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by v-erne 4y ago
>> Well, The Bible has the small advantage of being true What does it even mean its true? It's so convoluted and inprecise that most of the texts require interpretation and works only as high level metaphors. This claim is as mea
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And why does it matter at all? Technological and scientific advancement is only means to an end. If utopia is somehow not enough than I suppose nothing is (it reminds me about the famous scene in "Wall street 2" - when asked &quot
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Yeah, bubble called having children. There is not a single child in my daughter class that do not know this song by heart. And I'm sure that it's not like they learned it by randomly surfing web on their own - their parents introd
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I am low energy person (at least for now - its a medical thing that perhaps will be fixed some day). When I hear "positive" people that force a change for the sake of change I know that this will probably mean that I will have to
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>> A pension is a deliberate inefficiency in a labor market. It's a promise to pay someone for not working... That's and extreme simplification of pension and probably the worst definition You can think of. I guess if You w
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I wonder - why he has not take it a step further and propose to get rid of return type (void) also? It would look even more slick (add optional semicolons and we will get javascript out of this :)). main() { println("Hello World&qu
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I was brought up with this distinction - my family always put more pressure on understanding than remebering but now after mamy years I start to suspect that there is really no difference between those two - understanding is probably just r
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I was trying to build value framework, not legal one - it does not matters what is allowed or banned if we cannot assess its value in context of sth (I used society in this case). The free for all strategy (libertarianizm?) may be a great d
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>> Sure. But that's not in contradiction to individual parts of the system having individual (and different) purposes. But those purposes are only allowed because they serve greater purpose. On their own they are meaningless. &gt
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The ultimate goal and purpose of any economic system is to serve whole society - those people own anything because we as a society recognize that we are not able at present moment to build better system without their rent seeking behaviour.
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Poland is great example of this - fixed rate mortgages are almost nonexistent here. When inflation hit and the Monetary Policy Council rose intrests rates by 6,5 percent it doubled monthly installments of many people. And rates are still of
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Poland also used to have this kind of shops - they were called Pewex https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pewex And they allowed purchases mostly in dollars. This shops were the only place where You could get high tech equi
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I hear You - I took part in many projects where the most important part was OCR for invoices. I have even seen a inner process in some local bank where they were OCR'ing their own documents that were printed first by other part's
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by v-erne 4y ago
>> hyphen is a minus "-" rather than an en-dash "–" or an em-dash "—" /s You snob, this is internet, how dare You point out that single dash sign is apparently not enough to convey all this context d
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Wow that's really bad - I have like four big supermarkets in 5 min walking distance from my flat and at least 4 convinience stores and even two real old school street markets. And I live on the far outsikrts of my town. And this is the
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Yes, you are right - if You apply enough deconstruction and reductionism all communication between humans breaks down. But I still believe that there is a profound difference between Your example and the "eternal life" bit. I&#x27
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>> My degree is in Religious Studies (which I actually think has been more useful to me in my software career than CS). That's interesting. Care to elaborate?
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>> eternal life Define that, and with details please, because in my mind it "does not compute". Short sentences as this have clear meaning for You only because You spent hundreds of hours (probably in Your youth) listening t
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by v-erne 4y ago
That's good defense of Bible but really there is only one problem with it (and with other holy books) - the nature of the term "holy book" prevents it from being made better. There are some good things in it (especially in Ne
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Each time I here this thing (this fragment from Corinthians) I cringe a little bit because many people uses this as a definition of love (hence its read at weddings here where I live) but at the same time this being part of holy book sounds
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Yeah I also have some anecdote from 20 years ago. There was this guy that was locally known gangsta-like alcoholic - this whole thing taking place in small town, gangsters life style were scaled down to the size of the town. He lived in apa
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The rule is if you are anywhere near high grass you can bet you can find ticks there. My parents have a quite large garden with private forest (2,5 acres or 1 hectare of fenced terrain) and there is no week in summer where cat would not com
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>> Related: Does Poland vaccinate for TCE (tick-borne encephalitis)? I would say yes, but only on case by case basis - it's recommended for people who work around and in forests (forest rangers, holiday camp caretakers etc.). I b
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It depnends on the country I suppose. Here on Poland the problem is real . I personally know two persons (my father and my cousin) who were affected by it. My father had to go to early retirement and stop being a laywer beause lyme destoyed
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>> Game dev, game dev never changes There, I corrected it for You :)
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I believe Titanic has version 1.1 with better visual effects and correct star positions (lets call it a "change request" from Tyson)
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Thats interesting - I have two phones (with different numbers of course) and I almost get no spam calls (maybe a bit on the company phone but its still very low number). I must be doing something right here :)
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Generally that seems like a good idea. In case of father from my story somehow this was not possible - I do not remember why - either he had voice mail turned off (it could have been paid service at that time) or he did not know how to use
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You can get money for gas, food and shelter by calling 112 ? I do not think this works that way :) Jokes aside - by calling father they could get access to other members of family who could help with their knowledge what to do next and I be
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Few years back brother of my spouse took his wife to Spain (thousends kilometrs from here) to drive around and see some sights. At some point they got a flat tire and while he was trying to fix it two nice gentlemans on motorbikes took ever

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