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by lordleft 7y ago
He probably felt a degree of ownership and protectiveness over the franchise that few of us could understand. It may have been impossible to match his expectations.
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by lordleft 7y ago
I would like to point out that there is a movement within tabletop games to create new games that are either refined clones of old-school D&D (particular B/X Moldvay-Cook D&D) or capture the spirit of those older games. It&#x27
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by lordleft 7y ago
Great article. It explains a lot of the psychological appeal of old school, Unix-y software. That sense that no one can take functionality from you, or from your own ability to extend what already exists.
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by lordleft 7y ago
One the pillars of western masculinity, the Iliad, is replete with the tears of heroes. Men -- sometimes quite violent and aggressive men -- have historically felt quite free to use tears to express their anxiety and grief. "Agamemnon
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by lordleft 7y ago
“People who are excited by posthumous fame forget that the people who remember them will soon die too. And those after them in turn. Until their memory, passed from one to another like a candle flame, gutters and goes out.” Marcus Aurelius
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The Five Best Books on Stoicism(fivebooks.com)
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by lordleft 7y ago
The greatest public service Philosophy can provide is helping us become better people. This is philosophy as understood in the Socratic tradition, and many people have since forgotten this once chief aim of philosophical endeavor.
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by lordleft 7y ago
Give them a lossy mechanism for replication and we can have ourselves a digital Shakespeare in 4 billion years :)
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The Cost of Choice(lord-left.github.io)
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by lordleft 7y ago
Anyone else concerned by the decidedly negative cast of the comments? Someone shares something interesting and OP gets a barrage of nit-picky commentary; it's quite discouraging.
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Multics: An Ancestor of Unix(multicians.org)
151 points by lordleft 7y ago|33 comments
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I love coding in C(lord-left.github.io)
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Consciousness is neither a spooky mystery nor an illusory belief(aeon.co)
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by lordleft 7y ago
Studying with veterans is an incredible experience. I'm lucky that my school (Columbia) has a very large undergraduate vet population. It adds a dimension of experiential diversity that many colleges fail to capture, and makes real wha
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by lordleft 7y ago
The simple truth is that working for the equity of an unproven start-up is a gamble, and statistically unlikely to pay off. And sadly more and more start-ups are undermining access to equity in shady ways. Not that one should never work for
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by lordleft 7y ago
I come from a family of immigrants. Growing up, I at times felt oppressed by the constant throng of cousins and uncles and aunts and family friends at our home...but now that I'm older I greatly appreciate the dense social fabric that
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by lordleft 7y ago
This article really makes me want to learn lisp. Is there a risk that lisp’s extensibility creates lots of very specific dialects of lisp that can be difficult to share / understand?
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by lordleft 7y ago
That's an absolutely brilliant pricing model. I love it.
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by lordleft 7y ago
The decision to have kids is a lot like the decision to continue living. There is no logical basis for it. Or rather, any latticework of logic you erect to justify this choice is based on a foundation that has nothing to do with reason. It
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by lordleft 7y ago
CRPGs are my favorite genre of video game, and the complex interactions they feature make them both super fun and especially prone to glitches. I will say that TOW was very stable for an Obsidian Game. I don't think I've experienc
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by lordleft 7y ago
There has to be some upper bound to the cost of education, right? Or will I have to put aside a few million to send my kids to college twenty years from now?
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by lordleft 7y ago
While I'm not partial to ads, it costs money to make content. If you don't want to pay for that content, it seems unseemly to deny the content creator the income stream they've created, instead of just not viewing the content
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Were the Founding Fathers Libertarians?(davidfrum.com)
4 points by lordleft 7y ago|1 comments
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by lordleft 7y ago
This was a contradiction noticed by the contemporary commentators themselves. From David Frum's article: http://davidfrum.com/article/were-the-founding-fathers-liber... Yet it’s a very striking fact that the langu
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by lordleft 7y ago
This is the first article to acknowledge something I noticed about the Cybertruck: that it seems to be drawing from a dystopian and cyberpunk aesthetic. I don't know if that means Elon is portending the end of western civilization, but
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by lordleft 7y ago
Jason, the author of this terminal, has a great podcast about programming with a cohost called Programming Throwdown.
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by lordleft 7y ago
I believe it’s actually implied to be Mr. Brooke, Dorothea’s uncle — the passage is being read to him by another character.
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by lordleft 7y ago
Reading Middlemarch was a life-changing experience. Fun fact: George Eliot was not only a novelist, but also very well read in philosophy and even translated Spinoza into english. My favorite quote by her: “But the effect of her being on th
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by lordleft 7y ago
I know Microsoft gets a lot of flak for their historical support of legacy systems, but on the flip-side it means that as an enterprise you trust that they won't abruptly deprecate something you use.
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by lordleft 7y ago
In the context of the (european) New World, this is positively ancient. It's actually a bit disorienting (I'm betraying a bit of an US-centric perspective here, apologies) to think of Havana thriving for HUNDREDS of years before m

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