barberousse

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by barberousse 7y ago
Probably because the fact of external genetic influences has little to do with the wholly political concept of "race"
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by barberousse 7y ago
We're getting into Hume/Kant territory
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by barberousse 7y ago
>I could put a Mac Mini on my desk with half a dozen adapters sticking out of it, but even then I still can't upgrade the RAM. The last Mac Mini with user-upgradeable RAM was 2012. The 2018 Mac Mini is user-upgradeable up to 64GB. S
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by barberousse 7y ago
"Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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by barberousse 7y ago
Funny to read this, VISA near silently installed a program whereby replacing your Debit/Card (lost, stolen, etc) automatically updates that card everywhere it is being used a payment method. You can't even cancel a card and see
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by barberousse 7y ago
"But do you have a flag?"
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by barberousse 7y ago
I'm not surprised
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by barberousse 7y ago
For regular folk, the book is Discipline & Punish in English translation You're explanation is fairly academic and I think we can be a little more concrete. Focault's point is really that discussions of power in the West tend
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by barberousse 7y ago
I mean, the idea of progress in general is barely agreeable outside of recent strides in the physical sciences
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by barberousse 7y ago
Am getting too many redirects opening that link
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by barberousse 7y ago
Habituating your user base on the way there is just something MS could never pull off, too, the flip is the start menu never going away until all the baby boomers are gone
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by barberousse 7y ago
>For me, this is so typical for the JS community, jumping the boat in a whim. This is Microsoft's product, the company famous for keeping legacy going, hardly the 'JS community'
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by barberousse 7y ago
> Worse wildfires and budget cuts have happened at much larger scale than now on previous administrations, to be met with no international outrage at all. Except we're in the middle of evident climate change and more than ever has a
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by barberousse 7y ago
I just love it how it has become the fashion to say someone is being "hated" or "hated on", it's like the most magical term in civil discourse, you just no longer have to respond to interlocutors
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by barberousse 7y ago
Everything terrible about the front-end is a consequence of scale and demand for warm bodies pumping out code that targets the world's largest networked application runtime: upper- and middle-management everywhere exerting downward pre
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by barberousse 7y ago
Seriously, it's just poor professional discretion. I work on a cross-browser multimedia sequencer, no fucking way you're hand writing all necessary DOM management code. You absolutely need React for that to prevent that kind of sh
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by barberousse 7y ago
DFACS' also force many children who could be fostered out of falling into homelessness and poverty before they're even 18 because none of them want to report their case or else they'll be separated from their siblings. Got
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by barberousse 7y ago
"Work" also use to be free-range
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by barberousse 7y ago
This is the biggest danger IME for my team as well and everyone from QA to Dev to middle-management is guilty of it. Worse, my job also has Confluence, OneDrive, and JIRA, and not a one of them is the final source of truth.
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by barberousse 7y ago
It very much is
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by barberousse 7y ago
In order to understand Kant, first read David Hume's Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Kant's major ideas are entirely a response to this essay (we English-speakers are lucky to have this crucial piece of the Enlightenment in
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by barberousse 7y ago
I thought it was fascinating as I read the thesis statement that over two hundred years later we still haven't left Immanuel Kant's orbit. The author ended the article citing Kant's proposition that space and time belong to t
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by barberousse 7y ago
When Taleb's "Skin in the game" principle applies
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by barberousse 7y ago
In case you don't know, Poland, even more so than Russia, is experiencing an ultra-conservative renaissance via it's newly elected Far Right government that is also creating issues for Poland's EU membership
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by barberousse 7y ago
Understood
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by barberousse 7y ago
1 - Of course not, but its a requisite to strong social bonds isn't it? The point is that that the discussion around fulfilling bonds is fairly underspecified to the point that it isn't practically useful from my perspective. 2 -
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by barberousse 7y ago
I just hope people don't think the working class somehow has this all down pat and that this is merely a case of bourgeois overconsumption. As someone who comes from a ghetto and became a software engineer, I can tell you now that a lo
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by barberousse 7y ago
As a software engineer who comes from the lower class (the West side ghetto of Chicago, in fact), let me tell you right now that lower class people socializing with their neighbors doesn't mean those interactions are at all inclusive o
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by barberousse 7y ago
A lot of companies whose business was highly interactive Flash media there's still no replacement that is one-to-one to what Flash was giving them.
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by barberousse 7y ago
Besides the need to differentiate one's resume creating the supply, the demand for all these frameworks partially comes from the fact that computer science education is significantly less standardized amongst front-end developers, so t

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