your post.
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