cynicalkane

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by cynicalkane 11mo ago
I read this good breakdown on 'The Mother Tongue' on everything2 sometime ago: https://everything2.com/title/The+Mother+Tongue%253A+English...
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by cynicalkane 1y ago
It's interesting that all these positions are called "common", but the actual board position might happen zero to one times in a lifetime, and I suspect it's usually zero times. I noticed something similar when I played
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by cynicalkane 1y ago
I can't remember where I read or saw this, but it struck me as the obvious key difference: In aviation, procedures and practices are developed in concert with experts in aviation maintenance, aviation engineering, various parts of syst
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by cynicalkane 1y ago
This is typical of Covid conspiracy theorists, or conspiracy theorists of any sort: one or two papers on one side prove something, but an overwhelming mountain of evidence on the other side does not prove something. The theorist makes no ex
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by cynicalkane 1y ago
Excessive inflation is destructive but it requires a better explanation than that. In a vacuum, if we all have 3-10% more money and things are 3-10% more expensive, we're not poorer unless there are secondary effects that make us poore
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by cynicalkane 1y ago
> They seemed very welcoming, sincere, and were kind and patient even when I was basically asserting that several of their beliefs were dumb I don't think LessWrong is a cult (though certainly some of their offshoots are) but it&#x2
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by cynicalkane 1y ago
Are you claiming the New York Times is more likely than a comparable newspaper to fabricate random suggestions about astronauts? This is something they are "known to do"? If you actually read the article, they include a direct lin
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by cynicalkane 1y ago
When I write in Haskell, I find myself mentally glossing the returned monadic state, along the lines of, "Oh, an M x is just an x that does monady stuff to get the x". This becomes natural once you get the hang of do-notation and
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by cynicalkane 1y ago
...Sorry, that was unclear. Monad-as-monoids being associative corresponds to certain categorical diagrams being commutative. It's the concept of categorical commutativity that's what's useful. A collection of types and funct
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by cynicalkane 1y ago
What helped me grok the mathematical rigor is: If you have a series of monad operations that exist purely in monad world -- in Haskell, if your expression is parametric over the type of the monad -- you shouldn't have to worry about ho
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by cynicalkane 1y ago
Unironically yes. The reason people want taxes on profits is they think large, powerful companies are a threat... but if you think that, why tax money that large, powerful companies don't waste? The other reason is to tax the rich, b
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by cynicalkane 1y ago
This isn't always true. Stimulants can -- for a subpopulation, at least -- meaningfully improve focus in ADHD individuals in long-term measurable ways and low risk of side effects. This contrasts starkly to ordinary people, who will qu
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by cynicalkane 1y ago
Mozart wrote several fugues considered very good, the most famous of which is the Kyrie from his Requiem, which is a double fugue to boot.
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by cynicalkane 1y ago
I think GP is talking about Nick, the book's narrator.
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by cynicalkane 1y ago
You can skip ahead full units by passing a test, and I recommend always doing it if you can. I do 1-2 Duolingo lessons daily, supplemented with 15-30 minutes of real Japanese study. If I can't skip ahead after completing the first &quo
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by cynicalkane 2y ago
Well, one nice property of Japanese is the formal language is perfectly workable as a language. You'll sound a little stilted, but that's rather normal for foreigners. If you spoke English while only sticking to formal grammar rul
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by cynicalkane 2y ago
That was what was happening. In Minnesota, the governer and future Democratic VP candidate, Tim Walz, sent in the national guard to stop it. The paradox of government force, and the need to manage that paradox, has been one of the foundatio
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by cynicalkane 2y ago
It's generally the disadvantaged and poor who get hit for low-level, non-violent stuff.
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by cynicalkane 2y ago
Vienna was an international city; and Mozart and Shickhander were seeking international fame. The Magic Flute was a relatively low-brow 'singspiel' in the native language but its creators wanted foreigners to be able to see it and
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by cynicalkane 2y ago
Those lines are from a song, and a significant part of the audience at the time wouldn't be listening in their native language; it's not really a fair comparison.
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by cynicalkane 2y ago
> you get described as a “right wing conspiracy theorist”... I firmly believe that the success of these movements was engineered on purpose by your local spy master I think I figured out why you're called a conspiracy theorist. Acad
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by cynicalkane 2y ago
Try The Rice Factory, a rice importer in New York state. They import prize rice from Japan, in refrigerated containers. It's a clear step up in quality from anything grown in California.
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by cynicalkane 2y ago
Yes. The imaginary apple doesn't seem fully comparable to a real apple unless I'm in a very focused and compelling daydream, and even then real but not real at the same time, if that makes sense. But even now if I was to conjure
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by cynicalkane 2y ago
This is a smug non-reply to the parent post. People with imagination might not always “replace” vision, but they can summon images to the mind’s eye other than complete darkness. And personally, I feel I can obscure the world around me if f
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by cynicalkane 2y ago
There's a puzzle in philosophy, where a philosopher points to a bear and says, "That's a bear". Except it's only a life-size cardboard cutout of a bear. But behind the cutout is a real bear. Is the philosopher speak
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by cynicalkane 2y ago
No, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_and_the_English_Langu... is a good essay on the use of propaganda to destroy language, and the natural process with which it's bought into.
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by cynicalkane 2y ago
It's worth noting that `dang` is one of the people who noted the evolution happening.
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by cynicalkane 2y ago
This point of view is not supported by anthropological evidence. I'll give an example. In the 90s and 00s, there was a wave of Marxist attempts to cancel anthropologists who had reported on the competition for dominance, competition fo
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by cynicalkane 2y ago
What always struck me about Chomskyists is that they chose a notion of interpretable model that required unrealistic amounts of working interpretation. So Chomsky grammars have significant polynomial memory and computational costs for gramm
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by cynicalkane 2y ago
This link is about a Chinese company that isn't Nestlé and only affected Nestlé products in trace amounts.

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