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All of the platonists, middle and neo- had less than warm views towards the Stoics. It’s staying power has been quite impressive considering it’s opponents through the ages.
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Don’t tell any electric guitarists tubes aren’t a thing. A huge majority of working electric guitarists play through tube amplifiers.
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I take the subway everywhere in my city in the US. I don’t expect it to be perfect and I’m not disappointed. I’m also very happy to let my car drive for long boring stretches on long trips. I find I arrive at my destination much more relaxe
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Socrates being probably the most quoted person of all time who never wrote anything (giving Homer the benefit of doubt since he did leave a couple of epic poems).
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An amazingly good series on a topic I’d never thought I’d have any interest in. Highly recommended.
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I think this is an important point. What a practitioner can do with a language is influenced as much by the tooling as with the language itself. The implication is that languages should be constructed with as much thought given to the exter
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We have too much beer (and soda, and seltzer), and not enough cans(washingtonpost.com)
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The batteries, the supercharger network, the software. I think you’re reacting to the media presentation. Even though 100s of thousands of people have perfectly fine operation every day, that isn’t going to make the news. The few breakages
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by bwanab 6y ago
This was a really good introduction. Subscribed.
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It’s not going to destroy the business it’s going to destroy the current business model. The point is that the only way this deal can make sense for Nvidia, is to use ARM’s IP as a competitive advantage over other competitors. Until now, AR
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In 2006, I had a brand new asus laptop. I first tried To install Debian. Then I tried Fedora, or Redhat, I don’t remember when that split was. My next try was Ubuntu, which went without a hitch. Since it’s always worked for me, I’ve stuck w
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The interactions are the problem. So, yes, American exports have and advantage if the dollar drops, but conversely, American importers suffer. Most American products these days have a large percentage of imported parts. Given that currently
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None of the three cities you mention are even in the top ten of most violent cities and only Chicago (at 17) is in the top 25.
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I grew up in a southern town that was built out of whole cloth in the 40s (Oak Ridge, TN). It wasn’t carefully done, and there were lots of issues with erosion. Enter kudzu to the rescue. For a long time it appeared that the town was going
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It is common in modern history for the opponents of free speech to use it in order to quash it. As far back as the French Revolution, royalists were happy to take advantage of the free speech guarantee of the 1793 constitution with the expr
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I’ve recently gotten through this period in the “History of Byzantium” podcast series. Justinian had just recently retaken many of the old western Roman provinces, not least of which was Rome itself, and the breadbasket of North Africa. Thi
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How much of that 150B trade with China is for parts that are in turn sold in US? It’s very hard to winnow out real meaning from raw trade numbers.
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I own Logic, so I too and happy about the updates. I use Logic every day and since my preference is making music, I don't really have any reason to want to spend the time to learn another DAW. So, by keeping Logic reasonably up-to-date
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The main difference to me is that Overtone is closer to the “medal”, where medal in this case is Supercollider.
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I would feel remiss not pointing out Sam Aaron’s prior project Overtone which while similar in spirit to Sonic-Pi is much more oriented toward the programmer/musician and less to the musician/programmer. It’s interface language is
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by bwanab 7y ago
After reading a large number of the responses here, I feel like I've noticed a pattern - two types of comments: 1) I've used the language and agree with the conclusions of the post even if I don't necessarily agree with every
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As a regular critic of many things and ideas American, I have to point out that in the long run, you’ve never been better off betting against America.
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There’s a reason they’re called cash “equivalents”.
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You may be right, but as Lord Keynes said, the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
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by bwanab 7y ago
Paul, first of all, let me thank you for the great software you’re developed. As a long time JACK user, Can you point me to a more detailed write up on why it is overkill?
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Loth is a valid British form of loathe: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/loth
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For my taste, it’s been Radio Paradise for a long time.
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Lots of people living far away from each other - this is the recipe for mental health issues related to loneliness. Young people are voting with their feet by moving from such areas to urban areas and they're staying there.
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Sounds like a good beginning to a collaboration novel by Neal Stephenson and Alastair Reynolds.
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I worked at one of those other company's that designed Ada specs that didn't get selected, but we did do the first official ALS (Ada Language System). "first Ada was so complex that even the compilers had performance problems

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