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by aporetics 6y ago
I read most of the comments up to this point and was surprised that no one has mentioned how the system config is versioned, and the boot loader allows you to select from past builds, making it incredibly easy to recover from config issues
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by aporetics 6y ago
My question is not accusatory, though I did frame it quite specifically, so maybe it feels confining. But, in reading your response I’m not sure what question you’re answering. I didn’t ask why people don’t behave differently. I asked the q
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by aporetics 6y ago
Fascinating to see how these comment threads debate the relative facility of different diets, and even armchair evolutionary biology... while conveniently avoiding the critical topic: the choices we continue to make are defacing the planet,
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by aporetics 6y ago
The organizers of Woodstock knew they weren’t going to profit, and they did it anyway. They also knew that crowd control was going to be a problem; instead of hiring police, they brought in people from a commune who were used to doing crowd
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by aporetics 6y ago
That’s not really what “banality of evil” means: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem
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by aporetics 6y ago
Now imagine how scary the police would be if they were the arm of a political party.
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by aporetics 6y ago
At the phrase “societal coming of age” I balked, but I guess the second half is putting the question “which society”, or rather which kind of society can inherit (that is, accept responsibility for) such knowledge? The grossest contrast is
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by aporetics 6y ago
That he got you to try it is perhaps the best praise you could give.
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by aporetics 6y ago
It’s worth the investment. Most his books keep their currency.
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by aporetics 6y ago
Can you please rename “L. Bob Rife” to Ajit Pai?
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by aporetics 6y ago
For systems in which there is no meaningful way to distinguish users (or say, non-returning customers), these concerns are certainly worth addressing. Consider, however, cases where the company has long term relationships with customers; sa
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by aporetics 10y ago
Well, NOW I'll use it
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by aporetics 10y ago
You've just described how most JavaScript programmers write code.
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by aporetics 10y ago
The Athens of Plato's time was a society built on slave labor. They were a strictly patriarchal society (women weren't allowed to leave the house much), and to be a citizen meant you didn't need to work for a living. In sho
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by aporetics 10y ago
After this, its clear that the time has come for philosophy departments to offer seminars in trolling.
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by aporetics 10y ago
Lets replace language with an arbitrary (but precise!) 1:1 token system. After all, etymology, idiom, metaphor, anacoluthon, etc., just muddy the waters of clarity. And if clarity is what we value above all else, then we can ply our new arb
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by aporetics 10y ago
Another mark of the (delightful) complexity of coffee are the different "waves" of modern coffee culture (I'm not counting 17th century coffee house culture in Vienna). One way to interpret this phenomenon is that our taste i
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by aporetics 10y ago
Spoilers don't reduce drag. They produce downforce to counteract the lift effect of air moving under the car. It is only necessary at very high speeds, and prevents loss of grip in (especially) the rear tires. But, yeah, horse and bugg
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by aporetics 10y ago
> The point is we're always a bit selective about what counts as free speech that a principle should be applied differently in different situations is the very the definition of wisdom reaching back to dawn of philosophy, (which by
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by aporetics 11y ago
For all the reasonable concerns about government overreach & abuse of power, (and without getting into the principles underwriting their power, i.e., that they work for us) government incompetence it just as compelling to me as a reason
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by aporetics 11y ago
dockerhub images
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by aporetics 11y ago
Yes. It's not Kik's fault. Yes. I'm glad that we have a moment when we can try to discuss and influence how this problem will be addressed. But... (maybe I'm reading this wrong) what, exactly, is problematic with NPM? @
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by aporetics 11y ago
http://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=edwardsnowden.com
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by aporetics 11y ago
"Two thousand years ago, Aristotle’s “Physics” was a wide-ranging set of theories that were easy to state and understand." I'm having a hard time imagining that anyone comes away from just having read Aristotle with the impre