derleth

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by derleth 13y ago
> Niether is a word. Use real words when you write. Aside from the glaring spelling error, this betrays a complete linguistic ignorance coupled with utter historical illiteracy. In short: Every new word, or semantic shift applied to an e
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by derleth 13y ago
It's the Lisp Problem: If you call your new language by the same name as an existing one, even if you add qualifiers (such as Common Lisp or similar), people will think it's exactly the same and that no progress has been made. OTO
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by derleth 13y ago
> Well, I won't read that version, I'll only read the "real" one. You won't know which is which unless you already know enough to not need to look it up in a general reference such as Wikipedia. That's the p
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by derleth 13y ago
You're not even trying, are you?
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by derleth 13y ago
Nature disagrees, but of course you know better.
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by derleth 13y ago
> It only takes a couple of cranks to keep the biases in The journal Nature disagrees.
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by derleth 13y ago
> Delete the garbage Which is still deletionism.
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by derleth 13y ago
> I still get nuclear physics in "Nuclear Physics" article, amn't I? Not at the same level of quality, because they also won't be deleting the nonsense crank pseudo-science version of "Nuclear Physics" which would confuse you terribly.
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by derleth 13y ago
> If editing is "free", so too is slander and misinformation. Edrogan said much the same thing about Twitter.
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by derleth 13y ago
Deletionism is the only reason Wikipedia remains using. Without deletions, it would have sunk into the world of spam-trap and personal blog platform long ago.
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by derleth 13y ago
> I think it's pretty naive to think that editorialization hasn't happened in some flavor throughout the history of the encyclopedia, as far back as Diderot. Everyone has a bias. That much is taken for granted, right? Now, the questions
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by derleth 13y ago
> I never understood why all the paranoia with pedo... Because there's no punishment for being harder on pedophilia than your opponent is, and frequently there is a reward. The safest thing is to avoid the issue entirely, but when it co
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by derleth 13y ago
Moreover, the only candidates who do take a stand as being of a specific faith are doing it to appeal to voters who largely fit the Young Earth Creationist/The Bible Is Literally True In Every Word mold, so that's the faith they profess.
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by derleth 13y ago
I think the author should warn people "If you're a big enough asshole, I will make your website look amusingly awful and submit it to Reddit and Hacker News." Making someone look like a complete idiot in public can be a powerful disincentiv
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by derleth 13y ago
Are pen pals "virtual friends"?
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by derleth 13y ago
Let's bash your head in. Would that be wrong? Who's to decide? You? You'll have a bashed-in head soon enough; people whose heads no longer contain neural matter don't have opinions. Does your necessarily brief opposition really count?
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by derleth 13y ago
In this case, the facilitator was almost certainly doing the work. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5810711
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by derleth 13y ago
There are few things in the world as useless as a nuclear weapon nobody else knows you have. All of the game theory, and that is where the advantage comes from, derives from the fact people will go to extremes to keep themselves from gett
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by derleth 13y ago
> RMS has thought deeply through these issues for decades, you aren't going to discredit him with 5 minutes of snark. But he has weird personal hygiene. Certainly that invalidates one or two of his moral/philosophical points! /s
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by derleth 13y ago
If you live in the future, you'll still need to have someone whose career may be on the line if they get a diagnosis far enough wrong, so some form of human oversight of the diagnosis process is still inevitable; therefore, make it possible
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by derleth 13y ago
There was an IE for UNIX back in the 1990s, which meant Solaris and HP-UX. The last version was IE5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_UNIX And before that, MicroSoft was best known for its BASIC implementation that wound
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by derleth 13y ago
> A poor person in India who has never used the Internet and has probably never heard of the Internet is not in any way affected by people who use the Internet. Anyone in a money economy is deeply affected by the Internet. > No offe
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by derleth 13y ago
But they're still affected by people who do use the Internet.
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by derleth 13y ago
Spoken like someone who's about to get goatse'd: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1011 (No goatse images on the page I directly linked to. It does link to them, but the links are marked.)
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by derleth 13y ago
Because it is taken as axiomatic in some strains of Conservatism (Reactionary, really, but they're pleased to refer to themselves as 'Conservative') that spending tax money on anything other than the military, the police, and the privately-
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by derleth 13y ago
> The French approach to psychiatry is very different to that in the Anglophone world. Which approach works better? Quantitatively, not qualitatively.
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by derleth 13y ago
> the idea of actually spending time learning handwriting strikes me as very silly. It works like this, in the mind of a (bad) educator: 1. I had to do this. 2. I don't do random shit, so it must be important. 3. Therefore, you have to
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by derleth 13y ago
Only if you insist on applying the European spectrum to American politics. The thing to keep in mind, and this is absolutely critical, is that Europeans cannot vote in American elections. Therefore, the center of American politics, where
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by derleth 13y ago
Unless, of course, he "insulted Turkishness" in Turkey or insulted the Holocaust in Germany.
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by derleth 13y ago
The first part is nothing new, and the second part is standard conspiracist pseudo-thought, which is also nothing new.

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