throwaway8879

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by throwaway8879 6y ago
How are you defining a successful democracy? If 20% of a nation elect a philosopher king type leader, is that more "successful" than 90% of another nation electing a tyrannical despot?
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by throwaway8879 6y ago
One man's activist is another man's bigot.
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by throwaway8879 6y ago
Socrates didn't draw a crowd mostly because he was super annoying. Imagine going to the marketplace to buy food and then this short and ugly man with his two sidekicks shows up to start a dialectic about the nature of forms or somethin
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by throwaway8879 6y ago
Man is the measure of all things.
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by throwaway8879 6y ago
He translated the new testament from Greek to German. That helped the poor more than anybody else.
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by throwaway8879 6y ago
Nitpick. Socrates was given a choice. His decision to kill himself was his own. I'd probably do the same. He was 70+ anyway. A lifetime of annoying dialectic tends to make lots of enemies quickly.
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by throwaway8879 7y ago
Signal still requires a phone number. That alone should make it non-usable for people who are serious about their privacy. My alternate solution: stop using smartphones altogether. Technology is not a good solution to the privacy problem, e
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by throwaway8879 7y ago
Rightly according to your subjective experience.
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by throwaway8879 7y ago
There's no reason to complicate your thinking about tastes and aesthetics. There is art that you like, there id art the you don't like. Then there are criteria by which you judge the quality of the things you like/dislike. Fo
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by throwaway8879 7y ago
Rust docs is decent. Elixir's is pretty good too! OpenBSD man pages. And of course, ArchWiki has saved my life a few hundred times so far. It's really comprehensive.
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by throwaway8879 7y ago
Nukes may shorten an otherwise prolonged war. "Better off" is obviously very subjective, but I don't see how nukes aren't better off if they end up saving lives. Let's also consider all the direct wars avoided in th
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by throwaway8879 7y ago
And what about the rest of us non-Americans who have our respectjve local media misleading the public? Perhaps we all have our own mini Fox News entities that drive this narrative? I don't intend to bring too much cynicism in here, but
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by throwaway8879 7y ago
The SerenityOS author makes fairly regular videos related to the OS, bug fixes, and other dev and life things. It's cool and inspiring to see a highly productive hacker do their thing on stream, kind of like watching Steve Gadd do a dr
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by throwaway8879 7y ago
Every individual has their subjective valuation of "decent reasons". Please do not proclaim yourself the sole owner of objective value. It is incredibly naive, and dishonest too. Reasons that do not seem decent to you will be so t
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by throwaway8879 7y ago
This is actually a good indicator for understanding the issue of privacy/surveillance. There are enough hackers and engineers who care little about being spied, despite understanding some of the inner workings of how the spying is done
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by throwaway8879 7y ago
Really want to push my bass playing into "primary instrument" territory this year. Will probably just spend a lot of time learning Gary Willis/Tribal Tech songs, and other great jazz fusion players.
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by throwaway8879 7y ago
Get decent sleep and exercise. Stop reading the news. Spend a day or two away from computers, and habitat altogether if you're able to.
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by throwaway8879 7y ago
Hope you're able to change those habits, friend.
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by throwaway8879 7y ago
When I started binge-drinking, benzos and codeine helped keep hangovers to a minimum. Sadly, that led to a pill addiction, which led to an almost decade-long use of heroin/meth, and whatever else I could get my hands on. When you'
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by throwaway8879 7y ago
We've had at least 2 posts from cliqz in the past few days. I have genuine issues with my short-term memory after having recovered from a coma so I don't know whether this is a glitch where I keep seeing the same posts or they kee
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by throwaway8879 7y ago
I have a weekly(Monday) chat session with an accountability buddy where we discuss the previous week's goals and make new goals for the coming week. It's a little bit more involved than just ticking off items, and involves being m
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by throwaway8879 7y ago
Thankful for still breathing. It didn't seem like a possibility just a few years ago.
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by throwaway8879 7y ago
I've tried to get into urbit a few times over the last couple of years. The jargon and the pretense-esoteric nature of it always causes friction, even while trying to read the docs. May it's just not for me.
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by throwaway8879 7y ago
My main work machine runs i3 with KDE. I'd avoided kde in the early 2000s because it seemed clunky at the time. Then used Macs for a while before switching back to linux. KDE plasma is great.
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by throwaway8879 7y ago
That's an interesting saying, thanks for sharing. Just today morning I was listening to an audiobook that mentioned something similar _ "physician, heal thyself so you may heal thy patient...".
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by throwaway8879 7y ago
Start working on you health. Learn to play a musical instrument. Or learn a new one if you already play one.
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by throwaway8879 7y ago
The most effective privacy tool is to realise that every tool is potentially compromised. The only reliable secret is one kept inside your head. The best life jacket still has a non-zero failure rate. Don't want to drown? Don't go
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by throwaway8879 7y ago
5 years ago, mid 20s - $600k and a bunch of Fender guitars Now at age 31 - $0 and a bunch of Fender guitars
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by throwaway8879 7y ago
It is a science, just a very dismal one!
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by throwaway8879 7y ago
I agree with you. I don't play video games, but at this point in my life, I don't even want normal politics, why would I want politics in my entertainment? Probably also why I'm seriously turned off by musicians with politica

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