AlexB138

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by AlexB138 8y ago
In many societies they mutilate the genitals of female children. In many others they carry out honor killings when a member of the family acts, as they see it, incorrectly. These are two examples of aspect of society that vary from culture
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Avoiding particular sellers is no guarantee, since Amazon comingles inventory in the warehouse. You can order from seller A, who is completely legitimate, and receive fraudulent goods seller B supplied.
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Our government is actually set up, quite intentionally, to avoid making this possible. It's one of the core purposes of a republic. You can go back and read Plato discussing the exact idea that democracy is dangerous because the poor w
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I'm curious what your credentials are. That seems like a very specific profession.
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They claim this is because of their focus on Kubernetes, but I have to wonder how much of this has to do with Microsoft acquiring Github. That aside, that's a tough slight for AKS.
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A world-class athlete with a near superhuman physique may be the perfect definition of an edge case in this situation.
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Executions were of condemned criminals. The Western world, and many others, mobilized to stop Nazi Germany. Lynching was an illegal act. I'm not sure those really compare to industrial scale ritual sacrifice as a cornerstone of the soc
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And your comment presupposes that's not a valid argument. If you have a counter argument you should make it.
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I would suggest that Abu Ghraib represented Imperialism more than Capitalism or Democracy. But I would also say it's a false comparison. There's a massive difference in frequency and scale.
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I read quite a lot of ancient philosophy and grappled with basically this exact thought. It was a bit painful to feel as though we've intellectually slid backwards. There is a theory that calls that era the Axial Age, which is worth lo
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I've been thinking about the concept of censorship by tech companies lately, and I've come to a question I'm not sure the answer to. Ethically, why is society ok with forcing a company to provide a service they find morally r
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> To have Chinese engineers in China, Brazilian in Brazil and Mexicans in Mexico is NOT diversity. That is the contrary of diversity. That is to have homogeneous teams. I'm curious what definition of Diversity you're using that
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What you're getting at is the difference between Negative Rights and Positive Rights. Negative Rights guarantee inaction, e.g. the government can't suppress your speech or take away your ability to defend yourself. Positive Rights
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This story is possibly about Rackspace. Rachel was a Racker at one point, as was I, and the origin story matches up.
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Those are two separate things. OP is talking about the pipe being monetized. That is an extra charge we will pay just to get to the sites that then monetize via ads or gathering our data.
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> Reddit is a private corporation, these supposed core tenants of western liberalism do not mean they need to provide a forum for racists. It seems like you're arguing with cliches that I'm not putting forward. They're a p
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Good. I don't really use reddit anymore these days, largely because of their censorship policies, but this is a step in the right direction. Free speech is an important western value, and having it available on the internet is a positi
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Nice quality content, I'll definitely take advantage of the free period. The cost to sign up seems very high for what this is though. I expected a one time cost, or maybe $5 or so a month. $290 annually seems expensive for a single for
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Yes, we've been running a Kubernetes cluster on AWS, built with kops, for about a year. Very happy with it, but there have been some organizational pains getting everyone on board. Nothing I would fault Kubernetes itself for.
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The toggle for Remote returns non-remote opportunities. e.g. this dollar shave club role [1] is returned, and is marked as ONSITE in its heading. Great tool. I'll definitely use this. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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Kops generally stays one release behind. 1.9 is being end to end tested in the last week. I wouldn't use that as an example of not keeping up, it's the established cycle for the project.
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> STEM is "how to make a thing", and STEAM additionally addresses "why to make it, how it should look" Those strike me more as philosophical concerns than artistic ones. Art isn't about explaining things, it&#x27
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It strikes me as those in the Arts trying to make themselves appear more relevant by forcing themselves onto to coat-tails of STEM. The thing is, the Arts are extremely important to humanity, and heavy-handed attempts like this just serve t
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Attempting to dictate other people's language usage, especially over such innocuous terms, is extremely condescending moralizing. You ought to consider being more respectful yourself.
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Definitely Epictetus' Enchiridion (The Handbook). A great link was posted below with multiple translations: https://enchiridion.tasuki.org
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For ease, Walton or Dobbin. When I read, I tend to pick up Oldfather.
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I've not, thought I'm somewhat familiar with Massimo through his other work. Would you recommend it?
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I wrote this in response to someone asking about other Stoic writings who, in the interim, deleted their response, so I'll post it as a stand-alone response: I'm an avid reader of Stoic philosophy, to the point I would say it&#x27
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It seems like it's regional, based on replies here. It seems everyone on the west coast gets pretty good delivery times. I'm in a major metro on the east coast, and my experience is shared by a lot of my friends.
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From many conversations, and my personal experience, the reliability of prime for two day deliveries has gone way down. It's generally a day or two before the item even ships in my region. Amazon is also failing to handle rampant knock

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