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by leto_ii 5y ago
I didn't take a quote out of context, the context was not provided. There is no a priori expectation that somebody should read a Wikipedia page to find out the missing context behind a quote. > Its shifting goalpost fallacy. There&#
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It's true I didn't know about Morphy when I made my comment, I read on Wikipedia afterwards. In context the quote has different connotations. However, having taken it at face value, I stand by my comment. Nothing in the Morphy quo
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I have to say I don't really like this quote. The first part smacks of superficiality i.e. learn chess enough to be able to show off in polite society. The second part I think simply denotes a misunderstanding of what playing chess wel
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An amusing coincidence makes it that these days I'm actually reading this book. I think it's the first time I can comfortably use the phrase 'thought provoking' both in its literal sense as well as a euphemism to describ
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I don't think we should call Weinstein alt-right. He's quite a conservative conspiracy prone guy and I don't particularly like him myself, but so far I haven't seen much suggesting far right leanings. > should we be s
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Funny, to my mind capitalism had destroyed much of the sport. But it's true I'm thinking from the perspective of somebody coming from a small country (Romania in my case). 20-30 years ago we used to have pretty good teams and play
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Again, thanks for the detailed reply. > most flicks and tricks are only great to watch on Youtube highlight reels :P Well, that makes sense - that's pretty much the level I'm at as a football fan. > great team tactics (if yo
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by leto_ii 5y ago
Thanks for the detailed reply. I'm curious, in your assessment, is the game today nicer to watch than it was 20-30 years ago when there was more "artistry"? Is it possible that football clubs are optimizing for the wrong thin
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The explanations provided in the article are at best educated guesses and overall quite unsatisfactory. Honestly I don't know much about football and I only rarely watch matches, but somehow I got the feeling that over the years the sp
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> Bitcoin is a scam. You're really tempting fate twice here :))
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> Stop complaining about the hot weather please and focus on more pressing global issues. What would those more pressing issues be? Soon enough many very populated places in the world will be unlivable. Even now the reality described in
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I think it's fair to imagine that had Wikileaks not published the emails they would have been accused of favoring the democrats. In a highly ideologically polarized climate you can't win.
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To my mind the authors completely fail to acknowledge a serious conflict of interests and therefore have no credibility. Both are affiliated with the Committee to Unleash Prosperity (what a comically Orwellian name that is, btw) which seems
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> The bad news is they're evil Agreed, but this is really bad news, given the amount of power three letter agencies (and the deep state in general) have. > the good news is they're incompetent Here I disagree. I think the NS
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> the Snowden leaks happened due to contracted-out sys admins, after all But that's a good thing, right? It's good that everybody found out that the government unlawfully collected their data etc. Snowden was not an attacker as
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by leto_ii 5y ago
Thanks for pointing to your extended comment. I can say that in my case confronting people with wildly different political opinions has pushed me to become more dispassionate/detached in my replies, as well as to focus on the substance
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I have just now read the edit of your parent comment. I appreciate your clarifications as well as your willingness to nuance your position. I can't really imagine the amount of effort you have to put into keeping HN on track. I thank y
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It does seem to imply that. If the statements are simply factually true, what makes them ideological? Is it merely typing the words socialist and communist?
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The following is the entirety of the GP, quoted here for ease of access: > Cuba actually has 5 vaccine candidates, and 2 of them have greater than 90% effectiveness. A great showing for a small, socialist island nation under decades of e
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> I hear you. Do you? Agreeing with parent implies that you consider your own comment to be highly inflammatory (and implicitly against HN code of conduct etc.). If that is the case, you can take it down or edit it with an apology. NOTE:
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by leto_ii 5y ago
Not sure parent should be considered as inflammatory as you take it to be. The core idea was that having 5 vaccines that performed well is a good showing for a small country, especially one that has been under heavy embargo for many decades
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> always found it sort of.. pretentious I've encountered this reaction a lot, but I suspect that it actually stems from a dislike of the kind of people that often listen to jazz/classical etc. which it then extended to the musi
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> jazz is meant to be listened to by musicians I've noticed that many people have an impression of jazz as being very technical and abstruse. Personally I got into it as a young teenager just because I liked the way it sounded. I di
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> eating out 3-4 times a week What percentage of the western population eats out 3-4 times a week? I'd bet it isn't more than 10-20%, depending on the country. > Uber Eats delivery Not sure the people who do the delivering c
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I'm wondering, since they keep mentioning the mysterious "AE" letters woven everywhere with a reversed E, wouldn't it actually make more sense to look at the tapestries back to front (as they do with the one showing the
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This position strikes me as unjustifiably elitist, reminiscent perhaps of Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind . > lots of university departments that were superfluous, producing nothing that was actually benefitting soc
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> is there another link? This is the download link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000437022...
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> I’m stating the fact. How is that a fact? Perhaps you meant 'figuratively falling apart'. How much of the city have you visited? How much do you know about the place and what's going on there? I think the idea that any (
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> I mean, I’ve been there, the place is literally falling apart. I don't understand the need to insult the city, regardless of your opinion of one politician's gestures or proposals.
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As a born and raised Bucharester I find this idea completely juvenile and ridiculous. I have absolutely no love for Lukashenko (or for his master Putin for that matter) and I fully agree that what was done is outrageous and should be condem

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