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by hjek 8y ago
Of course it is problematic that land owners are actually rewarded for their wealth. But at least it's difficult to create new would-be farmland. However if the would-be fisherman owns a fishing boat that could be used but isn&#x27
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by hjek 8y ago
I'm cooking and eating burgers often, and they smell and taste quite real (as opposed to imaginary burgers made out of air). Have you yourself tried a non-flesh burger, and did you genuinely find it bad? Was it from a shop or a caf
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by hjek 8y ago
How do you tell who is a fisherman if the fisherman does not catch fish?
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by hjek 8y ago
So would slavery similarly be more justifiable if it was also done not only because slave owners liked it but because it was part of American culture?
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Exactly (if the burger is made of animal flesh, that is; but fortunately there are many other ways of making burgers).
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> if everybody eats plants we would also need a huge amount of water/field sizes to feed everybody. Keeping non-human animals for the purpose of eating their flesh requires even huger amounts of water/field sizes; so much in fa
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Are you suggesting that pigs or cows can't feel anything (pain or pleasure) because they don't understand how a mirror works?
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The "tradition" argument is interesting: We'll keep on doing this, because we've been doing it for a while, so let's not consider whether it's appropriate. That cliché argument is used not only by the Japanese
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> I think you misread my comment. Yea, I did misread a bit of it. > I think the language is pretty powerful, but I'm not sure if we can find something as rock solid as postgres. While PostgreSQL may be better for most projects, S
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> Hmm I'm fine with prolog, I love it, but I'm not sure how it can be used in practice. Well, that rings similar to what is said about Lisp sometimes, and I think it can easily be refuted by pointing to instances where it is
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See also Racket Datalog: https://docs.racket-lang.org/datalog/index.html I dig logic programming, but I wish Racklog had better (or any?) constructs for storage. Racket Datalog can serialize a theory[0], but that still
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Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD receiving DARPA funding[0]: > I actually am fairly uncomfortable about it, even if our firm stipulation was that they cannot tell us what to do. We are simply doing what we do anyways - securing software - and
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Peter Singer: Animal Liberation
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Optimal in terms of nutrition or in terms of being less destructive for the planet or creating less suffering? This article appears to only consider the importance of one of those.
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Postmill (a social link aggregator with voting and threaded comments)(gitlab.com)
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> Linus was polite, yes, but he expressed his anger and disappointment in a great way. Feels more brutal than his old style, actually. Yea, it's even stronger without the swearwords. > Linus hasn't lost his touch, I misread
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> This word "wait" is particularly problematic. You can't know a priori that the attacker will be a nominee for the Supreme Court, so you can't really wait to accuse them on that basis. Great analysis of (the absurdit
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> Best burn here is him flatly telling Eric that he won't be pulling anything from him until he fixes his attitude. It's not the contributors personal attitude that's in question here but his attitude towards breaking user
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Not sure I understand, sorry. In what way is this video relevant? It seems to suggest that spread of anger is always a bad thing, so are you suggesting that we should dismiss the concerns of angry people?
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I didn't get the context, so I had to look it up: > What fraction of women assaulted by a nominee for Supreme Court in high school would wait to publicly accuse him not just 30 yrs, but after Congress hearings & just before Cong
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Didn't read the Youtube comments (using `youtube-dl`), so thanks for posting those. > and he knows he is lonely and he knows he is sad then for 4Chan to take advantage of him > Some fans helped him by bringing him supplies, but h
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TempleOS – Down the Rabbit Hole [video](youtube.com)
56 points by hjek 8y ago|4 comments
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Probably an OCR glitch even, as the text has some OCR cliches in it: > and regard these as black-and-white altematives. Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18374359
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by hjek 8y ago
Peter Norvig also discusses the rule here: http://norvig.com/chomsky.html
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Famine, Affluence and Morality (1972) [pdf](sober.philosophy.wisc.edu)
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Star Control II has voiced dialog[0]. [0]: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/uqm-voice
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> That's not Mark's gig. Apparently it is. https://gizmodo.com/viral-video-of-glitter-bomb-for-package-...
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> Why are you assuming he didn't? > > He should use that for his pranks. I'm not.
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by hjek 8y ago
Good point. There's plastic free glitter[0], which I've seen used at environmentally considerate festivals. He should use that for his pranks. I hope campaigns against single use plastic become more mainstream soon, and that will
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Niels Klim's Underground Travels (1741)(gutenberg.org)
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