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The author addresses your exact point in the article.

"Others might argue against renaming on the grounds that it is unfair to single out philosophy: We do not have departments of Euro-American Mathematics or Physics. This is nothing but shabby sophistry. Non-European philosophical traditions offer distinctive solutions to problems discussed within European and American philosophy, raise or frame problems not addressed in the American and European tradition, or emphasize and discuss more deeply philosophical problems that are marginalized in Anglo-European philosophy. There are no comparable differences in how mathematics or physics are practiced in other contemporary cultures."

"This is not to disparage the value of the works in the contemporary philosophical canon: Clearly, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with philosophy written by males of European descent; but philosophy has always become richer as it becomes increasingly diverse and pluralistic. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) recognized this when he followed his Muslim colleagues in reading the work of the pagan philosopher Aristotle, thereby broadening the philosophical curriculum of universities in his own era. We hope that American philosophy departments will someday teach Confucius as routinely as they now teach Kant, that philosophy students will eventually have as many opportunities to study the “Bhagavad Gita” as they do the “Republic,” that the Flying Man thought experiment of the Persian philosopher Avicenna (980-1037) will be as well-known as the Brain-in-a-Vat thought experiment of the American philosopher Hilary Putnam (1926-2016), that the ancient Indian scholar Candrakirti’s critical examination of the concept of the self will be as well-studied as David Hume’s, that Frantz Fanon (1925-1961), Kwazi Wiredu (1931- ), Lame Deer (1903-1976) and Maria Lugones will be as familiar to our students as their equally profound colleagues in the contemporary philosophical canon."

The point the article is making is that ancient Asian/MiddleEastern philosophy contains numerous theories and teachings that are just as profound as those found in ancient Greek philosophy. Hence why their diminished representation is a problem worth fixing. Do you feel otherwise? Do you think that philosophical theories such as Confucianism and the Bhagavad Gita are not worthy of being taught alongside ancient Greek philosophy?
Google's defense claimed the Dalvik VM was a clean room implementation also so that defense doesn't necessarily prevent a litigation scenario or adverse decision.
Would you care to elaborate?
I'm trying to struggle through the linked discussion of Kwasi Wiredu, and it's not encouraging.

http://www.iep.utm.edu/wiredu/

Indeed, terms such as reflective integration and due reflection offer the critical spaces for the theoretical articulation of something whose existence has not yet been concretely conceived.

...

This reading gives an entirely different perspective on acts and themes of resistance as panoptical surveillance in the age of global neoliberalism becomes more totalitarian in nature at specific moments.

...

Another crucial, if distressing, feature of decolonization as advanced by Wiredu is that it always has to measure itself up with the colonizing Other, that is, it finds it almost impossible to create its own image so to speak by the employment of autochthonous strategies.

I know there are Western philosophical traditions that embrace this kind of language (Derrida is mentioned frequently in the above-linked piece, and I also think of Foucault and Baudrillard), but I didn't study those in my MIT philosophy program either! Conversely, there are plenty of non-Western philosophers who embrace a clarifying analytical style over this kind of semiotic obscurity. Not that the latter isn't potentially insightful and fun: We're humans, after all, not computers.
"in pitch darkness and temperatures of 25 °C"

Is this supposed to be terrifying? Anyone who woke up at night and walked to the bathroom faced pitch darkness and temperatures of 25 °C!
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I see a ton of C# work now, maybe your comment sparked a change!
It may that they did not add it for a reason also. There are a lot of edge cases because many potentially dirty concepts are made up of words that are not bad alone. For example a text can have both "girls" and "nude" in it without being vulgar, but if it has the phrase "nude girls" the chance for it being pornografic is much higher.

( Searchdaimon have done some research on this and have a list if anyone is intrested: https://github.com/searchdaimon/adult-words )
The real advantage of microservices is being able to scale different parts independently.

The way we do it in Java is to logically partition services, and it turns out that some of them are so small they fit in the same address space as the server process and it just not worth breaking them out, particularly when one of our goals is to be the service that is done loading before your finger has even hit the stopwatch to start timing the 15 second load of the other guys. (Who are doomed because they use shiny front-end technology)

There is one "service" that runs out of process on the same physical server, and then two "services" that run on other machines, one of them is an authentication server hosted at Stormpath, the other one is a DynamoDB. We rebuild the primary and supporting databases each day on a second cloud server, connect it to Stormpath and Dynamo, then nuke the old server once it passes int tests.

You need to have a strategy for ser/deser that requires close to zero effort when you need to change things. Frankly I think it is stupid stupid stupid to replicate code any more than you need to. I worked at a place where "on principle" they wanted to have the code be decoupled so every team would hand-code ser/deser logic which meant that it took two weeks or more to make a small change that would ripple through the system and introduce more bugs.

