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I think the point here is that it's subverting and redirecting Bentham's own utilitarianism against itself. How does the utilitarian decide which one of those has more utility? Tha…

It seems like 1.25 is a month and a half out from retirement, maybe it's related to that. Kubernetes 1.25 (in Danny Glover voice): I'm getting too old for this shit!

Your definition of loyalty sounds like it's more loyalty to yourself/your own values or an idealized/rose-tinted view of the company from the past rather than loyalty to what the c…

> Re: ORMs, I respectfully disagree. I’ve come across many teams that treat their Python/Rust/Go codebase with ownership and craft, I have not seen the same be said about SQL queri…

> Could you share more specific details? Happy to look over / revise where needed. Sure thing! I'd say first off, the solutions may look different for a small company/startup vs. a…

It seems like the article is written by someone just starting to get into the data engineering subfield and they thought they were going to be writing python (pyspark is my guess) …

I'm not saying that hardware shouldn't be open in some form or another (at least in a way that doesn't stifle innovation, maybe also taking another look at how the patent system wo…

How would opening up the hardware solve the issue for the average consumer? Let's say the official update channel goes dead on your smart fridge, the company has gone out of busine…

I think I would agree with pretty much all of the above. There is a sort of hierarchy of belief, and quantum mechanics is probably close to the top of that. However, even so, it is…

I wouldn't reject objective facts, but I also wouldn't believe they exist any more than I would believe Santa Claus exists, unless someone can successfully argue for their existenc…

If objective reality exists, which is still a pretty big if last time I checked, not only do we not know what it fully is, we don't even know what any part of it is. The best that …

Yes it's a bold claim philosophically. How would you justify it? No, flat earth "theory", if you can call it that, has close to zero supporting evidence and AFAIK has no actual pre…

> There are objective facts about the nature of reality This is a pretty bold claim and you would have to do a bit of work to make it more convincing. Besides, it's not really how …

I feel like that's where most people probably start, and then get some response like "we can't change the KPI's because blah blah" or get the runaround. Once you have established t…

Not everyone, I still do not have this in mine and I have paternal haplogroup G-M201 which is related to Ötzi.

The paper seems to be paywalled so I have no clue about how they arrived here, but this: "That said, the results indicate that the probability we are alone ( Doesn't seem to really…

What about a third option, "everything may or may not matter, but the answer to that question is currently inaccessible to us (and possibly may always remain inaccessible)"? In thi…

What lay people mostly mean by 'relative' is subjective; ie., they're committing the genetic fallacy of the form: since understanding X requires a perspective in which to evaluate …

I've also found talking about what you just learned is very helpful. If you don't have an interlocutor available, ChatGPT is a good stand-in.

> It's exactly the other way around. It's lay people using 'relative' to mean 'subjective'. I've actually found the opposite - people will often use "subjective" when they really m…

This is true in everyday conversational English usage of the terms, but in the context of philosophy, they acquire additional meaning and connotations. It's kind of like how when w…

No, we're talking about a completely different usage of the term here. Objectivism in this context has nothing to do with Rand's Objectivism. It's just the term being overloaded wi…

In the context of philosophy it's usually meant in contrast to objectivism. So a moral objectivist might say that there exist an objective set of universal morals that apply to eve…

I think this is close, but I'd go even further and say that the problem is that with real debt anyone can see the money in black and white, they require no special training to be a…