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by sswaner 7y ago
Why be a staunch Apple supporter? Because the company and its products have a visceral and emotional impact. The company has made products that have been influential and meaningful for nearly 40 years. The brand, the leadership, and the
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He felt that the premises and conclusions of the Tractatus were overly strict and not a complete philosophy. Philosophical Investigations expands and replaces parts of his earlier philosophy.
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I love the last line of this recollection: "But I simply could not find him. Whether he regretted having become so deeply engaged, or had discovered that, after all, I was just another Philistine, I do not know. At any rate, I never sa
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I will have to give NFM another chance. The Clive IA store was a sleepy, underwhelming selection, and staff either missing or unable to help. We kept trying to buy blinds. After the 3rd try stopping by to talk to an expert we just ended
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People still drive Volkswagens.
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That is incorrect unless by "last few years" you mean last 25-30. When I was studying Philosophy in the early 90's we read Heidegger and the professor started that section with a discussion on whether we could separate the p
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But, if you use a different LM Context that is not so easily fact checked then you won't realize that it is nonsensical. I used this LM Context: "This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individu
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Congrats on building this. It looks great. Two bits of feedback: I didn’t see any mention of an API. Comments indicate an uploader function, but to get into anything close to enterprise you will need an API yo manage the data. The API wil
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With Kraft's passing and the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, it is valuable to reflect on the many ways the space programs of several countries have substantially contributed to our work now. There is an elegance and structure
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It was a great joy to meet Mr. Kranz in the early 90's. I was part of a university seminar and a group of us had lunch with him, then heard him speak. I distinctly remember several key points that have been valuable to me in my career
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Page said you are looking for a name: LapWrap
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It is easy to see how this would be used in India. I have seen multiple instances of a police officer directing traffic walk up to a motorcycle stopped for cross traffic, reach out and turn off the motorcycle and take the key. When the dr
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by sswaner 8y ago
What a delightful article. On my first visit to City Lights I bought a copy of Ferlinghetti’s “A Coney Island if the Mind” and a copy of Dharma Bums (Kerouac’s best book). I didn’t really know what Lawrence looked like (pre-internet days).
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I miss the sonic booms that were a regular occurrence in my childhood in the 1970's. I lived in northern Utah, almost due north of Hill AFB. They used to fly F4 Phantom II jets and would go supersonic to the west of us as they arced
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Can the Hacker News community ever forgive Google for shutting down Reader?
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Yes, because humans don't operate in a limited, context explicit vocabulary. But your point doesn't destroy the value of Tractatus to be used for another purpose.
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What about the dimension of people who train animals to assist humans in complex tasks. Not familiar with too many drug-sniffing cats...
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Yes, and considering the Tractatus as a framework for a closed and finite set of linguistic rules, such as a domain specific language has great applicability. For example, I flipped open my copy (yes I keep a copy on my desk) and opened to
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by sswaner 8y ago
Forums like this would accuse Gates of modern colonialism if he attempted any of the government reforms or accountability measures you describe.
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Perhaps a better comparison is a slightly older one - the economic consequences of the Russian investment in the Trans-Siberian Railway. The significant [struggling to find a citation with numbers] investment as a percentage of GDP between
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Worsened because of wealth extraction by the British. Many gains in productivity were not reinvested, hence the decline relative to the Mughal era.
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It is. Despite the word pentagon not being capitalized, I was curious how a terrorist attack on a building could reveal a new tile.
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The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson is an in-depth study of the economics of WW1. It covers where the billions went. The industrialists did very well, to the point that Eisenhower in his farewell address cautioned against them.
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I wish they had moved Sal to the Siri team. Imagine the possibilities.
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Athene (athene.com) | Actuarial Data Experts | Base $100k+ and bonus | Des Moines | ONSITE | FILL-TIME | https://www.athene.com/careers Athene is a leading retirement services company that is building a foundational framewo
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“In the article” - literally. Not in the headline likely written by an editor.
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Where in the article is the allegation or assertion of invention? Wittgenstein was focused on the philosophy of language (see Tractatus, Philsophical Investigations, the brown book, etc). I would be interested in hearing your opinion on w
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Serdar Argic – 1990’s spambot(en.wikipedia.org)
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by sswaner 9y ago
I agree with you and Regehr. As a longtime IT hiring manager I have noticed that candidates with a coursework-only MS do no better in screening interviews than those with a BS degree, but applicants with a research-based MS fared much bett

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