Why limit yourself to log base 10? Gi log base 2 anD you have almost 10 orderS of magnitude! (Please remember that on a log scale, different bases are just different linear scalings, and really have no intrinsic meaning.)
Bruce: Ludendorf’s WWI ‘War Communism’ and Marxist-Leninism rhyme.
Bob Sykes: There is no question that National Socialism is s form of socialism. Just ask G. B. Shaw or Time. One of the differences among socialisms is how they treat the national issue. Marxists are doctrine internationalists, and they used to maintain that the only distinguishing characteristic among people that really counts is economic class. That position seems to have been abandoned during WW I, because the proletariat turned out to be nationalists. Fascism and Naziism valorate the nation (or more...
Isegoria: It doesn’t appear to come from either Dracula or The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces.
Isegoria: I suppose I should have linked to my fourth Critical Chain post, which addresses multi-tasking.
Gaikokumaniakku: “The trail I walked lacked the geometric and artificial precision of the grand boulevards of the Städte I would later come to know so well. Here Nature did not bend to Man with such frequency or slavishness, but rather the two seemed to bend around one another at regular intervals, a grant of mutual dignity prevailing between the two. Here the paths wound around and through the hills, according to how the land pulled a man’s steps hither or thither. It was by this road, made by Man but...
Gaikokumaniakku: I’m a simple man. I see Goldratt, I feel compelled to wade into the comments section, even if I have little to add that the author has not already said. Overproductive workers who produce subassemblies are an example of physical constraints of part storage. Real-world factories don’t have infinite buffer space to store subassemblies. Overproduction is a problem for many reasons, but if we had some kind of Star-Trek-tier space warp for infinite storage, overproduction would be...
W2: Do two people looking at the same place see the same sprite?
Bob Sykes: This is US/UK/EU propaganda. Prior to the coup of 2014 that removed Ukraine’s democratically elected and legitmate president, Yanukovich, and that replaced him with the current paleo-Nazi junta, over 90 of Crrimeans were ethnic Russians, and they voted to join Russia. The vote was unauthorized, but there is no doubt it was accurate. The Russian military did not invade Crimea. They were already there by treaty. And Crimea (and all of Ukraine) had been sovereign Russian territory for over 300...
McChuck: Predators seek out dark, secluded spaces. Normal people avoid dark, secluded spaces. It really is that simple. There’s a reason parking garage stairwells are now built with top to bottom windows. Public spaces are designed with clear sight lines, no obstructions above two feet or below six feet. Remove the places predators can wait in ambush, and crime drops substantially.
Phileas Frogg: Makes sense, ease of access and utilization is improved for everyone by lots of those changes, not just the young, old and disabled. Reminds me of this excerpt: “The trail I walked lacked the geometric and artificial precision of the grand boulevards of the Städte I would later come to know so well. Here Nature did not bend to Man with such frequency or slavishness, but rather the two seemed to bend around one another at regular intervals, a grant of mutual dignity prevailing between...
Isegoria: This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History, by T. R. Fehrenbach, makes the short list.
Gaikokumaniakku: Marginally relevant, but likely to be of interest to readers who may actually have seen it already: The Marine Corps Commandant’s 2026 Reading List.
Isegoria: I think The Dracula Tape is moving up in the queue.
Bruce: “Medicine in the 19th century was in a Hell of a state.” — Dracula in Saberhagen’s The Dracula Tape, where Dracula says Lucy was killed by van Helsing’s bungled blood transfusions.
Isegoria: I felt the same way about Dumas: Reading The Count of Monte Cristo in 11th grade clarified just how derivative most of the entertainment we consume really is — everything has been done better by Dumas, and he did it over a century ago — and it got me wondering why we don’t regularly enjoy the pop classics.
Isegoria: Apparently Saberhagen’s Dracula Series goes on for nine books!
Bruce: The Dracula Tape and The Holmes-Dracula File by Fred Saberhagen are extremely good, and Saberhagen knew the source material very well.
Benjamin I. Espen: Dracula is like the still center around which a whole constellation of pop culture orbits. You can see a lot of things that were clearly derived from it, yet returning to the original is a shocking and even a refreshing experience. None of the derivatives have its power and gravity.
Isegoria: When I read Frankenstein years ago, I immediately realized how little resemblance it bore to the version of the story I’d osmotically absorbed through the culture.
Phileas Frogg: I’ve returned to Dracula many times throughout the years, and I’m always amazed that each time I pick it up I become more and more aware of the genuine horror of the story. My most recent re-read a few months ago elicited the willies on several occasions, a phenomenon that I really only experienced a handful of times while reading. Excellent novel, and far superior to, Frankenstein, despite the fact that they are paired together so often, and the latter seems to be preferred...
Last couple days I’ve got ‘this page isn’t working’ on your site.
Works again. What a coincidence.
Failed again, so I clicked on ‘following’ and I suspect that’s what it takes now.
Congratulations! On to 10,000. I ought to do another Twitter appreciation of this site.
Congratulations, comrade. You could fill a rather large room, or a rather small stadium, with this number of people.
You would have even more if there was a twitter link somewhere on your site, i didn’t even know you had one until very recently.
Why limit yourself to log base 10? Gi log base 2 anD you have almost 10 orderS of magnitude! (Please remember that on a log scale, different bases are just different linear scalings, and really have no intrinsic meaning.)