I needed something that could replay blogs from the beginning. I thought of doing it quick and dirty, that is parse the HTML of the blogs I want to replay by hand.But then I realized that there is a more general problem about blogs, podcasts, etc. to be solved; that is how do you make a machine understand the chronology of the posts, file them by categories, tags, etc.? The HTML structure is...
Heroin harms us because of our genetic makeup, yet we don't talk about how heroin-induced illness has genetic causes. We simply try to keep people away from heroin.
It seems that people have their own definition of death with details added to the general concept. Then, when exposed to these hypothetical scenarios, they either say "it is murder" or "it isn't murder", depending on what their personal definition of "death" is.
The problem is that if we redefine death as "no chance of ever coming back", some people would still not be ok with being temporarily disintegrated because they believe it would be someone else who would come back.
So the concept of death should actually be split in two: death as in "I believe it would not be me anymore", and death as in "the functional unit defined as you would not be operational anymore".
A friend of mine (very smart and computer savvy) wants to learn the front-end part of making websites.I would like her to be table to use a simple VCS e.g. Bazaar on her Macbook and code HTML+CSS in Textmate. I don't think she needs to understand the terminal.Bonus points if she can go to Haml+Compass after she grokked HTML and CSS.I've learnt this stuff gradually over a few years, but now I'm...
The charges stemmed from the CCP’s interpretation of Guo’s actions as subversive to its rule. His defense was not to dispute the evidence, but to argue that the published materials were not subversive, and that the constitution covers freedom of speech anyway. The prosecution asserted that the interests of the Party-State take priority.
(By self-referential I mean one who understands oneself absolutely; one who possess a perfectly accurate map of oneself. There probably is a better word.)
"Twelve virtues" however... well, I started skimming at the fourth virtue. Most of the content was a restatement of things I already agree with.
Maybe your audience (HN, Reddit) is enough into rationality to care more about very rational discussions (like the AI-Box problem) than about discussions of rationality itself (like "Twelve Virtues").