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by aporetics 4y ago
> How would Hong Kong look right now if the population were lightly armed? Let’s be honest, if they were armed and gun ownership weren’t already against the law, the Chinese government would sweep in and pass a law that day and start goi
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by aporetics 4y ago
How does private gun ownership check the government? How would the government act differently if citizens owned fewer or different or no guns? Where does the fantasy that the everyone is out to get you and you had better be armed and ready
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by aporetics 4y ago
Yes. The market is not a good in itself. Nor is it a perfect system.
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by aporetics 4y ago
Most of the comments here seem to be decidedly pro-building-big-stuff. As though that were obviously in the interest of the greater good, and everyone should just get with the program. But the primary exhibit in the author’s opinion is a pr
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by aporetics 4y ago
Yes, that section you quoted seemed strangely incoherent.
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by aporetics 4y ago
Premade monorepos are fine, I’m sure, but My experience is trying to fix a poor development situation that might benefit from synthesizing several repos, but modifying existing setups is extremely fragile, never straightforward, and therefo
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by aporetics 4y ago
I’ve had the same problem.
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by aporetics 4y ago
Well, let’s look at it from a different angle; not the angle of the user or the developer, but as a matter of computational work and the energy consumed by that work. In a single application or even the life of an application all it might b
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by aporetics 4y ago
I’m guessing this is the link: https://andrewskurka.com/guyline-tension-system-backpacking-...
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by aporetics 4y ago
There’s that famous thing Plato said: if you don’t already know Poker, don’t bother applying to the Academy.
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by aporetics 4y ago
Yes exactly. But until this is clear and accepted, these terms are apt to be misdirections—for example here, in a discussion trying to understand how things went so wrong at a leading tech company. Hopefully we can get to the point of putti
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by aporetics 4y ago
> well-meaning, seemingly harmless, engineering-oriented, and data-driven At some point I really hope that we can all recognize that “seemingly harmless”, “engineering-oriented”, and “data-driven” are not virtues.
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by aporetics 4y ago
Is the effect of media on intelligence really the primary concern? Ad absurdum: if watching the Kardashians for two hours a day doubled your intelligence (however you decide to measure that) would you do it? Would you have your kids do it?
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by aporetics 4y ago
Ah. I wasn’t calling the cloud evil, I was showing that working in the cloud poses some difficult questions about how to identify the meaning of the work. It would be easy to defer such a task. (But what would it mean to spend your life wor
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by aporetics 4y ago
The real evil is always in not asking and not thinking about the meaning of the work. If you work at a company because it has a great engineering culture, but the work it happens to make it super efficient to turn babies into cowfeed, you’r
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by aporetics 5y ago
I gave up on getting these modes to consistently format. It seems really fragile and never quite right. So now I just have prettierjs set up and I don’t have to think about it.
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by aporetics 5y ago
> Whatever the full and subtle meaning of “in essence the same” is, Heidegger fails to address the difference in ethical weight between the two phenomena he compares, or to show a path for just political choice. The first half of the a
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by aporetics 5y ago
This
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by aporetics 5y ago
They’re not exploring, they’re creating private, for profit, ventures. Your comparison doesn’t hold.
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by aporetics 5y ago
The reader already knows? Well, what is courage then? Can you explain it?
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by aporetics 5y ago
I would like to know why the data they had been working from was decades old. Was it a funding issue?
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by aporetics 5y ago
Who is policing? Providing and spreading the best available knowledge and trying to activate others’ conscience is not policing. Yes there are consequences, namely the collapse of ecosystems. Decide what’s more important, and know why its m
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by aporetics 5y ago
Awesome!
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by aporetics 5y ago
There are actually consequences to what you choose to do with/to the land. Its not just about personal preference.
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by aporetics 5y ago
They’re animals. Not “pests”. This state of mind is why we’ve killed off 60% of animal populations since 1970. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/30/humanity...
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by aporetics 5y ago
Is any amount of combustion worth making your lawn pretty?
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by aporetics 5y ago
Its all about you.
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by aporetics 6y ago
As a counterpoint: “Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and Its Algebra of Programs“ — John Backus, in ACM 1978. http://www.csc.villanova.edu/~beck/csc8310/BackusFP.pdf
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by aporetics 6y ago
> Nothing in life is free. Should read: every action (including inaction) has specific, inescapable consequences. The question is: what matters more? Is the cost worth it? No one needs bitcoin. No one. You might argue that we need a viab
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by aporetics 6y ago
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