cjameskeller

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by cjameskeller 4y ago
As someone who lives in a region with gravel/"dirt" roads, I often wonder how they compare to paved roads in terms of overall effect (possibly more fuel usage, but not, itself, made from hydrocarbons; fuel usage associated wi
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by cjameskeller 4y ago
I think you would be able to find what you're looking for at the edges of many metropolitan areas. I'm about 30 min (<40km / <25mi) from the regional city of half a million people, and it's very possible to get tha
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by cjameskeller 5y ago
To be fair, several (at the time) large religious groups believed in a spiritual afterlife. What disgusted many Greeks & Romans was the concept that a _bodily_ afterlife was the ultimate destiny of a human.
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by cjameskeller 5y ago
If you enjoy that, while they are considered "deuterocanonical", you may also enjoy Sirach and Wisdom of Solomon. Especially having only read them as an adult, I keep finding more good advice each time I peruse them.
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by cjameskeller 5y ago
That was a welcome rabbit hole. Thank you!
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by cjameskeller 5y ago
Isn't that what a decent chunk of xkcd is?
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by cjameskeller 5y ago
Yeah, I'm an Orthodox Christian, but suffering & death are explicitly framed in the Bible as a totally unnecessary, true evil. Hence why the story begins and ends in a literal Paradise (unless one chooses otherwise). "The last
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by cjameskeller 5y ago
But they would decay, unless something is done to sequester enough of the wood, and release much of it back into atmosphere, right?
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by cjameskeller 5y ago
This is conflating causation and determination. It is true that one's choice must have a cause, and this can either be internal or external to oneself. But it is not true that the choice must be _determined_ by the cause. The Agent Cau
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by cjameskeller 5y ago
I wonder if this kind of program could/has attracted any interest from the Effective Altruism folks?
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by cjameskeller 5y ago
Job is more of a story about motives, and uses the "wager" (which one could see as an abbreviated account of the rebellion of the devil) as a background for the main question: Is it possible for a man to submit to God & truth,
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by cjameskeller 5y ago
I think a parallel argument to Socrates's could be made for the internet -- it is "alive", but in a much lower-dimensional way than real conversation with people in the world who have bodies and families. Online, everyone is
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by cjameskeller 5y ago
I think some of this comes down to the way the question is asked. If you asked me to imagine "a house", I would have a somewhat abstract, child-like template in mind. Some of that would be due to expectation -- that you probably w
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by cjameskeller 5y ago
I'm someone who can copy a picture or scene in front of me to near photo-realism level of detail, but usually makes cartoon-like pictures without a reference. I can visualize 3-D Tetris blocks in my head and rotate them at will, and re
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by cjameskeller 5y ago
Reminds me of the various versions of a paper published by Alexandre Harvey-Tremblay, including the most recent: https://www.academia.edu/33079029/The_Design_of_a_Formal_Sys... - A previous version even had the public
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by cjameskeller 5y ago
>"We did it on August 6" Notably, the Feast of the Transfiguration.
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by cjameskeller 6y ago
Sure, but some folks like me also believe the ontological claims are true. For example, here's a sort of summary argument based mainly on the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition: https://docs.google.com/document/d&#x2
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by cjameskeller 6y ago
A tall mountain, or the ocean, are also "fearsome". The cause of fear here is the power differential, which is not itself a bad thing.
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by cjameskeller 6y ago
Could go one of two ways... https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
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by cjameskeller 6y ago
Is this perhaps an intentional parallel to '_Whose Justice? Which Rationality?_" by Alasdair MacIntyre?
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by cjameskeller 6y ago
Agreed. This was a major component in my switch from Protestant/Baptist to ("Greek"/Eastern) Orthodox. Having thousands of years of prior religious & philosophical discussions to draw from, as well as the experiences
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by cjameskeller 6y ago
This. And much of the content is a constant advocacy for avoiding the type of infrastructure investments that become very expensive to maintain for rural towns/counties (where a paved road may cost an order of magnitude more for upkeep
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by cjameskeller 6y ago
Market share is low, but there certainly are other mobile OS options out there. The fact that people in general don't want to use them doesn't make Android & iOS a "duopoly".
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by cjameskeller 6y ago
True, but note also the influence of the (eastern) Roman Empire we now call the Byzantines, on the Renaissance, when Constantinople fell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_scholars_in_the_Renaissa...
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by cjameskeller 6y ago
Texture was like this, but was acquired by Apple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture_(app)
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by cjameskeller 6y ago
Personally did a bootcamp about 4 years ago. Also taught myself a couple more tech skills in the 2 months post-certificate before I got hired, but nothing special. Applied to several dozen jobs a week (easy to do when most don't follow
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by cjameskeller 6y ago
Just got mine a couple weeks back and it's great! The software could use some additional features, but thanks to the open platform, it is getting them from some dedicated users. I've even seen a user run offline OCR on it, and we
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by cjameskeller 6y ago
Final report (2012, released 2016) of the STEPS project, which has some more info, but sadly no reference to the source code... http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2012001_steps.pdf Did some digging and found this site with some
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by cjameskeller 6y ago
Aristotle describes this as "Polity": See [this]( https://fs.blog/2017/02/aristotles-politics/ ) article, and the [Politics, book 4, section XI]( http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/

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