gwenhwyfaer

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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
Well, it doesn't. The exact rational beliefs that Objectivism encompasses were very carefully laid out by Rand before her death, and all other opinions, beliefs or perspectives were explicitly denounced as irrational. It's hard to take anyt
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
Would that Ayn Rand had gone into banking rather than writing...
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
> Where does Brittany Spears fit in the Kardashev Scale? There a millions of people that think she is more important than energy consumption. Should we put them all in the gas chamber? Only if we can use them as fuel.
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
I'd have to nominate 'We, The Living' as the best thing she ever wrote, on the grounds of both authenticity and quality. Everything after that was solipsistic pulp polemic, but I do retain a soft spot for WTL. But 'Anthem' was ripped off fr
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
> Perhaps if you'd realized that The Fountainhead is based on the life of Frank Lloyd Wright No it isn't. Both Frank Lloyd Wright and Ayn Rand explicitly refuted such a claim: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lloyd_Wright#Cultural_Re
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
> even if things go badly for Madden They kind of did...
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
At least six years old - as it happens, he was convicted, and sentenced to almost 4 years in jail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Madden
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
> from the psychiatry standpoint homosexuality is a pathology too But what the fuck isn't ?
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
And Turing's "insanity" has a lot more to do with the diabolical treatment he received at the hands of the British authorities; indeed, his suicide was arguably the rational act of a rational man. (I'd hoped the BBC were above such sensatio
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
"You mean one like yours?" "When I lose my fake one." "When I've run out of real things to really do." "When the gun jams three times in a row, the rope breaks, and I discover I'm immune to cyanide."
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
Trust me, it's not competence I'm questioning...
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
I thought you couldn't keep a teenager's hands off their assets...?
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
I've used gmail for the last couple of years, but only because email hasn't been very important to me and I've had always-on web access. Now that both of those circumstances seem about to change, I think it's time I learned my way around mu
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
Last time I tried the Yahoo! Mail Beta, there was no fallback to basic HTML; since I tend to find myself in links quite frequently, that matters. In contrast, Gmail's Basic HTML mode seems to be better every time I try it... that's decisive
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
Well, hey, if such people can choose your coders for you...
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
Indeed not. From reading the article, the more correct word would appear to be "disdain".
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
At least if you're starting a business, you're in the right game. It's extremely unlikely that anyone will ever get rich working for someone else. Comfortable enough that they don't mind, maybe...
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
Probably best to avoid attacking the military, all told.
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
It's a classic shaggy dog story, its veracity notwithstanding...
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
It may have been posted as a political link, but the methodology was so flawed that it became interesting anyway. :) As for my interest: I quit a psych degree after a year because the teaching of experimental psychology convinced me that it
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
Never mind. I just realised what "showdead" meant and now feel very silly.
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
Thanks; it's appreciated. And yes, I think protection against that kind of thing would be useful (but it's sad that it's necessary even here).
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
[notices that every other comment attached to this link just got -1'd] And here I was hoping that drive-by downmodding was confined to reddit. If you don't like the story, fine. But don't take it out on the people who... as it happens, also
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
He's a politician; he made a positive decision to pursue power by permission. He's compromised by default. (pg covered the orthogonality question.)
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
> There are other possible solutions. For example, the reddit guys tried to solve the problem of all the political crap on the frontpage by creating a subreddit for it. That would probably have worked better if people were forced to cho
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
You might want to check how many kids you actually have. Just in case you forget to, you know, feed one or two of them.
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
Of course they haven't. However, considering the letter they chose, I wonder if the whole thing is a put-on...
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
What about libertarians (of either pole)?
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
Hmm. Where did the post go...?
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by gwenhwyfaer 19y ago
See, if you'd just left it at the original post, without trying to defend it, it would have been funny. Now you just look sad. Never mind. Being turned down isn't the end of the world; there's no reason you can't start up without YC funding

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