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by mbubb 17y ago
I agree there is a virtue to living within ones means. Having as small a 'footprint' as possible - carbon or otherwise. I probably first entertained this idea after reading translations of Buddhist texts or things like Merton's "Saying of t
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by mbubb 17y ago
Yes, yes, yes. I am seen as an oddity (family friends coworkers) for choosing public transit and walking over using a car. It seems like such insanity to clog the streets and air with car traffic like we do.
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by mbubb 17y ago
Yes but I also think that in some cultures people sing more and informally. ot just education but also general attitudes towards singing. For me growing up the only time I would sing would be in church - the essence of drudgery. Working and
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by mbubb 17y ago
>>when was the last time you listened to an entire album before while doing nothing else? An excellent and resonant question... It makes me think of generally how our relationship to music has changed over the past 20 years. I have
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by mbubb 17y ago
I know it is a week later and this is stale and I am not really sure how to contact you directly - a few responses: >>I find that interesting as nearly every time I'm out walking at a place where dog-walking is popular I witness dog
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by mbubb 17y ago
Yes but there is more nuance here. Only a few dog breeds are potentially dangerous. Look at the CDC stats (link below) over 20 years for fatal dog attacks and there are a relatively few breeds. In fact, looking at the data, if you lump 'pit
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by mbubb 17y ago
Nice link - thanks for that. (the link to the article is broken but easy to find) Another interesting question is to look at the relationship of atheism and belief. Actually science does not approach real atheism - it never exceeds agnostic
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by mbubb 17y ago
"After all, the earth moves around the sun – isn't it best to torn [sic] the other cheek? " It is never a disappointment to read Feynman - an interesting piece from the opening claim: "In this age of specialization men who thoroughly know o
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by mbubb 17y ago
Good point - and to further your definition of dialectical - it is not simple opposition of two forces that leads to a 3rd path (I think that is often referred to as Aristotelian dialectic). The critical theory dialectic you refer to is the
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by mbubb 17y ago
I, myself, am not a Socialist I tend to vote 3rd party because I believe Nader's basic idea that there is no difference between the two dominant parties - they just serve different corporate interests. But I am in no way a committed Marxist
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by mbubb 17y ago
or sudo
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by mbubb 17y ago
Yes - I agree this felt like flame-bait. I found the absence of any references to Debian odd. I say that because for me the choice among Linux distributions is largely a choice of what kind of package management you want to use. One thing I
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by mbubb 17y ago
The following doent work on a Windows system and it has been a few years since I have used MacOS - so I do not remember if you can do this. On any of the *nixes that I have used (Debian, NetBSD) there is a similar 'desktop clearing' trick.
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by mbubb 17y ago
Wow - nice list. Many/ most I do not know. If I were in school today I would look for a cognitive science program. It seems like a rich field. - and your question: >Do you have any better recommendations? I'm interested in cognitive sc
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by mbubb 17y ago
I love these systems. The main branch of the New York Public Library had (still has?) a nice shiny brass system in the research room. You filled out a request on a little card and the librarian would put it into a metal canister and send it
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by mbubb 17y ago
Yeah you are right. Or simply gone to nasa.gov: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/29dec_bluemoon.htm "The modern definition sprang up in the 1940s. In those days, the Farmer's Almanac of Maine offered a definition of Blue Moon so co
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by mbubb 17y ago
Pretty cool. Question though - the definition of a blue moon is for there to be 4 full moons in a season. (Learned on HN): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1008761 which cites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_moon If that is the c
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by mbubb 17y ago
Right. It is interesting how (in the European and American context) we have not developed this idea much from the Enlightenment (Spinoza, Pascal, etc). We know this idea and yet cannot get past it. The realization does not shake the belief
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by mbubb 17y ago
Yes that is a funny image - and I agree with your overall point. Following that quote is one of the most incoherent metaphors I have seen in a while: "It’s been barely a decade since the Internet bubble burst on the information highway to t
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by mbubb 17y ago
Wow - could me me except that you have done much more than I. I like reading HN but feel very peripheral to the main current. Read your post and related alot more than I do with most. Thank you for the honesty and directness. Trying to get
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by mbubb 17y ago
This is a good read and uses lots of examples from one of the BSDs (NetBSD as I rememeber).
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This article is depressingly bad. Even a sysadmin runs their computer as root or sudo 2% of the time and should not run non-SOP software on a work computer... How could you manage giving regular users the ability to install while maintainin