Country Updated 2025-07-16
We shouldn't have countries.
We should have one big global government, with one global language that everyone can speak, and slightly different local laws, so you can choose where to live based on the laws you approve of the most.
Money creation vs tax Updated 2025-07-16
To Ciro Santilli, a key observation is:
The rich are more easily able to avoid the harm than poor and middle-class people [...] they are more likely to have large amounts of non-cash assets to shield themselves from inflation.
Clearly the rich will be much, much more shielded by keeping large parts of their wealth in shares... from this point of view, it is insane to print money!!! Tax the rich instead...
Monster group Updated 2025-07-16
Video 1.
Group theory, abstraction, and the 196,883-dimensional monster by 3Blue1Brown (2020)
Source. Too basic, starts motivating groups themselves, therefore does not give anything new or rare.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail Updated 2025-07-16
Video 1.
The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail
. Source. When a young Ciro Santilli played Worms Armageddon, he almost shat himself of laughter when he first threw a Holy Grenade. Little did he know it was actually a Monty Python reference.
Video 3.
The Insulting Frenchman scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail
. Source.
Video 5.
Ministry of Silly Walks
. Source.
Covariant derivative Updated 2025-07-16
A generalized definition of derivative that works on manifolds.
TODO: how does it maintain a single value even across different coordinate charts?
Coventry Updated 2025-07-16
csvkit Updated 2025-07-16
Lots of features, but slow because written in Python. A faster version may be csvtools. Also some annoyances like obtuse header handing and missing features like grep + cut in one go: csvgrep and select column in csvkit.

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