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by danielam 9y ago
Reminds me of (a variation of) a Yiddish proverb: How do you make God laugh? Tell him about your plans.
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by danielam 9y ago
Precisely. Besides, the West Slavic and half of the South Slavic languages are written using Latin script. The choice of script was very much bound up with the matter of which civilization (and religion) the respective peoples chose to alig
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by danielam 9y ago
The truth as a matter of fact is quite a different matter than the process of coming to know the truth. I do not know what an "extreme" is with respect to the truth as a matter of fact, but where belief about what is true is conce
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by danielam 9y ago
Is it? My impression is that this is quite common, where "real story" is some reductionistic account of something biblical (e.g., Reza Aslan's "Zealot").
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by danielam 9y ago
The article mentions that the ship may have participated in the Battle of Oliwa, though there is no mention of it in the manifest on Wikipedia[0]. Regardless, the battle (and the Polish-Swedish Wars in general) are historically very interes
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by danielam 9y ago
In other words, you can only learn to do by doing. However, I don't agree with the "safe place" bit. Sure, some things require a safe setting to practice in because of the danger the real thing entails, but that's not mo
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by danielam 9y ago
There are two propositions you can entertain here. 1. All cultures are equal in the sense that they are equally as good. 2. There is no way to compare the merits of any two cultures. (1) is a claim that attributes equal merit to each cultur
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by danielam 9y ago
Petereson appears to be confused about the subject matter (e.g., I don't understand how he relates Marxism to postmodernism). Furthermore, he himself draws on postmodernist ideas. I don't think he's a good source for philosop
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by danielam 9y ago
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by danielam 9y ago
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Recreating Google’s PageRank on the Bitcoin Blockchain (2016)(medium.com)
2 points by danielam 9y ago|0 comments
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by danielam 9y ago
Math is a science, just not an empirical science. It is a formal science.
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How Programming Languages Differ Between Wealthy and Developing Countries(stackoverflow.blog)
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by danielam 9y ago
It sounds to me like what's you're describing to is the principle of subsidiary.
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by danielam 9y ago
I don't have an fully thought out position, but I will say that without abstraction, you couldn't talk about logic or reasoning as these deal in abstract concepts.
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by danielam 9y ago
I wasn't intentionally aiming at your comments, but some of what I wrote does seem to concern, at least loosely, some of the things you've written. As you can imagine, philosophical issues usually can't be resolved in a comme
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by danielam 9y ago
Maybe this guy was a better cosmologist. Or closeted Raëlian.
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Git-secret(git-secret.io)
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Solar Eclipse from the International Space Station(nasa.gov)
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Relational Programming in Libra (1999)(researchgate.net)
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by danielam 9y ago
While the particularities may be interesting, much of what's said isn't surprising (though for Cartesians, it may be, and the author does throw Descartes' name around a few times). There is a great deal of confusion about thi
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by danielam 9y ago
If anyone is interested in the problems inherent in Hume's arguments, I recommend Feser's series of blog posts on the subject: http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/search?q=hume
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by danielam 9y ago
I'm not sure HN is the forum for argumentation, but I agree that there is nothing in your post that merits downvoting. In fact, I think what you've drawn attention to is valuable. FWIW--from what I've come across--while I do
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by danielam 9y ago
I'm willing to bet that's an age-independent invariant :).
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Leśniewski and the foundations of mathematics(plato.stanford.edu)
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Who’s Afraid of Jordan Peterson?(quillette.com)
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Postmodernism and the Mask of Compassion(youtube.com)
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Snake Heart: A Case of Atavism in a Human Being (2010)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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The Dark History of Liberal Reform (2016)(newrepublic.com)
1 points by danielam 9y ago|0 comments
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If you’re a startup, you should not use React(medium.com)
10 points by danielam 9y ago|2 comments

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