yesenadam

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by yesenadam 3y ago
I'm not sure how to respond to that comment, which I find profoundly shocking and depressing. I've read some HN comments before which for some reason suggest a large-scale nuclear "war" wouldn't be so bad, but..this
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by yesenadam 3y ago
Nobel, inventor of dynamite, created the Nobel prizes to whitewash his name. It sure worked. "by his death, his business had established more than 90 armaments factories, despite his apparently pacifist character." https:/&#
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by yesenadam 3y ago
Why "still"? hehe I only started fairly recently. Typing * in the Firefox search bar searches bookmarks—what's not to like. URLs I use frequently I add to my start page.
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by yesenadam 3y ago
On mac 12.5 + bash + macports, having trouble getting anything to work, like Ctrl-R, Esc-C etc, **TAB complete, even after trying to follow the suggestions linked here. The basic problem, however, is that whatever I type into the fuzzy sear
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by yesenadam 3y ago
Thank you!! Why on earth isn't that the default. It always seemed weird that with multiple bash windows open, the commands from most of them weren't added to the history.
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by yesenadam 3y ago
> You have way too much time on your hands and seem determined to argue nonconstructively. Have a good one. Please refresh on the HN comment guidelines. And reconsider who has been "constructive" vs "nonconstructive"
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by yesenadam 3y ago
I thought it was "professional", helpful, and a great comment. I didn't think yours was constructive, just unhelpfully treating a different formatting style as objectively worse, in an unfriendly way. "Be kind"! It
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by yesenadam 3y ago
Please refresh on the HN comment guidelines.
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by yesenadam 3y ago
That's not a real Plato quote. Quote Investigator couldn't find any appearance of it before 1967. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/12/13/riot/ p.s. What I'm sick and tired already of is
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by yesenadam 3y ago
Check out this wonderful, unforgettable spanish movie on that theme, much better than any plot summary could suggest (and also I don't want to give spoilers) : The Uninvited Guest (El habitante incierto) https://www.imdb.c
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by yesenadam 4y ago
Geez, that is just chilling, horrifying.
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by yesenadam 4y ago
Thank you so much for this comment. Until I read it, I was regretting having submitted this story, after seeing it marred by starkd's sickening 27-comment barrage of Russian propaganda and insults. > How about US invading Mexico, oc
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by yesenadam 4y ago
> How Mr. Assange has become the poster boy of "leakers against the government" with his outrageous egotistical and dickish behavior is beyond me So, who do you think it should be instead? (genuine question)
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by yesenadam 4y ago
> Stupid comment. Please don't talk anything like this in future on HN, thanks, regardless of what the other person says. You wrote similar things several other times on this page.
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by yesenadam 4y ago
What a sorry, shameful saga. I found this story linked to on rms' home page: > Our next rally for Julian Assange is Saturday, March 4 at 11:30 to 12:30pm. We will gather at Park St. Station on the Boston Common to speak out for Assa
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Alternative facts: How the media failed Julian Assange(harpers.org)
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by yesenadam 4y ago
That, apart from the first line, seems like a pretty generic/off-topic "I don't get philosophy and it's stupid" rant that could equally well be pasted under any story involving philosophy. I don't see how it re
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by yesenadam 4y ago
> This is not entirely correct. Which part? I didn't say or mean to imply philosophers are not worth taking seriously—if that's what you meant—just that philosophers are not scientists, and in particular, Huw Price is not a sci
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by yesenadam 4y ago
> Not entirely true If you want to communicate anything by that, please explain what you're referring to. I'm not going to read that entire page trying to guess. I can't at first glance see anyone asking "what is phys
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by yesenadam 4y ago
I didn't make my website for those reasons. I was inspired by Bill Beaty of amasci.com's philosophy of putting everything online[0]. But after a while I got sick of how things looked online changing every time I looked, so (sadly)
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by yesenadam 4y ago
As a kid I liked it, but I loved all his other (i.e. non-fiction) books much more, with a huge passion. I had a nice telescope and was obsessed with astronomy for years. The Sirens of Titan was the first novel I loved to death and read ov
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by yesenadam 4y ago
Philosophy isn't anywhere on the Mohs scale of sciences—it's not a science at all. Each philosopher has their own idea about what philosophy is, but I'm not aware of any who think it's a science. That's one way to t
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by yesenadam 4y ago
> Philosophers professing to be scientists has been troubling me more and more the past few years Hmm, I don't recall ever coming across a philosopher professing to be a scientist. > Is it bad to upvote an article on HN, just bec
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by yesenadam 4y ago
The main thing I didn't like about it was pretending it's all scientists involved and not philosophers. The article talks mostly about Huw Price—and from phrases like "Scientists, including Price", you'd think he&#x
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by yesenadam 4y ago
> The article takes incredibly large leaps of logic to push a narrative. Please talk about what strikes you as the largest one.
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by yesenadam 4y ago
OK, well, why say "there’s nothing wrong with this" as you do above— > The idea that you as an individual can’t make choices that are better for the world is self-delusion. You choose not to make those choices because it is eas
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by yesenadam 4y ago
Sounds like https://hckrnews.com/ would be perfect for you.
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by yesenadam 4y ago
I read it a long time ago and loved it, though wasn't at all sure how true its account was. Wasn't there a lot about how Nietzsche had taken over the USA and was just the air we breathe? - e.g. our talk of "values" and &
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by yesenadam 4y ago
Or you could press hide once you've seen a story. I sometimes use hckrnews.com, but not for that reason - it's good for catching up on what's been on the front page if I haven't been here lately.
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by yesenadam 4y ago
All very reminiscent of Bronze Orientation Day! (Mitchell & Webb) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyu4u3VZYaQ

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