madacoo

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by madacoo 7y ago
> this might be perfectly rational behaviour for people who care about some side of the cause I dispute this is rational. Creating echo chambers polarises and intensifies opposing viewpoints. The rational thing to do would be to engage i
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by madacoo 7y ago
https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite This software uses a license that seems to solve both the problem of ensuring the user has control over the software and also allowing the author to sell and distribute binaries wit
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by madacoo 7y ago
That last approach would go down very well in some British offices.
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by madacoo 7y ago
Firefox's reading mode solved this problem for me.
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by madacoo 7y ago
I'm currently in Hong Kong (planning to leave in December). Honestly if you want to come as a tourist I can't see you'll face any problems. Just be sensible and you'll be safe. Unless you don't want to fund the econ
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by madacoo 7y ago
He's following the German philsophical tradition of verbosity for its sake. But there is a small kernal of ideas that can be distilled from his work that academics generally agree are there and original enough for the time to be worth
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by madacoo 7y ago
> The book was a refutation of the distinction between mind and body, and all the fallacies that follow. “I think, therefore I am” was, in Heidegger’s reckoning, a “naive supposition”, an anthropocentric conceit that went all the way bac
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by madacoo 7y ago
I think the claim that Dasein has to do with Nazism would need to be demonstrated. I think for any idea it is reasonable to assume it doesn't have anything to do with Nazism until demonstrated otherwise. Dasein's throwness, so far
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by madacoo 7y ago
> his philosophy in the eyes of academia and the public has garnered more scrutiny simply because of his ties I think this probably is indeed the case. Although I would argue the value of an idea should be entirely detached from who had
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by madacoo 7y ago
Are you suggesting that concepts like Dasein's thrown-ness into the world, the readiness-to-hand of tools, and other Heideggerian ideas, which have nothing to do with Nazism, should now be subject to suspicion on account of their origi
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by madacoo 7y ago
We might be in the middle ages of software development. Think of the way European cities grew naturally versus the grid structures of American cities. Perhaps in the future the art of software development will have progressed to the point w
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by madacoo 8y ago
I'd argue that the importance of a literary work does not end at the reader. If the work changes the reader's world view and changes their behaviour, then it could in turn effect the way they interact with others. Just being in th
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by madacoo 8y ago
To become Zen you must first delete Zen.
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by madacoo 8y ago
Something that works well for me is disabling javascript and making use of Firefox's read mode. Tends to let me get straight to the content in a legible way without much of the cruft getting in the way.
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by madacoo 8y ago
> you’d never hear someone say that brain surgery is ‘fun’ Surgery is cutting an incredibly complex meaty system apart and then sowing it back together. I don't believe for a second that there isn't anyone who finds that fun. P
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by madacoo 8y ago
Yes, children have thrived for millions of years without either. Have you completely removed all influence of screens? Personally admist the uncertainty about what effects screens have on children I oscillate between a hard entrenched but p
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by madacoo 8y ago
Would it be reasonable to define the real me as simply the perpetually mutating sum of all those things?
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by madacoo 8y ago
"They're just things that we've used" means the same thing, if that helps. Spatula, pot, spoon, bowl. Those are things that we have used [today to make and eat soup]. For some reason, particularly round my parts, 't
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by madacoo 8y ago
Thanks for sharing this. I found it difficult to parse the initial couple of lines because I was constantly attempting to read by attaching meaning to the spellings: "Eye halve" is a bit frightening in that sense. But then I reali
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by madacoo 8y ago
> let's just call it ECMAScript and be done with it Okay.
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by madacoo 8y ago
Preferably vim but sometimes Geany, and maybe notepad++ in a pinch.
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by madacoo 8y ago
The sheer vastness of possibilities it creates. It's fascinating how literally incomprehensible degrees of complexity can be derived from NAND gates. I imagine it is not distinct from the way a biologist, or even anyone considering a f
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Eminent Philosophers Name the Most Important Philosophy Books from 1950-2000(openculture.com)
185 points by madacoo 8y ago|159 comments
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by madacoo 8y ago
> You can’t ignore that and not properly equip your kids for those interactions I agree. Big question: what are the best methods for doing so?
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by madacoo 9y ago
I agree the advice in the article is to avoid "I am a ..." but given that seems somewhat impossible and the advice is to avoid this construct in order to prevent a kind of 'dumbness' as described by the article, I was wo
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by madacoo 9y ago
I wonder if it would be sufficient to restrict nouns that you use to assert your identity to those which can be 'verbified': I am a juggler because I juggle; I am a programmer because I program; I am a writer because I write. Thos