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We Want Our 4 Causes Back!

We Want Our 4 Causes Back!

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Aristotle, in his Physics argued that there are four causes behind everything that exists.
These causes answer the question of “How” or “Why” something is the way it is.

The Material CauseThe material from which something is made.
E.g. the stone of a statue.The Efficient CauseThe external force that causes something to be made.
E.g. the artisan and his tools who make a statue.The Formal CauseThe f … ⌘ Read more

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Wanna learn LaTeX?

Wanna learn LaTeX? What is LaTeX?

Basically, it’s how big boys write and format documents.
Every public brief, scientific article, book, cryptocurrency whitepaper or even outline written by people who know what they’re doing is written in LaTeX.

If you want to see examples of documents made with LaTeX, you can see my Master’s thesis here or another paper here that shows some diagrams and other features you can have in LaTe … ⌘ Read more

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Veganism is the Pinnacle of Bugmanism

“Veganism is the Pinnacle of Bugmanism”

by Luke Smith

People have quoted me as saying that.
I forget where it comes from, probably a livestream, but I definitely stand by it.
Since a lot of people labor under the assumption that my channel is about “Linux,” I’ve accumulated a lot of subscribers that are variously nerds, furries, degenerates, coomers, libertarians, communists, trannies and among them are vegans.
Some of them (I assume) are go … ⌘ Read more

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Why it’s bad to have a high GDP

Why it’s bad to have a high GDP

by Luke Smith, originally a blog post in November 2018, rewritten for this website.

To put it in other words…

The common way of looking at Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is that it’s a metric of economic success: more GDP is more wealth.
Wealth is good. “Poverty” (meaning low per capita GDP) is bad.
Nowadays, pretty much everyone talks about “economics” like this as if this truism was scribbled on the … ⌘ Read more

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Despite the authors best attempts, the truth peeks out in the article: merit is often a necessary, but not sufficient cause for success. Not sufficient, particularly, for extraordinary success. A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you | Hacker News

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