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Notorious b.s.d. posted:fuedalism with valley characteristics
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fart simpson posted:remember that guy that was really into rewriting the forums using node.js? must have been about 10 years ago Remember the Reddit guy who got brought on for a project they abandoned and they forgot about him so he just got paid to work on his Bitcoin but JavaScript pet project I think he also wanted to rewrite Reddit in JavaScript
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Nov 18, 2019 00:07
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:Remember the Reddit guy who got brought on for a project they abandoned and they forgot about him so he just got paid to work on his Bitcoin but JavaScript pet project iirc they rediscovered him when his name came up for a performance review and they p much fired him on the spot
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DaTroof posted:iirc they rediscovered him when his name came up for a performance review and they p much fired him on the spot checking his twitter he now seems to be a jordan peterson all meat diet guy now
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Nov 18, 2019 00:33
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DaTroof posted:iirc they rediscovered him when his name came up for a performance review and they p much fired him on the spot I think it was shortly after he was posting openly on Reddit about how he didn't really have a job and was using their money to combine two dumbsjit ideas into one
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Nov 18, 2019 01:42
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:I think it was shortly after he was posting openly on Reddit about how he didn't really have a job and was using their money to combine two dumbsjit ideas into one
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Nov 18, 2019 02:45
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mystes posted:Dumbsjit shoud be the actual name of a javascript interpreter. I’ll start the
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:fuedalism with valley characteristics Elon Musk Thought on Feudalism with Valley Characteristics for a New Era SRQ fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Nov 19, 2019 |
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Nov 19, 2019 17:33
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Every comment on this story about Latin is complete nonsense: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21578345 The first comment starts with "Latin is the most powerful natural language I know," and it only gets worse from there.
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Nov 20, 2019 03:37
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mystes posted:Every comment on this story about Latin is complete nonsense: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21578345 Here, exilium (= "exile") logically belongs to the first verse. The flexible word order has allowed the author to arrange it so that this word appears in isolation (i.e., "in exile") from the verse it belongs to, while still fitting the metre (hexameter), thus matching what is being described with the form that is used to describe it. The suffix "-que" that can be attached to Latin words to mean "and" makes "longumque" also quite long as a word, stressing how long the exile is. - someone who's never eaten pussy
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Nov 20, 2019 05:14
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mystes posted:Every comment on this story about Latin is complete nonsense: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21578345 guy just openly admitting that he doesn't know Rust
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Nov 20, 2019 05:15
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:Here, exilium (= "exile") logically belongs to the first verse. The flexible word order has allowed the author to arrange it so that this word appears in isolation (i.e., "in exile") from the verse it belongs to, while still fitting the metre (hexameter), thus matching what is being described with the form that is used to describe it. The suffix "-que" that can be attached to Latin words to mean "and" makes "longumque" also quite long as a word, stressing how long the exile is. *my scouter explodes from the power of this language*
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Nov 20, 2019 06:20
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mystes posted:Every comment on this story about Latin is complete nonsense: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21578345 The lightweights didn't even bother with Sanskrit smdh e: actually no Sanskrit would just be too much work for em I think alexandriao fucked around with this message at 11:23 on Nov 20, 2019 |
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Nov 20, 2019 06:55
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leave it to hackernews to have the same views on latin as 16th century european nobles
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Nov 20, 2019 07:07
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I’m surprised they don’t recognize nihongo as the one true pure language
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Nov 20, 2019 07:14
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that's actually spoken and used so it lacks the hipster value of latin. weebs are too mainstream for hacker news
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Nov 20, 2019 07:15
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:Here, exilium (= "exile") logically belongs to the first verse. The flexible word order has allowed the author to arrange it so that this word appears in isolation (i.e., "in exile") from the verse it belongs to, while still fitting the metre (hexameter), thus matching what is being described with the form that is used to describe it. The suffix "-que" that can be attached to Latin words to mean "and" makes "longumque" also quite long as a word, stressing how long the exile is. Or someone that went to school. Latin is a regular part of the curriculum in many places.
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Lambert posted:Or someone that went to school. Latin is a regular part of the curriculum in many places. lol your old as heck
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Nov 20, 2019 16:00
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I guess dead languages are convenient as a blank slate on which you can impose your own ideas without any pesky native speakers to tell you that you're insane. Also, lol, are there really still places that force everyone to learn latin? mystes fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Nov 20, 2019 |
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Nov 20, 2019 16:07
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mystes posted:Also, lol, are there really still places that force everyone to learn latin? some catholic schools still do
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Nov 20, 2019 17:31
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lots of traditional elite-y schools still do Latin and Greek as status symbol classes
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Nov 20, 2019 19:30
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klafbang posted:There are
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klafbang posted:There are well...that's not the only reason, but it's a reason that works for a lotta douchebags
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Nov 21, 2019 02:57
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alexandriao posted:The lightweights didn't even bother with Sanskrit smdh sanskrit would blow their minds. a non western language having a formal grammar??? thousands of years ago???
