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JorgeStolfi

@JorgeStolfi@mas.to

Computer Science professor, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil.

Generally leftist (which means socialist outside the US), dreaming of democracy, justice, equality, disarmament, respect for science and human life, green energy, etc.

Posts in Portuguese are about topics of mostly Brazilian interest.

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mythologyandhistory, to philosophy
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Did you know that "eat the " was first a concept?

Limitarianism is fundamentally the study of when it might be to put limitations on citizens in a governed society. It's a case-based theory, not a political system.

It asks questions like: is ever individual? What is the wealth limit?

& questions it isn't positing, like: If no one is ultra-rich, should no one be ? Is limitarianism virtue or justifiable without perfectionist views?

Thoughts?

JorgeStolfi,
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@mythologyandhistory

I misread "liBERtarianism" and I was about to vehemently protest the mischaracterization of the philosophy.

What a difference a few letters make.

dgar, to random
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My rechargeable batteries are revolting.

JorgeStolfi,
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@dgar

But just because they are revolting under the current circumstances it does not mean that they will continue to offer resistance in the future.

peter, to random
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They should be sanitising their database inputs rather than change the input data!

"A local authority has announced it will ban apostrophes on street signs to avoid problems with computer systems."

North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321

JorgeStolfi,
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@peter

Does it mean that one can crash the NYC computers with a simple black marker - by adding an apostrophe to a street sign?

Hopefully no one will go to the trouble of covering a street sign with a card saying

'); DROP TABLE violations;

https://xkcd.com/327/

evan, (edited ) to random
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Which major change would a time traveler from 1974 notice most about cities today?

JorgeStolfi,
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@evan

No newspapers.

On ads, instead of phone numbers, weird "www..." or "@..." notations.

But mainly: half the people are carrying a small rectangular thing and are talking loud to themselves, like lunatics.

JorgeStolfi, to HashtagGames
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After transferring all his fortune to a charitable foundation, Uncle Scrooge retired to an isolated log cabin north of Yukon. He goes panning for gold every summer, just for fun. Needless to say, he throws back into the river any nuggets he happens to catch.


JorgeStolfi, to HashtagGames
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Indiana Jones's YouTube channel "AliensBuiltThatToo" has over 10 million followers.


JorgeStolfi, to random
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I have seen many reports of Trump's failed enterprises, but somehow this one was never mentioned. I would say that it is the most "educative" one, and should be the first of the list:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQM1m_In5n0&t=13s

JorgeStolfi, to random
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Random theory that occurred to me yesterday: poetry must be a rather recent and accidental invention compared to singing.

A poem is a song without melody. I bet that, before the invention of writing, there were no poems, only songs. But when writing was invented, and people tried to write down songs, they of course could not write down the melody. Only the lyrics, rhyme, and some of the rhythm could get through. Voilà, poetry...

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