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by nyeah 1y ago
Inviting native German speakers to comment. Of course we anglophone-only HN geniuses can answer cesarb's question brilliantly on our own. But perhaps as a little sidebar we could also get your 'opinion'. Thanks! /s
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by nyeah 1y ago
Hi, Sriku. Um, is your dissertation available anywhere? I'm an electronic music amateur. Mostly a four-on-the-floor guy but interested in breaking out of that a bit. I'm reasonably mathy. Folks please be gentle with the downvotes
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by nyeah 1y ago
Comparing to old sci fi. (For anyone who still cares!) Chiang can be pitched as today's Stanislaw Lem. (And maybe a modern PK Dick but with much less insanity.) I'm thinking especially of His Master's Voice, which is my favor
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by nyeah 1y ago
I could interpret that sentiment as "it's a terrible shame we don't have more Chiang to read". In that interpretation I don't see article-author-hubris.
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by nyeah 1y ago
Yes we all pray to Gaben that this crisis will pass. I am honored to pay more in His name.
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by nyeah 1y ago
“BRITANNUS (shocked). Caesar, this is a type error. THEODOTUS (outraged). How! CAESAR (recovering his self-possession). Pardon him. Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the definition of the
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by nyeah 1y ago
NaN is not necessarily an error. It might be fine. It depends on what you're doing with it. If NaN is invalid input for the next step, then sure why not treat it as an error? But that's a design decision not an imperative that eve
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by nyeah 1y ago
to be frank, "Mentally Healthy People" fully acknowledge and accept their emotions, and indeed understand that emotions are the fundamental way that natural selection implements motivation. No, no, no! "Mentally Healthy Peo
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by nyeah 1y ago
Apparently you will not be told what I'm saying. I read your point and answered it twice. Your latest response seems to indicate that you're ignoring those responses. For example you seem to suggest that I'm "claim[ing]
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by nyeah 1y ago
I'm feeling a little frustrated by the derail. My complaint is about some small group claiming to have a monopoly on a normal human faculty, in this case rationality. The small group might well go on to claim that people outside the g
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by nyeah 1y ago
No. I have no beef with psychology or psychiatry. They're doing good work as far as I can tell. I am poking fun at people who take "rationality" and turn it into a brand name.
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by nyeah 1y ago
I suspect you didn't read some parts of my comment. I didn't say everyone in the world is always data-limited, I said we normally are where I work. I didn't recommend "sitting back on our laurels." I made very speci
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by nyeah 1y ago
I'm going to start a group called "Mentally Healthy People". We use data, logical thinking, and informal peer review. If you disagree with us, our first question will be "what's wrong with mental health?"
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by nyeah 1y ago
I'm lucky enough work in a pretty rational place (small "r"). We're normally data-limited. Being "more rational" would mean taking/finding more of the right data, talking to the right people, reading the r
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by nyeah 1y ago
Great names! Are you using them, or are they available? /s
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by nyeah 1y ago
You're arguing with yourself. Anybody can hit "parent" a few times and see exactly what you wrote up-thread.
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by nyeah 1y ago
Yeah. Prescriptivism may have a worthwhile role to play. But it needs to be a lot more thought out than "what some authority wrote 75 years ago".
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by nyeah 1y ago
Yeah if I wrote "tryna" out nicely, I would spell it "trying to". So but that's my accent accounted for. There are a lot out there.
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by nyeah 1y ago
I think "try and stop me" is more colloquial in my brand of English too.
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by nyeah 1y ago
Yeah, maybe it's regional. I hear "tryan get some peace and quiet" about the same as "tryta get some piece and quiet. Maybe the former is more confident. But tone of voice probably matters more than the words. FWIW I gre
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by nyeah 1y ago
If literally everyone recognizes the limitations, then Duolingo won't be harmed by changing their advertising to be accurate.
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by nyeah 1y ago
Sure, but that's not the same use of the phrase. To me, "try and get some of those new fries" means more or less the same as "try to get some of those new fries". Maybe "try and see" is an exception to &qu
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by nyeah 1y ago
"They" are just some people who did an experiment on mice. They don't know the effects on humans. It sounds like you think you know more than they do. Ok. A paper is not like a religious commandment or something. It's,
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by nyeah 1y ago
He just drifted through a mindless typing process.
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by nyeah 1y ago
Plato is being annoying, and not for the first time. Sure, 7! has a lot of factors. But one person dies and you've got 5039. That's prime[1], so I guess your society breaks down? [1] https://prime-numbers.fandom.com&#x
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by nyeah 1y ago
It's attributed, but the Babylonians knew a year was about 360 days.
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by nyeah 1y ago
Sure, I stand corrected, you "don't know" what I'm talking about.
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by nyeah 1y ago
Note the scare quotes around user freedom. Perhaps user freedom is a notorious fake issue, a bizarre misconception, or an exotic concept that nobody understands.
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by nyeah 1y ago
Seems very argumentative for somebody who's just saying there's no issue.
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by nyeah 1y ago
I don't see how that matters. XYZ can still be the most successfulest even if you don't use it. Even if 1,000,000 people don't use it. I feel like I'm hearing "Hundreds of people who don't like Elvis can't

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