I can't remember the name of this theory, but the idea is that any government system can work if the group is small enough. He may have even pegged a number as the limit.

Either way, most people believe Hollywood's version of a pirate captain running the ship as a dictator without knowing that it's one of the best examples of a true democracy aside from some states in ancient Greece.

The captain was sometimes voted on for each voyage/sortee. The person chosen was often the person that knew navigation the best.

He could not believe that ordinary people in the Culture really wanted the war, no matter how they had voted. They had their communist Utopia. They were soft and pampered and indulged, and the Contact section's evangelical materialism provided their conscience-salving good works. What more could they want? The war had to be the Mind's idea; it was part of their clinical drive to clean up the galaxy, make it run on nice, efficient lines, without waste, injustice or suffering. The fools in the Culture couldn't see that one day the Minds would start thinking how wasteful and inefficient the humans in the Culture themselves were.

#bookquotes #bookstr #ConsiderPhlebus #Culture

ah interesting. why is that?

Reading The Pirates of Panama; The Buccaneers of America by Alexandre Exquemelin. The author was a pirate until 1672 and writes his experience first hand, one of the few rare books with direct exposure. At one part he talks about how they would decide together on how much they would split before - starting with the captain, the carpenter, surgeon, common stock allocation on food and medical supplies, and split equally for the rest. Those who lose limbs or impacted health wise will be compensated (amount discussed before hand). Everybody gets a say. The book also talks about how civil and helpful they are towards each other. Way more democracy going on there compared to governments these days.

can mineral oil be used for the cooling?

They all do when off 🙃

if there exist an asic that does not produce noise pollution, only heat, would be nice

#AskNostr I'd like to use AI to receive all my emails at work, and then based on some parameters I've given, sort them, auto respond to some and auto delete others.

Does this exist easily?

My local elementary school rating dropped from 9 to 6. This will obviously effect housing prices and perhaps even teacher raises. so I decided to take a look at the score to figure out why. And it appears that equity is the reason.

Basically black people aren't scoring higher than black people score on average so they demoted the schools score from a 9 /10 to a 6/10. Almost every other category is perfect.

This is deeply concerning to me for many reasons.

Never seen one of these before, the tail looks like a scorpion. #grownostr #nature #bugstr

thanks, good to know

how might you estimate a reasonable lifespan for an opendime? #asknostr

What machines are you running, and what materials? SLA, SLS, FDM?