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by oska 4y ago
Occam's Razor also cuts the idea of life having an origin, i.e. at one time there was no life in the universe and then it came into being (on Earth or elsewhere). Which is almost magical thinking and certainly not more simple than the
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by oska 4y ago
The HN community seems to be falling off the pace. This is an extremely significant release which many tech circles are buzzing about and meanwhile there's crickets on HN. (Or if I was to be less kind, I might suggest that HN grew up i
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by oska 4y ago
Quick reply to point out that the saying you referenced is "a stitch in time saves nine" and not "a stitch in time always saves nine". By including never in what he said, Pullman was being unnecessarily bombastic, in
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by oska 4y ago
Sure, but the argument FDR was putting was that he was doing it for the 'ethical' business owners who were supposedly forced to keep employing child labour because others were still using it. No. The business owners could have a
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by oska 4y ago
If I did, I think I would try Ratner's Star , as that seems his most interesting novel (at least in what it attempted, whether successful or not). But I'm in no hurry.
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by oska 4y ago
This is a flawed argument, in my opinion. You stop doing something unethical because it is unethical. You don't wait until you've been able to force everyone else from doing what you see as unethical (while they may not). Virtue
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by oska 4y ago
I appreciated your comment. However with respect to what your Dad told you : > "son, the bank manager is my boss, he can call in my loans any time" that would have been true for him (being in property development). But there ar
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by oska 4y ago
Thanks for yr response. I've read Pynchon but not DeLillo, which is why I asked the question. > That said I've more or less stopped reading fiction, feel like after hundreds of attempts I have yet to find anything life changing
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by oska 4y ago
The line you quoted from Pullman includes an absolute in it - 'never'. Thus it's completely valid to bring counter-examples against it when people then promote his line as 'good advice'. If he'd said something
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by oska 4y ago
As you are someone who's read both of those DeLillo novels, I'm curious on what your opinion of Thomas Pynchon is (if you're read him also).
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> Did you read the article? Very mild reminder on what the forum guidelines [1] have to say about this line (and only issuing the reminder because you've used it twice in succession). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by oska 4y ago
Also chiming in to say that while I can appreciate your concern that walnutclosefarm's comment may have had the potential to kick off a 'religious flamewar', I don't see their comment as being in that vein. I saw it as
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by oska 4y ago
The opposite of the quote is the proverb 'charity begins at home', if that helps.
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by oska 4y ago
I saw WJW's comment as bringing some intellectual rigour and scrutiny to an empty platitude, and what I want and expect to find in this forum.
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I agree that it should have been included, as the article is much more about 'the books of his life' than this one particular book. I expected to read more about Middlemarch but it ended up just being a single paragraph about the
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by oska 4y ago
I didn't know who you were referring to, so looked it up and learnt a little about Ray Dassen [1]. It's nice seeing ppl memorialise a person as you have done here. [1] http://www.gnumeric.org/announcements/1.1
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by oska 4y ago
Many Asian cuisines (that have fed ppl who have been very poor) feature a dish that is a beaten raw egg mixed through rice (the hot rice then cooks the egg a little). Rice & beans etc are good staples but the experience of extremely p
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by oska 4y ago
I find myself in the unusual position of not having an opinion on this question (and thus I have not voted). I'm neither an Elon hater nor an Elon lover. I think he's done some good things since taking over twitter and some dubiou
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by oska 4y ago
Can GM produce this car in volume and with any sort of profit margin? i.e. Are they getting anywhere near Tesla with its manufacturing and battery production innovations? If you can show me they can and they are then I'll be interested
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by oska 4y ago
> so there isn't much of a moat there Tesla has not succeeded by building 'moats' (an anti-competitive concept favoured by monopolists). Tesla has succeeded and continues to succeed by their pace of (real, not fake) innova
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by oska 4y ago
Does anyone ever go through life only making good decisions and not any hard ones?
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by oska 4y ago
Asimov is a very mediocre writer, stylistically speaking. People read Asimov for the ideas, not for his prose, so I wouldn't recommend him in the context in which we're speaking.
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by oska 4y ago
Equating a poll about the prosecution & persecution of two historically important figures who exposed serious criminal misconduct by the US state (one a non-US journalist, the other a US American whistleblower) with a completely subject
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by oska 4y ago
Probably better to go with the earlier submission, that links directly to Taibbi's first tweet in this TF#3 thread : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33927674
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by oska 4y ago
So what's your point? That Twitter's mission statement has always been purely empty PR?
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by oska 4y ago
> because it's too absurd on its face I'd suggest its absurdness is exactly what appeals to the people who like to 'argue the case'. I'm not a big Terry Pratchett fan, but my understanding is that his books are s
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by oska 4y ago
Your comment seems to me to be full of bad faith. > use an actual journalistic process There is a journalistic process being followed - two established journalists have been given comprehensive access to internal files and are documentin
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by oska 4y ago
Here's a hint to a further revelation for those who continue to pretend that the Twitter Files are a 'nothingburger'. Ian Miles Cheong : > So here’s a question for @elonmusk and @bariweiss: were any political candidates —
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by oska 4y ago
I think you're misreading that tweet. What she is saying there is that the reporters did not have access to Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and that they had to get information on the various filters applied to an account via
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by oska 4y ago
> Twitter is a private company that wants to sell advertisements by enabling people to have happy conversations. No, Twitter's mission statement is "to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly

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