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by laughingman2 10y ago
>communism as an ideal seems impossible to implement in any way besides the authoritarian state-capitalism way that it has been implemented. >the Mondragon Corporation[1] is one of the few interesting experiments with a Communism-insp
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> Its human nature to try to game the system Or is the system is designed to give wrong incentives? I don't think we have enough evidence for what you take as "human nature". On the contrary the anthropological studies in
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>the sad reality is that unless someone fronts the money, nothing will get done. Its not the natural law of universe which cannot be changed. We humans create the systems of economic organization. So if you agree that profit is not main
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Yeah, the people the very people who will snigger at someone selling "quantum healing" defend economic theories which have no scientific rigor. And the worse part is the dominant theories operate in a manner that they are self ful
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>If you put an upper limit, you'll have people stop once they hit that limit. By that logic most scientists, philosophers and mathematicians from ancient times till now wouldn't have had the incentive to do anything. Einstein d
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I have writtern imperative UI in iOS, jQuery with server templates. I love react for its declarative UI, but when people ask how it differs from angular 2 or ember, I don't have an answer. I tried angular 1 ages ago, and left it. Any c
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by laughingman2 10y ago
Debt: The First 5,000 Years is a book by anthropologist David Graeber published in 2011. It explores the historical relationship of debt with social institutions such as barter, marriage, friendship, slavery, law, religion, war and governme
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Rational behind Zoho's new office in rural Tamil Nadu (their engineering base is primarily in city Chennai) is to reduce clustering in mega cities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyHgMNuftL0 Zoho's CEO feels that
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If you are planning to take it, I would suggest a different approach which I have started. 1. Do Practical Deep Learning For Coders:- http://course.fast.ai/ To take a plunge directly into deep learning AI, this course has r
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Dependency Injection – What, Why and How? – Focusing Little on Swift(saiprasanna.in)
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One can also say that "you" cannot be separated from the "external" system? Alan Watts - “It's like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall. Smash! And all that ink spread. And in the middle, it's d
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I would like to point to this enlightening post on Zen and Free will - https://aeon.co/essays/do-i-have-free-will-in-zen-the-questi... Also the insights of Alan Watts in the book 'The Way of Zen' and others o
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> The long arc of the universe tends towards justice ? Is there any philosophical view point which thinks so? But according to natural science doesn't universe tends to entropy (granted entropy doesn't translate directly to lac
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I have strong view that there is no such thing as free will.In close scrutiny any definition of free will falls apart. Wittgenstien's view that most philosophical problems of dissolve by understanding that the question involved is nons
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by laughingman2 10y ago
But there were few police men burning vehicles which they blatantly deny as being "morphed". Seems like the govt wanted to smear bad name on the protest
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My day job is swift iOS development until recently. I learnt react redux etc etc for side project which I am doing. I have developed CRUD apps with some extra stuff like celery tasks , web sockets etc. I am at a point where I can pick up ne
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by laughingman2 10y ago
I have 2 years exp in medium sized product company (which has global market) in India. I have developed iOS apps, react app, web app in django (basically full stack). have experience in python, java, javascript and swift. I applied for few
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by laughingman2 10y ago
I was thinking of search for jobs in America in order to work in companies that use bleeding edge technologies. (Comparatively the open source scene, tech innovation scene in India is not that good). Trump and his policies have generated s
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by laughingman2 10y ago
. As a Zenrin poem says: You cannot get it by taking thought; You cannot seek it by not taking thought.e But this absurdly complex and frustrating predicament arises from a simple and elementary mistake in the use of the mind. When this is
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Rawls suggests that you imagine yourself in an original position behind a veil of ignorance. Behind this veil, you know nothing of yourself and your natural abilities, or your position in society. You know nothing of your sex, race, nationa
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by laughingman2 10y ago
I think with advent of Inferno, 9KB for a view layer runtime, which has overhead of just 4% above vanilla JS is acceptable for me to compiled view layer that repeats code everywhere.
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What do you think of Bohm's interpretation ?
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Thats great of you, I am vegetarian by birth, became vegan by choice , Even in vegetarian people rationalise when they come to terms with messy aspects of dairy farming. The question of ethics is weighing hard on me, even normally rational