michel__ | 8 years ago | on: Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits
You make it sound like this came out of nowhere. Reddit has been letting people beta test this for months.
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michel__ | 8 years ago | on: How kids in a low-income country use laptops: lessons from Madagascar
I'm particularly curious on finding out the following:
(A) What sort of information are they canvassing for?
(B) What are they doing with that sort of information?
michel__ | 8 years ago | on: Blocklist Facebook domains
How can you recommend these extensions without mentioning NoScript?
michel__ | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: A blockchain alternative to Airbnb
They slap a 'but you can pay in BTC' to it and call it revolutionary.
No, it won't be revolutionary when AirBnB starts accepting cryptocurrency. In fact, it'll fold immediately.
michel__ | 8 years ago | on: Milton's Morality: Fallen Man and the Fallen Stature of 'Paradise Lost'
The problem with Milton's Paradise Lost is that it's misinterpreted the way you're currently misinterpreting it. Milton didn't seek to characterize a Satan that is worthy of our admiration.
Indeed, there's an innate Libertarian core that resides within us all but Milton sought to, like GRRM in the Games of Throne books, expose how morally bankrupt some of us are for admiring an individual such as Satan merely because of his desire to be 'free'.
We thus conveniently forget all of the evil that Satan commits because we see something in him that resides within us: an innate desire to, as Rousseau refers to extensively, to be freed of the shackles of tyranny from above.
michel__ | 8 years ago | on: Coetzee’s Boyhood Photographs
It's a shame to have lost such a literary great. His work will most definitely live on.
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