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by smhost 6y ago
That's exactly what I mean. Pre-modern etymology was different than it is now. For example, the ancient greeks weren't interested in tracing a word back to some geographic-historical commodity. They were interested in tracing a wo
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by smhost 6y ago
> Then I feel cheated, knowing that the original form said something with the different meaning ironically, "meaning" as a thing that belongs to a technical dissection of single words/phrases is a fairly modern notion.
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by smhost 6y ago
This is so meandering and incoherent that it's hard to comment on, but the idea that silicon valley and finance types are "independent-minded" is downright laughable. It's pretty clear that those types are in lock-step w
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by smhost 7y ago
Hong Kong isn't a people's revolution. There are contradicting forces operating within the protesters, and if they succeed (which of course I hope they do), the people will soon realize that they've swapped out one master for
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by smhost 7y ago
you're 1) arguing with yourself and 2) pretending like there's no tradeoff between profit and safety.
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by smhost 7y ago
profit
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by smhost 7y ago
lower flow rate
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by smhost 7y ago
well, i don't know if either of you have been paying attention to anything that's been happening the past several decades, but there's an inherent problem with the codification of offensiveness. if everything's just a bu
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by smhost 7y ago
you're mostly arguing against a straw man, so i won't address those points, but there are still some interesting things you're wrong about. so even if you take away the controllers completely, decades of marketing industry re
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by smhost 7y ago
maybe, maybe not. other animal species use play as a way to simulate potentially dangerous scenarios in order to learn certain behaviors. i think it's naive to assume that there's nothing instructive happening within core video ga
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Oral History of Brian Kernighan [video](youtube.com)
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by smhost 7y ago
then it's a good thing that piece of shit is dead lol
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by smhost 7y ago
i didn't say "racial equality", i meant the radical equality that flattens everything. i'm talking about the tradition that rejects prophets, rejects hierarchy, rejects teleology, etc.
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by smhost 7y ago
the term "eurocentric" normally isn't about NA vs EU rivalry, but rather about "european identity" in the white supremacist sense. (the caveat is that radical equality is also a distinctly european tradition, but st
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by smhost 7y ago
what're you trying say, exactly? that people who get more satifaction from doing a job should be paid less? if you want to start assigning a dollar value to subjective experiences like that, the argument goes both ways. you should pay
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by smhost 7y ago
you're already cheating when you compare ancient vs modern methods of production. technologies are basically extensions of human capabilities in reified form. so if you choose a method of production that relies heavily on advanced tech
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by smhost 7y ago
currently, https://stallman.org/ says: > I continue to be the Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project. I do not intend to stop any time soon. apparently the site was previously defaced by an FSF employee.
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by smhost 7y ago
stallman is still the head of the GNU project.
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by smhost 7y ago
Unless something has changed recently, stallman is still the head of the GNU project ( https://www.fudzilla.com/news/49493-richard-stallman-says-i-... ). and according to stallman's personal site, he's found in
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by smhost 7y ago
from reading just this comment, i would have assumed that stallman was stripped of all his land and titles and made to starve under a bridge. what really happened was that he went from holding leadership positions in three prominent institu
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by smhost 7y ago
better yet, just abolish copyright and replace it with some automatic compensation system for the original author. i don't know if "society" would exactly be better off if 100 film studios were all competing to make the best
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by smhost 7y ago
we should start calling bottled water "plastic water"
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by smhost 7y ago
it's about users being able to control information flow on their own devices in whatever way they want. the privacy concerns are secondary.
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by smhost 7y ago
at the same time, i don't know how comfortable i feel about incentivizing ad distribution companies to become more stealthy.
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by smhost 7y ago
that's pretty hilarious if it's actually the way you think. according to you, having progressive taxation is exactly the same thing as millions of people dying due to a natural disaster. how am i even supposed to have a conversati
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by smhost 7y ago
you say that like it's a bad thing. if people are starving and some person has excess food that they can't even eat, it's good to steal that person's food.
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by smhost 7y ago
DoJ is suing ed snowden for all proceeds from this book. https://archive.is/M0L8j
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by smhost 7y ago
where are you getting those numbers? "Trump Revokes Obama-Era Rule on Disclosing Civilian Casualties From U.S. Airstrikes Outside War Zones" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/us/politics/t
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by smhost 7y ago
yes, they're mutually reinforcing. in a perverse way, u.s. drone strikes are good for terrorist organizations, and terrorist attacks are good for major stakeholders of military capital. that's why you will see some perverts who wi
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by smhost 7y ago
you must not be very familiar with rms if you think he's not being sincere for "grinding another axe at the same time". stallman has been grinding all of his axes, at all times, without exception. this is the only time to my

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