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by re-actor 7y ago
> Oh. Well your original post was saying that human nature had changed radically over the past few centuries. I dispute the very concept of "human nature", it implies a platonic "human", a base which we can only uncov
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by re-actor 7y ago
I don't understand how I misunderstood? That's exactly what I was replying to.
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by re-actor 7y ago
Our "underlying perceptions" for most things concerned with society are nigh completely incompatible with that of Shakespare and most certainly Machiavelli. Sure we can still understand thinkers of old in a limited capacity, but t
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by re-actor 7y ago
What human nature? If the last few centuries have thought us anything is that "human nature" doesn't really mean anything. It's way more arbitrary than people trying to find truths in lobster hierarchies would let you be
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by re-actor 7y ago
How on earth could anti-trust ever be non-political? And why would that be desirable? Surely the very action of putting the idea of splitting up a company out there is a political one.
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by re-actor 7y ago
I don't think CCP has put on any pretence about desiring peaceful re-unification.
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by re-actor 7y ago
I didn't realise autonomous vehicles make the roads wider.
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by re-actor 8y ago
Windows still hovers around 90% market share, how is that not dominant?
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by re-actor 8y ago
So push the burden onto somebody else? Why aren't they allowed to "be busying living [their] life"?
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by re-actor 8y ago
The implication is that the set of problems programming can solve and the set of problems people are trying to solve with programming are two different sets with less overlap than a programmer might think.
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by re-actor 8y ago
I think HN understands better than most that any digital data is fragile and ephemeral. Theres entire fields around just preventing tampering with it.
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On Christopher Hitchens: A Suspiciously Terse, Rather Grudging Introduction(derridean.wordpress.com)
2 points by re-actor 8y ago|0 comments
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by re-actor 8y ago
We are in the odd position where HTML + JS + UI framework (Vue/React) is just by far the best way to create good user interfaces. The performance hit is not going to stop anyone from using or developing software like this. There is NO