Lotsa consequences of that such as "have a schema", "generate code" and "don't module module A in Rust, and module B in Go, and module C in Shiny3" or you are doomed. It feels so good to have competitors that are doomed.
> I wholeheartedly support the noble desire to give things their proper names.

It's ironic that the Rectification of Names is central to the philosophy of Confucius.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectification_of_names
Until the day said access is unilaterally revoked.
Are there other better methods?
Many thanks!

> Will Akasha leverage existing social graphs (fbook, twitter, email, phone)

This is actually something we were discussing yesterday with Dr. Gavin Wood, one of the founders of ethereum and ethcore. It is a bit tricky to do without compromising the privacy of the users (associating an insecure form of identification to a key/address) due to the nature of blockchains, but there are a few interesting ideas on how to solve this issue. We’re looking into it but we need to experiment and see which one is the best before deploying something like this inside our application.

> Does Akasha plan to interoperate with any of them?

Social web 2.0 applications such as Twitter and Facebook are not necessary the friendliest when it comes to interoperability but as we will approach the beta we will look into making an API allowing interesting things to be done in an IFTTT fashion.

> Why is a blockchain needed? What aspect of decentralized publishing does this solve? Verifiability of content? Pub/sub relationships?

The chain removes completely servers from the picture and enables us to create a truly decentralized publishing mechanism by adding IPFS to the mix - since it is expensive to store content directly on chain, we're storing IPFS hashes on chain.

Besides verifiability and pub/sub relationships, identity/profile management and micropayments are also a big pluses that come bundled with the ethereum chain.

Hope this answers your questions!
Expand our moral imaginations to everyone except those that are the target of or in the vicinity of a drone strike.
Does the library export data from the web service or from the device itself? Also, do you know if the device can be prevented from syncing with the cloud?

PS: Thank you for your contributions. I've looked into 3rd party open source sync libraries for activity trackers before, and the state was dire.
Amazing work.

>The original notation was two dimensional. (!)
What's interesting is that FB and Google both use a single large repository. Not sure about Amazon. In fact, I don't know that I've ever read a detailed article about how Amazon handles things like source control internally.
Yeah, but you need to use an AMD CPU. And their performance has not yet caught Intel. Hopefully the new Zen architecture will make them competitive again.
Depends what you use. Native styles brings in Widgets, for example.
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I now strongly regret having sold mine; the brief moment of glee and small amount of cash was small potatoes compared to the number of times I've since wanted to re-read them.

(Also glee-killing: AMa 95)
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The thing I'm most psyched for is the continuing evolution of OpenCL support. It seems like the AMDGPU+Gallium3d/etc stack has some support for OpenCL already. Image2d/3d support would be outstanding.

I've seen so much instability from catalyst+southern islands and I'm hoping the issues are driver related and Linus' Law will result in a higher quality computation stack.
"Nobody would ever dream of arguing against eurocentrism in number theory"

You underestimate postmodernist literary theorists.
Is the author perhaps thinking of something more like "history of philosophy"?

What you say about philosophy being more like mathematics is true, and as far as I can see, going forward philosophy is just philosophy, and it would be silly to label it with nations and cultures.

But looking backwards, the path that brought different cultures to the table, that got them thinking about the nature of things, is quite different. Labeling those different paths according to the cultures that developed them makes sense, and might be a very interesting study. But that's not philosophy as such, it's a discussion about philosophy.
Do you think that philosophical theories such as Confucianism and the Bhagavad Gita are not worthy of being taught alongside ancient Greek philosophy?

yes.
Honestly, Chromes UI for lots of tabs sucks as well. Safari has multiple allowances for it and never shrinks tabs down into a tiny, useless state[1] nor does Safari have a tab limit.

Frankly, Chrome sucks with a lot of tabs and sucks at conserving power, on a laptop it loses out on the two things that actually matter to me.

[1] https://imgur.com/bZTgrCg
Cave filled with mildly poisonous gas and a lake full of rotten egg smelling acidic water that has a film of toilet paper like bacteria floating around on top of it gets cracked open by humans. They find it full of creepy crawly insects that haven't seen the light of day since they were shut up inside it geologic ages ago. Then they used diving equipment to go into that pitch back lake and discover leeches as well.

