rachelshu

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   by rachelshu 3y ago

   Mixed feelings on this. Tell culture allows people to express their feelings directly without prompting, but can also be used manipulatively when insisted on as a behavioral standard by someone who's overbearing relative to the people
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   by rachelshu 6y ago

   There seem to be two meanings of “unexpected” not being differentiated here: 1) name-derived terms like Debian, or the French ‘poubelle’ in the comments, which have become genericized to the point where most of its users don’t know the deri
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   by rachelshu 6y ago

   For all the other reasons that people on this site might hate this article, nevertheless it succeeds in doing the one thing that Scott asked of journalists: that they respect his pseudonym.
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   by rachelshu 6y ago

   I don't think, given Scott's recent defense of Steve Hsu, that he'd really want people fired for doing ill-advised things, even if they could be reasonably construed as dangerous, unless harm was demonstrated. It's still
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   by rachelshu 6y ago

   "th" is occasionally /th/, for example in the compound word "hothouse".