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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
Should we rely on the Inquisition's records as reference to judge Giordano Bruno, or on his works and public discourse before he was imprisoned for 7 years then murdered? His arguments for the Copernican model were better than the ones
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
Giordano Bruno should also be remembered as a hero of science. He was burnt at the stake by the Inquisition in Rome because he upheld the heliocentric model and cosmic pluralism, a mere 13 years before Galileo wrote this re-discovered let
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
I still don't understand why Google's leadership believe they should support and serve the interests of the Chinese dictatorship.
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Sonos integrated with IFTTT(ifttt.com)
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Introduction of the Sonos Developer Program(developer.sonos.com)
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
Further, to ask any "why" question depends on the axiomatic acceptance that there is something , something acting according to its nature , of which one is aware, and about which one can reason. As Parmenides beautifully instruc
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
How long until a big-tech company starts to log, track, and connect banknote serial numbers from ATM to store? I wouldn't be surprised if ATMs already record the serial number of each note they distribute.
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
Followed the link. Read the description at https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/54068 There is absolutely nothing written about this being a way to opt out of their purchasing and tracking credit card use.
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
Sorry I didn't realize the distinction you were making! you are right that seems to be an electronic equivalent to cash.
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
[correction: Apple Pay Cash should indeed be a workable shield.] Using Apple Pay [not the "Cash" feature] only hides your details from the retailer, not from the credit card company nor evidently from Google.
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
I did read the article. That's discovering that someone is stalking you, until and unless you tell them you'd rather "opt out" even though you never "opted in" the evil stalking. Meanwhile, all shops and busine
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
Do I have a choice, other than cancelling all of my MasterCard cards? This business of tracking and profiling is increasingly evil. If I dystopically discovered that someone has been following me around all the time, writing down everything
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
One shouldn't trust one's security to either.
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
Yes, the low quality and outcomes of public education are very bad, and a political system that insists on dooming a majority of kids to that hellhole is very bad. The positive solution is not to seek to destroy what decent educational syst
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
You seem to misunderstand the collectivism in Assemblywomen -- it is used as an absurdist foil to criticize contemporary Athens, not as some kind of ideal.
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
I have friends who send their children to Montessori schools (private). Other friends send their kids to Waldorf schools (private, too). Others have been homeschooling (the ultimate private). They would consider it deeply unjust to seek to
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
If a given business is forbidden from discriminating for any aspect of their potential customer's life, then this rule has to be applied across the board, regardless of what you happen to approve or disapprove of.
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
I applaud your self-improvements. Though what you suggest hasn't worked for me -- too many betrayals by people in my family, by those I thought were friends, by the ones who committed suicide, and as a final nail by my two wives (ten y
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
I'm going with my kids to Jasper and Banff for our summer holiday and it looks like the fires are staying on the West side of the mountains. Thanks for the link. Awesome.
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
This happened a mere 5,000 generations ago... (before the separate admixture with European and Melanasian Homo Sapiens). Were the Denisovans as different from Neanderthals as Sapiens were from either branch? † Reading the branch/tree d
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
We all understand now that Google will do everything the Chinese dictatorship tells them to, in order to deploy their ad-driven products in China. There is no elevated morality involved. Maybe a few current Google employees will leave. Wh
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
The few times I've tried it I experienced paranoia lasting several hours, and when I became aware of it I additionally experienced anxiety because I couldn't tell whether I was voicing these thoughts about people around me or keep
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
What is the principle behind the $1 billion revenue cut-off? why not simply regulate all corporations with more than N employees, say 10 employees?
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
Whenever there is a bridge failure (or similar, highly-visible civil engineering failure) I recommend to engineers of all stripes that they go read the works of Henry Petroski. In particular: - To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in
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The Mechanics of Deception(apelbaum.wordpress.com)
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Rudolf Diesel Patents a new Internal Combustion Engine (1898) [pdf](patentimages.storage.googleapis.com)
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
I think any business should have the freedom to refuse to trade with anyone they dislike, however irrational or bigoted their decision may be. I also think everybody else can denounce, ostracize, or boycott them for similar, or rational and
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
What do you think of a bakery refusing to make a wedding cake for people they disapprove of?
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
Mainly notifications and speech.
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
I'm giving up on upgrading my apps for Android. The releases are dividing the market every single year and consequently steadily eroding sales. On the one hand Google's Nexus was released 3 years ago and is now obsolete; on the ot

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