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by disown 6y ago
> The word does indeed seem to be attributable to Whewell I know. I said whewell coined the term. But as I noted, Laura Synder said that the term was coined by Whewell in 1833 in response to coleridge. The point was that whewell coined t
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by disown 6y ago
I like it because it reinforces the need to Ctrl-click links. I never click links, I always ctrl-click it after hovering over a link to check the url first. Also, CTRL and left arrow will return you back to the HN. It's not that big of
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by disown 6y ago
I don't see any attribution supporting the claim that "scientist" was coined for somerville. "1834, a hybrid coined from Latin scientia (see science) by the Rev. William Whewell, English polymath, by analogy with artist,
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by disown 6y ago
According to philosopher/historian Laura Snyder, this claim is not true. The word scientist was coined over a debate on whether "natural philosophers" was accurate/narrow enough of a term to describe what they were doing
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by disown 6y ago
> Beyond being an overzealous fan of the USA (ironically on the grounds that it forces plurality as opposed to radicalism even though recent politics is slowly eroding this arguments). I think her approval of the US had more to do with o
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by disown 6y ago
Stop with the virtue signaling propaganda nonsense. It gets tiresome. What's with "ethnic imprisonment camps"? That's a long way from the "chinazi death camps" from a few months ago. What happened?
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by disown 6y ago
> Remember, no one wins at gambling by picking winners, you need to look for value and find where the bookmakers have miss-priced a team in a match. No. You win by being the bookie or better yet, by not gambling. Sports betting is worse
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by disown 6y ago
> Surely you mean the only levers of political power aside from consent Other than the fact that no nation-state/government was created by consent of "the people", there is a philosophical argument that consent to giving p
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by disown 6y ago
It's worse. It's literally foreign propaganda. I know oliver became a citizen and he loves the mets.
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by disown 6y ago
> He was made into a joke for his climate change documentary He was made into a joke long before that ( lock box ) because he was a joke. And his climate change "documentary" was nonsense. All he did was use his name recognitio
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by disown 6y ago
"crisis". It's been a problem for decades now. It's why online blitz/bullet is so popular. Much harder to cheat on shorter time frames.
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by disown 6y ago
> Yeah, I’m going to need some sources for that. You need a source that millions of vietnamese were murdered? > You have no verifiable War Crimes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%E1%BB%B9_Lai_massacre But of cour
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by disown 6y ago
> Society is misdiagnosing the issue here. I think you are being a bit generous here. It isn't society doing the diagnosing. It's just a group of highly privileged individuals. It's one disinformation entity demanding pri
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by disown 6y ago
No. Principles are there precisely for when the world changes. > dogmatically hold that what one person thought a couple of hundred years ago should be enshrined and never ever be changed lest the sky falls down. You know what's gre
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by disown 6y ago
You are talking about one of the most privileged people on earth. Not to mention the guy caused immense suffering on innocent vietnamese people. The guy certainly deserves no sympathy cause his "suffering" was a result of murderin
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by disown 6y ago
It's a great way to clear your sinuses I hear.
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by disown 6y ago
> Incredibly disappointed. I had never seen such a concerted effort to hide information in the USA. Go read some history. Lincoln shut down hundred of newspapers during the civil war. Or the Red Scare/McCarthyism. The jim crow south
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by disown 6y ago
> Maybe getting rid of professional journalism That is why we are in this mess. Social media was fun before "professional journalism" started getting involved. Think about it. The toxicity on social media is entirely driven by
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by disown 6y ago
> Why are you assuming the poster is a foreigner? "american football". > On a multinational message board like HN, I think referring to it as American Football is entirely appropriate. HN is not a multinational forum. It&#x2
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by disown 6y ago
By that time, the gauls and the visigoths had gotten to be a greater military force than the romans. A few hundred years of battle against the romans had allowed the germanic barbarians to organize and weaponize to parity and beyond. Not to
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by disown 6y ago
> My issue is that high schools and universities serve a purpose to move society forward, and I don't see how an activity that causes brain damage for entertainment qualifies. Well hasn't society moved forward while college foo
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by disown 6y ago
> I think a huge ethical issue is the continued existence of American football I'm always curious why foreigners are so invested in anything american related, especially when they really don't even understand it. > especiall
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by disown 6y ago
> His treatment of Ophelia is dreadful. Laying her death at his feet is an overstatement, but "misogyny, gaslighting and open sexual harassment" isn't. Virtue signaling a fictional character created a couple of hundred yea
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by disown 6y ago
The perfect example being elizabeth holmes/theranos. Getting access to capital is about who you know, not what you know. It's mostly a privileged position but that's the case for most things in life. Whether we like it or not
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by disown 6y ago
Everybody "tampers" with their money supply. And there is no such thing as a "free market". Not in currency, international trade, etc. All markets are controlled and manipulated. It's like every parrots what they he
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by disown 6y ago
> Seattle's reckoning/correction is coming. The city is doing everything in its power to chase money away And yet the skyscrapers and office buildings are still going up. The construction boom hasn't mitigated. Seattle isn
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by disown 6y ago
> While I (as a German) agree that the US imperialism and dominance in high tech is a problem Why is it a problem? > I would not go as low and say the US is on the same level as China Why not? > which is an outright threat to all c
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by disown 6y ago
> Since you're calling 3.77x the population-adjusted rate of WWII combat deaths "mostly normal" This is an example of how statistics can mislead. Why not select the worst 119 days of ww2 and compare it to 119 days of covid
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by disown 6y ago
I've always wondered why we haven't done more of this. Why not put cameras on eagles, jaguars, pythons, etc and see what their lives really are like rather than studying them in captivity mostly.
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by disown 6y ago
> Telling somebody that the Holocaust didn't happen is indubitably an example of free speech. Not only is it an example, it's the best example. Free speech rights exist to protect the most offensive speech. It doesn't exis

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