FD4280
21d ago
The untranslated word in his mind was almost certainly “pidoraz.” He was picturing child molestors where you pictured consenting homosexuals.
FD4280
1mo ago
For the purposes of such an American thread, wouldn’t a merkin serve better?
FD4280
1mo ago
The guy has an obvious personal preference for the welcoming and affurming faction. It is to his credit that he brought up the FAA thing at all rather than accept it as part of the cost (or worse, benefit) of his faction being in power.
FD4280
2mo ago
Kordemsky’s Moscow Puzzles are a nice supplementary resource. Maybe Art of Problem Solving prealgebra.
FD4280
2mo ago
The first episode. The portrayal of the first battle is ridiculous and at odds with the rest of the show, iirc.
FD4280
2mo ago
War and Peace. All those French phrases aggravate me. I already have to lean on a dictionary for Russian literature, and I have too much ego to pick up a translated copy.
FD4280
2mo ago
You can definitely learn to code well if you were Caltech material 20-25 years ago.
FD4280
3mo ago
Nitpick: the abstract says that the effect of home team losses on rates of DV goes up by 10% in the presence of gambling, not that DV goes up by 10%. I wonder if there is a corresponding improvement for victories.
FD4280
3mo ago
Go to db.chgk.info instead of reinventing the wheel. You don’t even have to translate the stuff :)
FD4280
3mo ago
Do modern people generally consider Julius Caesar (whose campaigns in Gaul were probably within an order of magnitude of all Vikings across all time wrt killing and slavery) a monster?
FD4280
4mo ago
If you don’t set the high bar at prodigy level, we have counterexamples in Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon.
FD4280
4mo ago
The tenth percentile of the general population is living off some combination of government aid and crime. They’re certainly not cashiers; even restricting to college students, the tenth percentile will not have the work ethic or the numeracy for this.
FD4280
4mo ago
There’s a Roald Dahl short story with a similarly structured (much tamer but profoundly uncomfortable) punchline.
O. Henry’s “Gift of the Magi” comes to mind, too, but that one is heartwarming.
Bach - pretty much everything, but the catalog #1052 keyboard concerto stands above the rest. Glenn Gould is a wonderful choice here.
Mozart - Sonata #8, symphonies #25 and 40. Probably anything else he composed in minor key is brilliant too.
Beethoven’s violin and third piano concertos. Appassionata. Symphonies 5 and 7.
Schubert’s Death and the Maiden.
Chopin’s first piano concerto.
Grieg’s piano concerto.
Dvorak’s cello concerto.
Sibelius’s violin concerto. You want Oistrakh’s recording.
Shostakovich’s 5th symphony.
Sviridov’s Snowstorm suite.
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