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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 one seems even much worse, for some reason. I don't get it. I don't get how anyone could believe or write that.

Anything I could write seems so obvious. I can't think. I think I need a break from HN for a while. You don't seem to have been downvoted in 5 hours.

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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel

How ‘merchant of death’ Alfred Nobel became a champion of peace https://www.thelocal.se/20101004/29406/

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.

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 search, it finds many thousands of hits. It seems it's picking up a lot of aliased Downloads folders in ~/Library/Containers. Anyone else have that problem? Not sure how to turn that off.

I just typed "abcdefghijklmno" trying to narrow it down, and still had 10 hits. Typing a further "p" reduced that to 2, but I could see most of those eliminated 8 had a "p" in the filename. Confusing!

edit: I got Ctrl-R, Esc-C and **TAB complete working by adding this to .bash_profile, not .bashrc as it said to when installing:

  source /opt/local/share/fzf/shell/key-bindings.bash
  source /opt/local/share/fzf/shell/completion.bash

But I still have many thousands of options for Esc-C cding, for example, whatever I type—mostly from ~/Library/Containers. I don't remember having that problem when I tried fzf a few years ago, on macos 10.13 I think.

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.

> 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" in this thread.

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 was also hard to parse, as the GP pointed out.

edit: You changed your comment after I wrote this. Now it mentions that you flagged the GP. That's ridiculous.

Please refresh on the HN comment guidelines.

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 the word "boomerification", and that's the first time I've seen it.

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.com/title/tt0436374/

Taking the theme to a fantastic extreme is the amazing french miniseries Beyond the Walls (Au-delà des murs), which has a whole bizarre world secretly living in your house.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4999820/

Geez, that is just chilling, horrifying.

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, occupying and annexing its lands

Hmm I think they already did that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%E2%80%93American_War

TLDR: Map of Mexico in 1824 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mexico_1824_(equirectangu...

> 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)

> 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.

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 Assange and gather signatures on our petition to our senators. (See how the media failed Julian Assange at Harper's Magazine.)

https://stallman.org/

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 relates at all to the comment you replied to, which I thought was a good one.

> 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 scientist. Uncontroversial, I would've thought.

An article titled "A growing number of scientists.." that then misrepresents Price as being a scientist, is the thing that's wrong, seems to me. Maybe it did that because "A growing number of philosophers.." wouldn't have anything like the same click-appeal.

> 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 physics?", if that's what you meant.

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) started making lovely LaTeX PDF books instead, and lately putting everything into Obsidian. I must move some of all that online one day.

The highlights have been John Baez commenting on one page how beautiful the images were, and Jugu Abraham (Indian movie critic) thanking me for linking to pages on his site. Am still considering getting rid of comments though—even though it's handled automatically, they're about 99.99% spam.

One thing I learned is that my pages on the most obscure subjects get the most hits! Two in particular are super-obscure and get hits almost every day. I guess there's no other pages on the web about those topics. That maybe seems obvious, but was surprising. It's hard not to assume a piece of writing has to be on a popular topic for someone to want to read it.

[0] http://amasci.com/faq.html#hits the whole page is a great read, as is the whole site. So much great stuff.

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 over and over, maybe it's not coincidental that it also involves a lot of interplanetary travel!

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 tell the difference—a philosopher asking "what is philosophy?" is doing philosophy. A physicist asking "what is physics?" is doing philosophy, philosophy of science. Actually it's mostly philosophers who ask that.

Science was originally[0] a part of philosophy—natural philosophy—but that's a different story. Part of Socrates' originality was that every previous philosopher concerned themselves with physics and other physical sciences, but he was just concerned with the human world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohs_scale

[0] And until quite recently! The word scientist was only coined in 1834. And "The predominant modern use [of the term "science"], "natural and physical science," generally restricted to study of the phenomena of the material universe and its laws, is by mid-19c."

https://www.etymonline.com/word/scientist

> 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 because I think the comment quality is enlightening?

Not bad—I and others do it all the time, when you want more people to see the existing comments and to comment more. Often the worst articles provoke the most interesting conversations.

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's a scientist. He's an Australian philosopher. He was my professor for a couple of philosophy-of-science-related courses at Sydney Uni 20 years ago. He started the Centre for Time there I believe. He's a great lecturer—a very impressive mind and a nice guy. Not a scientist though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huw_Price

https://prce.hu/w/

> The article takes incredibly large leaps of logic to push a narrative.

Please talk about what strikes you as the largest one.

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 easier to blame someone else. And again, there’s nothing wrong with this.

—when your whole point is that there's something wrong with it?!

And it's mixed with unnecessarily confrontational language—"absurd", "self-delusion".

Sounds like https://hckrnews.com/ would be perfect for you.

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 "lifestyle", key Nietzschean terms. I learned elsewhere how much Nietzsche got from Emerson, and how much Emerson in turn had got from Germans. A convoluted story! Also, the philosopher of the Summer of Love was German—Marcuse, from the Frankfurt School.

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.

All very reminiscent of Bronze Orientation Day! (Mitchell & Webb)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyu4u3VZYaQ

His more recent doco Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020)[0] was, for me, even more fascinating.

Also, his 1977 short La Soufrière[1] is set on an island where a volcano is about to erupt.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9203832/

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076741/

Link to Into the Inferno: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4846318/