dogcatter

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   by dogcatter 4y ago

   > the common interpretation of winter which is December -> March in the Northern Hemisphere As I hope you are learning, in very many places in the northern hemisphere, perhaps including most of Europe, that is not what people mean by
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   by dogcatter 4y ago

   The only reason discourse has degenerated is because you made it about the meanings of words. Everyone else on this thread is having a pretty productive conversation.
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   by dogcatter 4y ago

   Lolol, you're the best example I've seen of "hacker news guy meets ambiguities in real language usage, can't handle it". > I feel like you're not getting hung up enough on the definition of a definition. Thi
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   by dogcatter 4y ago

   Are you American? I'm British but lived in the USA for several years, and I think there's a cultural difference here. Americans attach precise boundaries to the seasons, whereas in Europe 'Winter' means something more li
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   by dogcatter 4y ago

   The emissions impact of WFH is far from clear actually. In many cases lots of people staying home running their domestic heating and cooking etc systems consumes more energy than them using the big efficient industrial ones at the office, e
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   by dogcatter 4y ago

   Is that your example banality?
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   by dogcatter 4y ago

   It's not that I disagree with you exactly, but as someone who teaches at a UK university (much less prestigious than Oxford or UCL)... I used to complain a lot about how much money we were sending to Microsoft and Blackboard etc, but t