@jsmanrique Hombre, comparas peras con manzanas. Exterminar animales solo porque han invadido un área que no le es propia puede ser un argumento dudoso, o insuficiente; pero no sería nunca un argumento (ni siquiera dudoso o insuficiente) para matar a seres humanos. Simplemente la consideración moral es muy distinta.
#Madrid (🇪🇸 #Spain) is the most liveable #city in the world, and the 9th best city in the world overall, according to the Mori Memorial Foundation's “Global Power City Index” 2021.
https://mori-m-foundation.or.jp/english/ius2/gpci2/index.shtml
I agree: he talks in circles. And he's ambiguous on purpose.
I don't have the time (nor the patience) to dive deeper into his ideas, but your approximate quote reinforces my impression that he's sugar-coating very dangerous ideas: kings through History have not been champions of individual freedom nor _laissez faire_ advocates; quite the opposite.
_Some_ king _might_ be tolerant of, or indifferent towards, soft drugs, “decadent” art, “deviant” sexual habits, state religion, or whatever — sure. But it's obvious that if investing one person the power to rule others at their whim is a recipe for capricious repression and misery.
One can (should) criticise the shortcomings of our current systems without resorting to whitewashing forms of government that are demonstrably even worse.
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Sorry for rambling. I think we both agree about these points. I'm thinking out loud — again :)
Or even: use a cute portrait of one of them as my status/avatar on IM apps. Never, ever going to do that. So cheesy! I have some pics where they're adorable, though. Very cute! But I'm not doing that. Privacy and stuff. And it's so cheesy, ffs! Really, really cute.
I'm so tempted to do what I swore I'd never do: use nice photos of my #kids as desktop wallpaper. I'm not going to do it. No. The thing is: it would be kind of justified, because they're objectively the cutest babies, ever. Like, seriously. More adorable than other people's kids. So I could do it. But no, I'm not going to do it. Nope.
> _“There are ‘meetings of minds’ one waits for. When #SamHarris chatted to #DavidDeutsch. When #DouglasMurray speaks to #JordanPeterson. It's where people align seemingly very closely and then we find those small places where they disagree.”_
— [Brett Hall](https://www.bretthall.org/blog/daniel-yaron-and-eamonn)
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@freemo Oh, I was just going to browse it real quick (I think)… but thanks. (Perhaps better to try to put it under archive.is or archive.org — for the benefits of others, too.)
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Biometric auth will always be crap.
"Your Fingerprint Can Be Hacked For $5" https://blog.kraken.com/post/11905/your-fingerprint-can-be-hacked-for-5-heres-how/
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Good point.
Well, I have listed immutable traits (_white_) as well as hobbies (_biker_) and transient or contingent statuses (_vegetarian_).
I am a _contrarian_ much in the same vein that I'm _white_, an _introvert_, or a _Japanophile_: it's not something I strive for, or even do consciously; and I may well cease to be a contrarian like I may no longer be a Japanophile in the future. It's just the way I think I am — today.
But I get your point about [keeping our identities small](http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html) 👍
[Antonio Escohotado](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Escohotado), one of my dearest intellectual heroes, died today 😢
He was a true erudite, a polymath, and a free soul.
He devoured the classics, opposed dictator Franco, was the fiercest of Communists, pioneered the hippy revolution in #Ibiza, travelled the world, studied and experimented with most drugs known to mankind, changed his views, lectured #philosophy, taught himself a few languages, became the most articulate #liberal, wrote the definitive tomes on a variety of scientific subjects, changed his views again, and shared it all along the way.
What I admire the most, though, is that he read everything under the sun. Primary sources, secondary sources, biographies, commentary. And he seemed to remember it all. #Escohotado set out to deeply understand something — be it #theGreeks, #drugs, #economics, #ChaosTheory — and damned studied every single relevant page there is about the subject, tirelessly, for years, until he emerged with the most robust of opinions about the topic, and a comprehensive view in the form of a new #book.
I am very inspired by him to always freaking read the classics, and the sources.
And I have always lamented that his fame in the English-speaking world wasn't commensurate with his many merits.
His last months were the chronicle of a death foretold: he chose to leave, and did so in his own terms, with dignity, in his beloved Ibiza.
I went to see him at public events here in #Madrid a couple of times. He was a giant, some unfortunate views or quotations notwithstanding.
I miss him already.
I am:
* #Andalusian
* #atheist
* #biker
* #blogger
* #cerebral
* #classicliberal
* #contrarian
* #curious
* #eclectic
* #effectivealtruist
* #engineer
* #essayist
* #European
* #father
* #geek
* #globalist
* #humanist
* #indecisive
* #individualist
* #introvert
* #Japanophile
* #Madrilenian
* #male
* #married
* #marathoner
* #musician
* #nerd
* #nudist
* #obsessive
* #painter
* #pianist
* #polyglot
* #oboist
* #procapitalism
* #procrypto
* #proFLOSS
* #programmer
* #rationalist
* #reader
* #runner
* #sceptic
* #scientist
* #shortsighted
* #shy
* #Spaniard
* #straight
* #strict
* #taken
* #traveller
* #urbanite
* #vegetarian
* #white
* #writer
* #41
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To help some of the newcomers make connections: name 5-7 things that interest as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its in...
For a long time I thought #programmers were unusually egocentric and annoying in our obsession with our own trade and tools: we dedicate inordinate attention to designing, rewriting and tweaking libraries, frameworks, plugins, etc _for our own, and our peers', usage_.
But most recently, I've realised that #journalists also love to discuss and criticise the #media; #musicians often write and sing about #songs and other #artists; so many #economists seem focused on #Economics and its tools (as opposed to their object of study); etc.
Perhaps we #technologists are not so unique after all…
