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by brainproxy 16y ago
A highly accessible overview of Western philosophy, from the Greeks to present day, can be found in Frederick Copleston's 9-volume "A History of Philosophy" series. Vol 1, as sold on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/History-Philosophy-Vol-Pre
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by brainproxy 16y ago
This fact surprises many, but Hubble was actually quite critical of using red-shift as an indicator of cosmological distance. In 1953 (the year before his death) he even convinced Robert Millikan, 1923 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physi
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by brainproxy 16y ago
Being rich is an enticing prospect. When I consider it, I often imagine it as "the freedom to do/buy/go what/where you want, without delay". But then the following warning comes to mind and I'm reminded to carefully scope the bounds and pur
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by brainproxy 16y ago
I think he's referring to the Catholics. I'm a Catholic and noted too that we're not in the list :-D I found it a little strange given the premises of the "God blocking" folks; maybe it was an oversight, who knows...
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by brainproxy 16y ago
I'm saying a motivated atheist communist has (in his own mind at least) no God before whom he'll stand in judgment for his blunders, failures, excesses, crimes and stupidity.
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by brainproxy 16y ago
Communism is one of atheism's terrible and natural fruits, and many of the communist revolutionaries held as a first-rank goal the suppression, if not elimination of, religions and religious institutions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_B
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by brainproxy 16y ago
And on a related note: the most violent and death-dealing ideology in the history of the human race is atheistic communism. For the advancement of its "revolution/s" the cost was untold tens of millions of lives throughout the 20th Century
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by brainproxy 16y ago
“Love toward men, but love without belief in God, very naturally leads to the greatest coercion over men, and turns their lives completely into hell on earth.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
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by brainproxy 16y ago
JCoglan's faye (bayeux for node.js) has some built-in "intervals", i.e. timers, which regulate connection reuse and how messages end up bundled together in bulk transmissions -- this can cause an apparent increase in latency, I've run into
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by brainproxy 16y ago
I mention that library specifically as it's a pubsub implementation for http/javascript too.
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by brainproxy 16y ago
I'm wondering if the author or other readers have looked at this node.js library: http://github.com/jcoglan/faye Coglan has put together code for ruby and eventmachine too, if you prefer those tools over javascript and node.js. Use faye i