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1. 1561.▲
   by rexpop 10y ago

   In fact communication is difficult, and its failure is always the fault of the communicator.
2. 1562.▲
   by rexpop 10y ago

   And this is because the American hippocampus has been rendered semi-inoperable by generations of industry-lobbied, federally-subsidized corn-syrup-induced diabetes.
3. 1563.▲
   by rexpop 10y ago

   If the issue is users' behavior, then the fault lies with the designers.
4. 1564.▲
   by rexpop 10y ago

   Wait, there are people who remember things from their showers!? If that's normal, then there is something wrong with me, too.
5. 1565.▲
   by rexpop 10y ago

   In fact, it may not be upsetting, but merely another in a long line of brief experiences that inform the audience — male and female — that women have no place in technical documentation, technical stories, programming, technology, prosperit
6. 1566.▲
   by rexpop 10y ago

   The pervasive use of males pronouns in technical documentation — not to mention roles of power at large in society — intimates that "someone like you should" NOT "work on the project", if you're not male.
7. 1567.▲
   by rexpop 10y ago

   For how many centuries must we edify ourselves that programming is for men? Are your gendered "modes of thought" so fragile and unattractive that they can't subsist in consenting minds, and must instead be protected, and fois
8. 1568.▲
   by rexpop 10y ago

   1) As true as that is, it's actually a worthwhile exercise for all of us to practice gender neutrality. If we move our industry toward inclusivity, we'll more than make up for these minute productivity fears. 2) Using a gendered
9. 1569.▲
   by rexpop 10y ago

   It what way is it desirable for a business to remain "true to its roots"? What value does your nostalgia — for an inorganic, venture-backed cash machine — serve you, your society or your species?
10. 1570.▲
    by rexpop 10y ago

    As silly as sharun's solution is, many of us are becoming a society of addicts, not "a few narcissists."
11. 1571.▲
    by rexpop 10y ago

    This is awesome! I am definitely going to read some Leibniz after this. Would you recommend his Monadology? To say "only God can understand the future" is an unnecessary personification of our incompleteness. I think the future o
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    by rexpop 10y ago

    Who, if not our "captured legislatures" is to act? "We don't need an alternative very much" today, perhaps, but I fear this may be like saying the Titanic had little need for life rafts _when in dry dock_.
13. 1573.▲
    by rexpop 10y ago

    Or, perhaps, that is part of the story of submission we're fed as propaganda.
14. 1574.▲
    by rexpop 10y ago

    It's "The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul" by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett "The Mind's Eye" is by Oliver Sacks (who has almost definitely read Hofstadter/Dennett)
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    by rexpop 10y ago

    I fast for three days before I travel. I've done so since reading[0] that it might strengthen the immune response, and I loathe illness while traveling. Frankly, I am just happy to see HN talking about diet and health. My my inclinat
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    by rexpop 10y ago

    If you want a pretty dry, technical and exhaustive exploration of collective intention, I got a lot out of John Searle's "The Construction of Social Reality".
17. 1577.▲
    by rexpop 10y ago

    It more likely comes from a handwritten 'ps', an abbreviation for 'peso' in old Spanish-American books.
18. 1578.▲
    by rexpop 10y ago

    This is important. There's a fine line between calling women's needs "special needs" and implying the primacy of maleness. Indeed, both men and women have a superset of human concerns. The union is never instantiated.
19. 1579.▲
    by rexpop 10y ago

    Wow, it seems linguistic prescriptivism has a stronger foothold in engineering domains. Probably fewer social class issues.
20. 1580.▲
    by rexpop 10y ago

    "old school PIM"? Wikipedia and I find this ambiguous [1]. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIM
21. 1581.▲
    by rexpop 10y ago

    Whoops, I am a bad community member and posted before seeing this. Yeah, Gingko is really phenomenal, especially for multiplayer!
22. 1582.▲
    by rexpop 10y ago

    And then there is Gingko[1], a beautiful, keyboard-shortcutted, markdown-enabled tree editor that exports to html, markdown, LaTeX, docx, impress.js, and json. Gingko provide templates for Timelines, Screenplays, GTD and Academic papers, bu
23. 1583.▲
    by rexpop 10y ago

    I can't imagine the controversy.
24. 1584.▲
    by rexpop 10y ago

    What comprises "normal diet"?
25. 1585.▲
    by rexpop 10y ago

    What comprises a "normal healthy diet?"
26. 1586.▲
    by rexpop 10y ago

    https://qz.com/694340/the-richest-families-in-florence-in-14...
27. 1587.▲
    by rexpop 10y ago

    > what's to stop you from being in that 1%? You wrote this like it were a rhetorical question, but let's talk about social mobility. Wikipedia[1] will tell you that it's "movement of individuals... between social str
28. 1588.▲
    by rexpop 10y ago

    We skim conversations at parties. I think we can technologically enable this cognitive faculty.
29. 1589.▲
    by rexpop 10y ago

    It is very Google-like. A wonder, then, that we aren't all out robbing banks.
30. 1590.▲
    by rexpop 10y ago

    When I read, I skip a lot of words. I try to write so you don't have to. So, thank you! Much appreciated.