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by fatbird 7y ago
Interesting. How's Intuitionism doing?
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by fatbird 7y ago
In my program, we had a saying that lowbrow philosophers end every argument with "Plato said it first"; middlebrows say "Kant said it first"; highbrows say "Wittgenstein said it first." Modern philosophy hasn&#
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by fatbird 7y ago
How many times do we have to have a balanced discussion to determine the truth before we accept that, with reasonable certainty, we've determined the truth and can discuss subsequent issues on that basis? I'm not suggesting a flam
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by fatbird 7y ago
The idea that an "insightful, balanced, and deliberative" discussion should happen implies that the topic is either unfamiliar and requiring exploration, or is somehow otherwise of indeterminate status with respect to norms, moral
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by fatbird 7y ago
Don't forget externalizing risk and fixed costs to "non-employee" workers.
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by fatbird 7y ago
No journalist gets to publish stories on their own. Stories always have internal review with at least the relevant editor, and big stories get multiple levels. The authors worked on it for months. If this was a case of rushing it out wit
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by fatbird 7y ago
One possible explanation for Bloomberg's actions is that they have corroboration of Appleboum's claims that they can't reveal publicly. One source without proof would never be able drive a story like this, but if they had mu
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by fatbird 7y ago
I was curious mainly because I remember some long comments he made about the relative value of linting and static analysis tools, specifically going into Coverity's analysis of the Doom 3 code (I think), fixing everything it flagged fo
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by fatbird 7y ago
Has Carmack looked at Rust? I'd be very curious for someone like him to look at it in light of his experience with C/C++ and high performance systems.
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by fatbird 7y ago
True: we'd have faced the same transition with any other stack. In hindsight, Meteor wasn't a bad choice, it just didn't live up to its promise of sidestepping churn and offering an opinionated stack that would endure. I do
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by fatbird 7y ago
Sorry: I misunderstood slightly, thinking it was something you put to them. In our tech interviewing I ignore self-assessed ratings, finding them useless for the reason you do, but I don't hold it against them if they're inaccura
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by fatbird 7y ago
Good lord has it been that long? It's on Meteor 1.6 now, and you'd be mistaken about "much changes". Blaze to React was a nearly a rewrite; Atmosphere packages to npm was a significant change for the internal dependenci
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by fatbird 7y ago
I continue to be involved in development of a Meteor app that started in the 0.8 days, and has been actively maintained up to current versions. I'm a little sad, too, that "Meteor" as a technology all its own hasn't dev
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by fatbird 7y ago
I'd say that the topic of "node.js" skill covers such a wide range of skills, experience and scenarios, that you'd need to be an expert already to judge how little you know. Someone who'd applied it to a single dom
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by fatbird 7y ago
I do appreciate the fact that the Azure team is here, noting feedback and routing it. I had a longstanding complaint about how Cosmos' mongo API was incomplete, and my complaints about it here were noticed and it did eventually get fi
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by fatbird 7y ago
To change the vnet of a VM, you still need to deallocate it and restore it into the new vnet. Anything they don't offer directly, they offer a pile of canned VMs authored by Bitnami, who adds their own layer of management scripts to th
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by fatbird 7y ago
I switched when neovim was only a year old, just to see if my vim environment spun up without issue, and it did. Then the async linting won me over, and I've never looked at vim again. I'm less excited about the stream of new fea
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by fatbird 7y ago
The plan for West Germany was to use nuclear land mines in the Fulda Gap to both destroy whole divisions en route and to create massive geological barriers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_demolition_munition
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by fatbird 7y ago
Aristotle divided causality into four kinds that are useful to remember: material, formal, efficient, and final. Consider a table: the material cause is the wood from which it's made; the formal cause is the concept or design of a tab
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by fatbird 7y ago
Indeed. In another comment, someone suggests that it might be immoral, as someone in a position to exert some small influence on the situation, to impose their judgement on the rest of us who are not in a position to do anything at all. Th
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by fatbird 7y ago
It’s also not solved by them, despite the warm glow they get from dishing out mashed potatoes once a year.
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by fatbird 7y ago
They shouldn’t feed the homeless on a marquee holiday and then ignore the problem the other 364 days of the year; nor should they feel like feeding them directly does anything to address the underlying systemic issues that create or sustain
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by fatbird 7y ago
As I've already been downvoted for this, I'll explain: the lower your income, the greater the proportion is spent on straightforward living expenses, generally. If you earn $10k/year, all of that will be going on basic neces
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by fatbird 7y ago
The practical burden of a flat tax rate is much greater, the lower your income. Someone earning $10k/year who pays $1,500 is going to miss those tax dollars a lot more than someone earning $10M/year is going to miss $1.5M. Flat
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by fatbird 7y ago
Expanding on this point: English is a Germanic language with a vocabulary that's 80% Romantic (i.e., french, latin) in origin, due to the Roman and then Norman occupations of England (though the 20% that's Germanic makes up the mo
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by fatbird 7y ago
This shouldn't be downvoted; it's a very good point addressing a basic problem with the "call 'em as I see 'em" side of the argument.
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by fatbird 7y ago
How do cold showers benefit the immune system?
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by fatbird 7y ago
There's no land-based airstrips, but all those islands are serviced by floatplanes and most have one or more luxury resorts. Aside from Salt Spring, they're more middle-class retiree islands (Salt Spring legit has int'l rich
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by fatbird 7y ago
There's actually a well-developed practice at holding discussions where people's feelings are deliberately included--marital or group counseling, integrative negotation, conflict resolution strategies, etc. Recognizing that peopl
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by fatbird 7y ago
I don't believe it's illegal to make a copy, even a perfect copy (see my comment below about the Nova episode paying an artist to repeat the process on camera of creating a duplicate). What's illegal is fraud in selling it a

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