DFHippie

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by DFHippie 8y ago
> There is no unit of English syntax which (i) behaves like a verb and (ii) has a distinct future form. This seems like an arbitrary and peculiar way to define tense specifically to exclude periphrastic languages like English. If these a
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by DFHippie 8y ago
If depression were so easy to treat it would hardly qualify as a mental illness. I think the purpose of the pleasant, relaxed setting was more to ensure the psilocybin had positive rather than negative effects on the participants. It's
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by DFHippie 8y ago
British English seems to be more forgiving about comma splices than American English. One certainly sees them much more frequently in British English.
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by DFHippie 8y ago
You can ignore any villainy by this formula. "All leaders are villains, so I'm turning my attention elsewhere." As Edmund Burke or someone said, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothi
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by DFHippie 8y ago
The Jains are discussed early in the Atlantic article under discussion.
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by DFHippie 8y ago
I don't think the article is prescribing a particular moral position. It is saying, though, if you believe your choices are predicated on animals not being conscious, and therefore suffering no harm whatever your actions, perhaps your
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by DFHippie 8y ago
I think you get the point. We have an existence proof that people don't need cars to live in cities. We don't need everything in the past to have been better than everything in the present for the logic to work. (People aren'
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by DFHippie 8y ago
>She can't suggest taxing profits/capital gains/inheritance/trust funds of course, because then she'd make enemies of actually powerful people. Maybe you're right, but I very much doubt it. I'm at work,
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by DFHippie 8y ago
I stopped reading after this: >I also understand that government is bloated and there are many places where we could cut spending to fund these new innovative programs that could help counter the immoral wealth imbalance we have in our c
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by DFHippie 8y ago
Each loophole has a base, people who care deeply about it. Against this is a vast population that doesn't even know it exists. Closing each loophole is an enormous political battle with very little payoff in tax revenue. If you add a n
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by DFHippie 8y ago
I don't see where we disagree.
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by DFHippie 8y ago
The motivation is the money, not the rate of taxation on your income above a certain threshold. People still work to be somewhat richer even if there's a headwind. History and logic demonstrate this. The point at which the rich say &qu
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by DFHippie 8y ago
No one would ever pay 70% tax, even without the accountants and advisors, because 70% would be the top marginal rate. Their first $10M would be taxed at a lower rate.
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by DFHippie 8y ago
Don't all the Starks say that? Those are their "words".
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by DFHippie 8y ago
>There's no clear rhyme or reason to the use of sigils and keywords. You have trouble with the use of sigils in Ruby? That seems like an odd complaint. I would have expected you to complain more about MINWAN.
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by DFHippie 8y ago
I think you misunderstood the comment. The guy who's shooting dogs for the ATF isn't who's meant by "person running the government". It's the elected/appointed officials who hate government. These don&#x27
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by DFHippie 8y ago
English is pretty casual about borrowing other languages' plural forms, and Latin second declension nominatives -- alumnus/alumni, millenium/millenia -- are probably the most familiar non-English singular/plural pairs to
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by DFHippie 8y ago
>This seems like an awful way for one of the highest-tax states in the country to welcome remote workers. Yes, if your top metric for quality of life is income tax rate, Vermont is not the state for you.
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by DFHippie 8y ago
That's "gwasanaethau" -- services, amenities for motorists. Maybe you could get a "paned o de", a cup of tea.
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by DFHippie 8y ago
I don't understand the question.
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It's notable that when the U.S. tries to help install democracy in other countries they don't attempt to install their own presidential system. Among its flaws is that it is exceedingly difficult to amend. It's fun but not he
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by DFHippie 8y ago
So.... you're opposed to democracy if neighbors of its advocates are impure? Or was the mayor one of the advocates spreading it abroad? Maybe they shouldn't have convicted him in order to keep their record clean? I'm having t
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by DFHippie 8y ago
I know no one else cares, and this isn't really my nit to pick, but "araf" is an adjective meaning "slow", not a verb, so you can't really "can" it at all.
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by DFHippie 8y ago
s/oxytocin/oxycontin/
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by DFHippie 8y ago
I've been in the hospital without insurance. They bill you for gratuitous stuff regardless of whether you have insurance. They don't mention that there will be a bill when they ask if you want your newborn's hearing checked o
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by DFHippie 8y ago
Using electronic media to influence opinion isn't all "big data". Obama didn't use massive deception, for one thing. Putin's program involved lots of people pretending to be people they weren't to say things th
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by DFHippie 8y ago
I think they only pointed out that he improves relative to his opponent.
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by DFHippie 8y ago
Named captures means you don't have to count parentheses to figure out which group you want. I don't know whether it qualifies as cosmetic, but it sure is nice.
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by DFHippie 8y ago
Perl6 attempts this: https://docs.perl6.org/language/regexes I'm not sure so much innovation in syntax is going to help adoption, but the aim was to make the syntax less code-golf-y and more readable.
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by DFHippie 8y ago
Another way to write more readable Rust regexen: https://crates.io/crates/pidgin (I'm the author.)

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