i was thinking about how dial up is basically your phone literally making sounds to your compute, which the computer hears and translates into data.
could you design a system that used multiple phone speakers and multiple microphone pickups to simultaneously get dial-up internet info to speed it up?
if so, how many phone receivers would it take to get modern internet speeds?
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Saw this, thought it was very funny, wanted to share.
I was listening to a podcast about the Mayor of Nice in the mid-to-late 20th century, Jacque Medecin, and it seems like Nice was really the center for a lot of post-war fascist organizing. Like it seems like his photographer was involved in a bank robbery that was linked to revanchist fascist groups, some of the other people in his orbit seem to have been recruited by Pinochet's secret police, and as soon as Medecin's party waned it was take over the the neo-fascist Nation Front.
What made Nice such a center for fascist organizing?
A Zen Cohen.
I saw another thread that life expectancy in rome at 25 was still not that old, like 40-something, but that people who were 40 weren’t considered old, it just seems like a much smaller percentage of people got to *be* old.
The percent of people who get live to old age has risen in recent centuries, even excluding the 20 year rule.
This makes living to an older age, for lack of a better term, less impressive an achievement, Becuase it’s gotten much more common.
Have any historians studied whether the decline of “respect for elders” or similar ideas had correlated with more and more people getting to old age?
I love learning about world religions and all the ways humans try to find meaning, but one thing I've noticed is that the overwhelming number of books on comparative religion, at least in English that I've seen, seem to see religion through a very culturally Christian lens. Any suggestions on comparative religion books by Jews or even ones without a very Christian way of looking at things? I've noticed even many atheist authors still take a culturally Christian approach.
So, genesis clearly talks about creation as a sort of singular series of events, but I also remember reading passages that G-d is continually creating the universe, and I think it's sort of understood (maybe as metaphor, not sure) as G-d chanting out a series of Hebrew words in a way that always sort of reminded me of that scroll of text in The Matrix. I also remember that in Jewish mysticism G-d supposedly sends out emanations and that's what the lightning-through-a-tree metaphor is meant to get across and that's also involved with continuous creation or maintenance of the universe.
Could someone explain this contrast of discrete vs continuous creation to me? Apologies if I'm mixing up different ideas.
I'm a firm proponent of potato kugel. My wife also puts in a vote for potato.
I also have firm belief that Noodle kugel with raisins is an abomination, and is the sort of culinary monstrosity that gets us white Jews made fun of by Jews of color.
Edit: I enjoy that on most social media, 1 upvote and 20 comments is a sign of a bad post, but here I take it as a sign of honor that I got our people engaged in our favorite pasttime, arguing about stuff.
I've always found Euthyphro's dilemma from greek philosophy interesting. It's an attempt to argue against divine commander theory, the idea that what G-d tells you to do is ethical.
The argument goes that:
Either things are good just by virtue of G-d telling you to do things, which would seem to be a might-makes-right arbitrariness.
G-d knows what's good and tells us it, in which case this implies a kind of abstract standard good outside of G-d, and he's just an interlocutor.
Most of the stuff I've found online about this is from a Christian perspective, and while I've heard some Jewish answers I'm very curious how all of you deal with this apparent paradox. Do you not think it's a paradox at all?
I was thinking about this because I was rewatching part of "A Serious Man" by the Coen Brothers and there's a line that always sticks with me "The boss isn't always right, but he's always the boss," which would seem to imply a belief that #1 is correct and we just sort of have to live with it.
Edit: For context, I ask because I've been pretty automatically suspicious of people on this subreddit pushing those views, as it's been a 1:1 correlation with being Christian not Jewish in my life experience, but I want to know if I'm being unfair in assuming that if there are Jews who believe this.
I grew up reform, but knew Jews of reform, secular, conservative, and orthodox backgrounds, both in my own family and among friends. Everyone I knew basically agreed that the idea of the Torah as literal historical/scientific text outlining the creation of the earth was clearly incorrect, with things like the world being created in a handful of days clearly being metaphorical.
I'd never really run into any Jews who took these accounts literally (as in, G-d just created things in that order in literal 24-hour days). That changed on this forum where I've run into multiple people pushing such ideas. My instinct has been to be suspicious because, for my entire life, the only people I knew who pushed such ideas were evangelical protestants trying to explain my own books to me.
Are there Jewish communities where this is a common view? If so, which?
I gave Cardan tools, and did like, one upgrade, and now it's saying "needs basic tools" for upgrades, is it used up after one use?
Artifact hunting was miserable in the first two, basically being "pick this up off the ground" or "wade through undodgable damage tanking it with healthpacks" in the first two, but now you can actually be careful and find stuff without just dying instantly! So much more fun!
Obviously, chicken and milk isn't literally against the Torah, because chickens don't give milk so it's impossible to boil a chick in it's mother's milk or whatever the equivilant would be. My understanding is that it's against halacha because of marit ayin, because someone might look at it and think it's breaking the halacha, which would set a bad example.
The thing is, modern veggie burgers look *far* more like beef than chicken does, but I've never heard anyone say that they're not parve. What is the rationale? Very curious about this.
Edit: Very confused why someone downvoted this.
I just finished clear sky, and it kind of sucked, I kept hoping it'd get better and it never did.
-The plot was meaningless and had no ending and nothing I did matter
-The faction war was already meh because there was barely any dialogue to make them standout except for the same repeating announcements, and then it was bugged so I couldn't finish anyway.
-The emission system meant I either died stuck behind NPC's blocking a doorway or I sat looking at my phone for however many minutes, which isn't scintilating gameplay.
Is the third better?
This has a subject of universal consensus among people I've asked, but I'm genuinely unsure why this is. I figured if anyone would know, it'd be someone here. Does anyone know if there is an answer to this?
Edit: Someone very intelligently suggested I check the baking reddits, if i find an authoritative answer there, I'll try to update here!
I grew up Reform, but have always been interested in Reconstructionist Judaism. I've considered reading "Judaism as a Civilization" (I read parts in college, but never the whole thing), but it's fairly old, and I wanted to know if there's a better introductory text? I checked the FAQ but the denominational resources didn't include reconstructionist.
This is a story I've thought a lot about and I'm curious what people think, because I've heard three very interesting interpretations of it, and would love to know what others there are, and if anyone else has heard of the latter two of these.
Edit: I'm so glad I made this thread, there are so many interesting ideas and interpretations of this story here that I'd never heard of! Appreciate you all sharing!
Relatively recently I read “The Amaxing Adventures od Kavalier and Clay,” by Michael Chabon, and previously read his book “The Yiddish Policeman’s Union” (both highly recommended!) and they’re both really intensely Jewish books, albeit in different interesting ways.
Who are your favorite Jewish novelists? and what books by them would you recommend? ideally I’d love to see novels that deal with the Jewish experience and the many things it means to be Jewish.
Also, Id really love to hear what you like so much about the author or books your recommend!-
Edit: thanks to everyone for all the recommendations!