You should look into how he destroyed the small indie MMO Darkfall and gave the game 2/10 without ever playing it, in a Eurogamer review a few years ago. The developers had receipts and could prove that he hadn't played it.
It doesn't have any material effect on this article, but it says something about his ethics.
Ukraine has 200k soldiers. But most of them are grunts with rifles. Russia has all kinds of equipment and combined arms. You can't really compare the two.
Satellite imaging is used by a lot of researchers and non-profits to analyze concentration camps in North Korea[0] and it's one of the few sources that we have access to. Would you consider offering free-of-charge images of these camps to researchers and human rights organisations?
> So if you want to color every different part like operators, symbols, braces, with a different color, and you try to do this on C++, it is not going to be a small task...
Buddhism also talks a lot about purity. It doesn't necessarily follow that those practices should be abandoned or even avoided, just because parallels can be drawn with religion.
Let's say that I spent some time brewing your favorite tea and that I did everything right so that the tea was ~perfect~. And then I took a pin and dipped it in feces, and then dipped the tip of that pin into your tea. Would that in any way have any effect on your enjoyment of the tea?
Could programming, and perhaps many other things, work the same way? Maybe we would all be creating better software if we were a little more religious with our code?
Unfortunately, you're misunderstanding stoicism. It's a very different way of looking at life, that can take a very long time to grasp.
You should read up on Cato the younger, who for generations was held up by stoics as an example of a very virtuous person, and his fight against Caesar and tyranny.
If you are a technical/rational type, a lot of the information on
meditation can seem ...well, wacky. That's why I would suggest
listening to a few episodes of Sam Harris' podcast. Specifically those
about the mind and consciousness in general. He's got a background in
neuroscience and approaches this subject from a viewpoint that you
might feel more comfortable with.
He's also written a whole book about this topic, called "Waking Up: a
Guide to Spirituality Without Religion", which I think might be of interest to you.
Teaching other people is a great way to learn something yourself, and a lot of times you don't really understand a concept until it's explained in a slightly different way.
I really don't see the problem with people reaching out and trying to share their skills and knowledge with other people. To teach something you don't have to be the world's foremost expert on a subject, you just need to know more than the person you are teaching.
Europe has had a lot of bad experiences when it comes to how we've treated our minorities, and the census has often been used as a tool for finding "undesirables". And I'm not only talking about countries like Germany here; Sweden had a policy of forced sterilisation for reasons of "racial hygiene", that it didn't discontinue until 1975.
> It is extremely unlikely that any post-2008 Intel hardware will ever be supported in libreboot, due to severe security and freedom issues; so severe, that the libreboot project recommends avoiding all modern Intel hardware. If you have an Intel based system affected by the problems described below, then you should get rid of it as soon as possible.
The military actually opposed PALs. They considered them to be an additional point of failure, and did everything in their power to prevent having them installed. Once you understand this, the decision to set all nuclear launch codes to 00000000 starts to make a little more sense.
It doesn't have any material effect on this article, but it says something about his ethics.