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The letter reads like Reiser thinks the firmware bug is fixable, and it’s more a case of nurture over nature. Don’t know if that’s true, but it’s not unthinkable.
I think murder has an exceptionally low recidivism rate mainly because if you do get out of prison after serving your time you probably don't want to do it again, and you might never be put in a situation where you need to do it again.
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You are correct, but you are also ignoring the fact that we are no longer living in ancient greek time. I did not claim that Christianity invented good & evil. I claimed that it is a central concept in Christianity. Your way of reasoning here is often referred to as a straw mans argument.
> You are correct, but you are also ignoring the fact that we are no longer living in ancient greek time. Even today, people still read and are influenced by Plato and Aristotle. > I did not claim that Christianity invented good & evil. I claimed that it is a central concept in Christianity. You claimed you don’t believe in evil because you are not a Christian. Not being a Christian and not believing in evil have lit…
A few things that stuck out to me. SuSE supposedly failed. I don't know who told him that. He might have expected it to be a RedHat or Ubuntu by now, which it isn't. But failed is very black and white. I would argue, if they still exist as they do now, they are quite successful. He talks about Reiser V4. I think there is a Reiser V5 now? Or am I wrong? I cannot find that on Wikipedia. Anyway, the chances of it ending…
He is also still talking about spinning rust (rotational delay). I forget the timeline, but maybe he went into prison before SSDs became ubiquitous? (I know they are still in servers)
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I will always remember the Slashdot comment that said that removing the passenger seat of your car so you could sleep in your car was a reasonable thing to do, and everyone saying it was suspicious was a hater. (Bro. A car floor isn’t even flat.) I think it was my first experience with absolute egregious fanboism.
It's certainly not common, but I had a friend in highschool that took out the front passenger seat of his VW bug, to make it easier to get surfboards into the car. He normally just had a folding chair for passengers.
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So, this is a reasonable thing to be confused and frustrated about. It's worth remembering that the underlying philosophy of justice, crime, and punishment isn't actually something a society agrees upon. Ask five different people a question about the law, the courts, or the prisons and you'll get five different answers. And the system we get out of that is a hodgepodge of extremely path dependent features based upon…
Someone once said that society forms laws and such mainly to prevent vigilantism, and not really for much else. The remainder is post-facto argumentation about how it was "ok" to do so.
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Only if you believe in evil. I'm not christian so I don't see the world like that. He killed his s/o, like what 15 years ago now? People change and deserves a second chance.
If you’re not religious, what’s the basis for saying anyone “deserves” anything? If he’s just meat, then he’s clearly a defective model. Just take him out. How is society better with him alive?
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> You are correct, but you are also ignoring the fact that we are no longer living in ancient greek time. Even today, people still read and are influenced by Plato and Aristotle. > I did not claim that Christianity invented good & evil. I claimed that it is a central concept in Christianity. You claimed you don’t believe in evil because you are not a Christian. Not being a Christian and not believing in evil have lit…
In my part of the world, christianity has dominated for 1000+ years. There are no influences from eastern religion or Plato or whatever. I suspect the same is true in your part of the world.
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> You are correct, but you are also ignoring the fact that we are no longer living in ancient greek time. Even today, people still read and are influenced by Plato and Aristotle. > I did not claim that Christianity invented good & evil. I claimed that it is a central concept in Christianity. You claimed you don’t believe in evil because you are not a Christian. Not being a Christian and not believing in evil have lit…
In my part of the world, christianity has dominated for 1000+ years. There are no influences from eastern religion or Plato or whatever. I suspect the same is true in your part of the world.
I don't know where you live but it's almost impossible to overstate the significance of Plato on Western thought.
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If you’re not religious, what’s the basis for saying anyone “deserves” anything? If he’s just meat, then he’s clearly a defective model. Just take him out. How is society better with him alive?
Do you think BD was right to execute all the “war criminals” with their very flawed trial? Why so?
Now if I’m positing that human beings have intrinsic worth because god made them, and that we need to turn the other cheek and all that, then no, the process is deeply flawed and shouldn’t be happening.
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Source on premeditated? Everything I saw made it look like it was spontaneous (and then he put a lot of work and some poor planning into trying to hide it). I could obviously be wrong, I didn't really spend that much time on it. (Note: I know he was initially found guilty of first degree murder but it appears that first degree murder doesn't necessarily require premeditation.)
Yeah, I don't think the murder itself was premeditated, but he did treat the event with a sort of self-serving callousness that gave the perception that he did not care about Nina's life beyond how it affected his.
Seems like it was probably premeditated to me if so