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Some Questions
As asked to me by Ramirez.
1) Microsoft and Burger King are drowning in a lake. You can only save one. Which is it?!Microsoft. They have the Millenium Cafe, which, in my experience, contains EVERY KIND OF FOOD IN THE WORLD, and thus XL bacon double cheeseburgers. But, they /also/ have every other kind of food in the world, so versatility win, and ( Read more... ) -
Democratic Dialogue, pt1: Small Parties for Big Issues
I heard recently - I can't find a source, sorry, so it might be hearsay - about a representative of UKIP who got asked about some aspect of domestic policy or something. He said he didn't know. People asked why he didn't know, being as he was a representative of his party and the question wasn't obscure, and he said something like, "I don't care ( Read more... ) -
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Nick Bostrom, Information Hazards
Suppose that hundreds of rock fans are driving to the Glastonbury music festival. At some point each driver reaches an intersection where the road signs have been vandalized. As a result, there is uncertainty as to whether to turn left or right. Each driver has some private information, perhaps a dim drug‐clouded ( Read more... ) -
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Imagine that your life had a soundtrack. Wherever you went, whatever you did, there'd be music accompanying you; nobody would really 'notice' it per se, it'd just be there and people would hear it and feel it, yourself included. Always appropriate, up with your highs, down with your lows. As if your life were a movie ( Read more... ) -
Poem meme
As directed by dash_hub .
OZYMANDIAS
I met a traveller from an antique land
who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
tell that its sculptor well those passions read,
which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things;
the ( Read more... ) -
Why is negligence blameworthy?
Just notes for now. I've been trying to type this up into prose for about an hour now and keep false-starting, so I'll sleep on it and try again later.
- We blame someone for something. If it's worth doing that for someone(s), then the something is blameworthy.
- Blame is useful because it points out the causes of problems, and the agents who should ( Read more... )
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and hopefully I don't have tuberculosis
I tried to cook candied lemon slices today. It didn't work too well - they've come out soft and sticky, rather than the crunchy/crispy I was hoping for - but they're quite tasty nonetheless, and now I have a load of sugar syrup to do something with. I'll try again at some point with more sugar, smaller lemons cut into thinner slices, and a ( Read more... ) -
Richard's risotto principles
- Stir-fry some vegetables, and if you want, some meat. It's better to chop things up small. Don't add soy sauce or anything like that, just oil and biomatter (and herbs if you like).
- Make stock. Ideally matching the stir-fry, i.e. if you've made chicken stir-fry, make chicken stock. If you've just made vegetable stir-fry, make vegetable stock.
- Add ( Read more... )
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The strangest morning
I've been awake for about 20 minutes ( Read more... ) -
Quick survey
How much do you know about starting your own business?
Who would you go to for advice?
How easy would you guess it is, and how expensive?
(I realise that a lot of the information about how to start a business is just a Google away. I'm interested in what people's casual, general understanding and impressions are like).