xhevahir

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   by xhevahir 4y ago

   There are other meaningful political categories besides the ones that designate parties. Irving Kristol, the closest the movement has to a founder, himself embraced the label. And it's pretty uncontroversial which people decidedly belo
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   by xhevahir 4y ago

   I don't see how it's any less meaningful than "liberal," or "conservative." Each of these terms labels a set of family resemblances and is dependent on context.
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   by xhevahir 4y ago

   That sense of "neoliberal" is peculiar to American politics, as far as I can tell. I'd say it's more likely the blogger means a person who wants free trade, deregulation, etc.
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   by xhevahir 4y ago

   If you want to read his latest, he put out his first novel in a long time just yesterday.
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   by xhevahir 4y ago

   > There also wasn't much mixing of isolated populations of humans, leading to a relatively large amount of inbreeding. The genetics of Rome's population at the beginning of the Common Era were almost identical to that of Anatol
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   by xhevahir 4y ago

   I was surprised to read a while ago that all known Polynesian peoples are descended from groups that migrated from Taiwan. Apparently the story is not that simple though: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.15032
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   by xhevahir 4y ago

   I tried Dvorak on my Android phone years ago, thinking I would gain from having the same layout on both my phone and my computer. Since my Dvorak skill was entirely muscle memory, though, and I had much better conscious knowledge of QWERT
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   by xhevahir 4y ago

   I was taking issue with the prevailing definition in this thread of literature as "high fiction." Not suggesting that those two examples are older than Gilgamesh.
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   by xhevahir 4y ago

   I don't get why people are defining "literature" so narrowly as to exclude things like wisdom literature. Ecclesiastes isn't literature? Or the poetry of Hesiod? That's pretty eccentric. There's also the proble
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    by xhevahir 4y ago

    > Such a tree mostly describes word similarity. It describes genetic descent.
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    by xhevahir 4y ago

    I don't know. There are lots of other places where you can get tin and zinc and so on, but that hasn't stopped people from wrecking lots of Bolivia in order to mine them. If the demand is there some poor and/or corrupt countr
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    by xhevahir 4y ago

    Israel's religion began its transition to monotheism a very long time after the period when this script was in use. Anyway, I think your approach sounds better suited to languages than to religions.
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    by xhevahir 4y ago

    > If, instead, you wrote a story framed in a way that might change a few people's minds, you won't get nearly the number of likes... Or, more painfully, you'll see a lot of derisive quote-tweets, subtweets, hostile screenc
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    by xhevahir 4y ago

    The assumption of most of the comments here is that bad writing is a matter of incompetence, but in the case of public policy I think Hanlon's Razor no longer applies. Given what we know about Texas politics and American ballot measure
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    by xhevahir 4y ago

    A philosopher at my alma mater wrote a controversial paper accusing Kripke of plagiarism. I'm not competent to weigh in on that question, but I thought this article was interesting: http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org&#x2
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    by xhevahir 4y ago

    You might be interested in the broader subject of pragmatics, too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatics
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    by xhevahir 4y ago

    Surprising that the article doesn't mention Judith Butler, since it was her later, idiosyncratic use of the term "performative" that gained currency among bloggers and Tumblr user and so on, and from there entered common disc
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    by xhevahir 4y ago

    Last weekend a high school sophomore told me his class was using Java with BlueJ. He'd never heard the term "object-oriented," which I thought was interesting. He said the previous year his class had covered some Python. Usin
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    by xhevahir 4y ago

    I don't think Kramer is a good example of this. The Simpsons characters, and I suppose most Friends ones as well, gained depth (or at least the audience's affection) over the course of several seasons, whereas Seinfeld stuck to it
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    by xhevahir 4y ago

    When I read The Selfish Gene that explanation was very convincing to my (layman's) mind, but I've since wondered if some sort of "multilevel selection" mightn't do a better job of explaining both individual and grou
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    by xhevahir 4y ago

    Replying to add that just last week the Pope dissolved the leadership of this particular group (the Sovereign Military Order of Malta) and announced major reforms to it. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pope-di
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    by xhevahir 4y ago

    Leonard Leo, who's had more influence over the selection of Supreme Court Justices than just about anyone, belongs to a Catholic secret society. It's not silliness or paranoia to worry about groups like these.
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    by xhevahir 4y ago

    The last I heard CCL still didn't support Apple's new range of processors, which sounds bad for its future.
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    by xhevahir 4y ago

    From what I understand Lebanon's Bekaa Valley has been the source of many high-quality counterfeit bills (article here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdollar ), so merchants' refusal to accept old bills
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    by xhevahir 4y ago

    I don't know. I didn't think a mere audio interface plus soundfonts was an adequate replacement for a really good soundcard like the Yamaha SW100XG: https://www.musicradar.com/news/blast-from-the-past-yamaha-s
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    by xhevahir 4y ago

    Is there any explanation for the frequent Rene Girard references on HN besides the influence of Peter Thiel? It's odd. I'm not all that familiar with his work but in most circles you're probably more likely to see names like
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    by xhevahir 4y ago

    I mentioned this fretboard yesterday in another thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32626218 ). One of the main proponents of the design talks about its advantages here: https://youtu.be/D8EjCTb88o
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    by xhevahir 4y ago

    A license has to be purchased, and I think only Steinberg's Cubase and Apple's Logic Pro offer it as a feature. Since Steinberg is owned by Yamaha I suppose they might be allowed to use it in a hardware synthesizer, but as far as
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    by xhevahir 4y ago

    You might like to hear this proprietary algorithm: http://www.hermode.com/index_en.html Since you're a guitarist, there's also this Swedish guitar, which purports to solve the tuning problem (which I tend to think
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    by xhevahir 4y ago

    Yes! That's the one!