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by piekvorst 9mo ago
For Hegel, state is something vastly different than for modern democracies. Sure, democracies can be pervasive as well but, to my knowledge, nowhere near Hegel’s level, not today. Jesus Christ wasn’t a politician so we don’t know. But we do
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by piekvorst 9mo ago
> I don't understand how you could make this claim. After studying Plato, Hegel, Marx, Rousseau, fascist ideologies, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. This list is by no means exhaustive, just a few majors from the top of my head
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by piekvorst 9mo ago
“A country that violates the rights of its own citizens, will not respect the rights of its neighbors.” That’s from my readings of philosophy. But yeah, I do recognize the same sentiment as you found. I think philosophy itself is an answer:
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by piekvorst 9mo ago
I stopped listening to Vim users one day. I can’t prove it but I feel like they don’t really understand efficiency, just following the traditions.
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Is it built automatically from a scheme, each block manually, or something in between?
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“Strong” social safety can be achieved only by enslaving producers who have to provide the ground for “many many” caring people. This is always the case. Consider Russian support of young families: the government takes the money from famili
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by piekvorst 9mo ago
Acme [1], a text editor for programmers. It’s a very unusual tool and I have collected hundreds of notes (as well as dozens of bugs and inconsistencies) from the past two years of using it. Now I feel fully assimilated, I do not take as muc
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by piekvorst 9mo ago
Python is good for general-purpose scripting, which does cover most of the tasks, but it’s still too bureaucratic when it comes to OS primitives. And when a small script at hand is tightly related to some OS thing anyway, it’s not a disserv
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by piekvorst 9mo ago
It does seem like a accurate summary
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In practice, the only noticeable difference I have witnessed is for (f in *.c) if (test -f $f) cc $f I can write the whole thing in a single line (which is essential in GUI and interactive contexts) and it reads well.
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by piekvorst 9mo ago
Bash is an advanced beast. In Bourne, it was for i in `seq 10` do print $i done Which is pretty much readable though. The only issue is Pascal vs C syntax. As a fan of the former, I admit that the latter is more adv
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by piekvorst 10mo ago
https://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/self-determination_of...
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by piekvorst 10mo ago
I’m sure a moron for living in a dictatorship, seeing what kind of compromises perpetuate it (such as the right to self-determination) and trying to break them.
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by piekvorst 10mo ago
If “making free” means building outside a system of freedom, that’s too expensive. The U.S. tried to build a “democracy” in Iraq but failed. If “making free” means just leaving people alone do what whatever they want, it’s not necessary. (T
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by piekvorst 10mo ago
If resources don’t have a legitimate owner, they’re effectively unowned. This is the case of all dictatorships. Any free country can take those resources and integrate them into their system, provided they recognize and enforce property rig
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by piekvorst 10mo ago
Doesn’t IPv6 have random, anonymous addresses (RFC 4941)? Further, user fingerprinting flourishes without IP addresses.
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by piekvorst 10mo ago
IPv6 existence is questioned not because people fail to configure it. It’s because they do not understand the problems it solves. Those problems are so large they’re invisible at the individual human scale. You either know them (which is no
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by piekvorst 10mo ago
Happy new year from my heart
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by piekvorst 10mo ago
I feel sad for CLI tools shift from pure text to pseudo-graphics. A lot of text advantages is lost, few GUI strengths are met.
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by piekvorst 10mo ago
LLM enable me to extend the limited number of my individual thoughts. Sometimes they help me connect the dots faster. The only condition is: I do the main job. The final choice is always mine. I never let LLM be a blackbox independent agent
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by piekvorst 10mo ago
I doubt that Russian ISP would cooperate.
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by piekvorst 10mo ago
> This honestly disgusts me. GPL violations are already bad on their own, but on a medical device? That me, and thousands of people rely on to stay alive? Disgusting is not respecting the producers who put together the device that wouldn
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by piekvorst 10mo ago
It’s never early to prepare for JavaScript complete takeover.
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American constitution is underappreciated. It ensures peace but faces profoundly undeserved hatred in return.
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Nice licensing
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They won’t appear magically, they’d do it because the problem of production is never solved. What I’m trying to say is that AI takeover, if it happens, shouldn’t be feared. It’s appropriate to plan for the transition, not apocalypse.
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by piekvorst 10mo ago
Thanks for The Princess Bride and Sleepless in Seattle. Rest in peace.
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The crucial observation is the fact that automation has historically been a net creator of jobs, not destroyer.
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The primary Stallman’s output is neither technical nor legal but moral. He condemns any entity that doesn’t grant its users four “freedoms.” And the primary disease that GPL spreads is not arbitrary legal restrictions but the moral code (al
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For real??

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