fictionfuture
Joined 9 years ago
Joined 9 years ago
Idealism should not trump rationality; I cannot believe this actually passed into law
Most the real reasons for success are taboo, boring and too technical to talk about, e.g. "we got massive SEO traffic through user-generated content and 10x'd traffic in 2 months"..
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrarch
I’d recommend anyone study Cicero as he was a sole source for many of the “best practices” stolen from antiquity; his writings are the basis for the US government (for example)
Generally, when people discuss going back to the “monolith” they just haven’t found the right distributed architecture.
Second, mail in ballots for sure won Democrats the election.
No fraud? They changed the rules so they could win
He's making an observation about religious tendencies and belief systems within groups.
Debates within the Linux ecosystem aren't fundamental challenges to it's ethos
Nietzsche believed that the best decisions weren’t the most rationale ones but the ones that were “life furthering.”
However he believed rationality is preferable to idealism. Therefore, best to first deal with reality, learn rationality, then make decisions with your feet on the ground