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by escape_goat 12y ago
Especially since the original "X considered harmful" was not formulated by the author, Edsger Dijkstra. It was an editorial emphasis provided by none other than Nikalaus Wirth, who had the qualification of having written or havin
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by escape_goat 13y ago
I'd like to note that his self-assessment of likely open-floor-plan productivity appears to be an authentic QWANTZ moment. Personally, this is the first time I have seen one in the wild.
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by escape_goat 13y ago
I understand what you mean when you say that it "doesn't constitute sexism", and that's true for a definition of sexism as "acts or speech denigrating women on the basis of their gender." I think what the prio
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by escape_goat 13y ago
Purely on mechanics, the "by any sensible definition" clause does make this a classic "no true Scotsman" argument. What you probably wish to argue is something like: "Those unique 'American freedoms' that
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by escape_goat 13y ago
It's not a question of the word "jest" having anything wrong with it, and I think you mistake my point somewhat if your impression was that I was offended by the author’s rhetoric. In North America, one does not hear the wo
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by escape_goat 13y ago
I have a grumpy but well founded objection. This may indeed be a very useful guide to tensors, perhaps for people who have worked with them without a strong background understanding. I don't want to detract from that, or from the autho
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by escape_goat 13y ago
I can see where you're coming from, but I also see two problems. Firstly, you're generalizing towards the origin from a relatively high section of the graph. Leaving aside the relative happiness, a 5% increase in income is actual
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by escape_goat 13y ago
" The poor have not started working. " There’s an implicit notion here that we’re waiting for the poor to start working. Perhaps it's coincidental, but I’d like to call out a possible conflation, because it's something