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by sleazy_b 8y ago
The prohibition against conducting business on the sabbath might be where this comes from.
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by sleazy_b 8y ago
I read this book and, to be honest, did not enjoy it very much. It consists largely of profiles of people involved in this sort of philanthrocapitalism. The main theme seems to be that the ultra-wealthy have coopted the work of social insti
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by sleazy_b 8y ago
"The mass media was completely played by the GRU and wrote the stories they wanted after the DNC and Podesta disclosures. You could argue that this was much more impactful than the IRA disinfo, and there has been almost no self-reflect
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by sleazy_b 8y ago
These are some remarkable poems. I feel lucky that someone took the time to translate and share these poems on the internet where they can find a wider audience.
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by sleazy_b 8y ago
I don't think of rap as poetry. I love both, and to me the claim that rap is a form of poetry seems more like an unnecessary attempt to coopt the legitimacy of poetry than anything.
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by sleazy_b 8y ago
Fair point. I thought it was super strange that a book review would get flagged but didn't consider the fact that it was controversial.
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by sleazy_b 8y ago
Link to the Times review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/books/review/winners-take...
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Ask HN: Why was this post removed?
2 points by sleazy_b 8y ago|5 comments
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by sleazy_b 8y ago
I don't believe the author of this review is a regular contributor to the Times. I agree with you though, I very much enjoyed this piece.
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by sleazy_b 8y ago
This comment betrays a remarkable ignorance of mental illness. There is, in fact, a link between the commencement of a course of antidepressants and suicide, but to claim that "...mental illness is created as a result of these Big Phar
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by sleazy_b 8y ago
"Excuses for why shitty code is in production are probably legitimate excuses" Honestly, I don't think this is true in the general case. It's certainly true that there are times when deadlines mean code quality is going
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by sleazy_b 9y ago
Kind of a random one but Coursera's Audio Signal Processing for Music Applications was a ton of fun. I had basically no exposure to either the signal processing or the music side of this course and still learned a ton. Inspired me to m
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by sleazy_b 9y ago
Looks like
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by sleazy_b 9y ago
Kind of a strange read. I'm a huge fan of Coetzee, but I'm more interested in these photographs for what they can tell me about Coetzee the author (biographically) than I am in their artistic merits. The author of this article see
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by sleazy_b 9y ago
Not as far as I can tell
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Neovim newsletter #8: Open up the Windows(neovim.io)
2 points by sleazy_b 9y ago|0 comments
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by sleazy_b 9y ago
Another great vim option is vimwiki: https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki At a glance it supports all of the features provided by vim-orgmode, but it will probably never be as fully featured as emacs' orgmode
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by sleazy_b 9y ago
Pretty great article. I wonder how common this man's experience is; specifically that his identity as a Jew is defined in some way by oppression. I was raised as a Jew in New York and hardly saw any overt antisemitism (the few times I
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by sleazy_b 9y ago
I don't think anyone was describing anyone as hard-working. I'm sure the rich are also a mixed bag when it comes to how hard-working they are. If it skews more in one direction or the other depending on which group we're talk
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Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by sleazy_b 9y ago|0 comments
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Terry Riley's “In C”: A Journey Through a Musical Possibility Space(teropa.info)
1 points by sleazy_b 9y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Why does Vim use Vimscript
1 points by sleazy_b 10y ago|2 comments
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Massively Interleaved Sprite Crunch – C64 Demo Effect (2016)(linusakesson.net)
152 points by sleazy_b 10y ago|25 comments
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by sleazy_b 10y ago
That's actually the point the previous poster is trying to make. It's easy to have an inclusive society when everyone in that society is the same, and it's difficult to have one when there is so much cultural variation within
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by sleazy_b 10y ago
To anyone that's remotely interested, I'd really suggest getting yourself a copy of PICO-8 to fiddle with. When people post their games, they include all the code/assets by default, so there's a ton of stuff to read and
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by sleazy_b 10y ago
The fact that Dwarf Fortress hasn't been posted here is shocking to me. Probably the coolest game I've ever seen in the sense that it excites me as to what video games can accomplish. Basically built by one guy, Tarn Adams, with s
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by sleazy_b 10y ago
This is what the author herself says in the article. Specifically, that feature queries should be used when you only want to apply a set of styles if a given feature is supported.