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by eindiran 7y ago
The comments here are overwhelmingly negative so far, so I'll say something positive: even if this comes rather late for Thunderbird, I appreciate that Mozilla chose to add this functionality. Any feature that makes PGP easier to use f
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Nice, this is a very good idea. Of all Magic formats, I have always been most interested in Commander and there isn't much "official" support for the format (although it has improved over the years), so it's awesome to s
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by eindiran 7y ago
The term for this situation is usually "Source-available software": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software
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I think using the "gratis" vs "libre" distinction can help alleviate the issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre
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Figma is free as in beer, but not free as in freedom.
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This story hits just about every point in the 'Off-topic' description in the guidelines and is pretty clearly not deeply interesting or something that gratifies intellectual curiosity. Despite involving Elon Musk, I don't thi
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Unfortunately that's true, which is why linguistics is a field of study with its own journals, rather than something that can be summarized neatly in the space of an HN comment :P This model really can account for quite complex languag
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In this framework, you can think about a morpheme as being a tuple of features. Like you said, it is sort of akin to a type system, where passing the wrong type to a function won't work. A morpheme will select for a feature or set of f
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by eindiran 7y ago
I don't really see how you drew the conclusion from my comment that I'm "celebrating the cult of Wittgenstein". I just take issue with this article, which amounts to a justification of a one-word hot take. I don't o
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by eindiran 7y ago
Ah I see what you mean. I think the author of that article is making the point that Merge is about creating trees, not appending words together in a more traditional sense. But S-expressions can be used to express trees, so when you're
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Yes
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I'm not sure what you mean about Merge being non-sequential. All Merge does is take two elements α and β, then return a binary branching structure with α as the head, like so: {α, β} Both α and β can be either some atomic unit, eg a wo
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by eindiran 7y ago
This is a widely cited counter-example, but I think most linguists think the case is closed regarding whether this is actually a counter-example to the Chomskyian program. Andrew Nevins and David Pesetsky have an extremely convincing rebutt
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This is exactly correct! And the head is equivalent to car, the complement is equivalent to cdr, and the specifier is equivalent to cddr.
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Many linguists believe the same set of principles act on sub-word units, a theory called Distributed Morphology or DM[0] "'Syntactic Hierarchical Structure All the Way Down' entails that elements within syntax and within morp
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by eindiran 7y ago
Because that's what the world needs more of: Pitchfork Over/Under-styled hot takes about dense philosophy. Perhaps there are things that are worth trying to understand, even if they are difficult to comprehend. You can miss out on
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by eindiran 7y ago
From the post: "[S]upport doesn't respond to my numerous messages". I would say that pretty clearly indicates that OP did in fact contact customer service at Stripe.
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The "Florida Man" phenomenon is likely due more to reporting laws in Florida than it is to the culture in Florida: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_information_legisla... https://www.miamin
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by eindiran 7y ago
"MIT police" is absolutely not a misnomer: they are a civilian police force tied to the University, with their jurisdiction set to the bounds of MIT property.[0] Their website is a .mit.edu address.[1] Your second statement is mis
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I remember clicking on that a while back on thinking there weren't that many products listed there. They must have filled in a lot of killed-off-projects because now I'm struck by what a large number of projects are in the grave
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After having the Inbox rug swept out from underneath my feet, I don't have a lot of trust about Gmail either.
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I generally agree that there exists a point where keeping someone alive is mostly just because we feel weird about letting them die; there are people kept artificially alive that aren't 'living' in any meaningful sense. But t
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(1) There is a pretty big difference between shaking hands with someone and allowing someone to tie their financial stake in with yours via a quarter million dollars in investment money. (2) The idea that anyone with this large of an involv
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At least as recently as May 2017 that was true: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/05/warren-buffett-reveals-whats...
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> The key is to realize C++ is not a language, but a federation of languages. You need to cherry pick a subset you what you want to use and stay disciplined. The issue is that no matter how disciplined you are, others will be using a dif
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This paper company was founded 771 AD: https://www.shinise.ne.jp/j_kyoto/voices/vol/48/48-d.html It's not even the longest-lived company in the world. This construction company was founded in 578 AD
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Paul Graham disagrees[0] and the current site guidelines[1] don't suggest that you shouldn't downvote for disagreement. The guidelines do suggest that you shouldn't comment on voting in the comments. I agree with the position
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From the Wikipedia page: "Although the decision does not address "corporate personhood," a long-established judicial and constitutional concept, much attention has focused on that issue."[0] "How should one interpre
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"Latinx" is more-or-less a rounding error compared to "Latino"/"Latina"[1], so having people insist that the far more common terms are incorrect (for a political reason) is what is driving the intensity of
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Reminds me of this story: https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/

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