cmhamill

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by cmhamill 13y ago
Yes, this is probably the real issue.
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by cmhamill 13y ago
"Bad" is probably a strong word. But issues are: 1. Reliance on Google Docs' uptime. While any monitoring service will in theory present the same problem, you're putting all your eggs in one basket. 2. It's just t
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by cmhamill 13y ago
Wow. To paraphrase Babbage, I cannot apprehend the confusion of ideas which could lead someone to think this is a good idea.
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by cmhamill 13y ago
This is a very silly use, but I use `ascii` when I can't distinguish between 0 and O in a font ? `ascii 0`, for example, clears that right up.
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by cmhamill 13y ago
I haven't tried it, no. I'm big on the HHKB's layout, so the Realforce didn't really interest me.
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by cmhamill 13y ago
I'll add my voice to "the HHKB2 is the greatest keyboard imaginable." Also, re: arrow and paging keys, I manage to avoid them as much as possible, but reaching for 'Fn' with the pinky and hitting the appropriate key
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by cmhamill 13y ago
"Provable but not true" statements only arise in logical systems which are inconsistent, so it's fairly normal to not be able to come up with one. So you need to assume two contradictory things are true, somewhere deep down i
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by cmhamill 13y ago
Put plainly, no.
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by cmhamill 13y ago
In all honesty, what the hell are you on about?
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by cmhamill 13y ago
I don't have
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by cmhamill 14y ago
You might enjoy: < http://longnow.org/> .
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by cmhamill 14y ago
What a sensible viewpoint! So tell me, are you the one who will fund the protesters in their construction project? Or provide the engineers and scientists? Would you be willing to pay a tax that funds such groups? Who would be responsible f
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by cmhamill 14y ago
Any folks on here know of good resources that might help someone begin to understand what they're looking at here? More generally, learning about the physical operation of microprocessors? I'm particularly iffy when it gets to where the wir
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by cmhamill 15y ago
> I've heard the "Libertarians are one step away from anarchists" argument multiple times before, but I've honestly always found it perplexing. At least with regards to my own libertarian views, government is essential. Perhaps I haven'
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by cmhamill 15y ago
I'd personally be inclined to say that what you're doing when you resist my threat is contingent upon what kind of social arrangement we find ourself in. In a Western-style parliamentary republic, your action will probably be interpreted as
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by cmhamill 15y ago
> How is that not a government? You could call it that. But most anarchists are not opposed to the existence of structures of government, but rather the existence of the nation-state. > I'd like a society that can plausibly exist in
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by cmhamill 15y ago
We can't, really! But we try anyway. That's the nature of political and social problems: there's no specification that we can refer to to clarify our terms.
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by cmhamill 15y ago
Well what if we say that government is the means by which a people organize their business and a state is that entity which maintains a monopoly on the legitimate use of force? We can have a government because we can set expectations and be
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by cmhamill 15y ago
Nowhere. But that's not property, right? I mean, that's a man claiming he owns a chair. Now let's say I steal your chair. This is the moment in our narrative where we get to see whether you and I live in a society that adheres to the proper
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by cmhamill 15y ago
Some of the founding fathers were, yes. There are real problems with the maintainability of that model, of course. This is way, somewhat famously, Noam Chomsky considers his anarchism a straightforward extension of the principles of enlight
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by cmhamill 15y ago
I never said the position was coherent or viable. ;) That said, I think there are various answers. One is to have a militia to enforce those kinds of principles. Anarchists who are also pacifists naturally reject this option. Another option
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by cmhamill 15y ago
Very good question. That's probably one of the largest sources of division between various anarchist schools. One way to tackle the problem is to separate governance from the state, and say that we want a governance structure accountable to
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by cmhamill 15y ago
> First, I don't quite understand how you can be socialist and anarchist at the same time. Simple: anarchism refers to the belief that governments are unnecessary and/or unjustified; socialism refers to the opinion that the means of pro
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by cmhamill 15y ago
Except that Kantianism is by no means the only form of deontology, and in fact has nothing to do with any of this. I do _not_ mean deontological in a derogatory sense. I mean it descriptively in contrast to consequentialism. Edit: To quote
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by cmhamill 15y ago
All communism or socialism directly imply is that the means of production is not held privately, but by some kind of collective communal or social entity. This is often the state, but was often imagine to be some kind of community council o
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by cmhamill 15y ago
My understanding was that 'deontological' simply means (indeed, almost literally means) having been derived from rules. Deont being the Greek to refer to duty or rule. Kantianism is probably the most famous from of all the deontological
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by cmhamill 15y ago
Of course; virtually all arguments are semantics. I was simply looking for clarification into nirvana's intended meaning. That that involved getting into the semantics of anarchism/socialism/libertarianism/what-have-you is the nature of thi
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by cmhamill 15y ago
I'm genuinely sorry that you feel that way.
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by cmhamill 15y ago
> I find it endlessly amusing that communists or socialists would call themselves anarchists. I think this is just an example of socialists attempting to coopt another movement. You'll be glad to know, then, that Proudhon, the first to
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by cmhamill 15y ago
What's funny about your response, to me, is that 'libertarian,' outside of the U.S., and in Europe especially, is generally associated with an anarchist position, and most anarchists are socialists or communists. The associations with the F

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