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basfo··on J G A Pocock's "Machiavellian Moment"
Nope, i'm saying that humans are political beings, as aristoteles defined it, and any human action is by itself political.

History in itself tries (or should try) to be objective and avoid the bias you mention, but that doesn't make it less political by any mean.

basfo··on J G A Pocock's "Machiavellian Moment"
There have been N volcano eruptions over the history of mankind, why you are taking focus on one and not the other is the political part.
basfo··on J G A Pocock's "Machiavellian Moment"
I think you’re confusing “political,” which refers to a particular worldview, with what we might call party politics. History is always political because you can’t document every event that occurred during a given time; you’ll inevitably choose certain events over others. That very selection reflects a political stance, whether you realize it or not. Moreover, the subject itself is inherently political—for example, if you’re writing about music history, why focus on European composers rather than on whatever Chinese music existed at the time?

There isn't anything wrong in that, is just the way we work, we live in a particular culture, in a particular social system, in a particular time, and we are political beings.

An true history without politics would be like raw data of the state of every atom trough history, and even that may be political (why you choose to view the world as data?)

basfo··on J G A Pocock's "Machiavellian Moment"
With that argument, fascist regimes would be pretty close to the truth, since they were criticized by both liberal democracies and communist countries.

Also, you’re assuming there are always only two positions on a given topic. I know it might look that way on Twitter—most people today seem weaponized to pick one side or the other—but real social studies are far more nuanced than that.

The fact that everyone criticizes you only means that whatever you say doesn’t align with their narrative, not that you’re close to the truth.

basfo··on Ask HN: How do some software engineers "do it all"?
This might seem like a strange example, but there was a very popular soccer coach in the 1980s. He led the Argentina national team to victory in the 1986 World Cup. His name was Carlos Bilardo, and he was an incredibly successful, world-class coach.

Later in life, when someone showed him the World Cup trophy, he started crying. He said, "I gave everything for that trophy—my family, my personal life. I forgot to live."

Sometimes, what appears to be success from the outside hides a deep obsession and significant gaps in personal care and mental health.

It’s okay not to be number one sometimes, there is a huge price to pay that not everyone sees, and nobody shows.

basfo··on Ask HN: Is the Golang ecosystem health declining?
I know a popular golang repo, link below ;) https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes
basfo··on Xbox console sales continue to crater with 42% revenue drop
I think the issue is that consoles are now just storefronts for a digital platform. Xbox lost the PS4 generation, where most people stopped buying physical games and started purchasing digital games.

If you have your entire collection of games on PS4 (or Steam, or Xbox), moving to a different ecosystem is a pain. Even if the console itself is cheap and they give away games, once you have everything in one place, there is little incentive to move away from your console of choice on the next generation. You have to differentiate a lot of your competition, (as nintendo does) but an xbox is basically the same as a ps5, just with 20 or so different games (exclusives).

That wasn't the case in the past. With physical games, I usually had more than one console, and depending on the price, performance, or other factors, I would choose one platform or another.

That's why I think they want to push PC and even TV gaming. Getting people into their ecosystem is the tricky part.

The console as hardware is actually great, probably better than the PS5, and really cheap for such a powerful computer.

basfo··on Xbox console sales continue to crater with 42% revenue drop
Also you have the Xbox one (original vcr model with kinect) Xbox one S, and Xbox One X.

Then on the "Series" line you have Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X.

So many people can think "X" or "S" as being a "Series", something of a kind, and confusing a "xbox one X" with a "xbox series X". - You have a series X? oh yeah, i have the xbox one X.

Also the looks of the xbox one S and the xbox series S is quite similar...

Not sure why didn't called xbox 2022 pro and slim or something.

And it's a shame, i have an xbox series x and is actually a great product.

basfo··on A 378-day Mars simulation changed this Canadian scientist's outlook on life
> "You are rolling out of your room and you are at work," she said.

I know that feeling.

basfo··on Don't microservice, do module
> Why would you ever want to allocate more resources to one particular part? It’s not like the other parts will eat up the extra resources. If your system needs more RAM, it needs more RAM. Why would you care about which part needs more RAM?

Looks like resource isolation and avoiding a non performant piece of code to bring your whole system down is overrated.

Just scale vertically! Get a bigger instance!

basfo··on The biggest root cause of crime is fatherlessness
Because correlation does not imply causation.
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