Xc43
Joined 15 years ago
Joined 15 years ago
My understanding of the federal government of the US is that it is mainly a subsidizer of their national military-industrial complex. Something I would call: military-industrial socialism.
With that said, it is just more of the same in a different era. 1930s and the Empire State Building: to re-invigorate the economy, Eisenhower and the interstate highway system: to provide a stronger national defense, etc
I wrote not from second hand knowledge. Nor, is it apparently apparent.
Here is one source: (1).
If it this is insufficient for you, for it seems you do not trust me as a source on the subject, here is a quote from the Book of Mormon:
"And he had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them." (2 Nephi 5:21) (2)
I will not belabor the content of this quote, for it is, hopefully, now clearly racist.
(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_people_and_Mor...
(2) https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/2-...
[Addendum: I re-read the thread and it seems to me now you were answering to me who was answering to a bifurcation of the original comment. I agree the original commenter would ideally have substantiated his claims. So would have the answer, (to which I answered) which claimed that because they are Mormon then they should be spared of judgement or scrutiny. I disagree (but that is something else).
This whole thread could have been avoided if the term Mormon would have been omitted. Which, I believe would have been fine, since whether those communities were LDS or not, it would have been the same.]
Any religion such as hinduism with their caste-based discrimination and mormonism with their skin-color-based discrimination is in their correct place when found in disrepute.
Please inform yourself before standing for such shameful and unethical/immoral belief system.
I delved deep into meta note-taking with RR. Watched videos, participated in book clubs, built a zettelkasten, etc.
While meta note-taking is not note-taking, I found the time spent meta note-taking meaningful. It is a reward on its own. The benefit, is that I now feel comfortable using my tool. And using it, I do.
While I also prefer for each of my passing seconds to contribute to the production an artefact, if it is not the case then it is fine too. That is the distinction between project and hobby.
I started as note-taking hobbyist and now I guess you could call me a note-taking pro :)
Do not hate the hobbyist.
You do you, use that word if you want but you are not promoting a healthy conversation if you start labelling people and assuming to know their perspective.
I agree that democratic governance is good. Yet let's be frank, kids have no place at the table. It is the responsibility of their parents to listen to them and promote their needs at the said table. ie at the table everyone should be taken into consideration (whether they are a kid or not) but not everyone should be at the table. (as for who is a kid and who is not, that is another subject)
I believe not everyone deserves to be at the table, the same way not everyone deserves to be part of a board of directors. As for why, I am certain you can figure that out on your own.
I answered you because I was slightly disturbed by your use of the word fascism. I hope you see that we are on the same boat. ___
On an adjacent note, personally, I do not care about nations/organizations. I care about people. Individuals. Does my country care about me? No, a country has no brain, no emotion. The question anthropomorphizes an entity emerging from a group individuals. A group cannot love me but each or any individual of said group can.
I hope more of you join. I am sharing about my latest interest: Frederick the Great and another member is sharing too: linters and the propagation of good practices.
Suggestions welcome
Also, if anyone has a good way to categorize knowledge please let me know. I am uncertain which categories and channels to create on this server.
Having ported a Flutter mobile app to web before, it was simple.
One feedback: The spacing between rows of content gets too big on my vertical pc screen. It seems to me you are trying to make one row take the whole height of the screen.
Feel free to contact me, I would love to contribute. My email is in my profile :)
That written, there are two pages of one book I recommend for everyone that wants some pre-made questions. The book is 'How to solve it' by George Polya. The two pages are at the start of the book. It is called the 'How to solve it' list in the contents page. The jist of it can be found on the wikipedia page of the book(1).
Here are some example questions I have made inspired by the book:
To understand: What is the feature? What is already there? What are the links between what is there and the feature? Is it sufficient?
While planning: Have I seen this situation before? Do I a know a related problem? If so, can I use this previous experience? Can I imagine a similar and simpler problem? Does this fulfill all requirements of the feature?
(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It#Four_principle...
"Now, when I encounter a bug, I ask myself three questions:
Do I use the scientific method to chase this bug? Do I have the correct system view of this problem scope? Do I have the necessary telemetry tool?"
Prior coding, as you guessed. It helps as the Rubber Duck technique and the Feynman technique do, to think through a problem.
This is an interesting post. There is much discussion about software and whatnot here but not about the stuff of which software is made: thoughts.
The way I handle thinking while programming is to think through writing. I handwrite much of my thought process while programming. Which allows me to stop at any distraction and come back to work easily. I call my writing: my secondary memory; and my working memory: my RAM.
I hope to see more posts of this kind by a diversity of people. "What do you ask yourself or do when [insert situation here]". About programming and more.
Akin a podcast/interview. Where the whole purpose is for the interviewee to share his tacit knowledge.
Experts go and are asked questions about specific situations. Said questions are made in such a way to tease out the tacit knowledge. (using the critical decision method)
... The more I think about it the more I want it to exist. Anyone knows of something similar? Or is interested to create it? or just interested to have it exist?
* https://commoncog.com/blog/putting-mental-models-to-practice...
I am using an iPad connected to my MBP with the sidecar feature. It is somewhat buggy currently(1). I am updating my iPad to see if that is the issue. Do note that I have an iPad 9th gen and an Apple pencil 1st gen.
(1) The tap (left click simulation) does not seem to work which stops me from changing from writing to erasing. So I have to use my mouse instead of the pencil
edit: The issue seems to be from sidecar that does not allow tap as left click anymore https://support.apple.com/en-us/102597