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by seti0Cha 4y ago
> In these cases the casualties are authenticity, connection, a frank assessment of and confrontation with reality, and humanity. In lieu of them, we've created a network of symbols and signs overtop of existence that pretends to be
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
> see the censorship/moderation debate in public discourse today. I think a direct line can be drawn between societal Nicespeak and our almost compulsive need to scrub social media et al. of anything sufficiently nonconformist. I&#
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
I disagree. First, insincere polite speech greatly predates the existence of corporations, and second, it exists between parties who are on equal terms as often as between superior and subordinate. Consider the niceties of diplomats, for ex
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
> when it is mandated it ceases to be courtesy I don't think there's anything contradictory about mandated courtesy, unless you mean it in the sense of "consideration". I think the primary meaning is closer to etiquet
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The alternative to pursuing excellence is not usually pursuing second-rateness, but simply not pursuing excellence. It's a lack of effort, rather than misdirected effort.
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
It seems to me that nicespeak is nothing more than our culture's embodiment of courtesy, or etiquette. Our society self-consciously strives to be egalitarian, so formality and honorifics sit poorly with us. However, unscripted social i
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
"says something about you" is a warning shot for a potential shaming campaign. The expected reaction is for the warned party to backpedal to avoid having their defects loudly discussed. You can see it play out in other responses,
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Oh, the kids are going to have fun figuring out how to trigger that thing.
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It's not unheard of either and likely makes very little difference in the actual discoverability of the document.
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And my point was that the scenario of one person needing to transmit knowledge to a single other person over fast stretches of time does not properly characterize any problem people actually face. Engineering your solution for that constrai
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This whole thing strikes me as silly. Problems accessing services while alone in a boat in the middle of the sea is not anything like the general problem of preserving information and technology. We don't need to make knowledge individ
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
I'm more of an ops and backend guy, but I used to do a lot of web development in the early days of the web - assembling HTML, a sprinkling of javascript, hand-rolled CSS and embedded styles. In a certain way it was very simple, but in
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
Do you really believe the racist effect of colonialism would cause this academic to not realize that his own father was producing Arabic script, which he himself is fluent in, on a regular basis? I don't doubt that a bunch of people ma
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
Which wrongs do you think we have yet to recognize? Maybe I'm being naive, but it seems to me that we (by which I mean modern American and European society) have taken a pretty thorough inventory in the last few decades, at least of ou
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
> If I knew that everything I have is built on genocide, I would feel pretty wrong. Well, isn't it? Human history is a bloody affair from the first days of farming to today. History is a long series of wrongs. How shall we undo them
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
I have to admit I got discouraged by the implausible narrative and didn't finish reading, so maybe it's addressed, but it seemed very strange to me that this scholar's father, his neighbors, and apparently many others around
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
Interesting, but those aren't very high stakes controversial opinions. People may strongly disagree with them, but they aren't likely to lead to a declined job offer, workplace difficulties or harassment. There are many stances fo
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
The next sentence is: > This corresponded almost exactly with things I shouldn't have been doing anyway, so it wasn't too hard. The writer appears to be saying that there is no conflict between what he thinks is right and what
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
Ah, so you are saying the mere act of disagreement is an act of courage. I think maybe you mean this in the sense that we fear to be different, that it is our internal condemnation of self we are facing down...a Nietzschian will to power ki
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
I think I more or less understand as well, but I have a pet peeve about people using the word "cowardice" for things they think are morally wrong. The classic example was how everyone was calling the 9/11 bombers cowardly, wh
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
It sounds like you are saying the courageous path is privately defying the consensus. It seems to me that courage is only involved when you are willing to do so publicly. I'm not saying that one should, but I don't think the cowar
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
> draft company-internal emails as if they may someday be leaked, and try hard to make choices such that if they became public I'd be comfortable standing behind my actions A lot of people here are reacting to this post based on pol
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
I can understand calling it foolish, I can understand calling it naive, but why are you calling it cowardice? What fear is he giving in to? He doesn't seem to be avoiding engaging in things he would like to for fear he will be discover
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
That sounds pretty cool. Not sure it sounds very profitable, but I hope it is because it sounds well suited to my tastes. Have you considered curating for physical book quality? The emergence of the e-book has caused me to pay more attentio
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
If you want to be around people, you might try going to midnight mass at your local Catholic church. You don't have to participate or talk to anyone and you might enjoy the music. If you are not a church person, then doing something yo
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
On call, but not too worried because most of our breakages are usage based and not much usage on Christmas. I've been paged on Christmas morning before though, so I know how that feels.
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> It does not take a genius to figure out that expensive end of life care paid with taxpayer funds and the country’s labor resources could instead be going towards things like education or infrastructure. And there are a great many peopl
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I understand that assisted suicide is inaccurate, but assisted dying sounds like a too broadly applicable euphemism. We might say we assist criminals on death row with dying, for instance. However, a euphemism is necessary in these circumst
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> I'd argue both are horrible trade-offs and can be somewhat lessened with better regulations. I don't see how that's possible. Sure, the egregious cases by healthcare professionals can be prevented, but I don't see
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
I might have agreed with you back when people generally agreed what the term referred to. Now that it means whatever people want, I think it's a shitty heuristic to follow.

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