MrMcCall

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by MrMcCall 2y ago
If most people were decent human beings and only moderately selfish, the world's governments and UN would work much, much differently than they do now. As well, America's recent election would have gone much differently. Ignorance
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Being compassionate to selfish folks means demonstrating and teaching them the fundamental nature and utility of universal compassion. Each person has the free will to be as selfish or selfless as they wish. Maybe they've never been ed
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
The intensity of world events is nature's way of separating the wheat from the chaff. As Maya Angelou said, "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." It is really difficult for us to see people who a
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
'Functional' reasons are in the eye of the beholder. Most people work at a far lower level than what a compassionate person considers functional. Nearly all organizations are intrinsically discriminatory, but the only valid (indee
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Yeah, it's just another symptom of the same damned disease.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I agree that that would be great, but -- as a man -- I'm painfully aware of the knuckle-dragging nature of most of our fellows. Unfortunately, our daughter has learned that many women are crap, too, just not nearly as horrible overall
907.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
"I would never join a club that would have me as a member." --Groucho Marx The pity is that most people are naive enough to believe that most other people are decent human beings. It took me nearly five decades to understand that
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Sometimes it's not even inexperienced coders -- it's our own dang selves ;-)
909.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
The problem is that you must understand that 95% in order to complete the last 5%.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
The problem is that it takes a level of personal growth to have the wherewithall to understand the truth of such matters of truth and morality. Put simply, it takes a morally dilligent, selfless, compassionate person to clearly judge moral
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Such info has been lost to time, but there is a weak trail in the mitochondrial DNA, i.e. "ancestral Eve".
912.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
No one yet knows the extent of that 'etc'. That much is known.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Some sources about such claims are more reputable than others, though I couldn't say which parties are which. Interestingly enough, there is only truth in the universe, and the truth is that a bunch of human beings are bald-faced liars
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I would say that when there was only one human being, there was only positive karma, so I would say that there was no negative karma until there was a second person to do something wrong to the first person, thus facilitating the transfer t
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
[Sorry for answering so late.] Some people have been given greater challenges than others. Any difficulty given by the universe itself only counts positively for us, but we have to use it properly; i.e. we can't let it give us an excus
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Hard work is no secret, it's just avoided by slackers at all costs :-) What I'm really saying is that our software development software is missing a very important dimension.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Here's the secret to grokking a software project: a given codebase is not understandable without understanding how and why it was built; i.e. if you didn't build it, you're not going to understand why it is the way it is. In
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
That is because, by definition, their models are based upon the past. And woe unto thee if that training data was not pristine. Error propagation is a feature; it's a part of the design, unless one is suuuuper careful. As some have sai
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
As a peasant, I am only able to see what signs are showing up at the end of the spectrum of consequence, but here's a couple of effects that appear to be making themselves apparent: 1. AI-generated bot posts to social media to affect p
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Here's some stuff I have learned about diet: 1. I lose weight when I add half-and-half or heavy cream to my coffee instead of the usual whole milk. 2. Eating cooked spinach (or other green leafies such as kale) at least every other day
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Thanks for your kind reply. In my occasional explorations over the years, that, too, is basically the gist of what I've gathered. F#, being based upon the .NET compiler and runtime, allows specific targeting of both int size and signed
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
> Is the world what we make it? It depends on what you mean by that. We can choose how we perceive the objective reality we live in. But, the totality of the world is really just the sum-total of results of what we are all doing to it, f
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Karma is a human-only dimension of the universe we inhabit. We alone have free will, a conscience, and a mind capable of discerning right and wrong, thus we alone lose and/or gain karma.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I wouldn't say this around your grandpa ;-)
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I'm not talking about physical things. I'm only talking about our inner world, where the sowing and reaping are connected across time in varying ways according to the designs of creation itself. That is why I counsel that it is be
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
What country do you live in where there is actual justice? I've never heard of such a one. From what I see, the powerful dominate the weak, abuse the Earth with no concern for future generations, and manipulate systems to ensure their
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Here's a true relation that you can factor into your model, if you'd like, for, though I am a long-time programmer, I don't go in for the study of game theory. I am, however, familiar with some of the precepts. Here goes: Whe
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
In various ways, I completely agree with you, but there is a different level of negativity that is happening that is about the levers of power and wealth and what they are doing to the poor and the planet, itself. When a billionaire or gove
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Point taken. But most people misunderstand love as merely the feeling one has about another person or creature. Love's highest manifestation is, however, an action that serves another person's happiness. It can be something that l
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I've never heard that saying before; I like it. Thanks for expanding my horizon. The nature of human life is, however, that we feel good for making others feel good, and vice versa. We truly reap what we sow, but it is sublime and at o

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