TheNorthman

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by TheNorthman 7y ago
I have ASD and while I've never had any reason to visit "How to Be Random", I've had plenty of use for similar articles on wikiHow. This even extends beyond the social arena one might imagine I'd need help with. Oth
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by TheNorthman 7y ago
> why doesnt he just drop them? Well, that's actually what the article is about. You'll note for example the following paragraphs: > Barnett was addressing members of the House Subcommittee on [Antitrust law] and, over the c
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by TheNorthman 7y ago
I'm not able to reproduce the authors results (nor reliably ANY result) but you're right. Using `strace -c node -e <code>` I get ~630 syscalls using `console.log("Hello world")` and ~620 syscalls using `process.std
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by TheNorthman 7y ago
I feel like people who say this have only taken one moral philosophy class and then think they get to gate-keep the general concept of morality. > "Moral" is a subtly toxic word because it has some vague equivalence with being
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by TheNorthman 7y ago
The proportion world-view has the same problem. If you kill everyone but one person, they can't be exploited by other people.
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by TheNorthman 7y ago
It's crazy to to think that people are still suggesting people to "study history", as though history is a homogeneous mass that can even be studied as a whole. It's crazy to think that history is uniformly in favor of th
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by TheNorthman 7y ago
I was wondering why there was no easy way to access embedded images on their mobile site. This is so much worse than expected.
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by TheNorthman 7y ago
I think the trouble for me is the difference between rehabilitation with punishment as an unintended but ultimately necessary bi-product and rehabilitation _and_ punishment . A difference, to borrow from Mao, in "motive force",
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by TheNorthman 7y ago
> One role is to help the criminal learn Do you believe that punishment is an ideal way to learn? How do you imagine this `punishment` to be carried out [0]? Assuming you're American: the primary systems prisons have been modeled af
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by TheNorthman 7y ago
A problem with this is that many Imgur links link not to the embedded page (i.imgur.com) but to the display page (imgur.com). Normally this was, at worst, slightly annoying. Now you're forced to login to view the picture. Not only is t
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by TheNorthman 7y ago
Morality differs from legality, a distinction you yourself make late in your comment. It's also a distinction that renders the first two-thirds of your comment pointless. Yes, I am aware of, so called, intellectual property. I can only
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by TheNorthman 7y ago
Is there anyway he can get the stolen items back though? He should either go to the police and request them to help him get the stolen items back. Or maybe talk to his insurance company, they might help to compensate him for the loss. But a
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by TheNorthman 7y ago
"extreme pragmatism" is still an ideology, whether you admit it or not. The claim that anything can even be "pragmatist" is so meaningless to be almost absurd. Who is not a pragmatist? Who could possibly insist on the im
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by TheNorthman 7y ago
Spain has 30 days required paid leave. In Denmark 25 is required, most IT workers have 30, some (e.g I) have 35. Spain has a 40 hour work week, Denmark has a 37.5 hour work week. Yes the numbers don't add up to OPs claim. Yes, it'