precisioncoder

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by precisioncoder 13y ago
I understand where you're coming from. It's hard to have friends with opinions that you think are wrong. One of the reasons that I'm taking the time to provide a counterview is because if the feedback is primarily negative pe
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A healthy attitude to judge others by is if they are causing direct harm to others. I think murder is wrong, violence towards others is wrong, or controlling others who seek a different lifestyle through social or legal pressures is wrong.
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
Saying "If you don't enjoy what I enjoy there is something wrong with you" is a value judgement. Not seeing eating, or sex, or other commonly enjoyed activities as enjoyable (or simply not as priorities) does not mean you nee
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That's not the situation. He exposed the fact that the US Military was breaking the law. Thus whistle-blowing. There are laws protecting him and he is still being punished.
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
The great thing about life is that we can make our own choices. I don't think judging other people based on the decisions they make is a healthy attitude. The more we provide new options for people the more diversity in human experienc
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
Since vegetarianism tends to attract a certain sort of person anecdotal evidence regarding them is shaky at best. It would be interesting to see various studies but I'm not sure there are many I trust since they tend to get hijacked to
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
The UK isn't a monarchy... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_monarchy Basically the royal family has mostly ceremonial duties not political ones.
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
Delete everything. If you find yourself needing to reimplement something later you can always check out the old code in the repo but probably it would be better to reimplement it anyway. (You are using source control aren't you?)
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to necessarily endorse either of them. I just mean if you check the fact sheets there's normally a field for "leader" which has their name listed after. Wiktionary gave me the following: "in ch
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Sure I guess, after all it's basically just who runs the largest social network in the country. I guess Putin is the Obama of Russia in that he's the man in charge there.
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
Bad doesn't cancel out good, they exist side by side. I admire the US for it's amazing alternative culture (steampunk, goth, robots, anime, comic books, oh my). I admire it for it's incredible technological innovation. I have
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
Depends what else you cut out, for instance I would add commuting in there. If you prioritize living close to work (or working remotely) then exercise can be your commute. IE Run or bike to work. Or if that's not an option do a karate
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This is an excellent point. I find it interesting that so many things that I use in my own life for orientation are not even noticed by a broad section of humanity. Philosophy, technology, religion, politics, these are often monumental issu
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
Heh, don't you see? By identifying as a Buddhist and classifying a particular bit of wisdom as "belonging" to that religion you are falling into exactly the trap that he described. I grew up in the Buddhist community and iron
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Burnout and recovery: My eternal cycle(precisioncode.wordpress.com)
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That sounds to me similar to the sentence: "Either wear a bulletproof vest or don't, and if you don't then you have waived your right to get upset if you get shot in the chest in the future." You always have the right to
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
I feel like we have an equal problem of thinking of intelligence and skill as immutable constants. I think of both as a muscle, the more I exercise them the better they become. While I realize that everyone starts with certain advantages if
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
Gimp yes, Inkscape no, everyone I sit in front of Inkscape loves it and it made me overcome my feeling of "I'm a programmer, I can't do art" thanks to it's great interface and smooth learning curve.
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
Still it's nice to know that at least people in extreme poverty are having their numbers decreased so drastically.
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
I've heard multiple references of the world wide poverty rate dropping by half in the last 20 years, here's a summary. http://finallygoodnews.net/2013/06/20/half-way-there-world-w... and the origina
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
Modern medicine, physics, modern housing, sanitation, plumbing, etc, etc. They have a massive amount to gain. You can romanticize their situation, or we can decide to leave them there for other reasons but claiming they have nothing to gain
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73 year old entrepreneur starts after school education center(takepart.com)
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I would disagree with items 1, 2, and 3 on your list. Here's my list of things everyone should do: - Pursue your personal goals with strength and conviction - Find out what social environment makes you happy (It's ok if it's
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
I would assume he's referring to the fact that evolution works by allowing the weak to die, or at the least not reproduce and without those mechanisms evolution is a different beast.
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Goodyear Amiens: The factory that refuses to die(bbc.co.uk)
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Everyone says that at every age. The other day I heard a 10 year old say "Man, I was so stupid when I was younger, I'm glad that I'm not 6 anymore!"
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I find that trying not to think about something increases rather than decreases stress about that area. Only by thinking and thinking about it head on can I eventually come to peace with it. Otherwise I try to go into escapism and end up
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That's a strawman unless you can produce data that relates the reproduction rate to the standard of living. If you can do that then apparently what you're saying is that a country needs to enforce low standards (or at least wildl
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Also as a side note you can't compare the US to third world countries and get meaningful results, normally all first world countries are better than third world countries. By comparing the US to other first world countries you will se
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
Well it's a huge difference with Europe. Specifically in Austria where I'm living everyone gets an education for free, there's free health care, even menial jobs are well paid. Everyone lives a pretty solid middle class life

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