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by obedm 5y ago
Is that really true though? Saying "we didn't kill them all" doesn't exempt the fact that we did it for many of them. There's no easy answer to this. We are what we are. But it points to the disregard powerful being
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by obedm 5y ago
This is a very important point. Maybe there were some great philosophers in their time that argued against it and were ridiculed or didn't reach us through time. I'm curious what you mean by being a fabrication? Their ideas were r
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by obedm 5y ago
Haha you mirrored the argument I've made many times before. The eating meat part I feel is likely to be the thing that will change. But that's an obvious one. What else will be seen as "barbaric" that we don't even
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by obedm 5y ago
He acknowledged their existence but as far as I know, he, not anyone else, said that slaving people was "wrong" or shouldn't be done. It's important to note that Ceneca and the famous stoics (Marcus Aurelius for example)
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by obedm 5y ago
I've never heard of any ancient philosopher being abhorrent about slavery and the like and I've read that there weren't any. Could you point to some readings if you're aware of it? I'd love to know
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by obedm 5y ago
I always think I can draw the line in the sand as a very rational and relatively well read person. But then I remember that the best thinkers the world has ever seen (Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, ad nauseum) were never able to look beyond thei
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by obedm 5y ago
You've got a fantastic point. It reminds me of Chinese history, full of war between clans until it was finally United. What I keep thinking about is that we are all... Humans. Like, the same animal, same way of thinking etc. And yet ou
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by obedm 5y ago
We don't know that happened to them, or to any other human species for that matter. But we're pretty sure we obliterated a entire species in our way up the food chain ( giant marsupials for example)
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by obedm 5y ago
We're trying our best to exterminate certain species of mosquitoes. We haven't done it because we lack the technical ability as of yet. Also, have you met any Aztec? There are barely any American Indians left compared to the milli
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by obedm 5y ago
I think dark forest is the best explanation so far. If what you say is true, it should've been true for earlier human civilizations too. Why didn't the Chinese and Japanese civilizations unite to conquer others? Why didn't th
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by obedm 5y ago
Highly depends on which country you're based on I think. But yeah, it probably is
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by obedm 5y ago
I can't take an article seriously when it's published under a pseudonym, by the website itself. It could just be marketing for all I know. And it most likely is.
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by obedm 5y ago
I don't want to think when I want to call my wife, play a movie, get information, or 99% of the things I do on my life. I think enough during my workday. And when explaining things to my daughter or reading a book. You probably never r
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Job Is to Learn, Not to Teach(obedparla.com)
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by obedm 5y ago
It should be possible, but not practical. It's easier to just code checks and balances to fix those errors instead. There's a famous story about a Google search bug caused by a comic ray and they implemented such error checking on
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by obedm 5y ago
Truly magnificent isn't it? It's also a testament to the beauty of IRC. "we don't like the change. So here's a viable alternative". We could say something similar happened with WhatsApp, but the difficulty of m
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by obedm 5y ago
Hah same thought here! I'd assume the person calling is bat crazy. I'd still be on my toes with the new hire just to be sure, but I wouldn't fire them. Everyone has a story. And the people seeking revenge aren't necessar
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by obedm 5y ago
i love the typical "we are willing to pay this good candidate 30%" more than our current engineers. Even tho he knows nothing". And then go on to not raise the experiences engineers salaries so that the new guy has the highe
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by obedm 5y ago
You can do that with wordpress plus a site builder. There are sure builders that are as good as Webflow, but without losing WP power
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by obedm 5y ago
That's insanely accurate. For comparison most discoveries are usually only considered proven when it's 5 sigma. For example they waited years to announce the Higgs bosson because they wanted to reach 5 sigma.
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by obedm 6y ago
"images of child abuse are not child abuse". Right. Because those images were just created magically? Someone took them. And there's a market for them. If there's no market for such pictures, likely less children will su
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by obedm 6y ago
I disliked the article because of that. Hinting that "amateurs" are working full time on programming jobs. Although I've met unprofessional people at work. Being a professional doesn't mean you're an expert.
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by obedm 6y ago
European here. Having 3 months written in your contract (and in many countries by law, like France) is pretty common. You can still quit if both parties agree. I've done it before. The clause is there to avoid this type of scenario whe
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by obedm 6y ago
Consider that you grew up in the most technology advanced part of the world. In 2001 we had dial-up and an IBM machine with paint. I was probably one of the few kids with a computer. Technology is not homogenous across the globe, and advanc
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by obedm 6y ago
I landed my last job in part thanks to my cover letter. It wasn't anything special, it just was good enough to be better than every other applicant that just shot-gunned it. I've always found this to be the case. I only apply to j
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by obedm 6y ago
I whole-heartedly agree with this. Unless you implement a must-have feature based on localStorage or whatever, your site should still fully (or at least partially) function without it. In my case, I was aghast my blog didn't work witho
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by obedm 6y ago
You're correct, this is something I tried to convey in my article but I didn't want to spend too many words on it. When retrospecting about it, I realized I didn't think of it this way, even though it's correct. My menta
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by obedm 6y ago
That's some seriously amazing feedback, thank you for your kind words! It means a lot to have people enjoy my writing and the visuals. I spend a lot of time with these articles to have them as clear as possible.
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by obedm 6y ago
Thanks a lot for the feedback! This is something I've struggled quite a bit to improve, and I think the visuals for part 2 are better than part 1. But you're right, I'm not satisfied yet with how the boxes show, I'll try
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by obedm 6y ago
That's something I hadn't considered before. That's probably something that a lot of people would find valuable. Out of all the questions my students ask me, there's always confusion about the way servers talk to each ot

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