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Periodic exhortation to reject mysticism, religionmongering, even philosophy and and most history, all wordcel theorizing, and to embrace empiricism, science, statistics, facts, Anglo clarity, raycissm, humor
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Two charts today: Deposits (1st), Borrows (2nd) on Project 0 Why are deposits and borrows going up across a bunch of major assets? Because there's unsubsidized, sustainable yield opportunities -- with a 100s of millions of capacity -- right now on @0dotxyz I'm not here to
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".. I live with my girlfriend..." "First off, NO weaponized incompetence.. make sure to vacuum!" "... way ahead of you... I want to drive my Ford Tremor into a Oak tree at 120 mph... let the wheel of time pass over me.."
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"On December 22, 1793, having been on leave for fifty-eight of his ninety-nine months of service – with and without permission – and after spending less than four years on active duty, Napoleon was made, at twenty-four, a general."
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In commemoration of Lord Nietzsche's 181st orbital period. 'Thou great star! What would be thy happiness if thou hadst not those for whom thou shinest!'
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Propositions that have the same meaning are isomorphic under the category of language–world mappings.
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Wittgenstein's Tractatus as a "Category Theory" of language where we don't really care about the structure of the "objects" themselves but claim that everything can be known about an object by studying how it relates to other objects.
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"Those sciences and arts which teach us how we may be most useful to the State; for I consider that the most glorious office of wisdom, and the noblest proof and business of virtue."
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How little care the Romans had for abstract "science" in comparison to politics is shown in Cicero's Republic: "Why should [a man] inquire how there can be two suns in heaven, and not ask how there can be two senates in one Commonwealth, and, as it were, two distinct peoples?"
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