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by huetius 5y ago
One must be careful not to fall into Rousseauian “noble savage” myths. Primitive societies were also stratified, as evidenced by differentiated burials. Violence was also very much a part of their lives. Graeber talks about this. That doe
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by huetius 5y ago
Seeing some of the responses in this thread, I think I might want to withdraw, or at least modify this comment. I am going to leave it as is because others have upvoted it, as is. People are trying to interpret the analogy outside of the t
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by huetius 5y ago
I have mixed feelings about Chesterton, but I’m not sure this is fair. I think the point is that change is not a good in itself; it’s only good insofar as the new state it brings into being is good. It places contemplation of the good abo
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by huetius 5y ago
Utilitarian, manipulative society which views men and women as non-complementary and unequal finds evidence of those values in practice. More at nine.
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by huetius 5y ago
There have been a lot of perspectives on time through human history. The Mayans were very gifted astronomers, and built their temples such that the sun would shine exactly through a small portal at the top of the temple on the equinoxes. C
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by huetius 5y ago
Quiz: who said, “all politics is, at bottom, theological?” St. John Henry Newman, or Proudhon? Trick question! Both! This is radically different from the Marxian/Nietzschian maxim, that all theology is, at bottom, politics. I don’t
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by huetius 5y ago
I don’t believe he erred for the sake of erring (I don’t think anyone does, finally), but I do think his errors were transparent at the time. See, for example, the refutation in Suarez’ Against the Errors of the Anglican Sect , Book II.
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by huetius 5y ago
Yes! I reject both of those for exactly the reason I said above.
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by huetius 5y ago
I am interested in this book, and will probably get it. It seems to come at a time when the Western governments, despite their gargantuan size, seem totally incapable of resolving their innumerable, largely self-inflicted crises. Plagued
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by huetius 5y ago
PostGIS is, without doubt, some of the coolest software I’ve ever had a chance to work with, professionally. I used it for a data visualization tool for a large wireless network and it was a joy.
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by huetius 5y ago
Sure. Polanyi is easy. He wrote a trio of short, accessible, and engaging books outlining his ideas: Science, Faith, and Society (1946), Personal Knowledge (1958), and The Tacit Dimension (1966). He was a true polymath, and very up
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by huetius 5y ago
Polanyi’s work on intuition is incredible. The tendency (which I think came from Kuhn’s reading) to view Polanyi as some kind of relativist is a complete reversal and devaluation of what he actually wrote. EDIT: in my view, the most rigoro
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by huetius 5y ago
I think my only strong opinions on fact checking are that the situation has exposed the problems inherent in techne without episteme , and that it is no longer tenable to punt on philosophical questions.
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by huetius 5y ago
It seems to me that the unique characteristic of the technological society is that, through mass surveillance, tactical applications of violence, propaganda and “social death,” traditional fixtures of totalitarianism like prison camps and b
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by huetius 5y ago
In short, unanswered questions. I have a close friend who briefly flirted with (actual) extreme right wing beliefs, and has, thankfully, settled on a less warlike disposition. The question he asked, and which was never given a straight ans
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by huetius 5y ago
To be fair, by “end” he meant “telos,” or “ideal,” following Hegel. He did not mean that there would be no more history. Of course, his thesis is still wrong. EDIT: the original essay also had a question mark at the end of the title.
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by huetius 5y ago
That’s an understandable position. Still, one ought not ignore the embarrassing (for some) similarities between the two. I’m partial to interpretations which treat the Twentieth Century megadeaths, and subsequent rise of the contemporary,
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by huetius 5y ago
Marx was extremely pro-violence, and would call you a utopian.
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by huetius 5y ago
An interesting data point: even today, the Liturgy of the Hours, which is the regiment of prayer for Christian monks and nuns, contains prayers for the middle of the night.
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by huetius 5y ago
I don’t like GP’s phrasing, but the post describes a real phenomenon. Beyond the most trivial examples, concurrency and parallelism in Python are a massive pain, as many examples here attest. Unless you have a very compelling reason to sti
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by huetius 5y ago
I agree with the sentiment, but you don’t have to attribute human characteristics to animals in order to make the case that this and much else of our contemporary relationship with nature is inhumane (meaning: against human nature).
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by huetius 5y ago
Honest, if difficult, questions: Is there any benefit to legalized pornography that outweighs the horror of things like this? Does the amount of bureaucratic scaffolding and invasive surveillance by corporate and government actors required
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by huetius 5y ago
N=1, I worked with a guy who was at least 10 times as productive as any other programmer I’ve ever met. He was also incapable of delegating, compromising, or cooperating with others. I’ve got a lot of life experience dealing with difficu
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by huetius 5y ago
They kind of did think they were building the ideal government, though. One of the major, under-emphasized influences on the framers (especially Jefferson) was Destutt de Tracey, who developed the term “ideology.” For Destutt de Tracey, i
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by huetius 5y ago
I have enjoyed what I’ve read of Mark Fisher, though I haven’t read CR except via excerpt and quotation. If you are open to a compelling, non-Marxist analysis of the present malaise, I would recommend the writings of Augusto Del Noce. The p
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by huetius 5y ago
I know for a fact I wouldn’t. My company recently switched from a code submission to a hackerrank type thing. As part of that switch, several engineers of different ranks (junior, contributor, senior, staff, etc.) took the quiz to benchmar
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by huetius 5y ago
I would like a music engraving tool, like lilypond[0], but which plays nicer with the web (bonus points if it makes it easy to treat code as data). http://lilypond.org/
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by huetius 5y ago
JMeter is great, as others have mentioned. If your task is simple enough and doesn’t require that request origins be distributed, you might be able to get away with (much less complex) Apache Bench.
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by huetius 5y ago
I mostly agree with the article, but the devil is in the details. Just as there are good and bad technological applications, there are good and bad ways to decrease consumption.
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by huetius 5y ago
I’ve never done web scraping professionally, but I can relay that any time I’ve tried to use Python for anything involving concurrency, except in the most trivial cases, it has been pure pain.

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