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by scooble 7y ago
It is also interesting how morality scales. Presumably, when things get back to normal it will still be moral to exploit one family's crisis for profit (or 100, or 1000). But now we've hit a certain number of families the same act
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by scooble 7y ago
I alway reach for the George Bernard Shaw: "Never wrestle a pig, you just get dirty and the pig enjoys it."
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by scooble 7y ago
It doesn't strike me as obviously so. As I (probably mis-)understand it, the author is saying that if we take seriously the idea that people can have incompatible perspectives on the world then we can lose a notion of 'truth&#x27
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by scooble 7y ago
> When the ability to debate is removed, the only thing remaining is force. You seem to be conflating the ability to debate with the existance of objective ethical facts. That sounds like a bit of a false choice to me. What kind of eth
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by scooble 7y ago
In a cynical moment it has struck me that recent lifestyle trends seem almost designed to market poverty to the middle classes. #vanlife as a lifestyle rather than simply 'living in your car'. A 'tiny house village' for
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by scooble 7y ago
I wonder if minimalism is better understood as 'enough' rather than 'less'. A carpenter can have no more tools than the they need, even though that may be hundreds of tools.
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by scooble 7y ago
Not op, but I have this on my Kobo ereader.
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by scooble 7y ago
The vessels I was thinking of, Humberkeels, are traditional.
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by scooble 7y ago
> preferred because it requires far less crew I think that only really applies when the sails were set from aloft. I'm familiar with square-rigged cargo vessels of around 60ft in the UK that were crewed by 2.
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by scooble 7y ago
> A single huge fore-and-aft sail would be too hard to handle This isn't quite right, as split fore and aft rigs existed that solved this problem. I suspect it is more that power replaced sail for crossing oceans and square sails ma
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by scooble 7y ago
Iirc they only had one eye and one tooth between them, which they shared.
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by scooble 7y ago
All that can be done in vim. The one related function that I would miss is using vimgrep and the QuickFix list to get a list of the locations where the function name appears which I can use e.g. to do a search and replace in those files (or
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by scooble 7y ago
I'm familiar with both of those. What I've not seen is hanging weights used to generate curves in boatbuilding, which is what's suggested in the article.
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by scooble 7y ago
Unless I'm mistaken, in boatbuilding spline weights are used to hold wooden battens on a drafting table. I've never heard of weights being hung from splines to get curves, either when lofting or building.
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by scooble 7y ago
I've been waiting for this.
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by scooble 7y ago
Yep. I often want a group of windows to behave as one window so that e.g. I don't have to alt tab through them individually. So I will use tmux to set up my editor, shell and dev server. I also use vim splits because that is more conve
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by scooble 7y ago
Ah, that helps. I struggled with this because I didn't see the first choice as relevant to the final outcome. It is easy to see the game as restarted somehow when the 50/50 choice is presented.
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by scooble 7y ago
While it probably isn't the main concern, different species produce lumber with different properties. The loss of Elm trees in the uk removed a timber that was very useful for boatbuilding, for example (thought that is a bit of a nich
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by scooble 7y ago
As I understand it, the latter 2 quotes are now rather old and Stallman has publicly renounced those views. While I'm sure it wasn't your intention, a casual reader of your post might get the impression that they were all part of
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by scooble 7y ago
It is a bit odd. I suppose by this light, men's increased participation in home life and parenting represents a forgoing of their independence and an reduction in their happiness. This does not seem to be the case e.g. in Scandinavia.
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by scooble 7y ago
I know several unmarried, non-conventional and blended families who seem to disprove the theory that marriage is a necessary condition for a child's healthy upbringing. And it is clearly false that marriage is a sufficient condition.
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by scooble 7y ago
I suspect this is a bit like people in the 50s asking why, if having a career is so great, have women still not decided to pitch in and club the corporate ladder.
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by scooble 7y ago
I don't have a definition to offer. But that doesn't seem relevant to the truth value of the author's claim. I can be ignorant of the nature of the self but still see that 'we are not our feelings' and 'there i
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by scooble 7y ago
The main premise of the article seems to be that 'you are not your feelings' in mindfulness covertly introduces the idea of 'no self'. I don't find this compelling. If anything 'you are not your feelings'
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by scooble 7y ago
I don't think that anyone credits Wittgenstein with inventing the term 'private language'. Rather for the arguments/observations relating to the idea. He would not have agreed with the Humboldt remark you quoted.
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by scooble 7y ago
I think the ghost of Gottlob Frege just gave you a stern look.
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by scooble 7y ago
What conversions do you typically do to/from NM? As far as I'm aware, it is only used for navigation, where all related info, such as speed, position etc. relate directly to it.
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by scooble 7y ago
> So even if your chart spans several hundreds of miles, the latitude scale remains constant across that distance regardless of the distortions of the projection. I don't believe that is correct. The latitude scale of a Mercator pr
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by scooble 7y ago
You seem to have missed my point. Gender is important to team balance only if we assume that someone's gender defines how they can contribute to a team. This assumption is lazy gender stereotyping. It is the very same assumption that h
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by scooble 7y ago
So what kinds of things are female programmers going to miss? What kind of roles can we decide a priori should go to a man?

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