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by ghb 16y ago
Serious question: what's utility?
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by ghb 16y ago
Self-esteem is one of the most useless abstractions I know of. Its currency is tied together with this nonsensical emphasis on "feeling good about yourself" prevalent today. I really would like to know how popular psychology concretely beca
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by ghb 16y ago
Shouldn't the headline read "Android Sales Overtake iOS in the U.S."?
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by ghb 16y ago
Does anyone know if there are amateur news sites that do things like collect shit people just report like "oh shit, this guy just got hit by a car on Damen & Wolcott" or "Hey, guys, the regime is cracking down on our protest", or has Tw
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by ghb 16y ago
The Coming Community , Giorgio Agamben: A series of reflections on medieval philosophy and language that culminates in a notion of community that isn't grounded in any kind of commonality. It's a brilliant work that still serves as the ter
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by ghb 16y ago
"You can't make people happy against their will" would be the smoother translation.
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by ghb 16y ago
Any comments on how instructive HTDP is with Racket for introducing a non-programmer to coding?
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by ghb 16y ago
some people like proper gtk integration
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by ghb 16y ago
As someone with a philosophy degree I can say that your thought is immeasurably underestimated. Every philosophy 101 course teaches you Plato, but the differene between the Plato you find there and the actual Plato under scholarly anaylsis
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by ghb 16y ago
In today's culture that's damn hard for a lot of people.
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by ghb 16y ago
Wait, so Ballmer talked over the insight of his highest software engineer? Is that really what happened?
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by ghb 16y ago
Giraffes don't swim. Simulations demonstrate they could, kinda, but it'd suck. Giraffes don't swim.
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by ghb 16y ago
I'd rather keep Tumblr and WP.com apart.
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by ghb 16y ago
No surprising picks there.
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Onticology: A Manifesto for Object-Oriented Ontology(larvalsubjects.wordpress.com)
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by ghb 16y ago
This is one of the more sober commentaries on the internet and power I've read in a long time.
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by ghb 16y ago
I'm curious as to why lifestreaming never caught on: why entrust all your data to a single service (Facebook) when you can entrust specific data to specific services (photos to flickr, status to twitter, bookmarks to delicious, etc). This f