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Probably because the fact of external genetic influences has little to do with the wholly political concept of "race"

We're getting into Hume/Kant territory

>I could put a Mac Mini on my desk with half a dozen adapters sticking out of it, but even then I still can't upgrade the RAM. The last Mac Mini with user-upgradeable RAM was 2012.…

"Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Funny to read this, VISA near silently installed a program whereby replacing your Debit/Card (lost, stolen, etc) automatically updates that card everywhere it is being used a payme…

"But do you have a flag?"

I'm not surprised

For regular folk, the book is Discipline & Punish in English translation You're explanation is fairly academic and I think we can be a little more concrete. Focault's point is real…

I mean, the idea of progress in general is barely agreeable outside of recent strides in the physical sciences

Am getting too many redirects opening that link

Habituating your user base on the way there is just something MS could never pull off, too, the flip is the start menu never going away until all the baby boomers are gone

>For me, this is so typical for the JS community, jumping the boat in a whim. This is Microsoft's product, the company famous for keeping legacy going, hardly the 'JS community'

> Worse wildfires and budget cuts have happened at much larger scale than now on previous administrations, to be met with no international outrage at all. Except we're in the middl…

I just love it how it has become the fashion to say someone is being "hated" or "hated on", it's like the most magical term in civil discourse, you just no longer have to respond t…

Everything terrible about the front-end is a consequence of scale and demand for warm bodies pumping out code that targets the world's largest networked application runtime: upper-…

Seriously, it's just poor professional discretion. I work on a cross-browser multimedia sequencer, no fucking way you're hand writing all necessary DOM management code. You absolut…

DFACS' also force many children who could be fostered out of falling into homelessness and poverty before they're even 18 because none of them want to report their case or else the…

"Work" also use to be free-range

This is the biggest danger IME for my team as well and everyone from QA to Dev to middle-management is guilty of it. Worse, my job also has Confluence, OneDrive, and JIRA, and not …

It very much is

In order to understand Kant, first read David Hume's Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Kant's major ideas are entirely a response to this essay (we English-speakers are lucky t…

I thought it was fascinating as I read the thesis statement that over two hundred years later we still haven't left Immanuel Kant's orbit. The author ended the article citing Kant'…