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by gbog 13y ago
I don't know this Kanye but if I follow you his music is shit and Reed tried hard to not say it. Then for this I would respect less Lou Reed: when it's crap just say crap. In music strong taste is expected and politeness is a loss
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by gbog 13y ago
Descartes and Spinoza tried to apply scientific method to philosophy.
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by gbog 13y ago
Yes, it is a side effect of empathy and compassion, I guess.
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by gbog 13y ago
Why no, my god, food is food, and our stomacks are very used to a few meals a day, and even arguably some fasting times to times. Not to say our stomacks would not get used to this constant stream sh*t, but it could very well be extremely h
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by gbog 13y ago
Yes, as long as "fit in the school" do not include any race or gender requirements. That's one understanding of equality. Another includes positive action, etc, but one may argue that by giving more chance to women, black peo
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by gbog 13y ago
No, the fair policy is to just not count the gender is the ranking.
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by gbog 13y ago
The great essayist Simon Leys said one day that education task was to prepare pupils to be the best citizen in a democracy, but that democracy is not part of the tools used to achieve education. I think these differing views coke from diffe
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by gbog 13y ago
Why so unfairly critical? The founder has been successful in breaking monopolies and empowering p people. Requiring the same exercise order is the proper way to compare students. Entrepreneurial skills is an option in real developers life,
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by gbog 13y ago
What serious reasons? Some pictures with beards? You're kidding. From the article and the kind of philosophy behind, it seems clear to me that they just do not distinguish people race, background, gender even. When putting pics on the
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by gbog 13y ago
Where is lunch? Dinner? Why six meals? Why wake at six when you apparently start at 10 or even 11? It is a crazy day, probably very bad for your health.
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by gbog 13y ago
If you want to read more, trash the ipads and push Michelet Histoire de France (19 vols) from project Gutenberg to your kindle. Same here by the way, no tv, my laptops are my wife second hand ones, never owned an Apple device.
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by gbog 13y ago
This is a false truth a see too often. Many products, human creations, are the result of the accretion of many contributors over time. Think cities, the bible, food recipes, most long form narratives from middle ages, etc. So, no, your equa
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by gbog 13y ago
One part of the answer is that they work in evenings and weekends, have I heard from former colleagues who now work at xiaomi.
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by gbog 13y ago
Yes, it worries me too, but it seems the tide retreats slowly.
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by gbog 13y ago
> Is it ethical to flag something because the article is related to a company you don't like I do not think the important topic of Ethics should be brought so low as to help us decide on whether to flag or not a link on HN. Let&#x27
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by gbog 13y ago
Don't forget the "Hacker" in Hacker news: it is very natural, reasonable, expected and even necessary for Hackers to have a strong and marked preference towards open protocols, open source software, and to dislike monopolies,
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by gbog 13y ago
Individual resellers on Taobao don't play on small margins but on specialization and service. They sure compete on price but also on reputation, maybe even more. So if clients would like to pay in btc, I see them allowing it easily and
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by gbog 13y ago
Great to see RMS reminding us about Der Lauf der Dinge, which is an incredible work of hacker-art. And naming Guillaume de Machaut. He could have brought the Art of the Fugue on the table too. Great hackers of our times can and should have
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by gbog 13y ago
> a lot of real world applications where small amounts of data loss don't matter but latency matters a lot. I don't understand this reasoning. We are talking about defaults. Defaults are used by people who did not tweak the set
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by gbog 13y ago
I am not into the Python internals but I would suspect the widely critiqued Python 3 step was just that: a shift that did not bring that much by itself but rearranged the inners enough to allow unlocking a lot of new doors in the future.
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by gbog 13y ago
There is a notable book called Laughter by French philosopher Bergson. Its argument is that comical effects are reducible to something mechanical (mathematical) (mis)applied on some living thing. This could be a better explanation than what
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by gbog 13y ago
There could be a predisposition for males to be attracted by noisy or fast moving things, because that is what they will have to care about when they grow up, in a hunter gatherer society. Have you seen kitten chasing things? They are obvio
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by gbog 13y ago
Ahem. China was matriarcal a very long time ago, kids got their mother's family name, but it was because women were keeping homes while men were working in the fields far away. The simple fact that mothers have to breast feed could wel
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by gbog 13y ago
Being 'other' is sometime annoying and hard yes. On HN I am 'other' because I am not from the US and English is not my mother tongue and I don't watch Netflix. At work I am the only foreigner in a Chinese company. B
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by gbog 13y ago
> not very exciting So you are "unexcited" by Glass, Loons, Earth/map/streetview, Go, etc.?
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by gbog 13y ago
> too Do you mean there if a karma threshold on something else? Is it new? I have noticed a marked improvement in HN content in the last two weeks.
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by gbog 13y ago
Yes, thanks.
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by gbog 13y ago
A bottle is useful because it is empty, no?
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by gbog 13y ago
I can relate, having studied by myself Chinese philosophy. But too points in the article sounded untrue: Chinese thought is not abstruse, it is often flat and obvious, once you get it. Also, the things about decision and spontaneity are jus
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by gbog 13y ago
Shameless plug: search wengu, you'll get a site with Chinese texts ands translations.

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