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pilingual

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About pilingual

"Pilingual" is a term from Douglas Hofstadter's book, Le Ton beau de Marot where he describes himself as knowing π languages.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49210936

    Paul Graham mentioned Pangram the other day. I went to the site and pasted something into the text box. The next step was to sign up. I don't trust Pangram.

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    Comment #49028692

    Namecheap has been owned by a private equity firm for several months now. It would be nice to have a nonprofit registrar so jumping every few years isn't necessary.

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    Comment #48420121

    Could you ask the VC if you could name them in the story? It's unfortunate that some VCs I respected turned out to repeatedly have their reputation tarnished by such negative stori…

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    Comment #48169938

    I had to navigate around Troy when visiting Vermont because of these cameras. It wasn't trivial due to the river crossing. There's a very small number of people committing crimes w…

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    Comment #47741693

    Interesting that Apple is praised. > that a link? Maybe! When Apple transitioned from skeuomorphic to flat design this was a huge issue. It was difficult to determine what was a bu…

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    Comment #47569925

    https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/san-francisco-judg... There's no leadership to curtail asinine behavior. Instead of forces of nature to strengthen the status quo of freed…

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    Comment #47558656

    I believe you hastily misinterpreted the point. It's merely a tool that wasn't possible before.

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    Comment #47556217

    One idea behind the PoC Right to Privacy Act is having tests. A recurring theme with conservative Justices is clarity of legal text. Testing may not exhaust all scenarios but it is…

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    Comment #47339360

    https://blog.citp.princeton.edu/2026/01/16/internet-voting-i...

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    Comment #47255282

    Some intersections have 4 or more cameras.

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    Comment #47255013

    https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/camden-nj-homicide...

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