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by dmvdoug 3y ago
> What happens in debate matters for American politics Honestly, it really, really, really does not, and the earnest dead-seriousness of the hand-wringing over it made me look away out of embarrassment. Lord. Hopefully the writer gets
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
> …telling a mod to go outside is one of the most low hanging fruit insults on the internet. That’s funny, because that interpretation wasn’t anywhere on my mental horizon. It’s another example of something that has struck me going bac
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I mean, even somewhat more staid fields like history too comes to trendiness. For about 15 years, there was an emphasis on trying to explain basically everything through the lens of empire. And that made the concept of empire so expansive t
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It doesn’t help that “data colonialism” is nonsensical as a concept but nevertheless sounds sexy and edgy. I mean, everyone (sane) is against colonialism as we now understand that set of practices/beliefs. So now they’re safely and nic
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
“What’s the relevance” was a rhetorical question teeing up the next sentence, not an actual question. Then, after “answering” the rhetorical question I was prompting myself with, you say, “Insults don't show good faith,” as if that’s a
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
> if the article is correct about you, that one thing that does enrage you is being mischaracterized or falsely accused, [then you’re probably going to get angry] Notice my statement was a conditional, premised on TFA being correct about
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
That’s a grackle (GRA-kl), dang is a Gackle (Gack-lee).
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Since there was a snarky(ish??) comment about commenters quoting Socrates, I shall waste no time and jump myself to Aristotle: “Man is by nature a social animal” (Pol. 1253a). But note that that famous translation (“a social animal”) actual
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
This is actually a very good article. It leans a little towards caricature (insofar as it takes the detached perspective on HN of people who seem not to inhabit HN regularly, and so seems more inclined to credit the criticisms), but not n
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Here’s a fabulous short story, “Axolotl,” by Julio Cortázar: https://ambystoma.uky.edu/teachers_materials/axolitbook/Axol...
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
There are few enough of us left that if we spread out far enough we will only jostle each other 20ish times per year for, oh, six seasons.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
The context was you responding to somebody specifically at Dropbox. You glommed onto their comment as the opening wedge for a point you wanted to make that is about the job market as a whole, not Dropbox. Then you seem puzzled (at least) if
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
> Some people are bad at interviewing and selling themselves. 100% me. Also, hi, Doug.
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They should bring me to Startup Bootcamp or whatever it is, so I can preach the satisficing gospel.
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It's vanishingly rare, of course. Part of the problem is how does Congress get classified information from the Executive Branch? The latter has to turn it over. Cooperation between the two is necessary. If Congressfolk routinely read c
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Kids still do homework?! (For additional irony, please see my about me. :D)
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I’m glad you put it in quotes at least.
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I’ll preach it again: people need to learn that satisficing is a good and valuable end-state!
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Can’t be any worse than the maintenance/logistics system for the F-35 program.
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I guess it’s a good thing I never switched from Firefox!
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
> Grusch cannot legally divulge classified information publicly. Nobody can. Congresspeople can. They can stand up and read classified information into the record. They can’t be prosecuted for it, because of the Speech and Debate Clause.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Because it’s an exhausting waste of my time to police cell phones on an individual basis. Of course, a lot of the teachers in my building require students to put their phones in a basket or in a numbered slot when they come into the room so
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
> Teachers do not that have that kind of freedom today. No, but we can take the electronic device and log it into the office so that a parent has to come retrieve it. And if I happen to forget a couple of days and only manage to log it i
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
> There’s absolutely no need for the ridiculous pedantry, and it adds less than nothing to the comment chain. Be better. But it sure does tell us a hell of a lot about the person who wrote it.
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Now I am imagining you panhandling on the sidewalk, stopping random strangers and shaking slightly: “hey man, can you spare a gcc tarball?”
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
> The road to hell is paved with good intentions Fine. Then, when we arrive in hell because this person took us there, it should follow him all the rest of his days that he was too Pollyannish about the consequences of his own designs.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
> At that time, Fuchsia was never originally about building a new kernel. It was actually about an observation I made: that the Android team had their own Linux kernel team, and the Chrome OS team had their own Linux kernel team, and the
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
You... study how they evolve, in context . You're going to have to go do real historical research. Read the documentation and source code, absolutely. But also read emails, get access to participants' papers, interview participan
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I think your comment means you agree with me, not the comment you responded to, because it sounds like we share the same position: "History does not repeat And study history is not about prediction." :)

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