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by svieira 6y ago
"There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable." Gilbert K. Chesterton
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And also: We do not fix our affections on borrowed goods, because we know that they must soon be returned to the owner. All the goods of this earth are lent to us. — St. Alphonsus Liguori
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by svieira 6y ago
The best way to prepare for death is to spend every day of life as though it were your last. — St. Philip Neri
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by svieira 6y ago
> Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it holds terrors ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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by svieira 6y ago
You should really read The Count to the Eschaton Sequence by John C. Wright. The Cold Equations is another answer to the question you pose.
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by svieira 6y ago
Most Americans agree that "the welfare of others" ought to be cared for, they just disagree who ought to be primarily responsible for the care. With too broad an understanding of "general welfare" you'd wind up wi
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by svieira 6y ago
Banana peels and bell pepper placenta compost, orange peels can be candied and zested, and carrot tops go into the pot for vegetable broth and _then_ are composted. There's a lot to reduce / reuse / reanimate [1] in your fre
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by svieira 6y ago
Actually, they cite that behavior _exactly_: > Still, in the end, Dworsky says that the sneakiness, and the sense that companies have a low opinion of their customers' intelligence, is what gets to him most. Over his years as a prof
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by svieira 6y ago
"action-packed" expense account, actually :-D
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by svieira 6y ago
That sounds like the Postfix architecture [1] [1]: https://www.akadia.com/services/postfix_mta.html
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That's an easy way to create a different kind of unfair economy, but not a way (by itself) to create a fair one. If there is no private capital there is no private ownership. If there is no private ownership then you're back in
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by svieira 6y ago
If you want to see something _crazy_ compare that with http://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/ember-cli - 1.2K links (and ember-cli compares quite well with react-native since it ships as direct dependencies a whole
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by svieira 7y ago
Fundamentally different moral intuitions cannot be resolved except by conversion or war. There is no middle ground between "burn the witch" and "save the woman". Taking your own last sentence, participating in an &quot
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by svieira 7y ago
Start with _The Gorgias_ by Plato - does Justice exist? Then move on to _Orthodoxy_ by G. K. Chesterton (why does Justice require free will and the soul). Finish up with the Gospel of John. For a more detailed breakdown, take a look at _T
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by svieira 7y ago
Nope, all they could do there would be to group people together based on their "search behavior graph". The problem of finding BS sites is in itself a "shirt without stripes"-level hard problem. That's why being a
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by svieira 7y ago
Young Adult * _The Chronicles of Prydain_ ( https://www.goodreads.com/series/40371-the-chronicles-of-pry... ) * _The Chronicles of Narnia_ * _The Hobbit_ * _John MacNab_ ( https://www.goodreads.com/book&#x
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Chaos Testing a Distributed System with Jepsen – Part III(medium.com)
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> At an earlier stage in litigation, the Obama administration took a similar position, urging the Supreme Court not to accept Google's appeal. Both parties don't seem to understand the issue, for what it's worth.
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by svieira 7y ago
I once tore up a recliner sofa with a crowbar and tossed the pieces out of a third story window (I didn't get it in, and there was no way it was going out the door in its then-present configuration).
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by svieira 7y ago
And for those who are interested in this kind of thing, check out Zig's return traces (a kind of inverted stack trace) for other good ideas on how to do exceptions in a new way: * https://ziglang.org/documentation/
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by svieira 7y ago
The problem with checked exceptions as implemented in Java is that not all exceptions are checked, but all error handling uses the same mechanism. Midori nicely separated panics (programmer or system errors) from exceptions. Panics _could
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by svieira 7y ago
IUDs and vasectomies encourage the kind of life that uses created things instead of receives them. Which, counterintuitively, will increase the rate of consumption, not reduce it. Family planning is good when it plans to receive, not when
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by svieira 7y ago
ADOM (Ancient Domains of Mystery) was ASCII-art-only through 1.1 and on the strength of that fan base raised a bunch of money on Kickstarter to add a visual layer (the ASCII-only version is still there and updated as the story continues). N
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by svieira 7y ago
Hey, he probably deserved to be beaten up anyway. </sarcasm>
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There is a very interesting series by John C. Wright called _The Eschaton Sequence_ that explores this idea of stability over long time scales this in great detail (builds up through K7 civilizations over the course of the work) https:&#x2
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by svieira 7y ago
Yes. And as we know, Prolog is turing complete. Therefore†, anything which the salesman could do if he could hear ever bar patron's conversation, he can do by a clever set of ad deployments (though it may be orders of magnitude less
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by svieira 7y ago
Porn normalizes sexuality in the same way dog fighting toughens youths. The viewer experiences sex / violence completely removed from its context (since there is an intensely inter-subjective nature to both). Without counter-teaching
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by svieira 7y ago
See also this gist, which seems to be the discussion point: https://gist.github.com/rsolomakhin/eba91c185028899883d2c7f3...
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Microtransaction Payment Handlers (In Development in Chrome)(chromestatus.com)
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* Added support for the Pointer Events API enabling consistent access to mouse, trackpad, touch, and Apple Pencil events. https://caniuse.com/#feat=pointer - now you can use one unified event capture everywhere, instead of

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