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by gerbilly 7y ago
> the moment you walk into a homeless shelter asking for a meal funded by the people in the rat race that you like to condemn and opt out of, I'm afraid my opinion starts to matter. I'm not sure it matters that much. The number
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by gerbilly 7y ago
It might be seen as self serving for western industrialists to promote the noble savage idea as 'myth.' Notice that there isn't a 'noble industrialist' meme? I wonder why?
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by gerbilly 7y ago
This is not a valid refutation of the content of the article. You are arguing from the bottom levels of this pyramid: https://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/how-to-disagree-well-7-of-t... One of the massive blind spots of th
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by gerbilly 7y ago
I had this starting around March 6th and it lasted for approximately a week. I could barely smell some things like say peppercorns, or coffee beans, but the intensity was 1/100th of what it should have been. I never had a fever or a
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by gerbilly 7y ago
The best evolutionary strategy in human viruses is probably to cause mild upper respiratory tract or gastrointestinal disease such that it increases coughing and sneezing or causes diarrhoea. Basically, the most successful viruses—colds and
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Good points. I think it's interesting to compare source code and legal documents. A similar need for precision, internal consistency, lack of loopholes is needed when drafting a legal contract or legislation. This is all done in natura
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What makes programming difficult isn't the syntax, it's the need to define the problem in an completely unambiguous and consistent manner.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Don't sweat it, I've come to conclude that HN is a community with deep anti-intellectual currents running through it. I value this community for many things. But open mindedness outside of the the scientific and engineering ortho
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> Additionally, I'm suspicious when I hear the 'system' being blamed because it's a convenient scapegoat. People should be equally suspicious when someone argues the system is in inherently fair, because it is often u
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Having read a lot about VS Naipaul, and about his sometimes cantankerous nature, I am touched to see how attached he became to his cat. It's always nice to be pleasantly surprised by someone. I've noticed from personal experience
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> Web servers are usually trivially horizontally scalable. Maybe he really meant to say 'application server'. I.e that there was server side code with non trivial compute/memory requirements for running business logic.
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How 10,000 Pyramid Builders Got Fed(livescience.com)
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Where Even the Children Are Being Tracked(nytimes.com)
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by gerbilly 7y ago
If a psychology study concluded that the sun will rise tomorrow, would you dispute it based on the replication crisis? This kind of knee jerk dismissal is becoming tiresome on this site.
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Ugh, most people probably eat fast food three times a week too.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> I can't think of a single example of a heterogeneous society that has lasted a comparably long time. Hellenistic Greece perhaps? Lasted for 300 years or more, and it was very diverse.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> So it makes sense, that Buddha has left his family to sit under the tree. But for me this is such a denial of the human nature and thus it feels unnatural, unwise and just like other religions and sects with their doctrines and dogma.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
He may not have been a literal historical prince, but to make the distinction may be to miss the point a bit. For example if you compare the Mesopotamian creation myth, the Enuma Elish to the book of genesis you will find many correspondenc
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> What intelligence is, what warfare is, has changed almost beyond recognition since the founding. If we could bring the founders back to life they would probably bitch slap us and ask us why the f*ck we didn't amend or even rewrit
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> National security" is obvious doublespeak. Just change one vowel and it becomes about right: nOtional security.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
And your best comments are the ones you write twice...
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> If everyone starts off by saying no then there will again be no room for discussion, and no progress. No, not at all.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
I gess because there wouldn't be much of an article at all. I mean you basically wrote the whole article in your comment above by saying: "whether the historical Buddha existed at all" I'm betting he probably did exist,
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> The pushing is a slog, but then you reach the top and WOW BOOOM the rock cascades down the hill and it's AWESOME! In the original myth the rock rolls down alright, but it rolls down over our hero and then he has to go down and p
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Sure, thanks! I'm not panning you or your product. I'd love for there to be a viable alternative to slack that is more (if not entirely) open.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
I can't really tell for the github issues you posted what was done about these two issues. I don't really feel like reading all that just to figure it out. Did you resolve both of the issues brought up by OP or not? (Answering: &q
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LifeLabs pays ransom after cyberattack exposes data of 15M customers(cbc.ca)
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by gerbilly 7y ago
I second that brother!
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by gerbilly 7y ago
I don't have anything to do right now, and that's even better than needing to be reminded. I make sacrifices to keep my schedule as slack as possible.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Ugh. Won't even bother refuting.

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