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by sifar 6y ago
A thing doesn't need people to be great. It is in itself. It is the people who need a great thing to inspire/guide them. To paraphrase you, Great literature doesn't need the masses, the masses (present and future) need great
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by sifar 6y ago
A fish which finds the ocean not habitable, either moves to different waters or evolves to filter out the surrounding. It does not try to change nature of the ocean.
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Some form of IVRS. You'll need to call in a number.
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by sifar 6y ago
A while ago, I wrote a haiku on this. Gods, sages, authors Each a prisoner of their work. Be legacy free.
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by sifar 6y ago
>> Why should the user always be made to feel like the majority view is the "best" or "most accurate" view of things? er may be because of ... markets,democracy :). The majority have been trained to believe that th
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by sifar 6y ago
Read Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius. There are some things that are in your control, while others that are not. Concentrate on the former. How can you improve your skills, learn new ones. Lower your expenses, stay healthy, avoid debt. It might
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by sifar 7y ago
That might have been true before the technological advance. Now, I feel that the exceptions have become the norm and with each passing event, are creeping in every aspect of our lives. Turning it around - Our rights are always violated, we
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by sifar 7y ago
I have lived in both the cultures. I don't believe mass contact tracing is essential to contain this pandemic. It is a trojan. >> If covid19 happened instead of SARS 20 years ago, there wouldn't even be the technology ....
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by sifar 7y ago
To those who advocate that the majority's right to live trumps the right to an individual's privacy, who decides ? At present it is due the pandemic, next it will target some set of people because they are undesirable - because yo
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by sifar 7y ago
The primer ... I used to dream about building this when I had kids , still do :)... Especially when I see a lot of parents being clueless/mishandle raising kids. As a parent it would need to be FOSS though.
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by sifar 7y ago
I was thinking about raising this subject too. I am in the same situation - two kids 4 and 8. Me and my wife are both working from home. Few things we do 1) wake up early, get most of the work done while they are asleep - usually 3-4 hrs. A
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by sifar 7y ago
What I wonder is whether they are aware of it or do they operate under a sort of doublethink. Doesn't someone realize that hey wait, what I am doing to them now is what others did to us/our ancestors. Shouldn't that stay your
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by sifar 7y ago
>> Humans do it really well with just two cameras. It's not a hardware problem; it is entirely software We don't fully know how the human hardware works either. Or rather, we don't fully know how the human hardware + so
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by sifar 7y ago
>> paranoid about privacy issues it is not paranoia but an acknowledgement of the times we live in. >> our secret agencies are actively planning to exploit this crisis to be able to spy on us in the future. this is based on thei
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by sifar 7y ago
I would think it meant either that when you think about suicide - it is the lowest you can go and things would improve from there. The other way to interpret is that thinking about suicide makes you come face to face with the enormity of de
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by sifar 7y ago
Thank you for the list. Recently I was wondering about how we came about to put so much blind trust on rationality when it is only one part of what we are. The first two look interesting in this regards.
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1) Meditations by Marcus Aurelius: "Leave the harm done by the other where it started !!" This struck me like lightning. The crux of how to conduct oneself in one sentence. 2) Tao Te Ching: - Feng/English transla
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In theory, RISC meant smaller number of simpler generic instructions (reg<->reg, mem<->reg) which could be re-used to build complex functionality. However in practice one always needs specific operations for performance reasons.
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I agree, and I am not trying to judge him here (who am i!). All you can do is try to understand them through the things they have written. I understand one can hold conflicting ideas knowingly or without realizing the contradiction between
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by sifar 7y ago
>> But let’s be real—both Bangladesh and Ireland have benefited from British language, institutions, law, and culture Well you cannot check out the alternate world where this didn't happen. How can you be a proponent of democracy
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It also enslaved almost half of the world.
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Lathe Biosas. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicurus#Politics
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>> No conscious mind will ever be able to observe anything about a quantum system that has never been observed by a conscious mind I would like to steal this :).
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It means enabling them to do it themselves and not make them dependent on someone's aid. Creating such an environment and opportunities, bootstrapping them so to speak.
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How does knowing more about the physical world help me understand myself better ? People more than two millennia later still find what he said relevant. What is it that we have produced in the last century would meet that test ? How much of
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I think you are conflating industry and markets. Britain already had the industries when it started colonizing India. What it needed were the markets to sell the factory produce. That is what they traded in return for the spices and raw ma
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Until you become a PersonOfInterest to them.
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I really don't understand why people are so hung up on the dichotomy of STEM versus the liberal arts education.STEM is an orphan without philosophy and history, and really ugly without the arts. Growing up, kids need to be exposed to a
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by sifar 7y ago
Teaching preschoolers and the early 1-2 grades is the hardest. Imagine how are you going to make them understand abstract concepts when they have no idea about them. They have very small attention span to what adults consider important thin
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by sifar 7y ago
This. More and more, I have been finding that good books provide better learning than the internet. You search for quality books online, mostly through discussion forums as search fails here, or through following references of books and art

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