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The accident of being born in a poor rather than a rich country is as arbitrary a determinant of one’s fate as the accident of being born in a poor rather than a rich family in the same country - Thomas Nagel, The Problem of Global Justice, p. 126
Always when in doubt please do send letters of commiseration; at the very least they will be appreciated and at the best they may even succeed in their apparently futile ambition of lightening the burden of bereavement. - Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, p. 156
Determining and Developing Virtues “Living is not a matter of executing an algorithm, or if it is, we are clueless as to what algorithm we are executing. A good life is a matter...
Thinking Computers “You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you will tell me precisely what it is that a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine...
There are three perspectives on love: a first-person subjective experience, sometimes powerful and exhilarating in the case of romantic love; observable second-person relations...
I slaved away for a few hours and created nice buttons that work purely using CSS,and they are cross-browser compatible. That means that they do not use images at all,and they...