I'd much rather visit any cave other than this one.
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You know, this first springed to my mind. As a kid, I had an old teacher whose father was an official in one of the nazi-backed regimes. There we were, talking about computer history and he was very upset (like really agitated) about this, saying to me that Zuse (Z3, basically) was the first digital computer / inventor. He said it was the case of history being written by the victors. I semi-believed him, considering his personal history, but was something I would hear quite often later in Germany as well.
"Plan to" as in they will do it if nothing very strange happens. The cars are currently driving around here in Gothenburg with Volvo employees behind the wheels. The cars will however only work for some well tested roads, eg. the big transit roads around the city.
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There is no denying that, both in the authors assigned in standard curricula and in the make-up of graduate students and faculty, white males are disproportionately represented in philosophy departments in the U.S. and Europe.

I would simply like to register the fact that, among current graduate students and (typically young) professors at the departments with which I am familiar (basically the Leiter top 30), this is generally an issue of grave concern. I know many people who work very hard to combat this. There are many collaborative efforts to construct alternative syllabi for mainstay classes (e.g. epistemology, ethics), to open real lines of dialogue with scholars who have historically been seen as "peripheral" to the enterprise of analytic philosophy (e.g. people who work on Buddhist philosophy, or Islamic philosophy), and to identify and redress the reasons that philosophy tends to overwhelmingly draw white males.

I don't mean to excuse the status quo. There is a lot of work still to be done. I simply want to point out that the advice of the authors of this article has not gone totally unheeded.
They wish to include non-European traditions of philosophy into academic philosophy.

"Jay L. Garfield is - - the author of “Engaging Buddhism: Why It Matters to Philosophy.” Bryan W. Van Norden is -- the author of “Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy.”"

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> It doesn't guarantee to detect every obstacle every time.

In Silicon Valley, they call this "eventually safe".
Thanks for the thoughts. (Hope it's clear I have no connection to SciRate.) The link to comments is directly under the Reddit-style rating, although it only appears if there actually are comments. Most papers don't have comments and you have to be logged into comment.

Personally, I don't expect it to be nice on mobile and I don't want it to be effortless to comment. The amount of work it takes to make a useful academic comment dwarfs those tiny frictions.
I compile a lot of code and also encode videos where an Intel i3 will beat the APU. That's the dilemma I'm in, and it's a pity that the Zen APUs don't arrive until 2017. First it's the CPU only Zen chips, but maybe the new AMD GPUs will allow for low-power variants.
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As somebody in the academia, I would see comments as potentially very dangerous. A comment system could be very easily abused by established researchers in some areas to prevent others from entering their niche sub-field. Do not get me wrong: the majority of scientists I know have very good professional integrity. However, I have also witnessed cases where established professors tried in all possible ways to prevent people from competing with them by discrediting or delaying the publication of very solid science. The arXiv as it is now is a great equalizer, because papers are presented without any string attached and this gives a chance to everyone (or at least to experts) to judge the quality of the various works without pre-conceptions.

As a fictitious example of what could go wrong. I am a theoretical astrophysicist. I am not established (I am not a tenured professor). Suppose that I come up with a good model to explain some astronomical observations. What I would want to do is to write a paper directed to my astronomers colleagues explaining how my model works and why it is better than competing models. I want to convince them to work with me to analyze their data. As it is now, I would post it on the arXiv, the astronomers would probably find it, read it and evaluate it. However, if the arXiv had comments, a single negative review by a more established theoretical astrophysicist would be enough to discourage any astronomer from even reading my paper. Remember that in the astro-ph section of the arXiv there are of the order of 100 new papers per day and we can realistically read only 1 or 2 papers per day on average. In this situation, the chances of my work being completely ignored because of that one comment would be very significant.

I think that the current channels for commenting on scientific work, private email and/or rebuttal papers, are perfectly adequate.
I think the main point is the fact that your opponent bleed out, vomit and pass out.
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If you strip away the appeals to emotion, their point seems flimsier in isolation: "Non-European philosophical traditions offer distinctive solutions to problems discussed within European and American philosophy, raise or frame problems not addressed in the American and European tradition, or emphasize and discuss more deeply philosophical problems that are marginalized in Anglo-European philosophy."

This is on the surface, reasonable. But why don't we try reversing the names, which should be allowed under their pretense of fairness and equality, like so: "European philosophical traditions offer distinctive solutions to problems discussed within Non-European philosophy, raise or frame problems not addressed in the Non-European traditions, or emphasize and discuss more deeply philosophical problems that are marginalized in Non-European philosophy."

Now it sounds at best sloppy (Which non-European traditions?), and at worst chauvinistic against the background noise that makes up the bulk of what really drives their point, which is the "apologize for imperialism" theme. So at one level below the surface, they are suggesting we abandon evaluating ideas based on their relevance to us as westerners, and subordinate that principle to saying sorry for imperialism. At two levels below, they are just talking their own book, as white male professors of Chinese philosophy.
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> Why do people feel the need to dictate to others what they should do?

