samirillian

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by samirillian 3y ago
This is an old article, according to Wikipedia the charges have been dropped
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by samirillian 3y ago
Okay, now can I read the intercept version of this story.
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by samirillian 3y ago
No comment on human exceptionalism per se but I think you have the logic a little backwards. The "higher" process would be to act according to reason, not according to one's dopamine receptions.
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by samirillian 3y ago
From the Wikipedia on the Pleiades: > Its light is dominated by young, hot blue stars, up to 14 of which can be seen with the naked eye depending on local observing conditions and visual acuity of the observer. Not sure where you got thi
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by samirillian 3y ago
Seems like they could just put something sturdier on the corners of the phones, feel like that's how they usually get cracked
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by samirillian 3y ago
Well you don't do much for your argument about reading by claiming that seeing measles in person is what convinced you.
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by samirillian 3y ago
Lol, for the record, this is why I didn't make a claim one way or the other.
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by samirillian 3y ago
My personal theory is that if you're an extrovert, you were more resistant to the quarantine, because you couldn't see your friends, and there's some connection between that and getting the vaccine, like you'd probably a
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by samirillian 3y ago
I don't know that much about it, but the impression I got from studying TLA+ was that machine-executable code was distinctly not mathematics, and that programs are never provable. Am I wrong? Or is this just the kind of sensational s
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by samirillian 3y ago
Imagine the tattoos
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by samirillian 3y ago
Fun fact, the guy the FBI claims was behind the Anthrax attacks was apparently a fan of Hofstadter: > A week later, just after 1:00 a.m. on the morning of November 8, the FBI stated that Ivins was observed throwing away "a copy of a
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by samirillian 3y ago
> the founding axiom that most folks will have is that the "normal" ethical view is the "correct" view. I half-see your point here, and there are many other points to be made about ethics (which I still think Nietzsch
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by samirillian 3y ago
I agree, though it's consistent with the extremes to which non-harm gets taken in many Eastern religions, which according to the article were a strong influence on his ethics. Not eating root-vegetables, etc.
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by samirillian 3y ago
What negative responses do you expect? Don't feel like there are a lot of HN dualists out there.
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by samirillian 3y ago
I've thought the same thing, haha. I was thinking about going the other way though, with dor for and/or and or for xor. We already have doff and don, which for some reason seem like similar constructions.
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by samirillian 3y ago
Also they look cool. Also they're a platonic solid. The golden ratio is built into pentagons, they're tricky to construct with a compass, basically they're cool
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by samirillian 3y ago
No we can't revive these terms, that would be prescriptivism.
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by samirillian 3y ago
Okay, originally I just had to read 1984, to comment on an hn thread, now I need a 4 year linguistics degree. Increasing appeals to authority, when the previous one fails you. You seem to be arguing that descriptivism is just what linguisti
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by samirillian 3y ago
I get heated about this lol. If you really meant well, I'm not sure what to say. Try reading a comment before responding to it. My original comment was about the validity of an Orwell analogy, a point which you have absolutely refused
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by samirillian 3y ago
First of all, I have read 1984, and I wouldn't take issue with the analogy if I hadn't. Whether you have read any other books, I cannot say. Second, you say Orwell isn't a linguist, and language just happens, but then you exp
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by samirillian 3y ago
> What's the point of arguing about the correctness of a phrase when it does a perfect job of conveying meaning? See this is what I mean when I say that your position is closer to the Newspeak ethos. What's wrong with ungood, a
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by samirillian 3y ago
Okay now you're just trolling me. The question that starts with "I have a question for you." Did you look at the Orwell link. > Underneath this lies the half-conscious belief that language is a natural growth and not an in
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by samirillian 3y ago
You literally didn't answer my one question, yet you keep asking more. Even Socrates answered questions when asked. I could engage your other points, but why bother
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by samirillian 3y ago
My main point is only that comparing this to newspeak is totally backwards.
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by samirillian 3y ago
Well this guy on Wikipedia, who clearly cares more then you do, for one. Dictionaries, style guides, people like Orwell, the French do have a ministry to maintain the language. I've answered your question, now I have one for you: Did y
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by samirillian 3y ago
I don't agree with your 1984 analogy at all. A better source might be George Orwell's actual, explicit opinions on politics and the English language: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwe
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by samirillian 3y ago
I think you're posing a false dichotomy here. I, as a person who is still fuzzy on how to recycle, did not feel blamed. I agree with the general sentiment; nobody knows the rules! We should've had a whole class on shit like this i
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by samirillian 3y ago
It's not a strawman, it's a reductio ad absurdum.
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Let me get this straight. The hill you're dying on is never destroy anything under any circumstances, no matter how useless, aesthetically repulsive, or morally reprehensible, because those things are merely subjective, but not destroy
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by samirillian 3y ago
I disagree. This happened in my city. A confederate statue was quietly moved to a more welcoming town. To me, this is no solution. I simply don't accept moral equivocation about chattel slavery. All things in moderation, including mode

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