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Written by Peter Harrison
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Sunday, 24 February 2013 |
Judgement
Is the rich man happy and the poor man sad? No. A rich man can be disturbed by his concern for his wealth. He can be jealous of those even more wealthy. The poor man can be content with what he has. Of course a poor man may be unhappy and a wealthy man happy, but if you ask what makes them happy you find that it isn't the external things of the world, but rather their judgment of them.
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Written by Peter Harrison
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Monday, 18 February 2013 |
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Over the last few years I have been involved with an organisation which promotes reason and science. It has recently established a new branding - Reason New Zealand |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 18 February 2013 )
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Breaking up isn't so hard. |
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Written by Peter Harrison
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Sunday, 06 May 2012 |
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Over the last few weeks I have written a small proof of concept application to test an idea I had around how to break up files in such a way that the resulting "shards" are meaningless, while combined they can be reconstructed into the original. Furthermore, the shard generated from one file can be used as part of another. The end result is a set of shard files each of which contributes to several end user files. Potentially this approach might be used to hide files in order to get them out of repressive regimes. |
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Objective Morals and the Humanist Rationalist Duality |
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Written by Peter Harrison
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Wednesday, 21 March 2012 |
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Sam Harris tries to make a case for objective morals in his book "The Moral Landscape". He tries to establish that morality is not subjective, and that it is possible to know with scientific certainty what is moral and what isn't. How does he achieve this? The entire book rests on a assertion about the underpinnings of morality. He states that the well being of sentient beings is the primary value. From this simple axiom he can deduce whether specific actions are either good or bad for sentient beings like ourselves, and thus what is moral. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 21 March 2012 )
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Internet Documents and UBL2 |
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Written by Peter Harrison
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Thursday, 16 February 2012 |
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Twelve year ago I featured in ComputerWorld describing a project I had started to bring invoices and other business documents to the Internet. Since then UBL2 has been developed by OASIS to provide standard XML business document schemas. However, if you ask who is using these schemas you will hear nothing but crickets. What went wrong? |
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