I rather see this as advocacy. If you strongly feel the need for change, you have to do that in addition to simply doing what they themselves can do.

People do it all the time. Take a look at open source advocacy for example.
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No, the authors acknowledge this counterargument, but they do not offer a substantial refutation of it. They try to confuse their readers by equating a historical examination of philosophy with philosophy itself. id=whatshisface is correctly addressing how this argument applies to philosophy.
I think email (private communication) will always be useful.

However, some general questions being publicly available would be also arguably have utility.
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I admit I'm not a philosopher, but this sounds like claiming that we're inappropriately teaching a narrowed perspective of math because we don't teach Vedic multiplication algorithms or Mayan counting bases. These are interesting topics in their own right, but they do not constitute the (relatively) unbroken chain of mathematics as a _discipline in and of itself_ in a progressional manner with a working epistemology, namely, the formal proof. The Greeks gets that prize, by virtue of Euclid (and a few others tangentially, e.g. Eudoxus or Nicomedes or Hero), not by virtue of being Greek, e.g. Eratosthenes or Aristarchus, who gave us good results and application, but did not build on or advance the process of _how_ we do math (as far as we have record).

Similarly, Plato is the father of a philosophical tradition that to this day is recognizable as the foundation of how we develop questions about philosophical problems and analyze them. There were schools of thinking that came to various _conclusions_ with some similarity to Greek (and some later Roman) traditions, and there were certainly Greek philosophers who were steeped in mythical, religious, or simply very time and place specific thinking and no longer considered of much interest today, but as per the article's example, the "Bhagavad Gita" is a deeply religious text - its wisdom is received from a god figure, not puzzled out or reasoned by man.
Well, it's subjective, of course. What was novel to me was the listening-for-sounds system which really made the stealth parts far more immersive and enabled them to play with dark and cramped stealth levels without it becoming impossible to beat.

Also I felt it was the pinnacle of Naughty Dog storytelling, driven by the lessons they had learned in the excellent Uncharted series. The fact they were able to create a game in which nearly the entire time is spent side-by-side with an AI-driven character you start to really care about was quite an accomplishment.

One more thing that sticks out for me is that I'd say Last of Us has the most gripping prologue / first ten minutes I have ever seen in a video game, and that that narrative is held quite taut throughout the game.

The game has an average rating of 95 on Metacritic, so I realize this is the mainstream take on it, but I still think the hype is justified in this case.
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It does a lot more than lower brightness and cap clock speeds, it also disables night-shift and screws with all of the background process and predictive fetching, etc which the OS does.
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As with the others, backed it on KS, and I don't feel like you owe me anything more than what you've provided. Keep the money, and do something to keep your dream moving forward.
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>Regarding dealerships, ever heard of Tesla?

Tesla is trying this model, but I don't know whether anyone can makes claims as to its success yet. Right now they're pretty low volume and are losing lots of money. Maybe the no dealer model scales, maybe it doesn't.
The collective name is DRI (Direct Rendering Infrastructure), perhaps this Wikipedia page will help?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Infrastructur...

I think the basic way to understand it all is that the decision was made to pull more of the graphics stack into the Linux kernel, and this has enabled thinner abstractions to be built on top for various purposes. For example, Wayland makes use of the underlying DRI infrastructure.
> It feels like the author has missed the point of philosophy entirely.

The authors are professors of philosophy. I find it unlikely that they have "missed the point of philosophy entirely."
I keep hearing about how great mentors are, but what's in it for the mentor? Why should someone who knows what they're doing provide such a valuable service for someone who can't pay them back?

In older times, tradespeople literally got a live-in servant for the trouble of teaching them, but other than college tuition I haven't heard of a good compensation model for mentors.
No argument there, I use safari both for tab sanity and low battery use, I just don't get the hate for people using many tabs.

They're basically stacks of mini bookmarks in my view.
Here’s an analogy: I put a red card in one envelope, and a blue card in a different envelope. I send one envelope to Alice (but I don’t say which one) and one to Bob. Alice and Bob could be on opposite sides of the planet. When Alice opens her envelope, she knows which colour she has, but she also instantly knows which colour Bob has -- without communication with Bob. Bob might not even have opened his envelope yet. There is no faster than light communication or magic going on.
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I've been in a bit of a slump recently after I lost all my money in my last venture and I've been trying to brainstorm ways of coming back. Seeing as my passion is building projects and I can't outcompete freelancers on price, I figured I'd ask the community if I could build you something for free that you'd pay for if you liked it.

What product can I develop that you or your business/company would be interested in paying for? Additionally, how much do you see yourself or your company paying for it?