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by mabub24 5y ago
Wittgenstein's later philosophical works, like Philosophical Investigations , attacked the bedrock of a lot of philosophy, in particular the kind that developed from Descartes (and arguably, if you want to trace it all the way back, t
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by mabub24 5y ago
The Tractus had an impact, for sure. But, from my experience, more see his later works, published posthumously as Philosophical Investigations , as far more influential. Wittgenstein is very fascinating because of this incredible turn in h
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by mabub24 9y ago
I think there are 3 reasons why the guitar is "dying" as the instrument of choice: 1. The explosion in popularity of EDM in the mid 00's to early 10's, and the prevalence of EDM elements now dominating pop music rather t
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by mabub24 9y ago
There was also the Toledo School of Translators in the city of Toledo whose translations of Arabic, Greek, and Hebrew texts in the 12th and 13th centuries were influential in bringing that knowledge into European universities. Toledo, at th
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by mabub24 9y ago
I find the key to RSS is that you need to subscribe to actual content, rather than just a feed. A lot of the stuff on the internet is, frankly, just a barely curated feed of information pushed out a firehose. Unless you feel like you need t
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by mabub24 9y ago
This essay[1] by James Bridle points out that YouTube Kids' algorithmic filtering is failing. Thousands (millions maybe) of videos are uploaded containing violent and disturbing imagery and tailored to match the search inputs of childr
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The Illusionist – The Majestic Failure of Daniel Dennett(thenewatlantis.com)
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A Public Option for Food(currentaffairs.org)
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I've always had a soft spot for Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. Here's what I wrote about it: Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy. Worth reading for the landscape descriptions alone, McCarthy transforms the American west into
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by mabub24 9y ago
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy. Worth reading for the landscape descriptions alone, McCarthy transforms the American west into a hellscape of inhuman violence, savagery, and evil; and yet, it's a beautiful descent into madness. His c
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by mabub24 9y ago
I liked Name of the Wind because it's a perfect counterpoint to Lord of The Rings, in a way. LOTR reads like a classical history book, sometimes literally. Everything is true, everything is tied together. The narrator disappears for om
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by mabub24 9y ago
I think you're mischaracterizing humanities as not falsifiable as if it should be like mathematics. The content is not wrong in the same way a math question is, but many humanities classes are explicitly about taking arguments presente
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by mabub24 9y ago
God, there is nothing quite like these houses and the photos of them, with their walls of glass, sunshine, the pools, and incredible atmosphere of wholesome relaxation, to just scream American post-war affluence. Beautiful houses and photog
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by mabub24 9y ago
If you know your Bible, Aeneid, Illiad, and Odyssey, you are off to a good start. I had a professor whose approach welded historical narratives into the works we were reading. In the absence of a good Medieval or English Literature Professo
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by mabub24 9y ago
Paradise Lost is a beautiful and intricate poem. I would highly recommend reading it with an accompanying text that drills into the context and all the intricate literary and historical references. I read it in a British Literature class (o
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by mabub24 9y ago
The Arabs: A History, by Eugene Rogan. Eugene Rogan is an excellent, clear writer with a gift for illuminating events through primary sources. The historical information provides vivid context for the current state of the Middle East, the I
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by mabub24 9y ago
I really just need a good chair. A comfortable chair allows me to focus on whatever I am working on. Stuff on the desk in the way? Put it on the ground. A big desk is good, but when I want to get something done I'll work on that one th
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by mabub24 9y ago
But that doesn't align with how we use the concept of consciousness. A bug is conscious - we put a bug in a bottle - we say the bug is in a bottle. We don't say the bottle is conscious like the bug, we say the bug is conscious
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by mabub24 9y ago
Perdue Pharma, the producer of Oxy, is basically making half of its customers into drug addicts by lying about "12-hours" of "effective" pain relief. The LA Times ran an investigation into Perdue Pharma's claim[1] a
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by mabub24 9y ago
Also I think throughout Montana there are free grazing areas for sheep. I think that's what you're seeing in the fantastic documentary called Sweetgrass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV9iah71iPQ
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by mabub24 9y ago
> "the same laws, save for the means of changing them". > The only freedom that's really lost in my AI-dictated society is the freedom to determine the rules and on an individual level, I don't think that's me
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> you have two societies with the same set of laws, one generated by dictatorial benevolent AI overlords and one generated by democracy. Are the people in the AI-governed society less free, even when subject to the same rules and restric
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by mabub24 9y ago
You could have a more concentrated power, or a less concentrated power. Democracy is remarkably flexible in some ways. Consider the shifts from majority to minority governments, the parliamentary system vs. the presidential system, referend
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I disagree with your first thought. I'll say this as someone who is unabashedly a fan of democracy. I love democracy (I would call myself a "democrat" except for the connotation with the American party). I think devaluing dem
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by mabub24 9y ago
If you're looking for 2hr single tracks you'll be running into looped tracks or very long albums. For a group setting, pizza's reference to boiler room sessions is spot on. Those are dope and pretty safe bets. I personally, w
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by mabub24 9y ago
It seems like they were able to take "the relatives are just after the money" argument to an absurd level where any form of control over the estate was simply not possible for family members or relatives.
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How common, if at all, were you contacted by patrons willing to fund your newspaper or news organization? Do any news organizations operate off of endowments, or trusts, like colleges? (I guess that leads to another question, are there nati
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It was probably similar to what happened when the USS Porter collided with another vessel in the Strait of Ormuz. You can hear how confusing the situation was from this audio recording. Apparently, the work environments can be extremely str
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Not to justify them shafting you, but I remember seeing articles around April this year that Nautilus has been dealing with financial troubles. Writers have been waiting on payment and the editor admitted: "they were running on fumes&q
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by mabub24 9y ago
A kindle has made me read vastly more non-fiction than I used to. I still get in some fiction, but when I was a kid I read a novel a week. Alas, I do not get out to the library enough. I'd say I finish 50+ books a year, with a ratio of

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