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by leftyted 8y ago
No one in this thread has said anything remotely like "The dude is a slob so fuck em, let him rot in solitary for 30 years". He can be a bad house guest and not deserve to rot in prison, right? I think it's pretty clear to a
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by leftyted 8y ago
> I think the OP's point is crudely valid. Greek gods basically wanted you to pray and appease them, more or less. Jesus and the Buddha wanted you to be a fundamentally better person, moreover, they were themselves enshrined in a me
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by leftyted 8y ago
Greco-Roman gods absolutely punished immoral behavior. It's just that "what is moral" has changed a lot over time. For example, the classical Greek period was a time when pederasty and war were considered perfectly moral.
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by leftyted 8y ago
> There is no feasible way to separate politics from everyday life, and leaving "politics to those who knows about it" isn't really viable. Anyone with a platform whether it is sports, tech, culture should consider what me
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by leftyted 8y ago
The article mentions people who produce more Klotho, so clearly that variation has occurred: > Some people carry a genetic variation that causes them to produce higher levels of Klotho than average in their bodies. Dr. Dubal and her co
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by leftyted 8y ago
I'm generally apolitical (read: cynical) but I really like Buttigieg. He seems anomalous as a politician: smart along every dimension, incredibly well-rounded, and able to talk intelligently about policy (and philosophy and literature!
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by leftyted 8y ago
It's not that I think this building (or attraction or whatever) is beautiful and worthwhile. It's just that I don't care that much and I'm a bit skeptical of people who do. I don't think it would matter what kind
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by leftyted 8y ago
Imagine a student has finished reading something they wrote in front of their creative writing class. Someone raises their hand and responds with "Wow that was creepy. Your life must be pretty bleak". Of course you're entit
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by leftyted 8y ago
"Creepy" seems judgmental. Many (most? all?) single, heterosexual men are somewhat preoccupied with how to be attractive to women (the reverse is also true). Is this news to you? I also have a negative reaction to you speculating
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by leftyted 8y ago
I haven't used native JS modules yet. I read through the linked page and it's not totally clear to me why you can't just import directly from node_modules. What Pika/web appears to do is find node_modules that use valid
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by leftyted 8y ago
> Some diseases are not a big deal for most children but can outright kill others. This is exactly what I wrote, isn't it? The person I was responding to wrote: > The alternatives in pretty much all cases are death. Which side e
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by leftyted 8y ago
> Why? The alternatives in pretty much all cases are death. This seems like a huge exaggeration to me. There's a chickenpox vaccine nowadays which wasn't widely available when I was a kid. As a result, my siblings and I all c
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by leftyted 8y ago
This is the US, but an op-ed from a favorite novelist of mine in favor of homeschooling: https://www.salon.com/1997/10/01/01school/ I was not homeschooled, but I hated school (even though it was a good p
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by leftyted 8y ago
It's easily to verify that there are different definitions of the word race. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(biology) I don't think this conversation has much hope of continuing in a productive direction
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by leftyted 8y ago
> As you must know, the ordinary understanding of race is based upon external appearance, primarily melanin: black, white, yellow, brown, Indian, and so on. This is exactly my point. Race means different things in different contexts. C
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by leftyted 8y ago
This comment doesn't make sense to me. Like all words, "race" has different meanings, i.e. it can be defined in different ways. Race can, and has, been defined in a way that is useful to scientists. "Biological races&q
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by leftyted 8y ago
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
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by leftyted 8y ago
These activists seem to be promoting an all-or-nothing approach to medicine. But attempting to alleviate symptoms seems like a valid - and common - medical approach. If physical therapy or talk therapy can improve the quality of life of C
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by leftyted 8y ago
The dollar bill thing seems silly. The fact you can draw anything without looking at a dollar bill means something is being stored, right? That means the brain stores information. There's no way out of that. And that fact that you
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by leftyted 8y ago
> I do have to say that all of my shots are indeed ‘Photoshopped’. I always work on my images to make them look good on print and social media. I change contrast, vibrance, saturation, make color adjustments, etc., so you can call them ‘
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by leftyted 8y ago
I'm not sure why so many HN posters feel the need to boast about not executing JavaScript. All that means is that you've opted out of the web that the rest of the world is using. Good for you. But people who have disabled JS mak
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by leftyted 8y ago
Chrome's main appeal was that it was much faster than firefox and IE. At everything. I had no technical knowledge when chrome came out, was using firefox, tried chrome, never looked back. It's not really possible to separate out
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by leftyted 8y ago
Your post implies that a person ought to be concerned if the military wants to use software that person has written. To me, it seems obvious that that perspective follows from various propositions about the world and about morality. If you
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by leftyted 8y ago
I have written software that is being used by the military and I didn't find it concerning. I find the anti-military sentiment on this website more concerning. I'm pretty liberal but I do not think the military is a vestigial org
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by leftyted 8y ago
I wouldn't care. Are the designers of TCP/IP responsible for everyone whose death was assisted by the internet? Are Orville and Wilbur burning in Hell for all the people who were killed by things dropped from planes? And God hel
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by leftyted 8y ago
I'd argue that moral ambiguity is necessary if you want to write people believably because all people are morally ambiguous. Either way, I don't think believable characters are necessary. I recently read a pair of Saramago novels
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by leftyted 8y ago
> Meanwhile some of us are watching from the sidelines, trying to stay out of the way, hoping not to be next. (Good luck with that.) The author of this article didn't stay on the sidelines, which is why she got dragged into this m
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by leftyted 8y ago
It's a good novel. This is also a good interview, and point of the novel comes out: a portrait of a person as a hero by doing nothing other than being himself. A novel doesn't need to include morally ambiguous characters to be go
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by leftyted 8y ago
> A language is just a system of symbols intended to represent objects and things. This isn't what I meant, or what is generally meant, by language. Humans are distinguished by our ability to generate and understand novel sentences.
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by leftyted 8y ago
The main reason we have often assumed that animals lack consciousness is that animals appear to lack language. And language is an integral part of how humans think. How would you "think" without language? It's not clear. P

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