plurinshael

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by plurinshael 10y ago
I assumed there was quite a bit of research and Hegelian synthesis that occurred outside of the narrative.
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by plurinshael 10y ago
No. The projection of an emotional object onto a logical construction has the capacity for being "wrong" or "right". Emotions are a different, more distributed form of logic and one should not construe homomorphisms acro
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by plurinshael 10y ago
Well spoken. When I hear people belittling others, no matter how "good" the reason, I think damn, have some respect. And also just, have some dignity. If you really want to influence someone's behavior, engage them, ask them
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by plurinshael 11y ago
Out of curiosity... what is the other hard problem?
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by plurinshael 11y ago
I prefer the objectively superior moniker, "Horrendous Space Kablooie".
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by plurinshael 11y ago
From "What to submit" paragraph of the Guidelines page: "If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." Not saying this article is the best in the
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by plurinshael 11y ago
Total agreement. But curious, you've had to explain this to progressives until you're out of breath? The progressives in where I live are the only ones talking about this, and the (so-called) conservatives are the ones able to d
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by plurinshael 11y ago
The Information by James Gleick, a history of information
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by plurinshael 11y ago
The capitalist status quo is all about "you eat what you kill," true. But in America, a huge majority is ostensibly Christian, especially in politics. And Jesus is all about grace, that you literally cannot earn the living truth,
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by plurinshael 13y ago
Consider the fact that for some time, the quantitative easing program has been "printing" $80 billion per month by buying US treasuries from wealthy people / firms. Say what you will about the necessity to print money, strate
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by plurinshael 13y ago
Build the Starfleet/Jedi Academy. A mathematics, physics, and code oriented monastery designed around whole-person principles. Martial arts, agriculture, and engineering as co-requisite studies. Labor to serve as tuition. Meant for stu
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by plurinshael 13y ago
I might have to read the book. I would have appreciated a clearer definition of radical. My opinions have already been sculpted to exclude radicals from serious engineering, medical, legal disciplines. But I think I appreciate the arguments
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Our Reckless Meritocracy(nytimes.com)
2 points by plurinshael 15y ago|0 comments
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by plurinshael 15y ago
...Isn't registration still free? How is it not publicly visible if other hackers (HNers) can view it? I think I will add my email anyway... I am not anonymous. Just wondering about your logic.
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by plurinshael 16y ago
More electrical outlets. Secret passage-ways. A hangar for the Bat-fleet. A maze for the Minotaur.
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by plurinshael 16y ago
Does this organization serve the interests of mankind, art, science and enlightenment generally? Does it serve the interests of some elite power group? Does it directly or indirectly serve the interests of death and war? I won't work for an
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by plurinshael 16y ago
Or, you're reading it like a young, naive child, whose mother won't let you up into the neighbor's tree house. One of those two.
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by plurinshael 16y ago
I'm more held up by the other people at school than the school or profs themselves (though sometimes you just want to slap your prof silly, ya know?). Math class is one right now that is so bittersweet for this reason. I'm just foraying int
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by plurinshael 16y ago
True. But you're probably exerting yourself too hard if a workout session taxes you that much (or you have it built up in your mind so you'll hate it no matter what). Remember Worf's exercise of holding 13-pound weights straight in front of