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duh, the richest people have the money...

One more step towards the apocalypse 8-/

> Look What They've Become

Another shit hole of insider trading...


International shipping is the #1 spreader of marine invasive species.

1/2 of all shipping, is shipping oil 8-/

Spreading invasive species is just one more way that oil is destroying our natural environment.


Flock had credibility?

I'm hesitant to say...

> All democracies run on the honor system

That's total bullshit.

Democracy runs on the equal application of the rule of law.

Of course, no democracy is perfect. The degree of imperfection can be measured in how much they run on the honor system...


> Democracy runs on the equal application of the rule of law.

And how exactly do we maintain equal application of the rule of law? We put honorable people in the position of applying the law. The honor system.


> And how exactly do we maintain equal application of the rule of law?

Transparency and constant monitoring.

To understand how to run an organization without trust, think like a capitalist.

Does a bank function because of honesty?

No, everyone is watching everyone else, all the time.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Fargo_cross-selling_scan...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_mortgage_crisis

Turns out banks run on trust and honor too. I personally know people who got loans because of knowing the right person not their credit score.

But even if banks did run on transparency and accountability, which they don’t, governments aren’t banks. You can’t double-entry your way to equal application of the law. Transparency and accountability are good things, but they are bolsters for the honor system.


I'm pretty sure they just did...

A rebuttal would spend some time trying to make a case, this is a petulant complaint.

One person's petulant complaint is another person's rebuttal.

I think what you're really saying is you don't agree with OP's perspective...


Is this riffing on Strunk and Whites: The Elements of Style?

Often referred to as "The Little Book".


Most likely not: “The Little Book of …” has been a publisher’s standby since the nineteenth century (at least).


There are several "Libellus de Miraculis" (Little Book of Miracles) of different saints from the 12th century!


I thought the title was an homage to François Fleuret's Little Book of Deep Learning.

https://fleuret.org/francois/lbdl.html


I'm assuming it's more in line with The Little Schemer series of books (https://felleisen.org/matthias/BTLS-index.html) or maybe the little book of deep learning (https://fleuret.org/francois/lbdl.html)?


Proobably the later.


definitely the latter, it is even referenced in the foreword:

> Its goal is not to be exhaustive, but rather minimalist and easy to read. For this reason, it follows the format of The Little Book of Deep Learning [Fleuret 2023]. Its tone, however, is closer to that of a blog post, as the book is built around a single narrative thread. Its structure broadly follows that of Sutton and Barto’s Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction [Sutton et al. 2018], which remains the canonical reference on the subject.


No, it's _obviously_ homage to the Little Liddel[0].

0. https://archive.org/details/lexiconabridgedf00liddrich


The Little Schemer, The Little Typer, The Little Reasoner, The Little Proover The Little MLer ...

It has been going on for a while in Lispy land


My mind immediately went to the "Li'l Bastard General Mischief Kit" from The Simpsons.

https://imgur.com/zMTEE


Love that masterpiece


So much of the terse, utilitarian, DJB Way was overpowered by bloated corporate crap 8-/

One still functional example exists in voidlinux's init system.

There was never any need for systemd 8-/

Except leveraging RedHat/IBM's domination of the linux user space ecosystem...


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