readymade

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by readymade 16y ago
On the latter point I agree with you, and I'm certainly not advocating that, merely suggesting we can do a lot more on our own to be agents of social change with the force of our moral convictions than would otherwise seem possible. As for
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by readymade 16y ago
Elaborate.
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Fair enough, but one can justify racism and ethnocentrism by appealing to our animal instincts as well – we may very well be predisposed to seeking power over others and reserving trust for those we perceive to be our own kind. Now granted
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by readymade 16y ago
Does anyone else find it comical that the author spends so much of his post talking up the virtues of not being a people user, while simultaneously offering advice on how to use women? I guess if you're dating her that's one thing, but as a
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by readymade 16y ago
Slavery wasn't about racism, it was about cheap, unregulated labor. Pure economics. It doesn't absolve the moral dilemma inherent to it, or negate the racism that frequently underpinned public support for it. For what it's worth I'm sure pe
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by readymade 16y ago
What do you consider to be particularly egregious examples of this? I know you mentioned the push notification UI, but can you elaborate, or point out some other cases where Apple's design aesthetic "stinks of excess"?
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I probably should have made myself clearer, but I was referring to the modern standard of notation, which if I am not mistaken, is indeed largely the same as what you would find dating back to the 17th-18th centuries, i.e. several hundred y
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The textual nature of the two aside, I think this is perhaps a superficial comparison. Western musical notation has survived largely unchanged for hundreds of years because it covers the the bases of practically every major genre. While m
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The premise is the fatal disease. Programming languages are tools of expression. Asking which programming language is "best" is like asking which musical instrument is best. All the centuries of refinement and craftsmanship that go into