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Malcolm XML posted:sanskrit would blow their minds. a non western language having a formal grammar??? thousands of years ago??? tbf the formal grammar studies of sanskrit are legitimately mindblowing the foundations of modern etymology were independently discovered hundreds and hundreds of years before the study was systematized in the west, by people studying sanskrit it is both amazing (because it happened twice) and sad (because it had to happen twice)
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Nov 21, 2019 03:06
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Sanskrit doesn't help you with learning other Romance languages, learning it would be entirely pointless in a western context. That's why Latin reigns supreme. But goons gotta goon. And most Americans can't even be arsed to learn Spanish.
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Nov 21, 2019 03:07
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i'm sorry you wasted your youth being taught an ancient dead language instead of something remotely useful, but that doesn't mean you should goon out about how it will totally help you when you decide to learn a different actually-used language later in life, something which you have never done and honestly probably never will no matter how much you think you'd like to get around to it some day.
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Nov 21, 2019 03:14
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Jabor posted:i'm sorry you wasted your youth being taught an ancient dead language instead of something remotely useful, but that doesn't mean you should goon out about how it will totally help you when you decide to learn a different actually-used language later in life, something which you have never done and honestly probably never will no matter how much you think you'd like to get around to it some day. lol whut ancient dead languages are fun no matter how dead they are, in order to gain appreciation of ancient literature that should be self-evident are you such a philistine that great literature is not enough reason to learn a language
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i initially assumed it was an un-cited hn post but jabor helpfully used the verb "goon out" to indicate he's just a loving jackass
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goon, out! is an imperative
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Nov 21, 2019 04:29
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learning a language (even, or perhaps especially, an ancient dead one) for its own sake is cool and good. doing it solely because you think it will help with learning other languages later is dumb as heck.
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can we post good hn quotes here? goranb 2 hours ago | parent | flag | favorite | on: The End of the Computer Age That introduction is a guillotinable offense. reply for context, this is the "introduction" they're referring to: quote:Paul Singer: Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the 33rd Wriston Lecture. This lecture has become an important night in America's intellectual life through the force and consequence of the ideas offered at this podium over the years. The formula for that success is simple. We invite extraordinarily bright speakers who offer bold perspectives, perspectives which rarely get a hearing in Manhattan ballrooms or progressive covens. Delivering the Wriston Lecture in 1995—that was a huge laugh line [laughter]. I mean, are we napping? Delivering the Wriston Lecture in 1995, James Q. Wilson asked why Americans were so unhappy with a country that was more prosperous and powerful than ever. Wilson drew attention to several insufficiently addressed signs of disorder: crime, failing schools, a coarsening culture, and deteriorating civic life. Wilson argued that these problems had begun with the dissolution of the family, then, as now, a controversial view. they're not wrong 
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Nov 21, 2019 05:27
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Jabor posted:learning a language (even, or perhaps especially, an ancient dead one) for its own sake is cool and good. Who was talking about "solely"? Learning Latin is cool & good and it will also help you with other Romance languages. Both reasons can coexist!
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Nov 21, 2019 10:29
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just learn spanish imo alternatively, PIE *tuH ksūlom dus
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Mr.Radar posted:they're not wrong
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Nov 21, 2019 21:33
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Jabor posted:i'm sorry you wasted your youth being taught an ancient dead language instead of something remotely useful, but that doesn't mean you should goon out about how it will totally help you when you decide to learn a different actually-used language later in life, something which you have never done and honestly probably never will no matter how much you think you'd like to get around to it some day. look at this scrub who doesn't have to recite liturgy in a dead language
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Nov 21, 2019 21:39
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if you wanna learn a language just learn it imo u don't need to learn it's ancient predecessor
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spqr0a1 16 minutes ago [-] Light bulbs are a bad example of the dangers of cartels. Incandescent filaments are much more efficient at higher temperature but burn out quicker. In the common case, savings from reduced electricity cost more than offset the increased replacement rate for bulbs in accessible fixtures. Short-lived bulbs were good the customers. In a market with perfect information people would have chosen them on their own. Unfortunately of 3 categories of information needed for an informed decision (lifetime, power usage, and light output) purchasers only had a good measure of how often they replaced bulbs. Usage patterns are too complex for improvements in a single bulb to be obvious on a power bill, and human brightness perception is roughly logarithmic so it’s not visually obvious how much brighter different bulbs are. Whether it was motivated by greed or not, the Phoebus cartel is an example of big business successfully advocating for the interests of the general public in the presence of information asymmetry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescent_light_bulb#Light_...
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holy poo poo spqr0a1 who the gently caress cares
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