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by dgut 9y ago
You claim that. Yet none of the most mentally demanding tasks were done by philosophers. Today philosophy is mostly meaningless intellectual posturing. In the past, it was the act of thinking without applying the scientific method. As Feynm
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by dgut 9y ago
This is a claim that is constantly repeated in linguistics but that makes little sense. It would be very odd if the brain needed something as ineffective as _language_ to think. Language is itself a result of our actual ability to think. Mo
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by dgut 9y ago
That PhD means "Doctor of Philosophy" is just an artifact of the fact that all doctoral degrees were once subcategories of "Philosophy". Philosophy today is pretty useless.
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by dgut 9y ago
1) I don't know if that's a wise decision. To me, BS serves as a "base", my custom classes extend and borrow from BS and everything is knitted together. 2) BS 4 added a ton of helper classes, to the point where I find my
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by dgut 9y ago
I've been using BS 4 Alpha for a while now, this is great news. A million thanks to mdo and the rest of the team.
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by dgut 9y ago
Why the downvotes? He is right. The reason Germany, England, and France (Spain didn't catch up because they had no reason to as a negative consequence of their enormous wealth at the time) excelled to such extent that this particular p
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by dgut 9y ago
Did these guys have any actual impact on society? Besides Hegel's mysticism that later served as a foundation for Marx (and we all know that didn't turn out well), what exactly did we gain from the philosophy of that era? It appea
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by dgut 9y ago
For some, AI is just another buzzword. :/
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by dgut 9y ago
Textual 6 supports inline images and chat history.
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by dgut 9y ago
What app does save people 30 seconds? Perhaps they didn't use the app before, and now it's wasting the time of thousands? At the very least the lady emptying the trash keeps the place hygienic, reducing the spread of diseases.
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by dgut 9y ago
As with everything else, I suspect learning more languages will just make you good at just that, learning more languages.
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by dgut 9y ago
The EU? You mean NL, Germany, and Scandinavia, anything south for that and even English is rare. Though, even in those countries, any program to learn any other language than English is too lazy, besides people seeing little value and getti
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by dgut 9y ago
My understanding of Dutch culinary customs is that they eat mostly food that is "kant en klaar", either precooked or neatly organized to be quickly prepared (fixed portions). Even meat tends to come with a bag of spices and a manu
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by dgut 9y ago
Where are you based? I'm moving to Madrid with my fam soon and looking to making some friends in the "community".
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Do they? Care to elaborate?
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by dgut 9y ago
You get to spend more time with your son. In a country with a terrible maternity and paternity leave policy, it's morally right to do whatever possible to spend more time with one's children. You are doing a great service to the c
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by dgut 9y ago
Cars are a thing of the past. I'm in Leiden, NL right now, and "wow" what a refreshing thing to be surrounded by bikes instead of cars. It feels human, it's futuristic and beautiful.
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by dgut 9y ago
"We don't support Trump for his weaknesses but for his strengths." - Thiel at the RNC. It was a pragmatic choice. Thiel is a libertarian.
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by dgut 9y ago
The "more people die in car accidents" is a moot argument. Terrorism hits a nerve car accidents or w/e can't. Here is the thing: When driving a car, you have some level of control of your destinity. Take precaution, use
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by dgut 9y ago
This ignores the detail that most terrorist plots today (in Europe that is) are prevented by a more sophisticated police (and no, I'm not referring to mass surveillance) and increasing security expenses. Remove that, and we would proba
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by dgut 9y ago
Finally, a startup post on HN. Thank you.
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by dgut 10y ago
Absolutely. I'm so happy with Sketch some mental gymnastics are necessary to comfortably use any product trying to snatch the name.
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by dgut 10y ago
Thanks for the work you've put into Store.js.
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by dgut 10y ago
Point is, the media has done a terrible job, misguided the people, and deserve _no sympathy_. It failed to give a honest account of Cuba [1], Vietnam [2], Iraq [3], Syria [4] (Nicaragua, Guatemala, and so on). In fact, it lied about it. Tha
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by dgut 10y ago
I'm sure there are many who agree with your comment, we are simply less common. Too many keep quiet. In response to both the topic in hand and HN users down-voting w/e they disagree: "They have shut up all their fools in a ho
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by dgut 10y ago
Maybe. It's ancient wisdom one should only eat when hungry. :)
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Thiel wrote a book 22 years ago under his college years. So what? He later retreated that position and apologized. I consider it a good thing when people discuss sensitive topics. It's pointless to discuss what Thiel said or not about
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by dgut 10y ago
I pointed out these perks in response to some comments in this thread claiming Thiel is anti LGBT, racist and sexist. The company profile is in fact very diverse [1]. [1] https://www.palantir.com/diversity/
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by dgut 10y ago
So, a former Gawker Media writer decides to point out the US goverment is using Thiel's data analysis and visualization company and you all (nearly all of you) jump on the hate-train. You people are starting to act like a quasi-religio
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by dgut 10y ago
I don't think there's much point in guessing.

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