> Ujiharu’s blind charges may actually have had a noble purpose. Japanese battles involving castles almost always turned into sieges, and those always ended the same way: with the nearby fields and peasant settlements being either destroyed to try and draw the lord out of the castle or looted to feed the occupying army. Some researchers believe that Ujiharu was trying to avoid a siege to save his subjects.
I wonder how he managed to reconquer his castle.
By, uh... besieging it, maybe? Probably?
Now repeat that eight times - and honestly, I’m struggling to see where and how exactly he tried to save his subjects.
Sorry, but losing your castle nine times isn’t what capable military leaders do.
That's not how it worked. Armies had the tendency to eat more than the locals could provide. A region that could feed itself suddenly has to provide for thousands of soldiers.
This is why war inevitably led to starvation.
Possible harmonization of the two ideas: the intuition that we go into math at high school level can help serve us at that level of math. We have some idea of geometry-like objects and 2d-calculus like curves from our everyday life
At university level the objects become more abstract, so the intuition we use in normal daily life may no longer apply. New kinds of intuition may develop but it takes work, including lots of time spent with the formal processes and calculations along with reflection on that time, and the active creation of new metaphors to drive the intuition. For example, I still remember a professor using "Ice-9" (from _Cat's Cradle_) as a metaphor for how proving some local property of a holomorphic function on the complex plane made that property true for its global behavior
I agree both that the concept probably applies to all people and that the title probably is what it is because of the publication. But I left it because of HN conventions on not editing titles
The article largely discusses the band from Charleston to Jax. That's coastal. There is a lot of wealth flooding to Charleston and areas like Beaufort. I have seen it first-hand, although I live on the west coast.
There are other factors at play besides just affordability.
> Drugs, hypnosis/mesmerism, meditation, trance, new religious movements, weird fasting regimens, transcendental experiences in nature, mysticism. That stuff has disappeared from public discourse today, along with many other radical ideas that could apparently just be talked about over coffee back then, without anyone batting an eyelash.
It's all over the place on social media. What gives you the sense that is has disappeared?
What's on social media is memes vaguely referencing that stuff, and cranks congratulating each other for doing it, usually in a "New Age" type context.
That's a far cry from the scientific, serious, mainstream approach that was common for those topics 120 years ago.
This feels like romanticizing the past. There are plenty of people today writing articles that claim to be taking a “scientific, serious approach” to, say, astral projection and people who will casually discuss such topics over coffee.
I may be romanticizing the past, but I have been interested in hypnosis and trance phenomena for 20 years, studied with teachers, got certified, practiced for some time with clients, and have, I may say, a good deal of experience in the field.
The practitioners (i.e., not academics) back then (Milton Erickson, Dave Elman, Henry Munro, and many others) were much more knowledgeable and interested in studying the phenomena they were investigating and applying than are today's practitioners, who seem instead much more interested in fooling people and making easy money than in advancing the discipline and making new breakthroughs.
I just pulled out of my library the book "Suggestive Therapeutics" by Munro, and it is, however naive in parts, a serious and passionate investigation of hypnotic phenomena. It is evident, even just by reading the text, that these were serious people who thought they could make a huge difference in the lives of others.
> What's on social media is memes vaguely referencing that stuff, and cranks congratulating each other for doing it, usually in a "New Age" type context.
This just sound like you need to follow better social media circles. There's a bourgeoning scene around people such as Gwern, Nick Cammarata, Aella with a lot of high-quality discourse on the topics you mention.
Man, I find this so frustrating. Fed should have hiked again and gotten it over with, already! See e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsFX6Qz7y-U (Powell's message to markets was 'confused and confusing': Allianz's Mohamed El-Erian)
It's not your typical "people are leaving CA" story--we have colorful characters like Lance Gilman--a septuagenarian brothel owner spearheading the development, in the desert, of the world's largest industrial park
> The park’s co-developer and lead salesman, Lance Gilman, lives and works out of the famous bordello, a modest set of rust-colored buildings just outside the park’s gates.
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> Gilman, 78, wields tremendous power in Storey County. Not only does he run the county’s main business development, but he also serves on the county commission that governs it. He won some of the country’s largest tax breaks for his tenants and also persuaded the state to reimburse him and his partner, Roger Norman, tens of millions of dollars to purchase and complete the USA Parkway, a large road that connects the industrial park to Interstate 80.
Interestingly, the industrial park served by USA Parkway contains a Google facility as well as Tesla’s Gigafactory and Redwood Materials’ campus. Good ROI on that road.
1) Start, obviously, with legislation outlawing the use of tips to make up for below minimum wage pay (2.13/hr plus tips but guaranteed minimum wage if you don't make enough tips at the end of the pay period).
2) Follow up with legislation and/or campaigns to address the current incentive to not report cash tips - that is, simply put, do not tax the recipient of tips below some reasonable threshold. This is actually already built in for most income brackets, so you need the third step:
3) Simple, free, and widespread education of how taxes ACTUALLY work when you're below the level of most HN readers.
Once those are in place as a basis, you tackle the culture:
4) Use the same targeted propaganda methods currently used at the demographic of service workers (if you ain't sure, ask them yourself what they are into and work backwards to where they got that idea) to make accepting tips a negative. Make them feel like getting tips is anti-[thing they like at the time]. Make tipping associated with incels or climate change or something, idk.
5) Since cash is getting phased out anyway, tax tips more than the service that's being tipped.
> Ujiharu’s blind charges may actually have had a noble purpose. Japanese battles involving castles almost always turned into sieges, and those always ended the same way: with the nearby fields and peasant settlements being either destroyed to try and draw the lord out of the castle or looted to feed the occupying army. Some researchers believe that Ujiharu was trying to avoid a siege to save his subjects.