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Slightly ot or maybe not, the educational inflection point was deep in the mid of the Cultural Revolution, which suggests that mass rustications are indeed situations to look into..

(The mechanism is probably that STEMish rusticants began to selforganize learning centres)

COVID might have already started the process of Montanacation — elite diffusion to the hills —for the US (tho 2024 might actually reverse it)

For russians so far, the conscripts are so far drawn disprop from the lows; the tops prefer to emigrate/stay out of the country, so wait a bit.

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> the conscripts are so far drawn disprop from the lows

Is it still true that bit-wranglers are exempt from conscription?

(in any event, one would hope that bitwrangling would pay well enough to provide anti-conscription cabbage?)

> the tops prefer to emigrate

Is that what Proshay elita![0] is about?

In the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_emigration#Controversy department, I was impressed that Urgant[1] preferred losing his show over retraction.

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfhV0Sew0j4

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WQIW7aK5Bk

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njHNHbK9jDI#t=75s

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Acemoglu interview: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42129332

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Re: your question about the commutative in PC, and maybe “Harmonic analysis” #DiOs (Do-it-Ourselves)

(TIL, while trying to answer in my own words)

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

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Re: ikigai & magic/yuurei & contraints

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faddeev–Popov_ghost#Footnotes

[hokusai said? But painted a few lone wranglers in 甲斐 province]

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Re: Leningrad MTV & Russians

1) Intentionally not hiring locals for NPC role, out of respect for hosts or irony? Drink is Hainanese coconut? Visually refined + verbally profane, such Pansclavonia!

2)nomenklatura/engineers, could keep their kids away from lows as far back as 1950s, or even earlier. Military still more effective diffusive optimizer in AG’s time? Or further back, the Minimes.

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Proto response to econ rot

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42116704

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I should pay more attention to the credits. There's a lot of soft-power country-checking in RU clips, eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps_Kqeo_tvU#t=180s , or the entire Masha i Medved series, in which it's pretty easy to guess who the panda, tiger, etc. refer to (although the "asiatic" black bear is a little indirect). At this point I've collected BR, IN, & CN refs, just missing ZA. (or maybe I've just missed it, because my Boer-fu is also nonexistent)

EDIT: and I have to give props to HONK FU! The hand-drawn motion blur is a nice touch; who has the time for that these days?

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>Given the above signs of signaling, Caplan argues in ch. 5–6[1] that the selfish return to education is greater than the social return to education, suggesting that greater educational attainment creates a negative externality (p. 198[1]). In other words, status is zero-sum; skill is not (p. 229[1]).

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Minimes as in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvUPGLwebAI ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Minims#Paulaner_brewe... )? I'd originally thought ca 1789 but found nothing

There ought to be a way to cross Gogol's Dead Souls with Pauli–Villars ghosts, but both my po*-russki-fu and my unitarity-fu are too weak.

(unitarity keeps things group-like; semigroups/monoids have an "arrow" in that they make irreversible transitions between J-classes; could it be easier to generalise to the latter than to add ghosts?)

* TIL the waste material from copra harvests gets sold for hydroponic use. Is the appearance of the 水耕龍 an auspicious portent for grow rooms?

EDIT: two important differences education-wise here: (a) kids can signal reasonable intelligence and high conscientiousness through vocational school (although a son of my former landlords started on this route, then swapped to the university track after encouragement by his coworkers), and (b) it's way more difficult to set up a degree mill, because kids have to test into becoming eligible for university and the resulting support.

(Upon reflection: I had a career advantage due to my sheepskin's branding being high intelligence, meh conscientiousness, and low conformity; somehow here I am at the other end of my career still faithfully signalling those same weights on HN)

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EDIT: The Minims: i saw somewhere that Brienne was run by monks..

ive unfortunately (ego quoque!) degenerated to link/comment taiji for now,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42134920

A way to resolve the elite defo conundrum by separating out the laptop class (but merging car dealers into the working class?)

>as a dean i was … sitting under … swords while being perceived as the sword…

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faddeev–Popov_ghost#Appearance...

are these triangles determinate, or is there a search process involved?

(maybe I ought to be looking for "ghost faces" that'd simplify my existing edge & vertex model of computation?)

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What about a self-organised criticality mobile of threads and swords with smaller swords hanging from them by (beams and) threads; usually just the daggers are dropping on the poors, but every once in a while one of the top threads fails and entire polearms or scythes descend upon a populace?

Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Fry_Richardson#:~:text=h...

(had Lenin been less confident in world revolution, could he have asked creditors to take a haircut on their Imperial Russian bonds?)

Lagniappe: https://gagosian.com/media/images/exhibitions/2009/alexander...

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> (The mechanism is probably that STEMish rusticants began to selforganize learning centres)

One would think widespread smartphones would help with this? Stuff that in my childhood was only available in university towns is now accessible to almost anyone with an aptitude and an interest...

EDIT: Did Pioneer Houses ever do STEM? "What you've learned, teach a buddy" was a nice slogan...