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For a fascinating take on the subject, I recommend "Industrial Society and its Future" by Ted Kaczynski.

We are slaves to our genes plus our conditioning, both of which are greatly influenced by our ancestors and completely influenced by things outside of our control.

Does anyone know a way to easily migrate MySQL data to sqlite?

I think the fact that there is s kill switch at all is the problem. The argument being made is that there shouldn't be a person with a platform that has a kill switch. Platforms sh…

I disagree. I think the argument is more about who gets to decide what is "moral" and who gets to promote/enforce that morality.

I don't know why this is being upvoted. What does it add to the conversation?

I have a general question about the process that people use to create a dynamic web page using an html generation library like hiccup for clojure. I've been working with Django tem…

I honestly don't understand how anyone can question that we lack free will unless one believes in a soul or some other kind of "magic". If all of our actions are governed by our br…

Are you able to configure the touchpad to support right-clicks under Linux? I'm curious because that's one thing that's been a pain for me when running Linux on an Apple laptops in…

A hunch is a gut feeling or intuition about something. Asking someone to prove a hunch seems odd to me.

I like David Foster Wallace's commencement speech, but it might be a little too heavy for kids that age.

What type of low-stress work do you do? I am currently looking for a similar situation.

I've been using Arch for quite a few years now after trying Redhat(befor Fedora), Debian, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, etc. I like Arch's minimalistic philosophy, but then, I also use Fluxbox …