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by scandox 6y ago
Well I was thinking of King Agrippa counselling the Jews prior to their rebellion against the Romans: "However, as to the desire of recovering your liberty, it is unseasonable to indulge it so late; whereas you ought to have labored ea
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by scandox 6y ago
That is the argument that slaves cannot assert their freedom, they can only become recalcitrant slaves because they at one moment in time accepted their slavery.
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by scandox 6y ago
Just read a biography of Jonas Salk and a major portion of it is devoted to the issue of the oral vaccine (OPV) versus the injected vaccine (IPV). Salk spent a large portion of his later life pressing for the OPV to be delicensed because he
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by scandox 6y ago
Whenever I have an idea where the goal is to decentralize and yet somehow I want the achievement of that goal to coalesce around myself then it's time to ask the question: is this not simply centralized on ego instead of a platform? I
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by scandox 6y ago
Take the Mel Brooks approach to movie financing: I'll condescend to take your money but I'm totally uninterested in you or your ideas.
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by scandox 6y ago
I banned unboxing videos for my kids. The only thing I ever had to explicitly ban. I didn't have a big issue with them per se but when I saw the effect on the kids I couldn't allow it. They were...strung out.
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by scandox 6y ago
Frankly my own code is usually the worst dependency I could have.
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by scandox 6y ago
Being a creep (whether that is so or not) does not eject someone from the human race, nor does it invalidate expertise in a specific domain.
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by scandox 6y ago
I think multiple monitors is not a universal thing. I can't concentrate with more than one monitor. Tiling wm works better for me. At every moment I am only focused on one thing.
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by scandox 6y ago
Thought it might have been Jet but apparently not https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_(video_game) Had forgotten how good 80s game box design was
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by scandox 6y ago
The most convincing reason I have seen for drinking is the one given by Aldous Huxley in The Devils of Loudun: to escape our "sweaty selves". In short to achieve a small escape from the constant experience of being ourselves. A so
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by scandox 6y ago
What spend another few million on an illegal adventure well outside their area of expertise? Great idea. Why not reintroduce blood feuds to the Toy manufacturing business too!
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by scandox 6y ago
Perhaps slightly OT but nonetheless interesting. I met a former professional photographer who had become an economic analyst. He used to do fashion and music shoots for major magazines (Conde Nast etc..). He gave me an interesting insight i
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The Outsiders by Grady M. Towers(prometheussociety.org)
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by scandox 6y ago
I think you've misread the intent of that post.
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by scandox 6y ago
Maybe they have 10 years of code sitting on it? It's what a colleague calls sound historical reasons.
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by scandox 6y ago
Thanks. I actually knew some of those connections but by no means all!
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by scandox 6y ago
The Gadfly[1] is an interesting one. Sold 2.5 million copies in the Soviet Union. 2 million copies in China. Mostly unheard of in the West. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gadfly
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by scandox 6y ago
Someone I know had robotic keyhole surgery and they were up and walking about in a week. That was a man in his 60s with mediocre health. He went to the Henry Ford Medical Centre.
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by scandox 6y ago
This makes me think of an article I read about prostate cancer detection. Apparently, it is possible to detect the possibility of prostate cancer many, many years before it is going to develop with a more sensitive, modern test. Once the de
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by scandox 6y ago
> the user interface on the Bloomberg Terminal isn’t great, but the customer service is incredible. If it breaks or doesn’t do something you need, the company is willing to fix it or build it. In other words the best from the customer&#x
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by scandox 6y ago
Well perhaps but I tend to focus on the local
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by scandox 6y ago
They used to say about a well known Irish politician that he always took the bribe but never did what he was bribed to do. But people kept bribing him anyway.
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by scandox 6y ago
This is such an obvious and basic truth to most working people that it barely merits saying. It is only we that have to "work it out". That's why many of us that do this work are so valuable to our employers: we aim for effic
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by scandox 6y ago
Sub editors are the most undervalued people in the world. I mean for the very first sentence to get published meaning the opposite of what the author intended is just dismal.
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by scandox 6y ago
> Across many applications areas, we’ll be left with a choice of using a 90% accurate model we understand, or 99% accurate model we don’t. I remember a doctor telling me that about a condition my child had. He said that "generally&q
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by scandox 6y ago
Curious what extreme left ideology looks like in India.
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by scandox 6y ago
I love bookshops but I don't know if enough people do for them to be sustained. One thing is for sure: working tech people don't buy technical books in stores. The main bookshop in Dublin stocked a host of technical books for year
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by scandox 6y ago
> But with longevity and other deeply existential problems, the horror of what’s happening has been tragically normalized. I will never understand this attitude. Why don't we see how valuable aging and death are? How can we possibly
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by scandox 6y ago
It is I'm afraid. Covid has greatly accelerated this process.

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