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Besides Dostoevsky, there is abundant wisdom and deep truths to be found in the classics of Christianity. The apologetics of C.S. Lewis (Screwtape Letters, The Problem with Pain, The Great Divorce), Augustine's Confessions and City of
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A lot simpler to consider the phone as a portable, always-on wiretap, that can never be secure.
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Of all FAANGs I expect FB to be the first to sink. I see the writing on the wall..
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I'll choose my MacBook Air over this every single time. I don't see anything here that doesn't fall under "gimmick".
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It's a shame that the - much needed - vision and philosophy behind mass-adoption of decentralized data storage/distribution is being contaminated with "Web3.0" crypto-garbage.
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I hope it's not R'lyeh.
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Having played and enjoyed the originals (1,2), this is a disappointment to me. Not because it's terrible, but because we've seen it all before. It feels empty and a rehash of the past without reaching the same heights. A hollow ca
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Berkey filters look like a scam to me: https://archive.ph/ixmXD The fact that they refuse to get certified / conduct any independent rigorous testing (like in NSF/ANSI certification) should have clued you in. &quo
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Common Lisp and Dylan had multimethods for decades, and were both strong influences on Julia, unlike Clojure.
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Most of his technical problems would be non-issues if he abandoned portability to different CL implementations: Just pick a single implementation (SBCL) and use it. Other languages don't have this problem because there's only a si
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It's not hard to feel bad for anyone getting censored/booted off the Internet. I see that "Gossithedog" lives in England, which - I reckon - makes it impossible for him to understand the value of free speech. The US is o
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Easily, they get a lot more money/resources allocated to them, better equipment, better training and face tougher selection with higher drop rates. Excluding the CIA black units, DELTA > DEVGRU > SF / SEALs / FORECON &g
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That sounds completely irresponsible if not implausible to me. There are special operation units that are considered more 'elite' than the SEALs and a full tier above the rangers (that are a cut above regular infantry), with menta
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These are western propaganda estimates from biased sources. Russian sources claim 7-10000 casualties (deaths and wounded). The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. Taking into account that Russia has neither mobilized nor deployed its
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> Nobody forced Russia to invade a sovereign country (or to consider itself the rightful owner of those lands for that matter), that's entirely their fault. Alas, the world doesn't operate based on the moral principles you impl
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Giving money to someone who is seriously mentally ill (e.g. suffers from near permanent psychosis) is a recipe for disaster. Same for someone who is a hardened drug addict. Money is not magic fairy dust that is going to solve these issues,
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Class action lawsuit: https://www.johnsonbecker.com/firm-news/greenpan-class-actio... It should be obvious to anyone at this point that anything that promises to be a "healthy" alternative to teflon and is no
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Berkey filters look like a scam to me: https://archive.ph/ixmXD The fact that they refuse to get certified / conduct any independent rigorous testing (like in NSF/ANSI certification) should have clued you in. &quo
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My point was that rather than following what most contemporary pseudo-philosophers do (acdemically or otherwise), Land fully embraced the outside. How can one fully embrace the outside / discover radical new perspectives if one is firm
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> Nick Land is nuts today, but he had good thoughts on tech before the early 2000s. Nick Land is not nuts, just way ahead of you and way ahead of most folks alive today (as he was indeed "before the early 2000s"). If he seems n
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Except you're producing nothing of value to humanity. 400k a year to waste your life enabling the vampires to keep playing zero-sum games. Not a good bargain. I've worked in fintech for a few years and I consider it one of the big
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Android is not the only mobile ecosystem around, and not every ecosystem is a train wreck.
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Unix was a terrible idea that probably set us back multiple decades not to mention fueling the computer security circus and the trillion dollar cybercrime industry it spawned. But yes, we need more ideas like it <s> I’d prescribe the
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Zstd is terrible for archiving since it doesn't even detect corruption. The --check switch described in the manpage as enabling checksums (in a super-confusing way) seems to do absolutely nothing. You can test by intentionally corrupti
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A state’s responsibility is first and foremost to its people. European states collectively messed up by going against their interests: sanctions on Russia were colossally stupid. The people are starting to wake up and see through the charad
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Losing touch with reality in this sense means that they neither foresaw nor can adequately explain the huge geopolitical shifts that took place in the last decade. Instead, they keep putting out the same neoliberal/globalist spiel, unw
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If you thought The Economist is losing touch with reality these days, The New Yorker has long moved into fantasy land. Yet another symptom of the times, can’t wait until both these old time bastions are dismantled, and new perspectives come
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Dissidents should use Tor (best done in a RAM-only environment that’s not running on their own computer) and not fuck around with VPNs because it’s go to jail or worse. There are countless ways for someone, even an expert, to hang himself u
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I think it's fair to say that believing in a "functioning US democracy" is akin to believing in Santa Claus. There has never been a functioning US democracy, for at least as long as I've been alive (50+ years). Instead,
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Totally agree. It's something I noticed a lot when I was living in SV, and I think a symptom of the cultural zeitgeist combined with the notorious superficiality of the typical California crowd. My first wife's sister was a typica

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