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by interpenetrate 5y ago
In the right hands some fiction is perhaps the best evidence for some history. As Engels (who was mentioned elsewhere in this thread) says: > I have learned more [from novelist Honoré de Balzac] than from all the professed historians
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by interpenetrate 5y ago
Where's the science? How do you propose we verify anything? Your implication is that one (anyone?) must "work for CCP" to be able to evaluate truth. So then, where is the CCP worker who gave you the framework you're depe
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by interpenetrate 5y ago
That's not very fun. You're supposed to tell me a convincing story about why the lockdown is happening. Someone quickly replied to me about how the present lockdown is specifically intended to cause inflation in the U.S. Unfortuna
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by interpenetrate 5y ago
I can't tell if the author is pretending that Kant was never born for the sake of popularization, or if this limit is representative of philosophy of science at large. But this speaks volumes: > The philosopher’s aim is not to help
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by interpenetrate 5y ago
>Implement something like that without a framework and only plain js with dozens of fields having dependencies on each other, good luck :) I just implemented a complete spreadsheet solution inspired by Airtable (sticky header and columns
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by interpenetrate 5y ago
Thanks for the reply. I'll make some time this weekend to reproduce my issues and send them your way.
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by interpenetrate 5y ago
I did just that recently. They certainly seem to offer the most complete solution. Definitely worth keeping an eye on. I had to pass because of its prohibitive license (for now) and the head-scratching bugs I ran into with the direct Postgr
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by interpenetrate 5y ago
If done right, SQLive is the sort of thing that could entirely change the way many applications are written. Solving the problem of real time collaboration at the database level has been a dream of mine for years. Unfortunately I'm dou
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by interpenetrate 5y ago
I can't recommend any particular resources, but yes it's called harmonization and I'm sure you can get started by searching "how to harmonize a melody." YouTube has a billion videos on this sort of thing. You may al
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by interpenetrate 5y ago
Still we don't say JFK is a "fictional character" and that any actual JFK-as-person has been "lost to the sands of time." This is all very tedious but at least we got to talk about historical method which is never a
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by interpenetrate 5y ago
> ... intended to promote the subject's reputation, morals, and preachings rather than as a historical narrative Unfortunately for the Gospel writers, they did have to square reality with theology, so that their theology is at times
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by interpenetrate 5y ago
Unlike the Hebrew Bible, which came centuries after Enuma Elish and other inherited traditions (that are universally acknowledged by biblical and historical critics!), the Gospels were written merely 30 years after Jesus preached. This mean
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by interpenetrate 5y ago
We can much more easily deny the attribution of the major miracles to the real Jesus by saying miracles don't happen. The much more interesting question for historians for hundreds of years, which you are avoiding, is what real things
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by interpenetrate 5y ago
The Korea Future Initiative is unsurprisingly funded by NED, making this article propaganda indeed.
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by interpenetrate 5y ago
Look up "Prevayler" and the "system prevalence" pattern. It introduces occasional data journaling, and so it exists somewhere in between "serialize and persist the whole thing at once" and a full blown DBMS. Bu
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by interpenetrate 5y ago
> Normal brains are constantly ignoring small prediction errors and are very tolerant of ambiguous, uncertain, or new situations. An ASD brain cannot blend in the minor mistakes as well, so it spends a lifetime perpetually surprised and
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by interpenetrate 5y ago
> And, related, Christian forgiveness was critical technological advance to making scientific failures acceptable. So did it just take 1,600 years for that critical advance to express itself, or something? I judge Greek technology (and a
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by interpenetrate 7y ago
>The overlooking of the value that their capital provided is a classic oversight of Marxists. this fundamental concept is called constant capital and it is of course introduced in the opening chapters of capital vol 1
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by interpenetrate 7y ago
since you haven't got to capital vol 3 (or read any text that covers that material) you do not have the knowledge required to engage in a conversation about marx's derivation of profit from surplus value. you simply do not have a
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by interpenetrate 7y ago
at first i found it odd you would dismiss trotsky's intellect (a task traditionally carried out by marxists) on the basis of his economics, but now it's obvious that "inflammatory classist conspiracy theories, hate propaganda
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by interpenetrate 7y ago
then what do you mean by the tenets of marxist economics? what's quack about them?
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by interpenetrate 7y ago
what were trotsky's contributions to (or distortions of) marxist quack economics?
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by interpenetrate 7y ago
i come here occasionally to discover the ideological tendencies of programmers (particularly those in the first world proper) because i am objectively part of that globally privileged class. i'm trying to see if this helps me to naviga
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by interpenetrate 7y ago
it doesn't matter if china is socialist or not. no one here actually cares about that. posting anonymously on the internet is clinical for me just like it's clinical for you.
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by interpenetrate 7y ago
...your "valid criticism" will never escape the constraints of orientalism. racism is not a phenomenon of the individual, it's a class phenomenon owing its modern form to imperialism. racism is the crystallization of chauvini
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by interpenetrate 7y ago
>He worked in MIT for over 30 years walter lewin was at mit for 43 years before he was exposed and fired for sexual abuse.
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by interpenetrate 7y ago
lmfao nice account it's an important point to make, that clearly there is an "organic" component and a "psychic" component to every ailment (or human experience for that matter). as anyone who has recovered from a p
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by interpenetrate 7y ago
i'm not saying that CFS is "fake", or that ulcers, fibromyalgia, or migraines are "fake." to say that you can "will" these away is an infantilization of psychoanalysis. i would never classify CFS as "
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by interpenetrate 7y ago
yes the most successful analytic practice would be the one that could successfully traverse the boundaries we've constructed between mind and body. the idea is that h. pylori, for example, has a role to play (one way or another) in the
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by interpenetrate 7y ago
indeed the syndrome can take on a life of its own (become part of their identity), and perhaps that's when it's at its most fragile. it's why after 10 years of suffering your pain could vanish immediately after learning it ma

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