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by nsns 11y ago
But must an explanation always be a functional one? This seems extremely limited and limiting. Certainly the shape of the body, like every complex system, has some contingent or incidental characteristics to it (e.g. five fingers, various e
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India, Egypt say no thanks to free Internet from Facebook(washingtonpost.com)
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by nsns 11y ago
national [ economic ] security
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by nsns 11y ago
But don't such things already happening on the ground (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academi )?
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WhatsApp drops subscription fee to become fully free(theguardian.com)
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by nsns 11y ago
Actually, for a layman, it's really nice to see a survey of the field accompanied, as it is here, by its underlying real-life politics, economics and other human factors; not something easily accessible normally.
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by nsns 11y ago
"At a meeting not long after he joined in 2014, Mr. Vidra, using a profanity, told the magazine’s staff that he wanted to break stuff..." Well, I guess hie did.
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by nsns 11y ago
A somewhat less nuanced response, that (despite a lively conversation) never made it to the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10831261
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by nsns 11y ago
app killer?
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by nsns 11y ago
Well, I actually feel it concerns much more than simply money. The avant-garde - be it technological, artistic or intellectual - has always shown a tendency to join forces with the darkest of regimes during the early stages.
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by nsns 11y ago
I can't help but be reminded of a sentence by Theodor Adorno: Keineswegs weiß man bestimmt, wie die Fetischisierung der Technik in der individuellen Psychologie der einzelnen Menschen sich durchsetzt, wo die Schwelle ist
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by nsns 11y ago
Only if you'd assume the fallacy that an enunciation could ever be "literal" in its meaning. I'd argue this actually points at a structural undecidability which is essential to language.
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by nsns 11y ago
nice, so it literally means its opposite as well.
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by nsns 11y ago
well, as you would say in Hindi: Kutte ki dum kabhi seedhi nahi hoti .
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by nsns 11y ago
Well, it's Searle after all. It's always funny to re-read Derrida's attack on his problematic line of thought[0]. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_Inc
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by nsns 11y ago
The large font size might also relate to the unavailability of cheap mass-produced reading glasses, perhaps it was aimed at an educated older readership.
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by nsns 11y ago
It's indeed just a spectacle, political theater, but it is based on a wide-ranging acknowledgment of man-made climate change, which is of great importance.
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The Rise of Hate Search(nytimes.com)
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I went to help at Calais’s Jungle refugee camp – and what I saw haunts me(theguardian.com)
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by nsns 11y ago
But surely, any physical state would be available to you only as a representation , and not directly. Meaning, that in order to make it decidable, you'll probably have to look at it differently.
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by nsns 11y ago
I find "Librarians in uproar" a wonderful oxymoron.
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Edward Snowden Meets Arundhati Roy and John Cusack(theguardian.com)
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Hedy Lamarr's Invention of Spread Spectrum Technology(women-inventors.com)
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by nsns 11y ago
In fact, already in Godard's 1972 film Tout va bien , it is said (quoted from memory): "the Press has signed its own death sentence, when it has decided to rely on ads for its survival."
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Setting a country alight: Indonesia's devastating forest fires are manmade(theguardian.com)
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Black Hole Has Major Flare(jpl.nasa.gov)
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by nsns 11y ago
"Der SPIEGEL: Die BILD-Zeitung für Abiturienten." - Volker Pispers
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Four more carmakers join diesel emissions row(theguardian.com)
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by nsns 11y ago
Looks like an outtake from Nathan Barley.
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82-hour Internet ban on Eid fuels anger in Kashmir(thehindu.com)
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