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by unalone 14y ago
I'm actually unemployed and looking for work right now. If you find a company that wants guys like me working for them, let me know! ;-)
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by unalone 14y ago
I think that kings ought to be philosophers, metaphorically speaking: I trust politicians who prove they have at least some understanding of philosophical inquiry much more than I trust the ones who are skeptical. But philosophers themselve
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by unalone 14y ago
(cough.) Um, you're talking to an artist whose academic field of study specifically concerns why art, practically speaking, is vital to the well-being of a society. But judging from your username, Mr. Pony, I feel that you assume "art" refe
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by unalone 14y ago
Oops, my bad: should have linked. > (This doesn't constitute a recommendation, indeed, this book is way too expensive for its content.) I assume you're saying that without having read it? Because it is a marvelous and astonishing work –
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by unalone 14y ago
That's interesting! My understanding of Descartes comes from the book Descartes' Bones , which frustrated me in some ways but made an argument about Descartes that I found very interesting: when Descartes wrote his Discourse on Method , h
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by unalone 14y ago
I'm making my way through The Process of Creating Life . It's one of only two books that I've read in recent years that I can't read too much of at once – I get three pages in and have to stop, because of how excited I am about his argumen
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by unalone 14y ago
Ah! Okay, that makes a lot more sense; I think I misinterpreted the point you were trying to make. Sorry for the mess-up.
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by unalone 14y ago
Right – which is why philosophy is more than just "the study of nature", and why in fact it's important that philosophy continues to examine questions like "if morality is relative, then is there a practical or even a deeper argument for mo
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by unalone 14y ago
If you opened any scientific journal, picked only the articles that seemed the least "relevant" to the mainstream, and quoted their abstracts without delving into the interesting , by which I mean actual , parts of their research, you cou
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by unalone 14y ago
It's how philosophy began and it's how philosophy is in its purest state , which is much different from saying it's the only way for philosophy to be. Generally, I think philosophy is like mathematics in that while its purest applicati
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by unalone 14y ago
Well, consider that the very point of philosophy is to approach a seemingly simple question or subject – say, "What should laws be like?" – and then probe deeper and deeper into that question, searching for irregularities that might reveal
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by unalone 14y ago
The argument is absurd. Claiming that universities are "poisoning minds" by teaching Aristotle and Descartes in 101 Intro to Philosophy courses is just silly. Those same universities teach modern philosophy courses that deal with the inte
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by unalone 14y ago
The web site's not loading for me, so unfortunately I can't read the article yet, but your summary sounds worryingly wrongminded to me. Philosophy should not necessarily be a practical endeavor – it concerns itself with being, life, and exi
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by unalone 14y ago
Homer Simpson isn't a role model. He's apathetic, stupid, and constantly convinced that he's more important of a man than he is. In fact, he's more a critique of that kind of man than an endorsement. It's telling that Homer's redemptive cha
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by unalone 14y ago
Hey, John. Loved your movies. ;-) > Why is female->male fear different than other kinds of irrational fear? That's the problem: it's not an irrational fear. It would be irrational if a woman was convinced every man was a rapist,
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by unalone 14y ago
As a non-UO player: can you explain what was unique or different about it, or link me to somebody who writes about this? MMOs bore me, and the thought that UO did MMOs somehow better intrigues me. I find it easy to believe, but hard to unde
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by unalone 14y ago
Oh, "obnoxious explaining" is a thing for both genders. I'm quite fond of obnoxiousness myself! But mansplaining refers specifically to men who feel like when they're in a conversation with a woman, they have to explain the basics of whatev
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by unalone 14y ago
Stallman addresses this in his original post. He says that he wishes Canonical would take the fact that people have apparently done this as proof that it's an unwanted feature and remove it themselves; he adds that it's not enough to add a
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by unalone 14y ago
What kind of "relevant" discussion were you expecting down here? What kind of "relevant" response to "one guy gave free flu shots" can be expected? I would say that this is not an especially good post for Hacker News, in that it concerns ne
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by unalone 14y ago
No worries; your comment didn't seem like an attack at all! It raised interesting points, and the only reason I'm joining in here is because I think it's an interesting conversation. I think the criticism you brought up is the most interest
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by unalone 14y ago
Interesting! This is a less cut-and-dry debate than the one that's been going on throughout the rest of the thread. At the very least, Ts'o's comment was voiced in an inappropriate forum and I'd expect him to at least acknowledge he was wro
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by unalone 14y ago
This is a problem with paying people to work on an open source project, no? Either those people accept working without pay, or else they have to make compromises that might involve defying the principles of the Open Source Movement. Theoret
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by unalone 14y ago
I know common sense can't be easily codified – wait, no, actually it can, it's called etiquette and it's all the rage in certain other social circles – but "having common sense" does not require you to be psychic. For instance, if I am at a
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by unalone 14y ago
Look, we can quibble about how many women are actually raped over the course of their lifetimes. Can we agree that it is "a scary amount"? As in, enough that there's reason for women to be rationally nervous about people they don't know mak
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by unalone 14y ago
Because the poster above you deleted his comment, can you explain what the LCA thread is, and what was so problematic about it? I'm curious what the discussion was here.
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by unalone 14y ago
Stranger rape is not especially uncommon, unfortunately. Something like 1 in 5 women, possibly even more, are sexually assaulted at least once in a lifetime. Are you suggesting that geeks can't rape people? Seriously? I'm sure it's not beca
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by unalone 14y ago
> Who cares what Larry does with his money. That's less the worry than, "It's not totally healthy to have a culture which idolizes people who have a lot of money and then give some of it away, because it reinforces the message that maki
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by unalone 14y ago
"Elevator gate" was a stupid situation wherein a random guy hit on Rebecca Watson in an elevator, at four in the fucking morning , and when she mentioned that she found it creepy a lot of men went "THIS IS PROOF THAT WOMEN OVERREACT TO INN
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by unalone 14y ago
Oof, you're getting downvoted right from the get-go. I disagree with your stance, but better to talk about this than to just blindly vote you into oblivion. First, yes, it's legal to throw people out of a private event for any reason you'd
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by unalone 14y ago
Codes of Conduct, I think, are good for some things, like actual conduct, and bad for other things, like assuaging people's irrational fears of possible violence. Which is what school policies are, basically.

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