samirillian

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by samirillian 10y ago
There seems to be a lot of confusion in this article and the comments between class and income-bracket. The bourgeoisie (the historical middle class) were precisely the nouveaux riches. In Europe especially, class made a lot of sense when y
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by samirillian 10y ago
Conflating "lawful" with "impossible to prosecute" definitely qualifies as doublespeak.
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by samirillian 10y ago
This isn't really much different from Kant's own critique of pure reason, where he, following Hume, agrees that we cannot know the in-itself, and redefines metaphysics as more epistemological than ontological. More recently, but s
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by samirillian 10y ago
Aren't there existing Craigslist apps that do most of this already?
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by samirillian 10y ago
Karp seems chill af
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by samirillian 10y ago
Art's a lot like real estate: an investment with a view. Sadly, the integrity of the view cannot be tolerated to outweigh the integrity of the market. The really strange thing to me was how little resemblance the painting bore to Doig&
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by samirillian 10y ago
I do believe that debord was aiming for more than shallow moralizing about the evils of capitalism. Marx certainly considered capitalism a step forward. But if we use the word capitalism at all, we are assuming that it constitutes a useful
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by samirillian 10y ago
Let me rephrase: the fact that the top comment on this thread fails to see irony in analogizing Thiel to EFF is proof of the relevance of the article. Just because EFF and Thiel share one superficial similarity it does not make what they do
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by samirillian 10y ago
Sounds like that poor Luftwaffe general/concerned father "doomed" the Bismarck more directly than someone who happened to transcribe a broken code. I wonder what his obituary was like.
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by samirillian 10y ago
Morsi was democratically elected.
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Consider de Balzac's Eugenie Grandet: Monsieur Grandet is something of a tragic character, tormented by the fact that he could not both circulate his currency and have it too.
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by samirillian 10y ago
Clearly David was just a grower, rather than a show-er. Also, he is in what any athlete will recognize as "sports mode". Also, it looks bigger in person. Nuff said
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There has to be a joke in there somewhere, right? Maybe the article is itself a test!
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by samirillian 11y ago
well i liked it!
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Ewww. This guy. This author could put a positive spin on Donald Trump.