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> Not sure if that article is really about shifting risks from corporates to workers and weakening their protections. Jacobin articles are rarely 'about' anything. Their primary mo…

> a narcissist who thinks he's the best is at greatest odds to another narcissist who thinks he's the best. Only if both have very literal, wide-reaching interpretations of 'the be…

Awesome. It's a fantastic community, full of incredibly smart people, novel perspectives and ways to actively improve the functionality of your mind. Coincidentally, the user I ori…

> What does that make me I wonder? It only matters if you're still asking that rabbit hole of a question. > Do you mean consequentialism in the philosophical sense - as in, to be c…

I'd be more interested in a heat map of Political Compass[1] results or something similar. It's not a great model, but it's slightly less terrible than a bunch of pre-globalization…

I suspect you're over-inferring, and it's hard to tell what you mean by "heart" and "worse". Reading the oft-cited anarchist response might provide some context (though it was writ…

> It's a good point, that different interpretations of the same sentence can lead to pointless debate. I'd take it even further -- different interpretations of the same sentence al…

I see the main barrier to developing a "platform for meaningful, balanced debates" as one of semantic clarity, not discourse-level organization. I cannot truthfully answer most of …

I think there's two things wrong with this comment exchange: * you're not interpreting the quoted phrase literally enough; * I'm being way too generous with the definition of 'infl…

> Bitcoin would help because it is a fixed-supply currency. If the world switches to it, no government anywhere will be able to practise inflation anymore. Correct, no government c…

It's not just about words. Written media is no longer limited to a few basic structures and voices. Grammar needs to be able to shift away from English in-line while maintaining se…

Because setting up a shortcut once for many hundreds[1] of sites is more demanding work than typing ! each time. There's a bang for almost every site I frequent, and when a site ch…

> it's no wonder the author delves into ridiculous banter about singularity "Post-singularity society of Silicon Valley" was facetious.

A response to Jamil Elie Bou Kheir's comment on Facebook (presumably jamilbk on HN), because I do not have Facebook: > hello from hacker news. thoughtful article! i think it's not …

> One of the social safeguards for preserving pseudonymity (your advice) in the face of a future you cannot control is giving your child a common name, so that their activity canno…

> And if it becomes technically or illegally impossible to operate under a pseudonym or to change your legal name in 10 years? That this won't happen is the assumption I challenged…

No, but that doesn't imply that it shouldn't hold true for the entirety of the child's legal childhood. There's always been a feature of childhood that I feel is paramount: the fre…

I would recommend that parents encourage their children to use a variety of usernames on the major social platforms, none of which are related to their legal name. I'm in the proce…

> The whole thing started to look like a random selection disguised as an exclusive elite fancy club. In starting a few "exclusive elite fancy" internet clubs over the past decade,…

When I think "optimal language", I don't think "optimal combination of natural languages". This is partly because I've been experimenting with constructed languages (conlangs) sinc…

I'm glad there's movement in this space. It's desperately needed. Password managers are great but difficult to extend to all use-cases. When a generated password cannot be easily c…

Now try Candy Box[1]. Like a plaintext Cookie Clicker that's intended to be messed with[2]. Once you're bored of that, there are... a lot more[3]. CivClicker is particularly enjoya…

> There's just no way spending a million dollars to raise a fetus up to the age of zero passes any kind of cost-benefit analysis. The cost of replacing the thing is much, much lowe…

And "The Last Answer", which ironically ends with a question while "The Last Question" ends with an answer. And a bunch of others that aren't quite similar except that they're shor…

BTC-e is the most popular. I believe Vircurex[1] handles the largest number of cryptocurrencies. [1] https://vircurex.com/