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by jhedwards 5y ago
> I wonder if Americans/Westerners are capable of acknowledging the things that their countries get wrong I feel like this is practically a sport in America. We love to criticize the government and everything it does wrong. That&#x2
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> If having a realistic worldview hinders my ability to learn, then so be it. I think the point is that the worldview you described is not realistic. Many people are successful because of hard work and dedication. Sometimes having talent
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I don't think spreading misinformation about vaccines is in anyway comparable to the examples of hollywood or the moon landing, and I do in fact think it's a perfect fit for the analogy: It is an indisputable fact that there are p
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I think the crux of the issue is that "the cure is worse than the illness" is objectively false, as the vaccine has been proven to be safe, and bodies from COVID deaths continue to pile up. I try not to listen to politicians for t
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Good luck explaining to the mob that "there in fact is no fire", as they charge out of the theater. I typically agree with you, and it was justice Louis Brandeis who said it so well: “If there be time to expose through discussion
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Why not both? The CCP has strong state censorship on all native platforms. If they allowed Reddit or Google, that would allow their populace to access unmoderated (from their point of view) platforms, which is not acceptable. They allow ex
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My favorite way to read Finnegan's Wake is to get some friends and perhaps some drinks, have everyone pick a random spot from the book and read it out loud. The book is a circle so it doesn't really have a proper beginning, and th
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I dropped out of school and I almost immediately got tired of low-effort activities. Games and TV are great as a respite from doing other things, but if you're a young person with an active mind you will quickly get bored doing that st
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You missed the point of my comment. It's invisible because it _prevents_ bad things from happening, and it results in a boring world. Just one example: I have only had food poisoning maybe one or two times in my time living in the US.
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I'm surprised to hear this sentiment, but honestly I think there's a huge amount that the government does that is invisible to most citizens. When I lived in China, I was shocked not by how controlled it was (which is what I expec
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How do you teach other people? In our team we sometimes have people working on systems that they are unfamiliar with, either because they are new to the team or new to the feature/system, and we've found that it saves a huge amoun
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For what it's worth there's still r/CombatFootage
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There's a rather fun sort of paradox here. For example, I just finished reading a book on Maxwell and Faraday, and they were both ambitious individuals who pursued their own view of things with little regard for the consensus of their
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Hi HN, this is a side-project I've had sitting around for a long time. Every time I re-visit it I have a lot of fun making beats and adding little features, so I thought I'd share I'm still not sure if I'll ever add save
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Show HN: Gravel Pit, a shamelessly ugly web-app for electronic music(incrediblesound.github.io)
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> Hobbyist subreddits are extremely valuable I recently subscribed to r/AskElectronics and I have been amazed at the supportiveness of the community. Every time I've posted a picture of some stupid noob mistake I made, I get a
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What I am reading is: "the [universe] is so large and complex, and I feel that it is beautiful, therefore there must be some entity that created it" How does that logically follow? To me that is clearly just a projection of the hu
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In George C Williams' book Natural Selection: Domains, Levels, and Challenges , he starts the book with some philosophical problems for biologists. One of my favorites is that he points out a sharp distinction between the "codica
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I really liked Konrad Lorenz's explanation of this. He said that every innate ability to learn has a corresponding innate "teaching mechanism". For example, an animal like a duck won't necessarily reason "hmm, is th
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Thank you for your comment, visual design has always been challenging for me so I was overjoyed to see my layout described as elegant!
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Show HN: Poetry Link, a website for writing poetry collaboratively(poetry-link.com)
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> There are not "massive uprisings" "every year" in China. At least in 2012, there were apparently 500 protests _every day_: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/01&#x2
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There is a long history of massive uprisings against the establishment in China. Tiananmen is just the most well known example of something that happens every year. I doubt Xi is ignorant enough to _not_ be afraid, though I agree with you t
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Why should we emulate the policies of another country if we agree that those policies are wrong and/or harmful? That seems like the exact opposite of what we should do: lead by example by showing how a society without such restriction
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First of all, great project! I love this kind of tool and I bookmarked it because I could definitely see myself using this. Some feedback: you need undo capability. It's quite common to make a mistake or change your mind about somethin
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Somewhat anecdotal but the Chinese app game in general seems very strong. My wife does video editing on Chinese social media and the variety of apps she has for editing videos and photos is bewildering. She can add in all kinds of animation
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If you haven't read him, this spectacular failure is the central theme of many of Stanislaw Lem's works. Worth a read if you like sci-fi.
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My advice is to treat Finnegan's Wake not as story to sit down and read but as a massive collection of jokes and experiments mixing together languages and stories and meanings. There is a section, for example, that mixes something like
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I had a similar experience! My grandfather was a Phd in bio from Harvard so I had his library to peruse. My favorite difficult book was Biology and Knowledge by Jean Piaget.
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I just want to point out that I don't think we disagree on these points, but you're misinterpreting my argument. > Your four-year-old daughter assuming that the norm is the only way to do something is her jumping to conclusions

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