Eupraxias

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by Eupraxias 4y ago
Chat definitely existed in the 80's. One of my first childhood memories was my brother showing me a real-time chat with someone in Germany. It was 1982. The letters appeared one... by... one... on the screen. It was probably a subconsc
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by Eupraxias 4y ago
Doesn't social media replace meat-space friendships? Is there a species of 'Tinder'... for finding friends?
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by Eupraxias 4y ago
"Without going out of your door, you can know the ways of the world." - tao te ching #47
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by Eupraxias 4y ago
OP, you have arrived at my exact recipe. I implemented it instinctively in 2005, right about when things went downhill. I am sure I am not alone. We have watched the madness from the sidelines for fifteen years. Welcome home. I'll put
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by Eupraxias 4y ago
In the early 2000s, I built wonderfully complicated 'business intelligence dashboards' for a company, which pulled together large sets of data into charty views that could be configured with drop-down selections. It was user-frien
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by Eupraxias 4y ago
I once picked up a very old Loeb edition of Aeschylus, and there was a four-leaf clover stuck between almost every page.
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Have they ever really existed in relevant numbers? Is fiscal conservatism more of a guiding concept than a flag? It is a guiding principle for conservatives - humans who, like everyone, also have other guiding principle which often conflict
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by Eupraxias 4y ago
Yes, and do you see how roughly the same thing can be said about the Democrat party, in that most people have a hard time identifying with either party? At the end of the day, people flip to 1 or 0. Would it be far from the truth to say tha
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by Eupraxias 4y ago
I disagree. I have a good friend who is conservative about application of government (a 'fiscal conservative'), and very socially progressive. She is a registered Republican, and considers herself a "conservative". While
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This device is seducing me to learn new skills that I wish I already had so I could justify submission to the seduction - a familiar, odd loop. Do want!
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by Eupraxias 4y ago
By conservatives, do you mean the same people who believe we should be conservative in our application of government? Are you sure you are not speaking of liberals, who believe government should be applied liberally? Not like any of them ac
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by Eupraxias 4y ago
Both have their merits - though I see a winnowing. My connections in IRC are generally deeper, more durable, and more often result in some creation or production. I have random friends in IRC with whom I've been chatting casually for 2
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by Eupraxias 4y ago
You're not alone - IRC is precious as one of the last places where one can still avoid exactly these kind of features! It looks/fits/feels more or less the same today as it was when I started using it in 1996, and I have nev
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by Eupraxias 4y ago
I think of critical thinking as the art of being critical toward oneself when one is thinking. In other words, when I read something and hear myself think, "oh yeah, that sounds right", there is another part of my mind that thinks
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by Eupraxias 4y ago
Younger, more libertarian-ish me would have disagreed. But humans have changed. The information age has changed us in deep ways. When Facebook appeared, all of the problems that have manifested over the past 15 years or so were immediately
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by Eupraxias 4y ago
This looks like a great project, but after just now trying it a few times for the first time, it's crashing for me on Linux (Mint). I really want this to work - it's exactly what I need. Does anyone know of any similar projects th
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by Eupraxias 4y ago
As an outside observer, I never had the sense that it would be considered fair, or non-corrupt, for one of the candidates to have the questions in advance. To me, when I first saw this news story, I felt it was one of the most shockingly co
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by Eupraxias 4y ago
And here it is, perhaps the actual issue: TED talks. And everything else, that is, all of the information of the information age, including social media. Life for kids and everyone is drastically different from what it was just a few decade