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by readymade 11y ago
Let's be completely honest, we're all somebody's rich friend on this site.
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by readymade 11y ago
I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that "less racist than France" means "not racist". And even if you buy that silly study as an objective measure of the deeply complex topic of racism, it still marks J
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by readymade 11y ago
No link to the original research, or any input from linguists? Puhleeeze.
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by readymade 11y ago
I agree, it's rather appalling scholarship and it’s disappointing that this is being taken seriously here. A novice writes a paper with no citations, an amateur writes one with practically nothing but them. Any one of the academic arti
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by readymade 11y ago
You'd rarely want to write lambda calculus directly for practical purposes, although Caramel looks like a very nice shorthand. But it's the fundamental basis of what functional programming is all about, and its equivalency to the
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by readymade 11y ago
It's one of those things that's easier said than done, like "just letting go" (the word 'just' in that phrase is brutal). But I think it can be practiced. Imagine in an ideal sense the love a parent has for the
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by readymade 11y ago
I knew someone who majored in Physics, let it go to their head, and took an introductory Linguistics course, dismissively saying it would be an easy A. They flunked the class, admittedly with no shortage of schadenfreude on my part. I also
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by readymade 11y ago
IRC doesn't have a 3 billion dollar valuation.
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by readymade 11y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/opinion/oliver-sacks-on-le... http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/opinion/my-periodic-table....
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by readymade 11y ago
Our brains are pretty adept at resolving such ambiguities through context, implicit rules of pragmatics, etc. Sentence (2) may be less syntactically ambiguous but longer range dependencies, at a certain point, run up against hard limits in
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by readymade 11y ago
For anyone new to OSC, liblo ( http://liblo.sourceforge.net/ ) fits the bill for a lightweight C implementation whose initial commit wasn't 8 hours ago.
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by readymade 11y ago
First thing that came to my mind as well.
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by readymade 11y ago
You bring up an interesting point. There's some neurolinguistic research that points to profanity being more the domain of the amygdala, the so-called "reptilian brain". This is supported by both neuroimaging and studies of p
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by readymade 11y ago
Meaning is kind of a tricky thing. Who decides what a word means and when? Has a dictionary ever defined the complex web of emotions tied to that or any other hateful slur? Can the OED tell you what it feels like for a person of color to he
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by readymade 11y ago
Israel is considered an occupying power within Gaza and the West Bank according to international law. Comparisons with Mexico and Canada are not particularly relevant, in that regard.
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by readymade 12y ago
Memory leaks are still possible when using GC, of course, unless one operates with a strict definition that only includes unreferenced objects.
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by readymade 12y ago
NativeScript: The Framework for developers with low expectations!
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by readymade 12y ago
Sleep is one of the best parts of life, why cut it short?
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by readymade 12y ago
Reminiscing about the byegone days of San Francisco's cultural relevance on HN is the height of irony.
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by readymade 12y ago
+ 1M
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by readymade 12y ago
don't quit your day job...
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by readymade 12y ago
You are technically correct about "technically correct", which is the best kind of "almost correct".
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by readymade 12y ago
Analogies rarely, if ever, imply a total equivalence between the things being compared. That's what makes them analogies, not formal deductive proofs.
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by readymade 12y ago
Why do you hate to say it?
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by readymade 12y ago
These kind of injunctions do more harm that good, I think. Style is incredibly variable, changes with the tides, and rarely follows any well defined set of rules. I've always resonated with the way Robert M. Pirsig describes it in Zen
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by readymade 12y ago
I'll pay you $50 to post it on here and embarrass yourself. Do you accept bitcoin?
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by readymade 12y ago
Oh great, because HN needs more logical fallacy callouts.
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by readymade 12y ago
One of the interesting properties of fuzzy logic is that you can model boolean logic as a special case.
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by readymade 12y ago
Not sure what you'd define as useful, but the core value add for UA these days is more in location-based segmentation, rich messaging, automation tools, etc. Sending a single broadcast notification is the most basic thing you could do,
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by readymade 12y ago
It's been well documented that around 8-10 months, infants lose the ability to distinguish between phonemes that do not meaningfully contrast in their linguistic environment. An English speaker can certainly hear the tones, and may eve

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