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by lordleft 7y ago
Out of curiosity, does data persist after a shutdown when an OS runs on RAM? Are there dumps to a HDD?
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by lordleft 7y ago
I sincerely believe that my generation (millenials) are radically rethinking the necessity of big weddings. A lot of us would rather have a housing deposit than a swanky (and often gaudy) venue.
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Pain Points in Pivoting from the Humanities to CS(lord-left.github.io)
2 points by lordleft 7y ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 7y ago
This was a superb article. I was riveted from start to finish. I feel like I've gained some nuance into American political and cultural self-segregation.
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by lordleft 7y ago
Who said it was worse? What matters is that it is wrong.
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by lordleft 7y ago
Plato explored this idea (that democracies are precursors to tyrannies - see Andrew Sullivan's article about this here: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/04/america-tyranny-donal...
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by lordleft 7y ago
Which is something we ought to do - i.e change our understanding of history - in light of new evidence and evolving moral sentiment, no? I don't see anything wrong about this.
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by lordleft 7y ago
One of my favorite passages from the Meditations is Marcus' observation that Stoicism has value regardless of one's theology and metaphysics: Either there is a fatal necessity and invincible order, or a kind Providence, or a confu
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by lordleft 7y ago
I really don't know if the casual link is as firm as you insist. To what extent are parents are culpable for the crimes of their of-age children? And is there any indication that the philosophy expounded in the Meditations would lead t
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by lordleft 7y ago
"...As long as men the nations are suspicious of each other instruments of war will be constructed and brave men will die as these men have died in the service of their country. Today we honor these six men there shipmates and all men
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by lordleft 8y ago
That was a pretty entertaining read. And technically an ad for flip, but I’m not mad - I think it’s low key hilarious that they’re sharing roommate horror stories to sell their product. That’s ingenious.
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by lordleft 8y ago
So many people decry taking any career path that isn't STEM-based, but surely one of the things the proliferation of technology and automation should one day enable is a world where someone could be a poet, or an artist, or an engineer
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by lordleft 8y ago
I just want to say that this is one of the better descriptions I've read of the relationship of the Catholic Church with science & scientific thought. I don't necessarily believe that Catholicism is perfectly compatible with a
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by lordleft 8y ago
The moment I pull out my ipad and macbook and entrust the fate of around 3000 dollars worth of electronics to the competence and benevolence of government officials who barely give a shit is my least favorite part of the travel experience
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Ask HN: Best Backpack for a Commuting Software Dev?
10 points by lordleft 8y ago|12 comments
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by lordleft 8y ago
I'm taking a Russian lit class right now and it’s astonishing how much my Indian mother can follow along with my recounting of various plot points from Tolstoy or Dostoevsky. Russian literature is beloved in India
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by lordleft 8y ago
Optional collaborative spaces? Awesome. Mandatory collaborative spaces? Tire fire.
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by lordleft 8y ago
Thanks for the article - as a developer with an iPad Pro, it was fun reading your thoughts. I haven't tried coding on it, but I love it as a supplementary machine.
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Michael Tsai – Apple Responds to Spotify(mjtsai.com)
1 points by lordleft 8y ago|1 comments
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Voltaire on Issac Newton(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by lordleft 8y ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 8y ago
I would have liked to have had Amazon become a bigger presence here in NYC, but I strongly disagreed with their tactics and use of a contest to facilitate a race to the bottom among municipalities.
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by lordleft 8y ago
"Of remoter ancestors I can only discover one who did not live to a great age, and he died of a disease which is now rare, namely, having his head cut off."
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by lordleft 8y ago
My absolute favorite Orwell essay - it cemented my appreciation of him as an essayist and political thinker.
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by lordleft 8y ago
What is the legality of something like this? Really cool project!
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VHacks – A hackathon at the Vatican(vhacks.org)
1 points by lordleft 9y ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 9y ago
Modernity != progress. This is not to say that the Hasidic mode of life is right (or wrong), just that the term modern is being misunderstood here. When people use the word modern in a context like this, they usually mean to say that a move
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by lordleft 9y ago
Thank god. Not to disparage SV, but one thing I love about this city is the diversity of the subcultures here. I'd hate for it to be dominated by any one industry.
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by lordleft 9y ago
Seriously! This was unbelievably compelling!
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C Gibberish Decoder(cdecl.org)
1 points by lordleft 9y ago|0 comments
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John Searle on Ludwig Wittgenstein (1987)(youtube.com)
2 points by lordleft 9y ago|0 comments

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