This needs to be repeated early and repeated often no matter what non-abnormal ideology you subscribe to. In as many words.
If you consider yourself a kind, decent & some what enlightened person and you do not procreate, in all likelihood the unkind or less kind people will do the procreating on your behalf.
Mind you I did not even use the word tolerant which implies some measure of altruism; I'm merely saying kind & decent.
I do not know why people much older than us do not repeat this mantra more often.
I do not understand what could belie such intransigence.
2) Greatly restricting smaller
foreign acts (especially from
the US) from performing in
Canada for commercial purposes
Yes, point #2 also applies to
the US, but it's not enforced.
But if you cross into Canada
with musical instruments,
they'll put the fear of God into
you.
This almost never has the intended effect of producing world class homegrown musical or cinema acts. Like almost a 100% failure rate especially when theres a shared language.
Lots of countries have this quota system where they try to artificially force feed homegrown music, tv shows and movies and it never works.
People always gravitate to the larger American sphere because it doesnt have such restrictions in place. They dont work anyway.
When I first saw Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah (2008) it was so fresh and un-Hollywood like in the presentation of the raw violence and vice, that it stunned me. I still cant stand most PG-fied and Disney-fied American films.
Such a neat little tool! I shall use it and share it.
Clever idea using the map to simultaneously display words. Small feature but hugely piques the interest of the user.
Yeah I'm sure handshake politics goes a long way in these neighborhoods often to the detriment of the unsuspecting, unconnected and un-special-interest-group attached renters and owners.
Ellis evictions suck particularly hard because they can happen out of the blue for any building, even if you chose one suited for long tenancies. I don't know what percentage results in protests, but it's quite a few. Some of the contested ones fail on technical grounds before they get to the protest stage [1].
Jokes aside, I find that this sentence makes much sense, especially in the context of online forums such as HN or Reddit:
In fact, only people with no better use for their time will spend their time teaching you. This means you're being taught only by people whose time is worthless or for whom it is useful for you to believe in something.
Because there are plenty of people who just enjoy explaining things or helping others understand, and to say the only two reasons for that behavior is that their time is worthless or they have an agenda is myopic.
Not only is it inaccurate, it is insulting to the person teaching you. Have you never been on a popular HN thread where a known expert in the field, someone who’s more productive and knowledgeable than you, provides context? But somehow because they did you feel it justified to call their time worthless? Well, certainly I’d regret wasting my time on someone like that and I’d hope the other readers were more appreciative.
What the OP is calling a “better use of time” I’m reading “more selfish use of time”. Maybe, just maybe, the person spending their time teaching others doesn’t consider their time worthless, but they manage it better and thus have some moments to share their knowledge. Or maybe they enjoy doing so. This is not a hard concept for those not affected by such a superiority complex they claim there are others “beneath [them] in understanding”.
I will agree that it is big yikes. But I will, at least kind of, agree that you are more likely to meet more arm chair scientists than you are scientists and actual field experts online in this fashion. Though, obviously, there are actual scientists and field experts around. The issue, as always, is how to differenciate them from the not-so-obviously fake ones as a layman.
I'm dismayed that no one so far has brought up a point that's begging to be made in these sorts of things.
While the point of the article has _some_ merit, there's also another equally valid contrary argument to be made.
Just because a book - however storied & fabled - exists out there, does not mean that you should strive to find some meaning, import or significant cogitable thought when one is not clearly and immediately present.
There's a whole industry of writers that exist to exclusively furnish meaning to the lofty thoughts of some distinguished authors, that that was simply never meant or not present in the authors own words. Sometimes the authors themselves invite and regale in this kind of festive chicanery. Sometimes not. But this sort of thing - far more than useful or warranted - does exist.
In other words some works of writing often fiction but not necessarily are just elaborate exercises in getting away with balderdash.
It pays to remember the enterprise of getting published in the past has not always been equitable as is the case today.
A virtual nobody off the street couldn't expect to even get his manuscript read by a publishing house, much less get published even for a limited run. So if you were already reputed or privileged or had the blessings of a wealthy house of patrons who bankrolled your previous works, you were more widely published and translated.
In other words far too many mediocre works of the past still get top billing, than they rightly deserve largely because no one called out their bullshit.
Yes, sometimes if you don't understand the author that is because the author never had the intentions of being understood in the first place or did not have much to say of value or import, however fleeting or ethereal or unyielding to lucid language, the authors thoughts were.
HN should buck this trend and not join in adulation.
> Sometimes the authors themselves invite and regale in this kind of festive chicanery. Sometimes not. But this sort of thing - far more than useful or warranted - does exist.
Why does art and the attempts at interpretation thereof have to be useful or warranted? Festive chicanery sounds delightful to me. I would like more of that in my life, please.
> In other words some works of writing often fiction but not necessarily are just elaborate exercises in getting away with balderdash.
> In other words far too many mediocre works of the past still get top billing, than they rightly deserve largely because no one called out their bullshit.
> HN should buck this trend and not join in adulation.
Do you have some concrete examples of works that fit these claims?
This needs to be repeated early and repeated often no matter what non-abnormal ideology you subscribe to. In as many words.
If you consider yourself a kind, decent & some what enlightened person and you do not procreate, in all likelihood the unkind or less kind people will do the procreating on your behalf. Mind you I did not even use the word tolerant which implies some measure of altruism; I'm merely saying kind & decent.
I do not know why people much older than us do not repeat this mantra more often.
I do not understand what could belie such intransigence.
What is so offensive about saying that line?
Say it early say it often.