Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Wed, 25 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:

On Tue, 24 Dec 2024 22:40:17 +0100, D wrote:
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Very interesting, thank you. Based on my very basic knowledge of modern
icelandic, and without cheating, I'd say that "Nú erum komnar til
konungs húsa" means something similar to "Now we have come to the kings
house".

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I've got the first volume of Jesse Byock's 'Viking Language' on the shelf.
One of these days, honest. I didn't know he had made MP3s available. I'll
have to download those.
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https://www.amazon.ca/Viking-Language-Learn-Norse-Icelandic/dp/1480216445
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr0gSsI4t_4
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That's a 15 minute video of archaeologists at work at the Mosfell

Hmm, the name rings a bell. I have a vague memory visiting Mosfell as a child, with my parents, for some reason or other. But apart from the name, don't remember much.

Archaeological Project. It looks like a nice place to dig. I recall one
archaeologist working in a heavily populated area, Java iirc, saying it
was incredibly difficult since every place you wanted to dig was
somebody's back yard. They're also lucky to find the mound intact. In the
US many of the Mound Builder sites were destroyed by farmers leveling that
inconvenient bump in the middle of their field.
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Byock is in touch with reality. Many point to Iceland as an example of a
libertarian society; in one of his book's he characterizes it as a society
of feuding farmers.

Yes, the land-taking/settlement era of iceland is often used as a libertarian example. Remember (well, you probably already know I'm sure) that many of the first settlers were oppressed by the king of norway, so I'm certain the last thing they wanted when having found the island, was to setup a new king who could dominate them.
As a libertarian, my favourite argument against libertarianism, is that it is very unstable, and very likely to be attacked from without, or over time, to be converted into kingdoms with serfs. To democrats (who believe in democracy, and a big state) I always argue that modern democracy is about 200 years old or so, and has definitely not been stress tested as much as ancient libertarian societies, and that it equally looks as if it might be turned into kingdoms with serfs. Another line of argument is modern weapons and technologies which might serve to stabilize a theoretical libertarian country, or, it might serve to accelerate its downfall. Who knows?