aporetics

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by aporetics 3y ago
Foucault lectured on perrhesia as he was dying. https://www.amazon.com/Courage-Truth-Government-Lectures-198...
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by aporetics 3y ago
When language is a tool, it is a tool like a person is a tool.
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by aporetics 3y ago
What categories of concern are you interested in beyond “personal”? Social? Cultural? Functional? Economic?
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by aporetics 4y ago
From the abstract: > This thesis specifically highlights the value of small, mass-manufactured internal combustion piston engines retrofitted to participate in non-automotive system designs. The applications are unconventional and stem f
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Repurposing mass-produced internal combustion engines (2017)(academiccommons.columbia.edu)
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by aporetics 4y ago
Does it matter if by then we’ve fractured or cut down what’s left of the world’s forests? Deforestation the last decade https://ourworldindata.org/deforestation
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by aporetics 4y ago
Just a note as a happy customer of Puget Systems that my experience working with them has been excellent, they really seem to be expert in their field, and have been for many years. Also, their submerged in mineral oil aquarium computer was
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by aporetics 4y ago
How is this different/better than htmx?
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by aporetics 4y ago
If you want to look at prior art, take a look at org-drill
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by aporetics 4y ago
Read Elizabeth Kolbert’s “Under A White Sky” for a history of how best-intentioned interventions into ecologies have consistently backfired, in each case the unpredictable and far reaching complexity of the system was thrown out of balance.
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by aporetics 4y ago
This used to be called munging
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by aporetics 4y ago
zoon logon echon
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by aporetics 4y ago
So, no pictures
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by aporetics 4y ago
Interesting, but that’s just a proximal cause. The question is what will it take for us all, collectively, to refrain from using whatever is it hand for whatever we happen to desire. Out of respect for what? Most of the time this kind of se
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by aporetics 4y ago
And that’s just another way to say the end justifies the means. Note that, among other things, the power of “the end justifies the means” lies in how it is reductive.
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by aporetics 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusia
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by aporetics 4y ago
I think rock climbing is the best thing ever. In the long run, the experience of rock climbing will spiritually reinvigorate the public. I want more people to rock climb. It’s the knots that are the problem. They take so long to tie, and ev
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by aporetics 4y ago
As I read it, the data about emissions specifically is self-reported by facilities: > We reached out to each of the top 200 facilities (ranked by the level of nearby cancer risk) to ask them if their emissions reporting was accurate — an
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by aporetics 4y ago
I didn’t know that, about Greek plays. Thank you.
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by aporetics 4y ago
Why would you think that technology would make teaching easier and faster?
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by aporetics 4y ago
As a developer of real life messy code (as opposed to unreal life?), I have never found ignoring CS to be beneficial; and on the other hand, deciding in advance that CS is not helpful is hubristic: you never know when theoretical insight wi
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by aporetics 4y ago
For those of you interested in hearing the inventor of FRP talk about it, take a look at Conal Elliott’s retrospective talk in 2015: https://youtu.be/j3Q32brCUAI Especially useful for those whose only exposure to FRP is thr
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by aporetics 4y ago
It’s worth reading Ms Schultz’s other articles; if you do, you may come to the conclusion I did, which is that she is a very skilled provocateur, and always finds just that angle in whatever topic she is investigating. Her hack job on Thore
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by aporetics 4y ago
Lol, nice
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by aporetics 4y ago
Yes, your component is compromised (sic)
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by aporetics 4y ago
Example: Bears Ears National Monument https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bears_Ears_National_Monument?w...
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by aporetics 4y ago
Were it so simple. Unlike buying a product, like a banana, or using a service, like your barber, when you “use” facebook, YOU are the product. You are being sold to companies buying adds. So what is ethical?
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by aporetics 4y ago
Well, that would certainly remove any obligation they might feel to try and understand the Apology
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by aporetics 4y ago
Isn’t the real comparison the CO2/mile of the electric Hummer versus the CO2/mile of a Malibu-weight electric vehicle?
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by aporetics 4y ago
What’s the fallout?

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