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Section 230 does not apply as law in France.

Amazing how wrong Paul Graham was on this despite claiming to be an expert in tech companies.

I have the same feeling. Boredom is necessary for me to focus my energy on work. If I'm really into a game, it's easy to spend a large portion of my time and mental effort on something purely for fun. It's ok to indulge in entertainment if we are living comfortably, or need a break, but not if we're trying to actively build something.

I think "rock star" is a superficial term which is mostly poking fun at some programmers for having long hair, liking rock music, maybe even owning a guitar.

He was the first to develop formal logic which is a foundation of computer science.

Being better aligned with astronomical events makes it more correct. The purpose of the calendar is to map the year, the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. The drift in the Julian calendar was not intended. It is a flaw.

They should know better than to go outside during covid anyway

I subscribe to Youtube Premium. It's handy if you use Youtube a lot and dislike ads.

Haha, yeah, that doesn't sound bitter and hateful at all.

Scholars generally accept that the book of Mark was written between 66-70 AD. The idea that the gospels were written "hundreds of years later" is a common myth on the Internet that scholars do not take seriously. It is clear that Jesus's followers believed in his resurrection, they proclaimed it loudly and suffered and died for it, gaining many converts.

The origin of Christianity was the resurrection event of Jesus Christ. It was not regarded as fiction at the time.

I'm still going to use Uber. Keep up the good work, fellas.

It says fertility isn't an issue today, but it's a little out of touch with today's anxieties; most of Europe and Japan have such low fertility that their native populations are in decline.

When I was a kid I rode a bicycle.

If only people without an income qualify, then it is not Basic Income. Basic Income is received by everyone without any means test. The purpose is to avoid perverse incentives in which people on welfare see little value in getting a job.

The Great Depression is the precedent. The money supply dropped by a third, prices for everything dropped dramatically, and much of the labor force was thrown out of work. The general understanding today held by the Fed is that it was because the Fed failed to create new money and inject it into the banking system to prevent a systemic collapse.

You get this money without even working. Any money you earned while working (there would be no more minimum wage under this system) would be in addition to the $12,000 you got from the basic income. Also the basic income is presumably not taxed, as it's welfare income.

Paradox is not really so alien to Western philosophy, as this article initially suggests. It does end up referencing a number of modern Western philosophers, but the idea is older than that. It's ironic he refers to "Western orthodoxy" as being strictly anti-paradox, as traditional Christian theology is full of official paradoxes; a major example would be the doctrine that Jesus is simultaneously fully human and fully divine. Many were declared anathema for refusing this and other paradoxical doctrines. So rather than Western orthodoxy being unaware of paradox, it has insisted on it. The concept of the dialectic also touches on this idea of reconciling apparent contradictions, rather than defeating your opponent as one does in a debate, and this idea originates not truly with Hegel but spans all the way back to Socrates, and probably before.

I agree with the sentiment, however, that understanding paradox is extremely important to a person's capability for nuance and understanding. If you insist on a simplified internal consistency, you will end up sacrificing (and demonizing) whole parts of your thought process rather than trying to reconcile them as having some truth. It can be a process of self-indoctrination purely to avoid the pain of confusion. Another way to think of paradox is simply rejecting false dichotomies in favor of a more complex and uncertain reality. I don't think the lesson here is to "break the chains of Aristotelian logic" (God forbid) but rather, well, reconcile it with the idea of paradox.

Oddly enough I just checked and Safari is not passing the Acid2 right now. Happens on my iPhone too.

http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html#top

Rupert Murdoch seems to love Silicon Valley.

https://twitter.com/rupertmurdoch/status/389132604311474176

I saw this interesting overview of the history of aspect ratios the other day. There's a lot more variety than you'd think.

http://vimeo.com/68830569

It's true. While the basic income is a superior system to welfare in theory, political reality assures it wouldn't be handled in the way Friedman would prefer. It would just lay the foundation for all sorts of political redistribution, which would be very destabilizing.

Shakespeare, among others.

I don't think that is the correct Youtube link. The o is clearly lowercase. It seems the original video is not presently viewable.

You don't have any understanding of his mind. You are dismissive and rude. Your response is what the community needs less of, not _why.

_why, to respond to your questions in SOLICIT, you don't have to play the _why character if you don't want to. Most of us are happy to see you, whether you act bizarre or not. We miss your insight and commentary and sense of humor. Experiment if you like, and ignore the jerks.

For everyone else, _why made some videos before, here is my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXZ_htL1rOI

The basic income might sound like a far-left idea to some, but it is supported by some ardent capitalists including Milton Friedman. He specifically supported its implementation in the form of a "negative income tax" which would replace the current welfare system. The reason for his support was that it was a more efficient redistributive system, as it avoided the perverse incentives of means-based welfare.

At the time Richard Williamson had his excommunication removed, the Vatican did not know he was a Holocaust denier. His ordination was never approved by the Vatican in the first place, rather he was ordained in the heretical organization SSPX, which was why he was excommunicated. The reason Benedict removed these excommunications was to restore peace with the ultra-traditionalists who reject the Second Vatican Council, in much the same way Catholics have been working to restore peace with other Christians who do not accept the Catholic orthodoxy. Such ecumenism is usually viewed as progress, but anti-Catholic critics have continually tried to present this as if Benedict condones Holocaust denial, which is disingenuous, as he has condemned those views and suspended Williamson's episcopal authority until he recants.

The decision not to meet with the singing priest was not entirely "bad business" because by condoning clergy who perform pop-star renditions of the Mass you isolate the many more conventional Catholics who prefer some solemnity in their liturgy, and find such shows disrespectful to a sacred institution. There have been many such abuses since the Novus Ordo Mass began and Benedict had been trying to tighten up on them.

Although the author seems to be suggesting that the Vatican start a bank for the sake of humor, there actually is a Vatican Bank, the Institute for Works of Religion. (Edit: I misread)

This predictably happens at the release of almost every anticipated game that requires a central server connection. There is initial downtime and lag, angry gamers write lots of horrible reviews, then things eventually get better and nobody cares anymore that it used to be broken.

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