justhelpingout

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Managers Are Dead, Long Live Managers(medium.com)
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Almost no one chooses that their child should have a disability. Epsilons were created for their plasticity.
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If we were creating them, then _Brave New World_ would be very applicable. But helping someone who has come to be through no intention of others accomplish good things in their life is good.
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`let lifetime = max(...components_lifetime)` is like `let size = to_greeklish(base10(hard_drive_capacity))`. Some people don't care, but the people who do care are not going to thank you when they optimize on the basis of the appearan
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by justhelpingout 8y ago
Oliver Twist's England, surely, where children are pressed into service in dangerous factories that can severe limbs and kill, for mere pennies a day? Otherwise, we definitely agree. We are fallen creatures and will drive earth to hel
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Morals and ethics are either relative or absolute. If they are relative then they are not based on "what a thing is" (it's essence, to use an Aristotelean term) but on "how useful it is to me" or some other relativ
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Socialism without morality leads to Stalinism. Socialism with morality requires strict (e. g. sworn) obedience to a higher authority (see the monasteries of Catholicism which are strictly speaking socialist).
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A system of ethics and moral rules that is evolved over time with no relation to how things are in themselves is simply so much legacy code, to be replaced by the stronger man at a time convenient to him. If, on the other hand, moral rules
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The problem here is that the diff is not source, but "compiled" code. We ultimately come back to "Reflections on Trusting Trust" [1] [1]: https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson&#
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Article says "YES!" > This new runtime allows you to take advantage of Python's vibrant ecosystem of open-source libraries and frameworks. While the Python 2 runtime only allowed the use of specific versions of whitelisted
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Find a solid proof-of-work system for sharing signed data in this manner and you will change the world. Especially if you can re-combine the shared model with the local model.
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> It seems much more simple to assume some system must simply exist without necessity of creation. You are spot on. This system must exist in-itself. That is, it must be so simple that its existence cannot be separated from its nature (
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See also _The Metaphysics of democracy_: https://www.firstthings.com/article/2018/02/the-metaphysics-...
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In fact it is: sqlite3 .tup/db 'select name from node where type=4' | xargs echo rm -f [1]: https://github.com/gittup/tup/issues/120#issuecomment-64832104
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/ and http://www.newadvent.org/summa/index.html but the former is more like INFO while the latter is more like `man builtins` (that is, it assumes you already know a
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You can certainly do this - you just need something to contain the enum since an enum is a nominal subtype of `number` already, so TypeScript unifies `number & anyEnum` to `number`. The best tagging mechanism these days is `Nominal<T