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You cannot fight destiny. “In the roulette of geographies, the US won the jackpot. Whoever held that land would become a world power. It was the inevitable empire.” https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/world-chessboard

You can simulate history in many ways. “armies are recruited from pops; each regiment in your army is directly tied back to the pop that supports and reinforces it. If the pop is radicalized, so is the unit. If the… Read More »Collections: Teaching Paradox, Victoria II, Part I: Mechanics and Gears

You can also cheat in life. “Most systems can be viewed at multiple levels. There is a superficial system which pretends to be made of one thing (walls, hens). But actually, it is really made of something else (bits, memory… Read More »How to walk through walls

You cannot avoid politics. “The most brilliant technical solution is worthless if you can’t get the people around you to adopt it.” https://hodgkins.io/blog/quiet-influence-a-guide-to-nemawashi-in-engineering/

Wag the dog. “The transformation of superintelligence from internet philosophy to boardroom strategy represents one of the most successful ideological campaigns of the 21st century. Tech executives who had previously focused on quarterly earnings and user growth metrics began speaking… Read More »The Politics Of Superintelligence

But it is not. “Geography is not destiny.One way to put it: Geography is the hardware, our institutions are the software. When both work well, a country is unstoppable. With bad hardware but intelligent software, a country can go far.… Read More »Argentina Could Be a Superpower

Ancient people dressed nice. “Seneca’s comment that legislation mandating a ‘uniform’ for enslaved persons at Rome was abandoned for fear that they might realize their numbers, the clear implication being that it was often impossible to tell an enslaved person… Read More »Collections: Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part IVa: Dyed in the Wool

History is fun.

Salary and Occupation surprised me with surgeons making more than CEOs.

Zaujímavé informácie o stavbách všeobecne. “Tehlové stavby majú výhody skôr z iných ako zo statických dôvodov. Tehly majú podstatne menšiu únosnosť ako betón. Steny preto musia byť hrubšie, čo prináša omnoho lepšie tepelnoizolačné a predovšetkým akustické vlastnosti. Nízka zvukovoizolačná schopnosť… Read More »To, že sa blíži koniec životnosti panelákov, nie je problém. Ak sa budú búrať, nebude to pre statiku