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by henry_bone 3y ago
"And frankly, it's kind of offensive when Christians tell me I'm less-than-moral because I don't need their scripture to decide what's good or bad." The moral argument isn't telling you that. You people (H
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by henry_bone 3y ago
You're missing the point. You're in good company though. I watched Christopher Hitchens make the same mistake in a similar discussion with Dennis Prager. A number of others in this thread are also doing it. The video link [1] bel
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by henry_bone 3y ago
What I'm trying to get across is that a sense of morality is with us all. We have a generally shared understand of goodness, justice, etc. My point is that that morality is impossible to justify in a godless universe. "People fee
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by henry_bone 3y ago
Humans are nothing if not self interested. But that's beside the point here. Why "kind and empathetic"? Who said that's how we should be? If we are nothing more than an arbitrary arrangement of matter, formed according
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by henry_bone 3y ago
No one needs religion to lead a moral life. That's not the argument. But without the transcendent, without a higher power, we have no grounding for our morality. Everything becomes subjective and "post-modern". Actions then
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by henry_bone 3y ago
"At the start of my book, Learning JavaScript Design Patterns, I say "good code is like a love letter to the next developer who will maintain it". It is an intimate correspondence, from one developer to another,
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by henry_bone 3y ago
It's one thing to make an academic case in an online forum, that PFAS are not detrimental (at low levels) to human health. But when it gets down to it, would you rather avoid PFAS, or you just don't think they're a problem? &
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by henry_bone 3y ago
So if you're handed a pint of water laced with PFAS, you're going to drink it without a care?
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by henry_bone 3y ago
Seems like Conway's law applies:- "Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure." -- Melvin E. Conway https:&#x2
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by henry_bone 4y ago
Yep. You are right. Insurrection.
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by henry_bone 4y ago
From Star Trek: First Contact: "When you build a machine to do a man's job, you take something away from the man." You surrendered the need to think to the machine. You are lesser for it. I don't think these AIs are just
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by henry_bone 4y ago
I can't speak intelligently about UK centre-right, but here in Aus our Liberal party (as in classical liberal, centre-right) are almost indistinguishable for our Labor (centre-left). Big spending, big government and so we are seeing m
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by henry_bone 4y ago
I think I've known this for years. When I was a kid I had a book entitled "How things work". In it was a large picture, spread across 2 pages, showing birds, land animals, people in cars, trains, aeroplanes etc, all moving fr
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by henry_bone 4y ago
Yep, that's the basic idea. Not suitable for me though as I am not an Apple user.
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by henry_bone 4y ago
Thanks, shortwave does look interesting. I'm not really a gmail user though, but shortwave does appear to allow for more group or sender oriented presentation of messages.
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by henry_bone 4y ago
I want my email organised by sender, not by message. I want a list of senders with unread messages when I open the client. I may want some way to indicate which senders are more important so that they are displayed more prominently in some
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by henry_bone 4y ago
I bought a couple of SolidTeknics[1] wrought iron pans, and I love them. You have to season them first, which essentially involves blackening them by burning good cooking oils onto them. I used rice bran oil for that. It's a bit of a
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by henry_bone 4y ago
You'd trust a government with that? I wouldn't. It may be simplistic but I think that the judiciary applying firm measures designed to protect the public and the biosphere, is the best approach.
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by henry_bone 4y ago
I am 49yo, male. I'm healthy, but mildly overweight. I was very fit prior to the lockdowns (Melbourne, Vic, Australia), but I lacked the disciplinary wherewithall to maintain that fitness over the past couple of years. I have chosen no
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by henry_bone 4y ago
Could it be (& I am asking) that he can invalidate the current contract on the grounds that daily active users aren't what twitter said. Then could they draft a new contract, complete with a new price and daily active users estimat
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by henry_bone 4y ago
I see the author's scepticism of the bots argument, but I don't think it's one that should be dismissed so easily. I don't know anything, but isn't the value of these big tech properties largely in the number of act
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by henry_bone 5y ago
People should listen to Dr Robert Epstein [1] and never use a google product again. Google are an advertising company and master manipulators. They have unprecedented control over people very thoughts and opinions. They should be avoided
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by henry_bone 5y ago
Did you read the article at the link I posted?
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by henry_bone 5y ago
From the article: 'The report defines scientific "misinformation" as content which is presented as fact but counter to, or refuted by, the scientific consensus - and includes concepts such as ‘disinformation’ which rela
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by henry_bone 5y ago
What misinformation? And was it Rogan's view or that of one of his guests? And is it actually misinformation, or just controversial? Or you (& others) just disagree? I mean, a lot has been said on Rogan's podcast over the y
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by henry_bone 5y ago
I can't read Hebrew or ancient Masoretic text, so I'm kind of buggered. My illiteracy in ancient languages means that I must base my theology on translations. That said, before the other day when you raised the question, I'v
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by henry_bone 5y ago
Reading this, I'm reminded of Homer Simpson: "I'm kind of a goof-off. It takes me a long time to learn anything ..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG6w0IAoT4U
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by henry_bone 5y ago
You may be correct, but I think not, for the reasons laid out in the following commentaries. From https://www.bibleref.com/Genesis/6/Genesis-6-3.html#commenta... This is another fascinating verse which has been in
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by henry_bone 5y ago
“On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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by henry_bone 5y ago
Genesis 6:3 (KJV): And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

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