adamsea

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by adamsea 6y ago
> Were the Greeks that original in some definite way that later stuff is derivative but they aren't? I believe some folks are interested in if Indian thought and philosophy, or other Asian philosophies / schools of thought had
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by adamsea 6y ago
Very good point. And, this algorithm would totally fail in my country! As the U.S. has a wide variety of citizens of various skin tones. Which I'm very happy about : ). Which I think supports what you're saying; not only do algori
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by adamsea 6y ago
I just want to point out a few question-able statements about history made in the article: > Does it ever strike you as just a teeny bit odd that after a brief period where philosophy flourished, from maybe 400 B.C.E. to ~100 C.E., we we
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by adamsea 6y ago
Good question :). Maybe layers? For government agencies, the government could manage procurement. For non-government organizations, realistically, maybe some sort of public-private/foundation partnership, if the NSA is willing to bend
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by adamsea 6y ago
You must be from Europe or something ;)
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by adamsea 6y ago
Let’s do it - I love a good intellectual conversation! Examining what facts we have it’s very clear that the Republican Party has put forth a number of specious lawsuits with no grounds - all of which have been vehemently rejected by ever
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by adamsea 6y ago
Agreed! :)
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by adamsea 6y ago
Cool : ). Yeah I honestly wasn't sure and appreciate your response : ). And I agree. Just for fun I'll throw out Ursula le Guin as one of my favorite science fiction authors because she explores issues of human nature via anthropo
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by adamsea 6y ago
Thank you for such an honest and thoughtful response, and forgive my delay. We probably agree on a lot of politics. I do believe in a national healthcare system (socialized medicine?), because our current approach is so unjust, and because
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by adamsea 6y ago
I can’t tell if you are being serious or sarcastic. FWIW I think all of those things sound interesting and cool. Here’s the abstract from the ‘Saga’s Sorrow’ paper: “This article examines the construction of gender roles in contemporary whi
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by adamsea 6y ago
He’s a great man indeed.
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by adamsea 6y ago
None of what you are saying responds to what the parent poster actually said. You're constructing your own argument and then claiming the other person was arguing what you're arguing, but did a bad job of it.
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by adamsea 6y ago
> It is a politico-religious movement. Well, what isn't? LOL. That and 'cultural marxism' are just scary/meaningful-sounding terms people make up to label and then defame something they don't like. They're t
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by adamsea 6y ago
Also want to add to the parent post that "hermeneutic dialectic hegemonic whiteness" is actually just a bunch of keywords and I doubt a competent academic would use that particular phrase. It's easier for me to imagine, &quot
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by adamsea 6y ago
Thank you! Much appreciated. > I've also found that quantitative or hard-science thinkers are often very good at dealing with uncertainty. One reason being that they have the strongest sense of what true certainty is, and the abilit
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by adamsea 6y ago
I agree with you that it's our money, and, in the same vein, it's also our government : ). So, IMHO one answer to your question is we can engage in activism to motivate our government to change our laws and regulations to prevent
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by adamsea 6y ago
Parent's point was that while those phrases sound like word jumble to some, they actually have very specific and well-understood meanings. Imagine a non-techie person listen to two software engineers talking. Closures, event bubbling,
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by adamsea 6y ago
To be fair there's a ton of hand-waviness on HN about the hot new web framework MongoDB xyz thing. It's not that different, IMHO : ). > PG studied philosophy, often talking about it in a very positive light, so the claim that
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by adamsea 6y ago
tl;dr nerds are honest good and pure (aka earnest) and thus deserving when they achieve success and wealth. Non-nerds are dishonest and impure and maybe even bad.
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by adamsea 6y ago
You're not arguing in good faith and what you're saying is, "I don't want to live in a democracy, I want to live in an authoritarian one-party state." There was no election fraud of any kind and every single one of
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Supreme Court Rejects Texas Suit Seeking to Overturn Election(nytimes.com)
9 points by adamsea 6y ago|11 comments
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by adamsea 6y ago
The order: https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/121120zr_p86... Full text of order: “ The State of Texas’s motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied for lack of standing under Article III o
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Texas Democrat calls Texas Republicans supporting the election lawsuit traitors(nytimes.com)
2 points by adamsea 6y ago|0 comments
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by adamsea 6y ago
What do you yourself believe?
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by adamsea 6y ago
I think that anyone who doesn't believe that the election was legitimate - i.e. that no meaningful fraud occurred - should be banned from the HN community. Their "arguments" are full of shit and are a bunch of pseudo-philosop
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by adamsea 6y ago
I think that anyone who doesn't believe that the election was legitimate - i.e. that no meaningful fraud occurred - should be banned from the HN community. Their "arguments" are full of shit and are a bunch of pseudo-philosop
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by adamsea 6y ago
Dude the courts looked at whatever "evidence" was presented and rejected it. Multiple times. And we've listened to you here. Now fuck off. What you're really saying is that there is election fraud and Biden's win is
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by adamsea 6y ago
I am disagreeing with bullshit and my goal here isn’t mutual understanding but to call out bullshit for what it is. Case in point: Do you yourself believe Joe Biden won the election, and that there was not any meaningful “election fraud” or
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by adamsea 6y ago
Agreed. “The Japanese Bob Ross” clearly implies that the person is Japanese.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Copy or mimic work of people you admire. Don’t try to be “original” (in quotes because when you dig down usually even the most innovative works are heavily inspired by something else or even copy it). Pick one thing and focus on that one th

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