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by asdflkj 18y ago
OK, define "timeless" that way. It still doesn't follow that these things are worth reading. Being first doesn't make you best. Figuring out what's best is a very hard problem, of course, but it's a problem worth trying to solve, rather tha
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by asdflkj 18y ago
If you're wondering whether to read this, or if the article is as banal as the headline suggests: it's the latter.
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Things are deemed "timeless" when people keep reading them over the generations. And your argument for why they should read them in the first place is that they're "timeless". That's circular. As for "primary source", that's if you treat id
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Why don't you buy it from the bookstore you're already in?
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Wide columns make it hard to read, and too many highlighted words and bullet lists make it feel like an infomercial. He seems to assume that his reader is an ADHD-addled Digg user incapable of reading normal text. As someone who is capable,
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by asdflkj 18y ago
So why not use email? If some aspect of being a community (at least in your conception of it) hinders the exchange of interesting information, then maybe it's not worth having.
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Erdos was a drug user, not a drug addict. He famously quit drugs for a month just to show that he was not an addict. And though he was technically homeless, he was not what most people imagine when they hear this word. He merely preferred t
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by asdflkj 18y ago
It's easy to feel righteous and indignant and shake our fists when the people behind our favourite startup sell up earlier than we wanted them to. If the notion of feeling righteous and indignant about that perplexes you, you might have j
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by asdflkj 18y ago
But do you doubt for a moment that Longhorn will provide more improvements from Windows XP than desktop Linux will gain during the same period? Wouldn't have been an unreasonable doubt, in retrospect.
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Your response does not address the passage you quoted. First of all, the author didn't ask them what made them successful. The quote has facts about their lives, not their thoughts on what made them successful. Second of all, the author doe
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by asdflkj 18y ago
What about business who have won their monopoly not by the strength of outstanding execution and innovation? Should they be left alone? Are you saying that all anti-monopoly/oligopoly regulation is bad? If so, you need more to back this u
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by asdflkj 18y ago
The result might be the opposite of what those well-intentioned people want. If the alternative view is obviously lame and impotent, it only reinforces the mainstream. This is a well-known trick in politics. When Michael Moore argued for gu
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Probably because energy used for cooling is only a fraction of total energy used, so other considerations take precedence.
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by asdflkj 18y ago
In this case, it would be a pretty safe bet. The oil industry was owned by even more sinister plutocrats before it was "nationalized" by the current ones. The reason you're hearing so much more about this now is that the current plutocrats
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by asdflkj 18y ago
I've calmed down a bit now, so I don't want to belabor it any more. It seemed to me that you originally used the phrase "physical attributes" to refer to what most people would mean by it--height, weight, body fat ratio, skin color, bone de
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by asdflkj 18y ago
According to you, "changes in the wiring of the brain" are "based on physical differences". Is difference of opinion anything other than a difference in the wiring of the brain? If you don't believe in the supernatural, then the answer is n
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by asdflkj 18y ago
With that reasoning, all human attributes are physical, so putting "physical" before "attribute" was redundant. But of course, it wasn't redundant--it had a clear message, and a different one from what you're now making it out to be. This a
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by asdflkj 18y ago
It's not just a physical attribute. It's a social and psychological attribute. Whether or not it's relevant for this site is a different issue, but summing it up as a physical attribute is an outright PC falsehood.
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Perhaps it also affects your behavior in strange ways.
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by asdflkj 18y ago
So what? Few heroin addicts would reject a dose of heroin, but that doesn't prevent them from rationally knowing that it's not doing them any good. Arguably, our attitude toward life is like that of an addict. I also think it's BS, FWIW, bu
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Yeah. NPR? More like PR.
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by asdflkj 18y ago
You're mainly talking about the modern USA, not the modern West. And USA happens to be the most Christian of Western nations. In other Western countries, too, the state religion is roughly proportional to Christianity. UK, for example, is m
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Do you know where to find that data?
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by asdflkj 18y ago
That's just, like, your opinion, dude. And the ferocity with which you put it forth, in absence of any argument to support it, only emphasizes that.
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by asdflkj 18y ago
That turns a true statement into a false statement.
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Happiness is not selected for or against any more than satiety is. You're using first-order reasoning on a second-order trait.
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by asdflkj 18y ago
> Bipartite graph algorithms and topological manifolds are not as important as Gardasil and alternative energy. That's not so obviously true that you can just state it as fact.
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by asdflkj 18y ago
So what? That's part of what humor is. All jokes hinge on the idea that at least one person doesn't get it, even if it's a character in the joke itself.
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by asdflkj 18y ago
This does not gratify one's intellectual curiosty. In fact, the majority of articles that make it to the front page don't, and from now on I'll be posting this in reply to each of them.
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by asdflkj 18y ago
I think the face-to-face rule is a bad one. Even PG in his Things You Can't Say concludes that you shouldn't say certain things to anyone but close friends, valuable though these ideas may be. Of coure, that only applies face-to-face. If yo

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