From: edgar@openmail.cc
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: General advice beyond Org
Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 07:08:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cbffe80b89ed1e8ee87bc18c12edac65@openmail.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lgc7m5em.fsf@mbork.pl>
On 2018-05-26 04:01, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> On 2018-05-23, at 06:04, edgar@openmail.cc wrote:
>
>>> It helps to develop a rational attitude to morality: you do not have
>>> influence on everything, not even all the results of your actions,
>>> and
>>> hence you do not bear responsibility for what you don't influence.
>>> (Of
>>> course, that doesn't mean you don't bear any responsibility for what
>>> you
>>> _do_ influence.)
>>
>> Do you mean pragmatic or short-sighted by rational? I don't think that
>> philosophers are necessarily irrational :) (to name a few).
>
> I mean neither. By "rational" I mean "guided by reason".
I think that we are going to have a conversation on a delightful caffe
somewhere in the middle of Venice to discuss about this, because it's
still not clear to me. :)
> Maybe we tend to forget what a "commercial company" is. On the one
> hand, it is (by definition) a means to make money. If it doesn't make
> money, it does not fulfil its primary purpose, and this means its
> broken, and should be either fixed or abandoned. On the other hand, it
> should not be just the instrument of greediness of the owner(s). They
> in turn are people, and their primary purpose is completely different.
This conversation is going to be an interestingly long one indeed.
> If you identify yourself too much with any kind of commercial endeavor,
> it is a sign of very serious problems.
> I taught Emacs to a friend, whom I sometimes show cool tricks. Once
> I showed him multiple cursors, which required some choreography from my
> fingers, but I thought it was quite impressive. Then he nodded and
> asked "I'm wondering what were you doing with your feet."
LOL!
>
> Best,
>
> --
> Marcin Borkowski
> http://mbork.pl
I hope to actually meet you one of these days :) .
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2018-05-23 4:04 ` General advice beyond Org edgar
2018-05-26 4:01 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-26 7:08 ` edgar [this message]
2018-05-23 4:11 ` Exporting ODT to Org [was Re: General advice beyond Org] edgar
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2018-05-23 4:23 ` General advice beyond Org edgar
2018-05-23 4:27 ` edgar
2018-05-23 4:30 ` edgar
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2018-05-23 4:15 ` edgar
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2018-05-23 3:44 ` edgar
2018-05-23 19:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-26 4:14 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-26 19:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-27 6:54 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2018-05-27 17:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-27 18:19 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2018-05-28 19:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-31 9:50 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
[not found] ` <mailman.1113.1528121846.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-06-04 14:46 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-06-04 14:47 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-05-27 18:32 ` edgar
2018-05-23 3:50 ` edgar
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2018-05-20 19:29 ` edgar
2018-05-21 3:39 ` Marcin Borkowski
[not found] ` <mailman.148.1526874026.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-05-21 16:26 ` James K. Lowden
2018-05-21 18:07 ` Bob Newell
2018-05-21 19:23 ` Marcin Borkowski
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2018-05-18 23:27 ` Gene
2018-05-19 7:06 ` tomas
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2018-05-27 1:02 ` Gene
2018-05-27 7:27 ` tomas
2018-05-19 22:31 ` James K. Lowden
[not found] <mailman.127.1526629283.1290.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-05-18 8:41 ` edgar
2018-05-21 20:10 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-05-22 7:10 ` tomas
2018-05-22 16:58 ` Bob Newell
2018-05-22 18:05 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-05-22 19:15 ` tomas
2018-05-18 0:28 edgar
2018-05-18 1:52 ` Peter Neilson
2018-05-18 7:12 ` S. Champailler
2018-05-18 8:10 ` edgar
2018-05-18 8:20 ` tomas
2018-05-18 11:44 ` Diego Zamboni
2018-05-18 14:21 ` Aaron Ecay
2018-05-18 22:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-18 8:15 ` tomas
2018-05-18 10:54 ` Yuri Khan
2018-05-18 11:10 ` S. Champailler
2018-05-18 13:50 ` Kevin Buchs
2018-05-18 15:31 ` tomas
2018-05-18 16:19 ` Alan E. Davis
2018-05-18 16:22 ` Alan E. Davis
2018-05-18 16:32 ` Jason Yamada-Hanff
2018-05-18 19:09 ` Devin Prater
2018-05-18 13:50 ` hymie!
2018-05-19 7:18 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-18 19:57 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-05-19 7:17 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-20 1:24 ` Samuel Wales
2018-05-20 8:08 ` tomas
2018-06-05 19:52 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-06-06 8:58 ` Marco
2018-06-15 16:24 ` Grant Rettke
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