red-montaigne

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by red-montaigne 6y ago
Orwell was commenting on this decades ago. Any government you like is a "democracy," any government you don't like is fascist or communist. "Politics and the English Language" is a masterpiece. On the other hand, I
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by red-montaigne 6y ago
I'm thinking more of a writer sitting down and struggling to choose the correct word to identify a thought. I wouldn't say they're "conveying information." At that point they don't have information. I would
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by red-montaigne 6y ago
Great example of how language is a tool for thinking, but it's also a tool for not thinking. If you want to ignore or obfuscate something, you can seal it off with euphemisms and misrepresentations, kind of like putting an interface in
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by red-montaigne 6y ago
Yeah that's one approach, you can just choose not to care. I'm sure I'm also on Linux lists and crap like that, but that doesn't mean I want to end up on a bunch of other ones. Particularly with the vehemence in American
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by red-montaigne 6y ago
Not really. I'm in the same boat: I'm an independent who likes to get an omnivorous information diet, but I've regularly avoided looking into certain things I'm curious about because I know there will be a record of it a
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by red-montaigne 6y ago
Don't disagree with your points, but it's worth considering: 1. The Founding Fathers were products of their place and time. Many other countries engaged in the slave trade and employed slave labor, and women played a similar role
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by red-montaigne 6y ago
You explained the fundamental philosophical divide in software development today. One group sees development as a process of production. They still think of developers as people who produce code. The other group sees software development as