huetius

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by huetius 4y ago
Would this put concepts from classical philosophy like formal and final causation back on the table? The article seems to imply that it’s possible, but I’ve learned that journalistic summaries can be low-fidelity.
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by huetius 4y ago
This is a curious paper, as it seems to come at a time when the philosophical postulate of meliorism has been problematized precisely by the trajectory of historical development, which had previously its own criteria of success. It might in
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by huetius 4y ago
I openly love meetings. With a good, well-planned and thoughtful meeting, I can save myself and my team weeks of engineering work. Just last week, by asking a simple question to the right person, we canned a heavy, ~2dev*sprint story for s
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by huetius 4y ago
Depends what you mean by “this.” This exact project is, I think, not ready for prime time, as I said in my post. If by “this” you mean “ways to make more of our own stuff on a smaller scale,” I am currently in my fourth month of waiting fo
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by huetius 4y ago
The responses here are critical —- some useful, some not so useful. I’m happy to see this project and would like to see more like it, even if this is not quite ready for show time. The possibility of using advances in technology and open s
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by huetius 4y ago
A friend of mine has a similar story. Still searching for his good ending. I’m glad you’re better. I feel like we’re at the beginning of the opioid wave again, and the obvious and foreseeable negative consequences are just being shunted a
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by huetius 4y ago
This is obscurantism. If there’s no difference between marijuana and food, what’s with all the excitement and advocacy? OP’s point seems to be pretty reasonable to me. If marijuana is outcompeting established anodynes it implies they are
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by huetius 4y ago
I’m going to answer as if you’re arguing in good faith. In the theology of Antonio Rosmini, God places within humans the principle of universal being, by which we participate in the light of reason, which enobles us with the ability to thin
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by huetius 4y ago
I think this poster has an axe to grind, but there is definitely significant overlap between symptoms of child abuse/neglect and early signs of ASD and other mental disabilities. I am on mobile, and cannot right now give a compact sou
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by huetius 4y ago
Not doubting this, but it seems to cut both ways. I can just as easily justify an overreaction by claiming to have averted some worse outcome. It seems to be a general problem of counterfactuals.
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by huetius 4y ago
Honest question: what is worrying to you? Is it the idea that infectious disease being used as the pretext to create an environment of fear and compliance, such some unwanted social transformation which is actually predicated on ulterior
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by huetius 4y ago
This is an intellectually consistent view, which is good. It seems to me to be relativistic to the point where I would call it nihilism, but it is, at least, consistent.
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by huetius 4y ago
I wonder what the venn diagram looks like between “people who are responding to this in the negative” vs “people who believe human rights are real and serious.” I’m not trying to be flippant here, I just really don’t believe that people thi
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by huetius 4y ago
With the collapse of the SSRI hypothesis, I feel like there was a missed opportunity to interrogate what it is about the affluent, technological society that makes such a staggering number of people so depressed. It seems that we will inste
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by huetius 4y ago
Not knowing all of the details of your situation, this seems like the kind of thing working agreements are supposed to help with. If you can get the parties involved together, you may be able to come up with some explicit guidelines for com
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by huetius 4y ago
My neighbor, who is my rival, wants to get a Red Rider BB Gun. I do not want this to happen, because this threatens my status as the cool kid on the block. If I just buy myself a Red Rider BB Gun, he will call me a copycat and make me loo
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by huetius 4y ago
Strongly disagree with the downvotes on this post. The phenomenon you describe is real enough, but I’ve also seen teams lament their shortsightedness as they fight with the limitations of opinionated frameworks ( cough… Django… cough ). It
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by huetius 4y ago
So one should stay quiet? And yes. Both at the very bottom and close to the top.
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by huetius 4y ago
We’re talking about plan to subvert unions. It is one thing to do something that is both good for me and also good for others. It is quite another to do something ostensibly good, but with the ulterior intention of preventing the good of
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by huetius 4y ago
Respectfully, I disagree with the postulate that there is no possibility of solidarity with “the marginalized”, and think this is a good example of why. When you say ask “them,” who do you mean? Ex-convicts, Amazon workers, teamsters, some
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by huetius 4y ago
I totally agree with you about our society’s mistreatment of people who have paid their debts, but I’m not sure I like what Amazon is doing here. It smacks of using people: treating them like props in order to secure private gain.
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by huetius 4y ago
That sounds like 4chan :) I’m sympathetic; I believe in the ideals of democracy, but it seems to me that those ideals come from outside of democracy itself, and that democracy cannot function without them. An example is the belief that eve
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by huetius 4y ago
I’d be interested to see a more serious study of this, but my hypothesis is that it was always a weakly bonded cohort which has by now dissolved into other cohorts. Hipsters generally didn’t self identify as hipsters, and the internal dynam
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by huetius 5y ago
I humbly submit Einstein’s own words: “The perfection of means and the confusion of ends seems to be our problem.” The author rightly identifies the educational impotence of our society as a major problem, but his inability to address it as
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by huetius 5y ago
I wonder if I’ve misunderstood, but as a developer, I like being given problems, rather than solutions. I’ve also found being able to formulate a customer or business problem well enough that others can come up with a good solution is a re
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by huetius 5y ago
In this thread: people discovering that the idea of the direction of history necessitates the subordination of ethics to politics.
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by huetius 5y ago
This one-dimensional approach is especially bad since the emergence of omicron, where number of infections doesn’t even capture the level of COVID danger.
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by huetius 5y ago
This rings true to me. I was only able to get an intuition for calculus when I was able to conceive of it in geometric terms. I later learned that this was how Newton originally derived it. This helped me to “trust” it in more advanced co
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by huetius 5y ago
I love this post, I would only add that “useful” is not the inspiring criteria it is made out to be, as demonstrated by the example of Farmer Bob’s fence. What needs to be resuscitated is the transcendent, aesthetic dimension.
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by huetius 5y ago
There is lots of good stuff in here. I have battled acedia on and off for my whole life, and am going through it right now. I like St. John Cassian’s teachings, personally, and always find when I am given the impulse to return to them, my

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