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We Are in Need of Renaissance People

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Re: We Are in Need of Renaissance People

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Post by AstralStorm »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #14
hzay wrote: post #10

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> Imagine someone being a brain surgeon also interested in the heart, kidneys and urinary tract, nose-throat-ears, ... that's a Renaissance Doc. Do you mean that such a Renaissance doc this is not a good thing? I think this is exactly the sort of doctors we need. Right now, my father has diabetes t2, high bp, a slightly enlarged prostrate gland, a series of UTIs, hernia, skin rashes and probably a few other things. H…

Is he overweight and/or sedentary? If so, I don’t see what a doctor can do other than prescribe a GLP-1.

You know what a lifestyle coach is? Or a physiotherapist?

A few surgeries, treatments and lifestyle interventions can do it. Though it's not an easy task. And further, not a cheap one. Treatments tend to synergize.

There's so many specialized doctors.

The generalist is called a general practitioner, but commonly reduced to a specialist in ENT infections.

Re: We Are in Need of Renaissance People

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Post by 082349872349872 »

sys64739 wrote: post #12
stanislavb wrote: post #11

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This. The moment I saw Musk being given as an example of a Renaissance figure, the value of the post dropped close to zero. Musk is a pure snake-oil salesperson. A sham.

VDH's career skyrocketed once he became a regular among the RW media, especially when lots of handwringing about Western values under siege is required.

I was amused by one of his early books, in which he bitterly complains about his poor experience in academia: part of one of his bellyaches was that at home he could piss outside but at the university they wanted him to use the bathrooms.

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Post by drewcoo »

saulpw wrote: post #17
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #7

I wonder if the author of this post—and the linked book in the sidebar, "The Case for Trump (2024 Edition)" would consider Trump a renaissance man.

Elon Musk is his example, including: > His new X replacement is an unfettered platform for free expression. And the more the left abhors their loss of the monopolistic old Twitter’s ideological clearing house, and vows to flee X and start their own new left-wing, censorious Twitters, the more they stay on X. So, yeah. (also, hey!)

Elon Musk seems to have two skills: being rich and naming things X.

https://qz.com/1026167/elon-musk-just-bought-x-com-the-domai...

I don't expect much of this renaissance.

Re: We Are in Need of Renaissance People

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Post by Have7878forever »

There are millions worldwide. You can see advancement in technologies and thinkings exceed what we read during Renaissance time. Dont believe me, search for shenzhen 30 years ago vs today? Even the last 10 years Shanghai and Moscow prosper and developed incredibly than any 10-years periods in Florence. Elon is a bit overhype at this point. His cybertruck set that category of tech years backward. RoboTaxi? My goodness like Waymo never existed. Hyperloop? Yeah ot is called bullet train, Chinese (beating Germans and Japanese) now perfected the development of tracks construction even though not yet with superconductivity.

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Post by aaronbrethorst »

saulpw wrote: post #17
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #7

I wonder if the author of this post—and the linked book in the sidebar, "The Case for Trump (2024 Edition)" would consider Trump a renaissance man.

Elon Musk is his example, including: > His new X replacement is an unfettered platform for free expression. And the more the left abhors their loss of the monopolistic old Twitter’s ideological clearing house, and vows to flee X and start their own new left-wing, censorious Twitters, the more they stay on X. So, yeah. (also, hey!)

hi Saul!

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Post by bradgranath »

AstralStorm wrote: post #29
kiba wrote: post #21

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I held a more complex view of Musk and I pretty much devour at least two book on him. He will probably still be the most influential and the most important entrepreneur in our lifetime, and I mean that mostly in a technological sense. But he's certainly not a kind of person I would emulate and not all his business strategy are advisable or necessarily efficient. Anyway, to credit Elon Musk almost singularly with Spac…

Musk does everything to serve his dream. Pity it's a broken self-serving dystopia and he cannot see it. As for success, his skill is con artistry over investors. Also known as venture capitalism. He invented nothing and will continue to invent nothing. Anyone can decide things that do not actually matter with aides that can make things work. He didn't even pick the aides in case of Tesla and SpaceX so does not get th…

^this

Musk is good at conning folks with tales of magic money and robots.

He's vulture capital through and through.

Re: We Are in Need of Renaissance People

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Post by wyclif »

from-nibly wrote: post #24
jgoewert wrote: post #15

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I closed as soon as I saw the picture putting elon as a Renaissance man. There are no great men only great con artists

Of course you did—you proved to yourself that you have a closed, small mind that gets brainworms because you want to make everything a matter of politics. Every time I've posted a story that included any mention of Musk it guarantees it will get flagged on HN. It doesn't even matter if the story doesn't have anything directly to do with Musk or how tangential the connection is—the haters just instinctively flag it, like a Pavlovian response. How utterly surprising.
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