violiner

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by violiner 2y ago
Guess I'll get to see all those screenshots of my lock screen one last time.
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by violiner 3y ago
Yeah I read it as "Astmally pdrtable echesmtable". People shouldn't do this.
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by violiner 3y ago
OK, sure, it is possible to imagine a culture in which the principle of free speech is above and supersedes all other principles. That culture would be terrible. Suppose I'm at that bar and Nazi Bob starts spouting Nazi nonsense. Is th
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by violiner 3y ago
You've edited this at least twice since I started to write so who knows what this will by the time I hit 'reply', but this is really weird. If I can't choose not to associate with someone because of something they said t
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by violiner 3y ago
I'm really, genuinely happy for you that the thing you're passionate about is something you're good at and is extremely lucrative, but if I tried to make a living doing what I'm passionate about I'd live in a cardbo
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by violiner 4y ago
> there's always room for optimism. Bold claim.
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by violiner 4y ago
Is it italki ( https://www.italki.com/ )? You can hire tutors there for online lessons.
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by violiner 4y ago
> The eastern mystery cults of the late B.C. era I'd hesitate to categorically lump all of the ancient mystery religions in with the rest of your list. Some of them were pretty strange, even for the ancient world, but e.g. the Eleus
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by violiner 4y ago
> Never before has crypto looked so criminal, wasteful and useless. That’s really saying something!
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by violiner 4y ago
On the rare occasions when a friend will ask why I don't use Uber my reply is "Because I don't support organized crime."
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by violiner 5y ago
> a new developer could hit the ground flying. Sounds like a plane crash. :)
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by violiner 5y ago
I, for one, have embraced my negative partisanship. I'm not a Democrat. I'm an anti-Republican.
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by violiner 5y ago
> Not everyone can take a year off, the world is unfair, and some people will live better lives than others. This is literally what privilege means. It's not an insult.
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by violiner 5y ago
The work at Keep Silence is excellent.
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by violiner 5y ago
Thank you for the recommendations.
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by violiner 5y ago
Thank you for the recommendations. That's very helpful. I'm less bullish on bilingual editions (I know Ancient Greek well, and Latin a little less well, so I'm not totally uninformed) but I'm unlikely to ever be as profi
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by violiner 5y ago
What are you using to study Akkadian?
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by violiner 5y ago
High fives none the less.
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by violiner 5y ago
"King" is derived from Old English "cyning". Some similar words (Tsar and Kaiser, for example) derive from "Caesar", but "king" isn't one of them.
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by violiner 6y ago
It would be sweet if you could configure the forms and meters that it would accept.
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by violiner 6y ago
It won't do what I want when I click it, So now I will open a ticket. It should do the right thing And not be a pain, Would you please help me out now and fix it?
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by violiner 6y ago
> That doesn't mean they should write prose in their reports. I, too, would prefer bug reports written in verse.
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by violiner 6y ago
> a classics degree is the easiest option You have clearly never studied Ancient Greek.
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by violiner 6y ago
Serious question: You say that engaging with the least sophisticated form of the argument is beneath him, but if that's the form of the argument he chooses to engage in, is it?
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by violiner 6y ago
That's fair, and I get the branding distinction. Maybe I just think it's played out and there needs some new way to communicate that. When I someone emails me about working at a startup I think "No, I don't want to humor
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by violiner 6y ago
Pretty much. When I hear someone call their project a "startup" instead of a "business" I assume they're trying to scam the world.
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by violiner 6y ago
I'm not saying you're wrong, but this type of argument where I'm asked to care about someone's business model really unconvincing in general. Someone else telling me that they need something sketchy to make money isn&#x2
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by violiner 12y ago
My Greek professor called them the Loebomenoi.
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by violiner 12y ago
To read a text as you would one in a modern language - look up words when you need to in order to understand a passage, learn what you can from context, etc. Do your best to read instead of translating - those are fundamentally different ac
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by violiner 12y ago
I was cautioned against using this approach too much when I studied Classical Greek and Latin in college. There are two potential problems, as I understand it. First, learning a language, particularly an ancient language, involves learning

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