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by xtian 7y ago
Then write the questions about a newspaper clipping or a grocery list or something. No need to pillage poetry in search of objective facts.
542.
by xtian 7y ago
If you’re a good test taker, the answers they want are clear, but that’s not the point. The point is that applying this model to art, something which has been essential to the human experience for tens of thousands of years, is a stultifica
543.
by xtian 7y ago
Why ask why careful controlled growth is always better if you believe it is the only option? The market doesn’t control anything. The word control implies some sort of telos which is not present in an aggregate of individual purchasing deci
544.
by xtian 7y ago
You can argue the degree to which growth is controlled but the alternative to “careful, controlled growth” is uncontrolled growth.
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by xtian 7y ago
Why is uncontrolled growth better? Seems like it most often leads to waste. In the real estate context this manifests as ugly, unlivable spaces which become derelict as soon as the frenzy passes.
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by xtian 7y ago
You’re saying cloud services is lower margin than retail? I don’t think that has ever been true.
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by xtian 8y ago
> I would also contest the claim that we are more violent and barbaric now than in the past. I believe that is factually incorrect or at least controversial. At any rate, science could be accused of the technical advances that make killi
548.
by xtian 8y ago
Cambridge Analytica arguably had a major impact on the trajectory of the American political system. I’m sure you can come up with some people feeling real pain as a result if you think about it a little.
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by xtian 8y ago
But it’s not only that Lightning does just fine technically (even though that’s true), it’s that Lightning gives Apple more control over the whole product ecosystem and therefore the experience of using the product.
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by xtian 8y ago
Apple puts USB-C ports on their pro-level devices so they can use pro-level peripherals, but that isn’t a significant benefit for their consumer-level devices. In terms of compatibility, continuing to use Lightning is probably better for th
551.
by xtian 8y ago
Not sure I would use Bloomberg as an example of high-quality journalism after their handling of “The Big Hack”.
552.
by xtian 8y ago
Even if we're speaking just in economic terms, the value of saving a life or the cost of not saving it is lot more complex than their total potential earnings. Failure to take that into account would be the mispricing in this scenario.
553.
by xtian 8y ago
Well, there is also a `for` construct: for i <- 1..100, do: IO.puts(i) I guess what people mean is that that’s an abstraction over function calls?
554.
by xtian 8y ago
You would say there’s a 1:1 relationship between countries and societies?
555.
by xtian 8y ago
Yes
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by xtian 8y ago
See: http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.htm...
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by xtian 8y ago
I'm sure you can expand your perspective on this question with some additional inquiry.
558.
by xtian 8y ago
I'm open to the possibility if could describe that system in concrete terms which wouldn't implicitly favor the powerful.
559.
by xtian 8y ago
Both capitalism and socialism have been applied in the kinds of totalitarian contexts you are describing. The real question is more fundamental: for whose benefit does government exist? Is it for the powerful or the powerless? There is a va
560.
by xtian 8y ago
Settings > iTunes & App Store > Offload Unused Apps
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by xtian 8y ago
I don’t see your point. This happens with native apps as well.
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by xtian 8y ago
If you want to do good engineering work on a complex system, it's imperative to understand and remain laser-focused on what the system as a whole is actually trying to accomplish. The original intent is never irrelevant in that context
563.
by xtian 8y ago
In many cases (including, I would argue, the current American political system), the people who wrote 16.7.1 are merely technicians without any coherent vision for long term purposes or principles. Why do we still talk about the Unix philos
564.
by xtian 8y ago
Same reason you’d want to understand the intent behind the design of a software system before you modify it. Afterwards, though, you still go ahead and modify it to meet new requirements. Anyway, extending the franchise doesn’t really have
565.
by xtian 8y ago
> The modern welfare state, where millions of people are immediately hurt by the federal system grinding to a halt and stopping, would have been anathema to the framers. So too would have been the dominance of corporate interests in the
566.
by xtian 8y ago
gdb or lldb provide debugger functionality for native code, but you don’t set breakpoints programmatically.
567.
by xtian 8y ago
The acceptance of monitoring has always been a tacit choice made from ignorance, resulting from deliberate misdirection and subterfuge on the part of marketing organizations. Your notion that the rejection of monitoring is a conditioned gen
568.
by xtian 8y ago
There's a difference between someone representing an interest group and an expert and the difference is right there in the word "interest".
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by xtian 8y ago
> Faith as every human on earth uses it is a belief that that person has opted to exempt from questioning. Now that's a belief. Doesn't seem like you're open to questioning it though.
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by xtian 8y ago
Typically our view of the outer world is a reflection of our view of the inner world, and usually that state is obscured and perpetuated by fear/clinging to an idea of security.

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