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by Vaskivo 8y ago
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself. Areopagitica ~ John Milton (slightly edited)
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by Vaskivo 8y ago
I believe that is correct. First link from searching "why kids like unboxing videos": https://www.mother.ly/parenting/science-explains-why-your-ki...
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by Vaskivo 8y ago
[Off Topic] I absolutely LOVE Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. I've been learning and reading about philosophy and this website as been a good resource. They have it organized by people and thematic. It is very accessible in writin
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by Vaskivo 8y ago
Thank you for this.
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What about sports? Radical sports? Travelling? Driving a car? Should I stop doing that because it may hurt or kill me and, by consequence, hurt people who care about me? Caring about a person comes with the risk of being hurt. I think it&#x
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by Vaskivo 8y ago
Sure. But those tool are estabilished (given the constrains of language that we use to formulate them and communicate them). I'm finding it hard to see how you adopt such a way of thinking in a macro level. Example: Person A says to me
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Ok. So, even if everybody says "the universe exists", that doesn't it exists because not everybody _mean_ the same thing by saying those words, correct? I can see the above. And that the assumptions and problems in languages
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by Vaskivo 8y ago
> But "the universe is" is just tautological I.e it doesn't help you understand the universe any better... So what matters is not what something _is_ but what something _means_? And I used that tautology because a tautolog
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> Well, first of all, how do you know I posted it? What does it mean to post something? How does what I posted manifest itself in reality if you aren't there to interpret my post. I feel like you are not questioning the message but
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by Vaskivo 8y ago
“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desi
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by Vaskivo 8y ago
I grew up with videogames. My whole life, my mais sources of entertainment were books and video games. I find that whant attracts me to them is the control I have of my experience. Specially the pacing. With books and game I can take a brea
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How much of it is "just perception" and not actually true? The mainstream and social media can amplify negative sentiments, which propagate between people. This leads to a bad assessment of reality.
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by Vaskivo 9y ago
> There is no particularly good reason for it I'd argue that that is best time we're better at everything. As living beings, our lives are optimized to produce offspring. Therefore our body and mind will be at its peak at the s
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by Vaskivo 9y ago
Grave of the Fireflies is a movie I can't think of watching again. Extremely beautiful but also emotionally exhausting. I really enjoyed Only Yesterday. But I tend to like "slice of life" stuff.
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by Vaskivo 9y ago
And then we will have artificial problems, inconsistencies and imperfections. There will always be capitalization and fabrication on what is popular and perceived to be "good". "Reality" TV is a thing :)
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by Vaskivo 9y ago
Cool. One of the sci-fi things I really want to see is NEal Sephenson's Ractives, from The Diamond Age: A term (short for "interactive") used by Neal Stephenson to describe a form of elite interactive entertainment, in which
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by Vaskivo 9y ago
[OFF TOPIC] Am I the only one who thinks Black Mirror is not that good? I've seen around five episodes and the only one I genuinely thought to be good was the very first one. 1 - The technology is extremely vague. There is no way to re
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by Vaskivo 9y ago
I think that it is because some think that the "social justice warriors" and the "PC crowd" hold contradictory views. While the (less extreme) homophobes and racist hold a "I don't like you, please go away. An
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by Vaskivo 9y ago
> I consider friendship to be an endorsement of the other person. In that case I have no friends. Nor I believe I'll ever have. All of my friends have some conflicting opinions. Not just with me but between all of us. I don't t
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by Vaskivo 9y ago
But can't you own cryptocurrencies anonymously? How are the banks going to enforce this rule?
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by Vaskivo 9y ago
But... then aren't you closing yourself into your own filter bubble? (It highly depends on your purpose. Do you want more movies/books like the ones you like? Or do you want to read great critique?)
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by Vaskivo 9y ago
I also like work. It's just that five days a week, I have to stop working and go to my job :)
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by Vaskivo 9y ago
I think it is a bit more complex than that. I think words (or opinions or ideas or whatever you want to call it) don't hurt people. People are hurt by words. By this I mean that if and how much a person is hurt by a specific set of wor
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by Vaskivo 9y ago
> If I had a penny for every notetaking app, I'd invest that money in another notetaking app. I commented about that a few days ago: > It's funny. Every week there is a new note-taking app being shown in HN. (and the usual g
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Quinto: Resurrecting an Abandoned Board Game(blog.jrheard.com)
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It's funny. Every week there is a new note-taking app being shown in HN. (and the usual guy raving about org.mode :) ) Many of them are similar but not equal. It really shows that there is a need for these apps but the problems they ar
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by Vaskivo 9y ago
Arrival is a great movie that I didn't enjoy. I think it's because it's a drama with a bit of sci-fi. And the movie explains "the thing" way too much. I felt it thought I was stupid.
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The movie has an awesome premise, and I enjoyed most of it. But those two twists near the end made me really dislike the movie.
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The problem with that is that the real gems are, many times, in the comments. But parsing through that is way harder and more time consuming.
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by Vaskivo 9y ago
Although a different article, it discusses the same event: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15653353 (And am I the only one hating this headline?)

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