wittysense

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by wittysense 13y ago
I wish all the best for the U.S., but this country has only presented fear and obstacles to my family, and demands loyalty, recognition. I am a Citizen of the World, and it will be strictly incidental should I corroborate with the U.S. in a
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by wittysense 13y ago
??? I wouldn't. But clearly these governments will. We're getting muddled here. Stop asking "me" as if you are asking me, this user: wittysense. Whatever I personally would do is irrelevant, and the answer to your questi
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by wittysense 13y ago
Crimes of reasoning occur before any bullets are fired.
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by wittysense 13y ago
No guns or triggers are involved when they draft these laws or play these very critical decisions at an international legislative and economic level. Guns don't sell guns.
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by wittysense 13y ago
Planned Economies, Post-scarcity anarchism. Alain Badiou, Murray Bookchin, Noam Chomsky. The only reason we're all seemingly fucked is because the U.S. DID a decent enough job to lock down knowledge and disseminate according to their t
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by wittysense 13y ago
... This response is exactly the problem: "Live and let live." In the face of anarchy, this is not a mature or safe philosophy to hold for oneself or to recommend to others. You have to understand that we are talking about (A) a l
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by wittysense 13y ago
SRSLY. Previous poster said all of that -- all of language, all of that "thinking outloud" -- ultimately to stick you with the oh-you-shouldn't-be-surprised "I don't have any theory of rights or justice, I'm ju
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by wittysense 13y ago
I hope you get the point here. There are about a couple million too many Socrates-types around, and this planet has way more than enough hemlock (along with various other death-remedies) to spare. Not "welcome to this hacker space.&quo
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by wittysense 13y ago
Oh man, Error Theory comes to legal systems. HLA Hart is spinning in his grave. I am absolutely not surprised. I've been whistling the Cowboy Bebop Intro since before I could spell "legal nihilism." This planet is a joke. And
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by wittysense 13y ago
Lover of wisdom.
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The United States aren't tyrannizing(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
1 points by wittysense 13y ago|0 comments
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by wittysense 13y ago
! Cheers to the tip.
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by wittysense 13y ago
Yelp does not like Tor.
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by wittysense 13y ago
? You're confusing security with anonymity. The bitcoin mining strategy ensures that transactions are secure, untampered (ID theft? counterfeit bills? credit hijacking?), thus securing anonymity if it is developed (throw away accounts,
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by wittysense 13y ago
In the face of a growing culture that makes it wildly impossible for me to enjoy my life, with rigorous criticism and the only friend to be my Terminal and vim where I can type out, hundreds of times a day, things like "$ jangyrun&quot
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Show HN: The White Negro(dissentmagazine.org)
1 points by wittysense 13y ago|1 comments
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by wittysense 13y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSNfQhb8yIU
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by wittysense 13y ago
XKCD comics lose their significance if the @title is not mentioned. "...an irrational number isn't the extension of an infinite decimal fraction, […] it's a law" (Wittgenstein). It is a law which "yields extensions.
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by wittysense 13y ago
Hey, like when a recruiter found me a position with Huawei.
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by wittysense 13y ago
I shewd EFF's link to an English major. He responded, "Come now, they've been spying on us for years." The big news is that in rationalizing it we will develop a schism across the class line. Many of us are so poor, unli
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by wittysense 13y ago
I believe Carlin's point generally holds in light of http://www.urbanarchipelago.com/ : "It's the cities, Stupid." Look at Facebook, for instance. I'm seeing splinter social networks that generally r
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by wittysense 13y ago
I shewd EFF's link to an English major. He responded, "Come now, they've been spying on us for years." The big news is that in rationalizing it we will develop a schism across the class line. Many of us are so poor, unlike the ranks of the
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Show HN: Just Sayin' !(twitter.com)
2 points by wittysense 13y ago|2 comments
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by wittysense 13y ago
"All you can do in life is a lot of work" -- Ira Glass Most people simply fear us because of the way media portrays us as Zuckerberg, and our most persistent topic of discussion outside the GitHub world is Zuckerberg or surveillance, which
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by wittysense 13y ago
I really like this point. I think there is, generally, a flaw in the thinking that because programmers are good at focus, they are good at prediction. "Ahead of its time" may be outside of the natural means, on top of being quite possibly o
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by wittysense 13y ago
Telepathic and empathic abilities will emerge evolutionarily in the hominids through the mixed organization of their organisms and the long-term effects of information on the brain. " If, during the long course of ages and under varying con
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by wittysense 13y ago
I've been sub-namespacing conventions of MVCs, too. new GlobalNS.App.MicroViews.TableRow extends Backbone.View new GlobalNS.App.Models.TableCell extends Backbone.View ... Essentially you can namespace to Babylon from existi
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by wittysense 13y ago
Oh. I pushed the literal button. "We shouldn't be afraid of a few glyphs on a screen."
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by wittysense 13y ago
I'm making an analogy between two very thematic experiences in my life which involve abstractions. 1. Writing code in vim. 2. An attempt to extend a common philosophical image in cognitive neuroscience ( http://youtu.be/Bm40BSZJRck?t=48m28
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by wittysense 13y ago
Programming has allowed your brain to express rules of structure and precision. You did that to your writing by choosing programmers to read. Like in writing on paper with pen. These qualitative subjective judgments are not coming from prog

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