normalnorm

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by normalnorm 6y ago
> I doubt the EU will survive in its current state. A lot of people desire this to be true, but that does not mean that it is. It is a particularly weird opinion to hold in the wake of the most recent challenge to its continuity -- the B
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by normalnorm 6y ago
You are looking for meaning. That is a normal human instinct. I am talking about power structures. They should be examined. Most people here are not willing to do that, because they figure they will soon be the top dogs. They are wrong, and
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by normalnorm 6y ago
I agree, but avoided the term precisely for the reason you cite.
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by normalnorm 6y ago
Big corporations like Amazon are part of the dominating class. Me (and probably you, since you need to ask the question -- no offense intended) are part of the dominated class. Two different sets of rules apply here, it's not a matter
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by normalnorm 6y ago
Pointing out that it is becoming a common mistake to confuse the verb "to have" with the preposition "of" -> pedantic! Failing to capitalize "Nazi" according to what the Oxford dictionary thinks is best for
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by normalnorm 6y ago
Yes, but this means that you don't understand the meaning of simple words. Doesn't that bother you?
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by normalnorm 6y ago
Regarding the capitalization of "N/nazi" People seem to disagree with you: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/73948/grammar-na... Regarding being pedantic: well, I'm not sure what to s
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by normalnorm 6y ago
> could of I am not a grammar nazi. I am not even a fucking native English speaker, but what the fuck??? Why is this mistake so prevalent these days?
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by normalnorm 6y ago
I've been noticing this "meme" recently on HN: that since company X (any one of the FAANGs) is American, it is not subject to European law. If it operated in Europe, it absolutely is. Believe it or not, the EU is also a sover
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by normalnorm 6y ago
> and get an authentic Man, the "silicon valley" writers are crushing it today!
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by normalnorm 6y ago
> The barriers are (1) tech stack, (2) use case, and (3) ethics, in that order. This sounds like a line that some good writer trying to make fun of silicon valley would come up with. If that's the case, good job!
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by normalnorm 6y ago
What? How on earth would you conclude this from that I wrote? I was replying to the idea that it is the "naturalist fallacy" to say that it is better to be develop good habits (in this case, eat better), than to just take some dru
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by normalnorm 6y ago
Normalizing obesity because you can take some drugs to stay alive (artificially lowering your cholesterol, blood pressure, etc) might not be the smartest idea ever. But yeah, maybe it's the naturalist fallacy. To each their own.
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by normalnorm 6y ago
The European Council is made of the democratically elected Heads of State of each Member State. The European Council nominates the president of the European Comission, which again has one member per Member State. The European Parliament, wh
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by normalnorm 6y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to sound aggressive against you, even if you were of a different opinion. I am a bit tired of all the disinformation on this topic, I highly value the European project -- it is not perfect but my life would be so m
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by normalnorm 6y ago
> realpolitik always wins The Brexit project placed a huge bet on that, and it seems they are losing. > this is news to me, and I can't find any evidence of it either It was widely reported at the time. Here you go: https:/
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by normalnorm 6y ago
> Nah, they'll want the budget contributions back. Also: "The German car industry will demand it", "The EU needs the UK more than the UK needs the EU", etc. All of this has been falsified in the last four years.
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by normalnorm 6y ago
> The baggage caused by the UK will dissipate in 5-10 years or so This is quite optimistic. I'm not sure if you live in the EU, but the UK severely tainted its image and destroyed all good-will with most powerful EU member states. I
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by normalnorm 6y ago
> As it is right now it's dead in the water for any commercial usage So what? If companies need a certain software, they can pay for it. I remember a time when FOSS was not about providing companies with free work, quite the opposit
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by normalnorm 6y ago
> We can fight it by electing the correct people. Can you? There are a few problems: firstly, the primaries are controlled by the parties, so you have a very limited menu to choose from when it comes to the actual elections. Secondly, th
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by normalnorm 6y ago
> Saying you were fired could be considered disparaging. I'm sorry, but I highly doubt that this is the case.
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by normalnorm 6y ago
Interesting point, but in most cases people say it when talking about themselves (I was let go) or in the hypothetical, as was the case here with OP: "When you get let go". So no risk of liability, there must be some other explana
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by normalnorm 6y ago
The EU is not some weird hive-mind, it has separation of powers just like the US. It is the European Court of Justice's job to overturn executive decisions that trample on the constitutional rights of its citizens, same as the Supreme
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by normalnorm 6y ago
> When you get let go I'm sorry for going a bit offtopic, but I have noticed this weird linguistic contortion "get let go" often. Why the euphemisms? You get fired. It doesn't hurt to speak plainly. This "let go&
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by normalnorm 6y ago
Here we go. The obligatory "you don't understand Gödel" post. > Ever since Gödel proved his theorem, people have used it as a metaphor for all kinds of things, from new age mysticism to psychology, biology, quantum physics
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by normalnorm 6y ago
Democracy is more of a principle (is just means that legitimacy of government comes from some aggregate choice of the governed), than a political system. Radically different political systems can be classified as democracies, all the way fr
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by normalnorm 6y ago
> By eating food that is more unhealthy for you in order to save the planet, it means that you have valued the planet's health above your own. I find this to be irrational. I find it more irrational to believe that one can be health
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by normalnorm 6y ago
The author seems to make a circular argument: foundational languages look like C++/Java, Python doesn't look like C++/Java, ergo Python is not a foundational language. There are no foundational languages, what is foundational
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by normalnorm 6y ago
> Disengaging based on an N=1 is not the type of individual action that improves our society. Statistical significance is not the only epistemological tool around. I would even argue that, outside of some scientific fields, it is really
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by normalnorm 6y ago
> How is this conclusion different than saying that, say, reading anything in any magazine is a waste of time because the magazine sells advertising space? It is different because the business model of the magazine is to create some con

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