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by causasui 5y ago
I good friend of mine gifted me this book some years ago. I ended up reading it during a jury duty stint, incidentally. Seems appropriate in hindsight.
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by causasui 5y ago
Or any other philosophy, where nihilism is the absence of either. In other words, religion is wonderful for those for whom it works; the same goes for existentialism (our meaning comes from within) or really literally anything else that get
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by causasui 5y ago
I generally consider myself a nihilist, but only because it's the very last stop on the bus ride of my failed attempts at religion and other philosophies. I grew up very religious and when I lost my faith in my 20s, I tried to replace
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by causasui 5y ago
Physics layman, but I agree as a computer scientist. It also sometimes feels like there are "optimizations", e.g., delayed-choice quantum erasure ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed-choice_quantum_eraser )
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by causasui 5y ago
Enough already. Just legalize it federally and pinch it off.
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by causasui 5y ago
I use KSUIDs a ton in DynamoDB; it saves me from having to create and fill another index to sort items by creation time. The only case where I don't use them is if I don't want to create time of the item to be known to the user.
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by causasui 5y ago
I went from waking up at 6AM every day for 6 years (US mil) to not setting an alarm in the last 6 (remote employee). The main thing I notice in the rare event where I have to set an alarm these days is this 15-30 minutes of heavy brain fog
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by causasui 5y ago
> is it really less cruel for these animals to never exist at all? Yes, without question.
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by causasui 5y ago
First off, no one is going to argue beyond/impossible meat is necessarily healthy, but these two brands (currently leading the artificial meat market) contain just a small percentage of the isoflavones content found in soy-based produc
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by causasui 6y ago
Whether or not every tweet in existence should be archived is irrelevant. The fact is they can be, so they should be treated as though they will be. Saying "no please don't" will never stop something that is technologic
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by causasui 6y ago
Exploit: make full use of and derive benefit from a resource. We breed cows so we can exploit them . There is no air quotes around exploit , that's exactly what cows are to us. Resources for our enrichment. Of course reproduction i
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by causasui 6y ago
> ...the idea that it is immoral to kill to sustain yourself goes so far against the way nature is organized This is an appeal to nature. > ... as long as you don't do it out of... greed How does "I like the taste of cows an
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by causasui 6y ago
> but just as we don't judge the bear for killing salmon, I don't think it's right to judge a human for killing a cow to eat its flesh The difference is you, as a human, have a choice. You are capable of living a healthy,
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by causasui 6y ago
> you believe that eradicating the species would be preferable to the current situation Yup! Cows only exist so we may exploit them. Giving animals a "good life" while we exploit (or before we murder) them is not a preferential
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by causasui 6y ago
This argument makes zero sense. If we didn't breed cows, they wouldn't exist. There are no wild cows.
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by causasui 6y ago
Just speculation (I am not a physicist or astrobiologist), but this is my thinking also. If anything is traveling between the stars, it's either inorganic (an AI), or it has a natural lifespan several orders of magnitudes longer than h
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by causasui 6y ago
> if the entire world stopped using dairy and beef, the cow as we know it would quickly go extinct So what? Why should the cow exist for the sake of existing?
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by causasui 6y ago
I made no attempt at making a point about parenting. The post I replied to said they wanted to have children for the experience and because their "body was designed to", essentially. The latter is just an appeal to nature. We can
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by causasui 6y ago
I'm curious if you're able to think of one non-selfish reason to have children? You mention having a child is an experience in which you wish to take part; you relish the thought of being less self-centered. Too little weight is g