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by leto_ii 5y ago
My take on the book (which I think is the more common one) is that it's a criticism of a form of 'soft' fascism. People are placed on a rigid hierarchy where everybody is biologically conditioned to belong to a certain caste.
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Quantifying impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic through life-expectancy losses(academic.oup.com)
8 points by leto_ii 5y ago|1 comments
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by leto_ii 5y ago
Based on the virulence of your comments, as well as their ad hominem and non sequitur nature I have decided to consider you a troll. This conversation is not productive and it pollutes the fine forum of HN, therefore I'm unilaterally e
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by leto_ii 5y ago
Based on the virulence of your comments, as well as their ad hominem and non sequitur nature I have decided to consider you a troll. This conversation is not productive and it pollutes the fine forum of HN, therefore I'm unilaterally e
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by leto_ii 5y ago
Yeah, ok, you're a troll, I get it now.
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by leto_ii 5y ago
Nobody is scared of you and nobody is shutting you down. Do you understand what shutting down would entail? Did I flag you? Did I call for your account to be banned? Did I dox you? What on Earth are you talking about? > I did not justify
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> There is a troubling and growing anti-intellectual, anti-scientific movement I have seen which seeks to make certain questions verboten. The question was offensive, yet I didn't try to cancel the author in any way. I didn't f
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> Parent poster is possibly from a generation which has been taught that asking questions is an offense, so I will forgive them for responding with hostility. Your condescension is ill placed. Questions can very much be offensive, let me
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by leto_ii 5y ago
It's absolutely comical to compare various European empires who despoiled Egypt (and many other places, including Greece btw) of their history with the plight of the Aboriginal Australians. > even if you don't. You have no ide
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by leto_ii 5y ago
I would say the parent author has been too polite in their response. Your comment is offensive and nonsensical. Why on earth would genetic relations matter in any way for something like this? As far as I know basically nowhere on Earth is i
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by leto_ii 5y ago
fun fact, we still have it in Romania: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pl%C4%83cint%C4%83 It's called the same and it's delicious :D
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How does Stockfish mimic an Elo rating?(chess.stackexchange.com)
2 points by leto_ii 5y ago|0 comments
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by leto_ii 5y ago
Writing this on Android Firefox right now, I don't have too many complaints. I have up on Chrome a decade ago and never looked back. I used Opera for some years and then switched to Ff. What are your main pain points?
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by leto_ii 5y ago
I find your take comically misguided and naive. There are, first of all, some basic things that need to be established: what is merit? how do you rank people based on their merit? can this ranking be objective and absolute? are the people w
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by leto_ii 5y ago
Good to see things are still getting published on Distill. I thought they were on hiatus.
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Lignum Nephriticum(en.wikipedia.org)
42 points by leto_ii 5y ago|7 comments
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> pressure during oral exams taught to work against the clock, develop conviction and do your best to defend your position. In some students. In others it just engendered the feeling that they're morons and that math is just "n
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> I don't think it's really "brutal" but "challenging". Brutal was the term used by the parent, I just picked it up from there. > if the kid has no interest in Math he/she would regard that as brutal
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> This has changed for the worse with capitalism and social inequality. An interesting perspective which I feel might be the actual core of the problem. I grew up after the Revolution, so I can't make a before/after comparison,
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> I’ve read a lot about bulling and social problems in USA schools, but so almost none of that myself i Eastern Europe. There was some bullying back when I was in school, but possibly less than in the US. However, I think this doesn&#x2
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> China and Singapore are at the very top. If you think what's described is brutality, you should watch tiger moms push their children. There are a bunch of different approaches that can lead to top scores in that ranking. notably F
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by leto_ii 5y ago
My point was that a lot of advanced math can be taught later on. If it's forced down people's throats without them understanding why things are the way they are, all you're gonna get is ignorance and resentment. In Romania I
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by leto_ii 5y ago
My experience in my home country of Romania was similar to yours, however my conclusions couldn't be more different. > American schools are too soft on science in general. [...]The Albanian school was brutal in teaching science How
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by leto_ii 5y ago
Googling "Australian chess grandmasters" I get the following list: Walter Browne, Max Illingworth, Darryl Johansen, Temur Kuybokarov, Moulthun Ly, Ian Rogers, David Smerdon, Anton Smirnov. The guy I'm talking about is on the
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by leto_ii 5y ago
See my edit. I just don't feel comfortable dropping his name here. I wanted to make a general point about my impression of the impact of playing chess on people, I don't want to turn this into some personal thing.
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by leto_ii 5y ago
Indeed. I didn't mean to attack Morphy, I just interpreted the quote on its own, thinking it was made by some random person (in different places in the thread people had quoted various writers etc. not necessarily great chess players).
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> Are you sure your acquaintance is one of them? Yes. He's a pretty well known Australian player, not sure how active he is anymore though. Now has a full time academic career. Edit: After verifying on the FIDE website, I see his r
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> Sounds like the disagreement is just about what is required for "playing chess well". I think so. I'm getting a lot of flak over it though :-< > If we raise the bar to 2500+ maybe you will agree? I can't say.
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> Although seemingly not so far away by sheer number, the 2000-2300 elo range is worlds apart from 2500+ (GM) levels I know that. My point was that a score of 2000-2300 can still qualify as knowing chess well. Didn't know Morphy was
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> The quote is from Paul Morphy, the best player of the 19th century. The point was taken, see my comment below. I didn't know the context behind the quote, I understand that Morphy didn't mean it the way I took it. Nevertheles

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