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by unit91 9y ago
I didn't say atheism itself is a dogma. Rather, the Chinese government (an authoritative body) has dogmatized the atheist worldview by requiring that it be held as incontrovertibly true. This isn't "wordsmithing", it&#x
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That doesn't mean China has no dogma, it means atheism is its dogma. Google's definition: dogma: (noun) a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true
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Light is a crime deterrent, so I use LED porch lights and live next to a street lamp. One night, all my neighbors had their cars broken into, but the 2 I had parked in the driveway weren't touched. Your neighbors may have the same m
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> “On one occasion a computer in the United States was compromised but, following infection, an uninstaller was launched within hours, which may indicate this victim was infected unintentionally,” the blog post said. A surprisingly refre
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Ironically the publisher of that article used a variety of radices to make the claim that 10 is the only radix! 2 - to enter and transmit data on the machine 10 - radix in question 16 - color description on the page etc.
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TL;DR: A couple dudes at UVA want grant money after looking at a some pictures from 1966. “We’re starting to find a browning of the tundra in the last few years,” [Epstein] said. “The progression of growth may be reversing. We’re not sure
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I agree but I take an even stronger view: religion provides answers to The Ultimate Questions: who am I? why am I here? is there a God (or are there gods)? what happens when I die? etc. So while the various naturalistic metaphysical theo
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> it's much easier to spend 100 dollars meaningfully than a 100 billion Is that true? $100 is such a small amount of money that you're completely at the mercy of the supply chain. When you have $100B to spend, you are the s
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Yikes, this is the kind of "feedback" that ends in divorce. I would never understand your version was intended as a correction. To me, this comes across as "thanks for teaching me a new word", and I would think "y
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Nicer to read is pretty subjective, but I'll tell you why I've switched 2 projects from Python and Ruby: speed. Our systems just had too much to crunch through, and the global interpreter lock pretty much killed us. We switched
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I actually think both have happened: the military has increasingly adopted traditional police tactics and mindset [1], while law enforcement has become more paramilitary it its equipment, tactics, and mindset. [1] Personal experience. I w
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Wish I could help, that's out of my expertise. I do full-stack in Clojure(Script) when I can help it, otherwise Rails + Ember/React/etc.
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For me, side projects are about cash, not fun. I try to find contract jobs that look easy, bid really high knowing I won't get the vast majority of them, and do a good job for the people who actually hire me.
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> Consider the possibility that the strong streak of instinctive union bashing that you see in typical professional class culture in the U.S. is very much the creation of decades of aggressive PR effort by those who consider unions threa
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by unit91 10y ago
Combat veteran here (Afghanistan, 2012). You have no idea what you're talking about. War is very hard on morale. You're away from your family killing people who are trying kill you, hoping to live through it, and most of all ho
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> I sincerely hope that FedEx fails... Yikes. You had a bad experience once with a company that's pretty reputable. Now you hope thousands of people lose their jobs and investors lose their money. This seems disproportionate, to
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I didn't claim it does. Reducing the size of government decreases the amount of money the government needs to operate without incurring additional debt. If the government were less expensive to run, officials wouldn't need to in
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TL;DR: The Canadian government realized it could increase taxes by appealing to moral outrage, with terms lime "tax advantage" and "loophole". End the tax advantage by lowering taxes and reducing the size of government
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This is exactly why I switched to ClojureScript for new projects, and have ported over a few from JS. One of the best decisions I ever made.
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I'd go to your boss and respectfully say what you've said here regarding your interview and intentions. "Sir/ma'am I was hired to do job X and I find myself doing job Y. Is job X still a realistic goal here? If s
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> Don't people from rural states have a disproportionate number of enlistees in to the military? Maybe, but would they return there post military service? Given that urbanization is a thing, and that most military installations are
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I'm trying to see what the big deal is here (relax, I'll explain). Police are not asking for the entire search history of everyone in the town, then combing through it to see what they've searched for. Rather, police are ask
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Probably doing things for which you have little experience, or are bad at, instead of just doing the day job. For example, I can write templates without much thought, keep my functions small and well-named, etc. Extra practice isn't
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My app store is homebrew. It's extremely seldom that I don't find what I need there.
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Immediate thought, unchanged by the content of the article: how many people (a) know how to build a billion-dollar business, and (b) how to distill the "failure" to reach the billion-dollar mark into simple talking points? Somet
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Wow! I was shocked to see no matches for "also", et al.
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Yeah, the Mars mission loss is also really well-worn at this point. I've heard this example in contexts ranging from cross-org communication, to software APIs, and unit checking (as in SI, USCS, etc.). Now I can add "language
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> Beliefs are the same, and a relation to "facts" or "truth" is not a requrement for their utility. Is that statement true? > When presented with new facts and truths we always evaluate their utility before we ascr
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I did once, too. Unfortunately, it was company of 4 people so I was also the dev team. :-) Never did it again though (yet).
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Maybe so. I didn't take it that way. I took it as, "nobody panic, we weren't hacked."

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