Someone pointed out to me that "Highguard" is a thesaurusified "Overwatch" and I can't believe it took me this long to notice.
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Someone pointed out to me that "Highguard" is a thesaurusified "Overwatch" and I can't believe it took me this long to notice.
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These are semantically unique interactions, especially with numbers. They can’t be generalised. https://isoraqathedh.tumblr.com/post/810219578130055168
Table of Contents for Book 42 (II)
I have completed enough of the book to give another progress update on the table of contents. Book 42 is about to be completed. https://isoraqathedh.tumblr.com/post/810033982325620736
The way this turns bad is that the primary effect may have been so bad that any good secondary effects would be drowned out by the huge new fire that you set up.
Today I am reminded of a strange phenomenon where someone claims that an action with a very poor primary effect is justified by noting that there are many beneficial secondary effects that balance it out. It's the opposite of "unintended consequences".
Specifying extensions
Doing a bunch of summaries like this is good. https://isoraqathedh.tumblr.com/post/809762190979727360
The Shasavic Chord Transformations III - Miscellaneous
A few more things that I can't fit anywhere else. https://isoraqathedh.tumblr.com/post/809580997401296896
The naïve (cheap, easy, canonical) way of doing it would obviously be Bad Privacy, so in that sense yes it would be bad. The only thing I would say to that is that it is at least better than random private companies having it.
Not every "government" is American, you know. As I understand it, the governments I'm talking about /already/ have a master database of everyone they rule over (mandatory ID cards, &c.), so nothing has changed privacy-wise.
All this age verification nonsense can be averted if the *government* would set up the age verification infrastructure themselves and just have the people that *they legislate* need age verification to hook into them. But they won't do that because money or something.
Confession: in my head, I bracket "Starknights" like "[Stark][nights]", so the K is pronounced.
Flag of Ghosciemarty Schwisseigh
It's Suisei from Temu. https://isoraqathedh.tumblr.com/post/809399804188852224
Thus, whenever someone says that doing something increases or decreases risk, following up with "the risk of what?" often gives you more insight as to what the point of the exercise is.
Most of the time, it is easy to figure out what the corresponding danger is. A driving instructor's "risk" can only be that of a collision. A businessman's is usually legal consequences or loss of profits. In complicated situations, especially when one gets into the weeds of business, it is not.
"Risk" is not by itself a dangerous thing. We wish to avoid something happening, which is a /risk/ of something happening. When that something is not specified, a new problem where "risk avoidance" becomes undirected shows up.
I don't like it when people say "risk". It abstracts a lot of dangers into a single thing. Since people use it a lot, it's undeniable that it is an abstraction that makes sense to a lot of businesses. However,
(Guess who this is, by the way)
(cylinder C_1) (cubic Kë) (spade Q) (trophy 0) | (omega S)
None of these <del>words</del> <ins>topic symbols</ins> are in <del>the Bible</del> <ins>my original vision for the idea of topic symbols</ins>
People think of "capitalism" the way they think of "Satanism". It's not a controversial statement; a few would fervently agree with that statement and the statement it comments on.
Too bad.
"Not every FOO has to be BAR" is a statement. Strictly on a logical level, it does not imply "No FOO can be BAR", but as a matter of pragmatics, I think it kind of does, if only as a gentle assertion or a moral statement.
One of the context-heaviest thumbnails I have seen in a long while. It simply defies all explanation without a tome of prerequisite knowledge.
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The suffix -gra derives the name of a province from the name of something else that the province belongs to, in some sense. These names are chosen with a little bit of a wry smile. https://isoraqathedh.tumblr.com/post/809128009589211136
- Love wins
- I don't win, generally
=> I am not love, generally.
Seeing how love has been hard to come by in my experience, it mostly works out.
From the Pacific Standard: '[scientists] warned the minister that if the whaling practices didn’t change, their grandchildren would live in a world with no whales at all. “Your grandchildren?” Ishkov scoffed. “Your grandchildren aren’t the ones who can remove me from my job.”'
The Shasavic Chord Transformations II - Two-part definitions
Writing down the five main names, and giving them more-or-less English translations. https://isoraqathedh.tumblr.com/post/808946818613493760
I got a 5 TB external HDD for bang on US$100. Had to pay in cash though. I think it's a good deal.
The bubble will not "pop" and everything will not return to what it was before, is what I think. It'll be more like a very shallow decline, or perhaps even a growth that is outstripped by everything else.
I think it might be possible that I may be playing too many of those short games where you get a nice result screen at the end to share online.
I may also need to add some more code to support the extra games.
The Shasavic Chord Transformations I - Stacking and Hanging
Making our own terminology here. https://isoraqathedh.tumblr.com/post/808765624469929984
