History is not always portrait correctly in movies. “Period strictures on drinking could get quite vivid. In one Penitential, a monk who vomited from drinking was to do thirty days penance, a priest or a deacon, forty. Throwing up the… Read More »Getting drunk in Medieval France
This is not only US problem but also Europe’s. “[In a war game of a Taiwan invasion], Washington ran out of key munitions in a matter of days…And as a protracted siege ensued, the U.S. was much slower to rebuild,… Read More »Uh, guys, we really should think about spending more on defense
Some hard truths about shit work. “The fact is, countries do not start out rich; they start out poor, and they get rich by figuring out how to make things that people want. “ https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-only-thing-worse-than-sweatshops
American perspective on what is happening in Europe. “The European Commission has been pushing a proposal to require that all European Union states make hate speech a crime. And in 2024, the European Parliament urged the European Commission to adopt… Read More »Europe’s Free Speach Problem
Look from different angles on economies. “Median income will tell you the living standard of a typical or middle-class person, in the middle of the income distribution. But if one country leaves a large segment of its populace to languish… Read More »America is generally richer than Europe
Without basic knowledge it can get funny really fast. “The response that came back was so pure, so innocent, it almost broke my brain: “We’ve never heard of certificates. What’s a certificate?”Now, if you work in security, this is like… Read More »Hacker and Physicist
Not sure if they get the path to solution right, but I thing they defined the problem quite well. “The future isn’t one model to rule them all—it’s hundreds or thousands of specialized models working together in orchestrated workflows. “… Read More »AGI Is an Engineering Problem
Some problems do not have one root cause “this model of accountability demands that we identify an individual to own the relevant follow-up incident work. And so it creates an incentive to always identify a root cause service, which is… Read More »The problems that accountability can’t fix
Did you know, that missing AC is killing more people in Europe than guns in the US? “With this rise in temperature — and the aging of the European population — has come a rise in preventable death. Estimates of… Read More »Europe’s crusade against air conditioning is insane
Is US about to collapse like Prussia did? “The Prussian army collapsed not for lack of courage, but because its institutional mindset could not withstand the volatility of an age that demanded adaptability, political intelligence, and creative command.” https://secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/p/america-as-prussia-in-1806