I have a degree in math. I've since moved onto 3D graphics rather than pure math, but I think I was fairly good at it. I can tell you it was damn hard work to get my degree. The only guy in my year whom it all seemed to come easy, I later found out was the son of one of the professors and had been essentially studying for the degree since he was 13.
I intended that as a reference to an XKCD strip[0]. Folks often talk about public goods like scientific research, as if the "real stuff" couldn't possibly happen without private investment. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This must be satire. It's one of the most cryptic, least comprehensible pieces of philosophy ever written. The most brilliant philosophers of his time didn't properly understand it, according to Wittgenstein himself.
Not satire. I have a copy on my desk at work and used it within the last month to explain truth tables (section 4.31) to a developer.
Try looking at it again through the lens of designing a domain specific language. It forms a robust framework for rigid and controlled communications or interactions.
The reason it was supplanted by Philosophical Investigations is that it was overly strict in defining the logical foundations of language and meaning.
It uses common words and often short sentences, which each seems to express something utterly trivial or profoundly deep. It is certainly not accessible, in particular if you have no other background in philosophy.
I'd call myself an ignorant as far as philosophy goes, but I found „Philosophical investigations” much more readable and influential on me than the „Tractatus”.
Nothing by wittgenstein qualifies as "one of the most accessible pieces of philosophy ever written". If you believe this, you probably didn't understand what you were reading. If you want accessible, then I'd start with the pre-socratics.
Well what a mess this comment page is! The Tractatus is certainly not accessible, but the later Wittgenstein easily qualifies as the most accessible philosophy ever written.
Barstool is referenced more than once in the piece, but not directly by name. Deadspin did not fail, it was murdered.
And I know you aren't saying it directly, but this really shouldn't be about The Left and The Right. The problem is about punching up versus punching down.
Those are largely one and the same in the current culture, though. "Progressive rude journalists" like Gawker's use "punching up" and "we're rude only to those who deserve it" as an excuse and shield for shitty epistemology, and as a justification for refusing civil engagement with those they disagree with. It's who they deem to be "up", and their judgment is dictated by their personal and political biases.
"Punching up" in general is a concept unique to modern progressive philosophy, as well. I don't believe that's a concept for the right. I understand the thought behind it, but I think it's a very dangerous and slippery slope.
The fuzzy "up" concept for the modern left is kind of the equivalent of the fuzzy "degenerate" concept for the modern right. They're just labels you use to tar people you disagree with or dislike, and then you use the label as shorthand to merit any kind of judgmental or malicious behavior towards that group.
Also, even when one does agree with their "upness" assessment, it doesn't necessarily have any relation to the nature or deservedness of the criticism. I agree billionaires are powerful, but you can still write hit pieces against billionaires which misrepresent their words and positions, or imply hidden intentions behind their words or actions with no credible evidence.
> Barstool is referenced more than once in the piece
Yes, it's said to be part of the "anti-PC press": The anti-P.C. press certainly delights in titillating its audience, but it always, unfailingly, endorses a completely servile relationship to authority.
As you say, the actual point of the article isn't even about rudeness, it's about standing up to power, or not.
A crawler has two high level options: parse the page, or render the page.
Most of our parser-based crawling is done by Heritrix (crawler.archive.org) and most of our render-based crawling is done by a proxy-based recorder similar to what you theorize (https://github.com/internetarchive/brozzler).
A five minute outage of the point-of-sale system during the lunch rush can easily cost even the smallest of restaurants several hundred dollars.
True, most websites do not have this problem, because most websites do not drive revenue like that. There are plenty of use cases where you need five nines, but only within limited not-24/7 time windows.
