xhevahir

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by xhevahir 5y ago
I agree. Then again, maybe the intersection of those two religious traditions will inevitably look like popular self-help discourse?
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The project has attracted a great deal of interest from celebrities like Grimes You don't say!
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I don't cite those names as authorities whose views on the historical influence of Christianity--which differ greatly in their particulars, by the way--demand acceptance. I'm presenting them as evidence that the subject is worth r
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by xhevahir 5y ago
It's late, but for the sake of thoroughness... I should explain that I meant belief in a very ordinary sense of the word. As in, I believe capital punishment is wrong , or, Mike doesn't believe in the existence of aliens . >W
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by xhevahir 5y ago
> and the $MJ cannabis ETF is down 70% since its 2019 peak. What does this mean?
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Then what do you mean by your remark about how atheists "derive" their moral beliefs? rayiner's comment was about the religious origins of certain beliefs and their persistence in Western societies--not about whatever explici
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If that's a straw man, then what would a more charitable interpretation of your comment look like?
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>Atheists don't derive their morals from these stories, that's the difference. The notion that atheists--or Christians, for that matter--ground their moral reasoning in first principles, completely free of unexamined assumption
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Apparently people have been experimenting with magnets in football helmets for several years now, albeit much larger ones: https://leaps.org/this-brain-doc-has-a-repulsive-idea-to-mak...
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OP seems to believe that people avoid going into valuable, practical work because it's too demanding, or because it doesn't pay enough. Yes, the roads in Seattle are full of potholes, despite the wealth of Amazon. That doesn'
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by xhevahir 5y ago
I don't think we're communicating. You asked: Have you really met anyone who wanted to actually put effort into something, had no barriers (lack of money / family support / etc) and didn't manage to do it? And got
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by xhevahir 5y ago
You asked for anecdotal evidence against this belief of yours and you got it. What do you want now?
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IIRC that's actually how a lot of academics in cultural studies, history, etc, used the term "appropriation" until the nineties or so, when the more disparaging usage seems to have won out.
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They're not using these languages as linguae francae, though. They're treating fluency in Latin and Greek as a mark of a scholar's preparation in the field of classics. (Less charitably, you might say they're using it si
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by xhevahir 5y ago
Spanish is the most commonly spoken non-English language in all but a few states, not just the sun belt.
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Most Americans who did study Spanish are hardly able to make practical use of it. Shit, I majored in it and I hardly ever use the language, aside from watching the odd TV show or reading a news story now and then. People mostly don't
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by xhevahir 5y ago
To be clear, I'm saying it's crazy that after all that time and effort this guy could read Greek only as well as French, which, from what I understood, he had learned in order to read the secondary literature in his field.
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by xhevahir 5y ago
Seems like just an inevitable outcome of ever-increasing academic specialization. (Well, that and from the fact that classical languages aren't taught to many schoolkids anymore.) Maybe in the nineteenth century reading Thucydides woul
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I've never understood what I'm supposed to do with things like this or mypy when--as is usually the case--I'm making heavy use of other libraries that don't have type annotations. The examples and tutorials I've see
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Mark Twain: 'A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.'
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by xhevahir 5y ago
I tried Dvorak on Android eight or ten years ago and realized that my Dvorak skill would not transfer to a touchscreen, since it consisted entirely of muscle memory and I had no experience of looking at a keyboard that was labeled that way.
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by xhevahir 5y ago
I switched after developing hand injuries at work (in a job that didn't involve computer use). Since then, whenever I've had to use QWERTY for whatever purpose I've started getting pain in my tendons after a few hours which g
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by xhevahir 5y ago
I remember reading a pretty interesting book (Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City) where the author found that a great proportion of the tip income among his study's subjects came from friends and associates who al
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Supposedly its origin is tied in with race relations. I only vaguely remember the historical explanation and I'm too tired to look into it right now. Anyway, I agree that the phenomenon is pretty degrading.
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Maybe look on that as compensation for decades of suppression by the central government?
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I like the story of how the foreign minister of the Bavarian Socialist Republic declared war on Switzerland and Württemberg for declining his request for sixty locomotives.
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Terry Eagleton: "...nobody would claim that their own thinking was ideological, just as nobody would habitually refer to themselves as Fatso. Ideology, like halitosis, is in this sense what the other person has."
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Should be removed by what or by whom? English doesn't have an equivalent of the Icelandic Language Institute or French Academy, and even if it did, there's no reason to believe that institution could control the development of a l
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"Asceticism" is probably a better term, I would guess.
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No. The Hermode tuning algorithm supposedly can, but that's a much more complicated thing.

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