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arpa
10y ago
That's news for me. Link?
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arpa
10y ago
Sir, may I please look at your horse? It seems pretty high, would you step off it, please, and face the reality?
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arpa
10y ago
There lies a difference between Bodhisattva and Buddha. What you described while explaining the difference between Buddhas and saints is essentially the difference between Bodhisattvas and Buddhas :) And Bodhisattva is a lifestyle by choic
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arpa
10y ago
I humbly sit corrected. Thanks for the links!
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arpa
10y ago
thing is, the curve remains the same. Fat in the middle.
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arpa
10y ago
One might as well try to skew global IQ stats to the right. And please, don't call me shirley.
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arpa
10y ago
While very idealistic and beautiful in a way as all manifests tend to be, we (along the author) tend to forget certain truths - the middle of the gaussian curve is fattest; all natural distributions follow that curve, and developers are no
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arpa
10y ago
Not going to happen.
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arpa
10y ago
That is not entirely true for EU: "...An objective of this exception is to make it possible to connect all components of a computer system, including those of different manufacturers, so that they can work together." And the US: S
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arpa
11y ago
You are right, especially about #2.
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arpa
11y ago
I have never been to US national park, but I've visited some in Eastern Europe and Scotland. I can't imagine myself traveling over 4 thousand miles by any other transportation (trains, buses, bicycles, walking) within given timefr
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arpa
11y ago
ow! my eyes!
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arpa
11y ago
Wordpress is a glorious example of a wrong product gaining popularity for all the right reasons. I mean, it's bad. It's extremely, extremely, extremely bad. You look at the code and you see an army of monkeys happily shitting line
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arpa
11y ago
Cherrypick much?
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arpa
11y ago
Wonderfully put.
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arpa
11y ago
On the other hand giving up western values would produce a vacuum so abhorred by nature; The truth in multiplication and aggregation of perspective is actually one of the western values, as is egalitarianism of sexes and races. To give up t
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arpa
11y ago
I've read somwhere that understanding irony comes at about 8 years of age. I guess some people are younger than that :D
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arpa
11y ago
Isn't almost anything that is open to interpretation a Rorschach test then?
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arpa
11y ago
Well okay, you got me and my unscientific reasoning. I mean, it's not like the perception of personal space is in the head or something; it's clearly physical. Okay, we got off the wrong foot here. I am an angry and unpleasant pe
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arpa
11y ago
A well-written, thought out response. Thanks!
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arpa
11y ago
Right you are! But think about it - we have personal space in our minds as well. It's where beliefs are stored. Now we don't want them to get hurt, so we protect them. This is not that different from physical personal space.
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arpa
11y ago
Histrionic statements receive histrionic reactions; I fail to see connection with fear, fright or threat. I mean, we're all just flinging poo here and that's about it. What got to me is not the title, but the way how an fascinatin
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arpa
11y ago
Please point me to the articles' irony. It's easy to miss in that mess.
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arpa
11y ago
I like my personal space, and, well, since the article violated my perceived personal belief space, of course, flight-or-fight response was triggered; you can see the outcome pretty clear I suppose. It was not "fear".
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arpa
11y ago
Wait, how exactly perception of "personal space" is a response; secondly, please drop the pretense that "fear is bad, mkay". It is perfectly fine to feel fear when a red hot poker enters your personal space (i.e. it can
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arpa
11y ago
holy sh*t it's learning day today! Thanks!
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arpa
11y ago
Well that definitely answers my question. Thank you. What about something like certificate blockchain? e.g. https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain
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arpa
11y ago
What about DANE? I would imagine it has potential to do away with CA...
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arpa
11y ago
I prefer engineered simplicity over progress-in-the-name-of-progress. No, wires aren't going away. Because at the end of the day, your speakers are driven by analog signal transmitted via the same wires you abhor; Anything between the
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arpa
11y ago
Reddit has been dead for a long, long time now.
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