SOMMS

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by SOMMS 4y ago
Thank you for this article. It is so refreshing to see a level-headed and sensibly epistemological take on the ever burgeoning buffet of sensational multiverse fare. It's not that the multiverse is nonsense (it may or may not be I don
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by SOMMS 6y ago
'Ecologically, humanity has been noted as an unprecedented "global superpredator"'... </sigh>
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by SOMMS 7y ago
It's pretty, but your post in a nutshell: We are too full of ourselves to admit the transcendental beauty and value of our world soooo...drugs. ??
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by SOMMS 8y ago
Yes. This exactly.
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by SOMMS 8y ago
Out of curiosity - why was the above post flagged? It didn't violate any of the HN commenting rules. It didn't advocate for/against atheism/religion (this was explicitly stated), and it didn't state anything that
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by SOMMS 8y ago
Socialism. /thread
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by SOMMS 8y ago
But then there's the small matter that social media doesn't actually make anything better...it just makes a bunch of things worse.
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by SOMMS 8y ago
The point still stands: soldering-iron wielding neo-hippies having an orgy in the desert for a week isn't a model for society. It's more of an indication of boredom in a society blessed with extreme abundance, yet lacking a clea
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Getting back into the web dev – overwhelmed by framework choices
2 points by SOMMS 8y ago|2 comments
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by SOMMS 10y ago
Actually its just the opposite - most folks who invoke 'the universe is a simulation' view this as a 'scientific' way of positing a creator of the universe that is not God. Rather it is a program being run on some fanta
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by SOMMS 12y ago
Hey Paul, Glad to hear FBP is going strong. You may not remember me but I had a chance to work with you many years ago on getting the Java based FBP framework to input/output HTML (ie like a servlet node). Always loved the paradigm, t