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by gbog 11y ago
> the "Dark Ages" weren't "dark." I don't know. With the cognitive relativism of our times, we want to make sure each civilisation, and each of its ages, are "equal". They certainly can be equally
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by gbog 11y ago
Another choice for distributed file syncing: bittorrent sync. https://getsync.com/
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by gbog 11y ago
Agree with you. Girard is anti-scientific. It is the typical kind of guy who finds a pseudo-key (mimetics) and applies it to everything and everyone. And if you ever dare to disagree you are also doing that because of mimetism. His theory i
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by gbog 11y ago
Same here, with Firefox for Android. Left and right margins are not necessary. Also, please let all text wrap and let users zoom in and out the way they want.
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by gbog 11y ago
"And it's so easy to do: just don't let a sentence through unless it's the way you'd say it to a friend." Well no, it is very hard to write a text in "spoken language". This has been analysed by many
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by gbog 11y ago
Soylent and powder is really not the way, if you ask me. What your parent said is to moderate the use of meat in the USA. I live in China, and here we eat one or two different dishes with meat at each meal, often the meat is so fat that it
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by gbog 11y ago
I'm sorry, I do not understand why you find this statement ridiculous (I'm not native English-speaker). Would you mind explaining a bit?
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by gbog 11y ago
> A monolithic system executing a given function is pretty much guaranteed to be simpler than a distributed system doing the same function. And what about a monolithic system executing thousands of different functions? If your app is a s
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by gbog 11y ago
You're pushing it too far. Having one logical step per line is better for readability, clarity, and debugging-friendliness. > Programming language features should be orthogonal as much as possible. True, and that's why string b
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by gbog 11y ago
Hem, that's not so easy for the Germans. If only it was a mere "mistake" you can "admit and move on"... It is a crime against humanity that will never be forgotten, may I remind you. And German beer tastes like pi
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by gbog 11y ago
You'll find plenty of other losers if you apply the same criterion: Belgium was constantly invaded by friends from all sides. Germany never had the dominant worldwide position it deserved. Poland is, well you know this story... China w
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by gbog 11y ago
That's quite unwarranted. Despite all the brain washing, historians all know that you Russians are the ones who defeated Hitler. That was very far from granted. Weren't you there to stop the nazis, we Europeans would all be slaves
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by gbog 11y ago
Well, in the cases I have heard of the money was stolen from the Chinese people so it seems understandable that they want it back. Also, Chinese are not prevented from leaving the country, que the opposite. Enormous efforts have been spent
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by gbog 11y ago
I came to say that. Don't believe in the cloud. Just own the things you like to consume more than once, just save them on your hard drive, and sync all of it on all your devices. It requires some setup and attention but it works very w
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by gbog 11y ago
What do you mean by "even the elite drives western cars..." Obviously only the elite can buy these. And most Chinese people eat Chinese food, visit Chinese touristic places, read Chinese books, etc. There's only the western
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by gbog 11y ago
Yes, and when what's expected is starting a start-up, you get HN crowd, where someone who never tried like me often feels that starting a start-up is really overrated here. For instance, I wouldn't bet a lot on Larry Page or Mark
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by gbog 11y ago
Selection effect. You have much less occasions to chitchat with firemen, street cleaners, or farmers than taxi drivers.
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by gbog 11y ago
Except for a few mathematical concepts I don't see any thing that would have such property, e.g. Art, Good, Justice, Culture, etc.
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by gbog 11y ago
A materialist? Which one are you talking about? Marx? Descartes? And saying that consciousness is a fruitless concept is a bit short, when this very concept is unavoidable when trying to know what is humanity. It's so fruitless that hu
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by gbog 11y ago
Ok, maybe it was Kepler, but the argument still holds: something that we believe is extremely complex could very much become much simpler and obvious in the future. This would require changing the place of the "center". Maybe it m
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by gbog 11y ago
Yes. For instance, before invention of vector notation, many laws of physics were extremely complex. Before Copernicus system, describing the movements of planets was very complex too. While not hundred percent sure, it is highly possible t
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by gbog 11y ago
Yes, certainly, computers should be safe. But they aren't. So another less idealistic defense is to teach fear to users. Just as I have to induce fear of cars to my kids (annoyingly necessary), I will tell them to not trust anything co
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by gbog 11y ago
It's just that I'm old. I didn't read Kafka four time in a row mind you. I'm not nihilist at all, what made you think that? I have a high opinion on art, music, movies, literature, and prefer Kafka over Harry potter if y
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by gbog 11y ago
So something useless and positive wins over something useful but negative? You'd kept slaves in slavery with this powerful reasoning.
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by gbog 11y ago
It seems to me very defensible that "how I became an artist" cannot be taught by someone who has only a few years behind. "Becoming an artist", for real artists, is a life-long achievement, it takes a lot of struggles, t
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by gbog 11y ago
Most comments seems positive here, nice. I'm a bit less enthusiastic. A twenty-so young boy has no lesson to teach. He can't be an artist because artists are either over fifty or dead, no matter how many times he'll repeat th
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by gbog 11y ago
I think you're right and the biggest example of this is Bill Gates, he shouldn't have scrapped that much money in the first place...
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by gbog 11y ago
In developped western countries, we live in a world where being original and creative is supposed to be the norm. It is not the same in other parts of the planet, and it was not always like that in the West. Allow me to question this new pa
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by gbog 11y ago
I know it is not a very common way to think about parents responsibilities nowadays, but it was more so in the past. And I think it was reasonable to ask children to first pursue normal "un-sexy" education before getting more &quo
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by gbog 11y ago
I do encourage imagination, mostly by giving the example. But this means building weird things with Lego, it doesn't mean pushing babies on a stage with sunglasses and fake ovations by the parents. In our difficult times living a happy

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