Dennis Hackethal’s Blog
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@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
Amazing how many ppl have trouble responding with a simple 'yes' or 'no'.
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
"It's forced and out of necessity."
To be clear, do you think 'force' and 'necessity' are the same thing?
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
"It even has a reward system for proper usage."
What does the word "It" refer to? Learning a language?
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
I understand that, but I'm asking you to respond explicitly to my question. Again, were you asking for evidence of something else, yes or no?
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
So what evidence could I possibly provide that would convince you otherwise?
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
Since you claim that not even language is learned voluntarily, and since ~everybody learns language (so everybody experiences force by that logic), for any examples I could give of ppl who developed genius despite this force you can claim they developed genius because of it
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
Is that a 'no' to my question?
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
I'm saying that learning the basics of a language is an example of what ~all children do voluntarily. You had asked for evidence that children don't just pursue frivolous things when not coerced.
Or were you asking for evidence of something else?
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
[F]orcing a child to speak a language […] against they will .. is against what you spoke about earlier...
I'm not talking about forcing a child to speak a language.
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
You are saying all the human genius in all time history was a mistake in the learning process?
No. You seem to be attributing genius to forced learning. Consider that genius occurs despite force.
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
Did you mean to say 'it just seems a folly'?
I invoked morals and interests, not comfort.
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
Me teaching my child to count is immoral?
No, but teaching your child to count against his will is.
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
Based on what evidence?
Children learn language basics and how to walk, without force.
Where in history has a child been left to pursue whatever they want.
Assume never – so what? Should we continue a mistake just because we've always made it?
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
Because being forced to do math is immoral. And no, 'letting' your kid pursue what he wants doesn't only lead to what you consider 'frivolous' pursuits, as you seem to imply.
Ja ganz furchtbar, die armen Ginkgo-Bäume. (Übrigens nicht "Gingko".)
Inwiefern stellt ein Kompromiss keine echte Lösung dar? blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/inwiefer…
@GoodAsYoucloth @shawkisukkar @paulg
By forcing children to learn things they’re not interested in and filling their day with that instead of letting them freely pursue their interests.
Would being forced to learn about things your teacher finds weird make you curious?
Children are extremely curious until school forces them not to be. So the answer is: get rid of compulsory schooling.
Simple Way to Get Rid of Smelly Feet 🦶🦨👃: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/simple-w…
RT @TechEmails:
Google looks at acquiring YouTube
February 7, 2006 pic.twitter.com/7ukM47RUBJ
@AntLeonard73 @rheangelseehorn
What did you think about Walt’s and Jesse’s appearances? Seemed like fan service to me…
And don’t get me started on the whole time-travel thing. WTF lol, so out of place…
@AntLeonard73 @rheangelseehorn
Totally.
I recall hearing about how they changed the story involving Jeff when the actor changed. That probably didn’t help.
@AntLeonard73 @rheangelseehorn
the ending felt rushed to me. and something just didn't connect. hard to put my finger on it. kim's new life was weird. plus i don't think they explained why she quit the law. she could have just quit jimmy right?
i liked the first ~half of the season. then it went south. :(
"[We can] frame the growth of knowledge (all knowledge, not only scientific) as a continual transition from problems to better problems, rather than from problems to solutions or from theories to better theories."
– David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity twitter.com/PR0GRAMMERHUM0…
RT @JonErlichman:
Patent for the Lego brick in 1958: pic.twitter.com/h5f0LorcCg
From ablog.typepad.com/keytrendsin_…
Looks like the creation of the Federal Reserve made ~no difference in terms of spurring economic growth. (Disclaimer: I didn't read the article or investigate the source, I only looked at the graphs briefly.) pic.twitter.com/2P8hONyBg6
I hadn't, thanks. Interesting listen. It brought up the difference between setting boundaries and giving an ultimatum – which this article goes into more: thinkgraypsych.com/post/boundarie…
RT @SJobs_Stories:
"Playlists, artists, songs, videos and more. I’m in artists right now.
Well, how do I scroll through my lists of artist…
Can we make it $10k per month for everyone indefinitely?
The upside is that they couldn't do better marketing against environmentalism. twitter.com/disclosetv/sta…
RT @jk_rowling:
I read my most recent royalty cheques and find the pain goes away pretty quickly. pic.twitter.com/s4gl9rlqxl
RT @dchackethal:
@michaelmalice
Maybe "We the People" is where it started to go south. Maybe it should always have been 'I the Individual'.
Maybe "We the People" is where it started to go south. Maybe it should always have been 'I the Individual'.
RT @ThePlanetaryGuy:
See those rings?
They're not artefacts of image processing.
They're real.
And #JWST just snapped them.
🤏🧵 https://…
Schluckauf ist ein sehr gutes Wort dafür.
Somebody once posted on LinkedIn: "Do you care about diversity?" I responded, "no". Then I got a warning from LinkedIn that my response violated their community standards or something.
RT @pickover:
Physics, mathematics, nature.
Raindrops are not tear-shaped, as many people think. bit.ly/1p7RPuV https://t.co/2iD…
How cool. It’s like peeking into a parallel universe where Jobs is still alive. twitter.com/maccaw/status/…
RT @nomadcapitalist:
"Germany also announced it will cover December gas bills for homes and businesses under a new plan to cap energy price…
RT @re_alCapone:
Die «Sachverständigen und Sachverständigedeginnen"...
Wieder mal #Gendergaga am Limit beim #ÖRR.
cc: @VDS_weltweit, @OER…
RT @mazemoore:
They scrub the videos but I find them.
This is what they thought of Joe Biden before 2016. pic.twitter.com/3OGUS5Owmm
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
People come up to me all the time and apologise for voting for Brexit. Some of them cry. Many of them carry pictures o…
Some people may not want to go like that. They're looking for a safe, gentle way to die. Disallowing that is, in effect, forcing them to live.
Suicide (the attempt) is indeed illegal in many countries: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_l…
And even where suicide is legal, it is awful, undignified, messy, and, IIRC, unsuccessful in the vast majority of cases, ie the person continues to live but sustains major, crippling damage.
I'd certainly want the state to stay out of it, let alone euthanize people itself. Those are some of the darkest chapters in history.
What I'm saying is that two consenting individuals, one who wishes to die and one who wishes to help the other die, should both be free to do so.
Wealth tax is evil: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/wealth-t… twitter.com/nomadcapitalis…
Wealth tax is evil: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/wealth-t…
Maybe she wouldn’t have wanted to die, had she known that. Or maybe she did know and decided it would take too long or too much effort
Should optimists be able to force pessimists to continue living? Why shouldn’t anyone be able to end their own life anytime for whatever reason?
Why ridiculous? She requested to be killed, after all.
‚Sorgfältig abgesteckter Denkrahmen‘ ist ein guter Begriff. Den merke ich mir
My guess there is no such law, but that it can be extraordinarily difficult in situations such as the one you describe. However, think of children who find happiness in the most difficult of situations, seemingly effortlessly.
I suppose the question boils down to: are there scenarios in which the laws of physics dictate that, to solve a problem, you must use coercion (against yourself or others)?
However, enumerability is important. The difference between the first and second order of infinity, as I understand it (from memory), is that the natural numbers are enumerable whereas the real numbers are not.
I don't know if that applies to more than three dimensions, but I suspect it does.
Not a mathematician, but I believe today we'd say that length, area, and volume are all on the same order of infinity because there's a one-to-one correspondence between the points on a line, the points in an area, and the points in a space.
I was wondering the same. Abstracting away enough so that, in Rails terms, any model data (eg posts in addition to comments) that is displayed has such cached HTML pages, automatically set up listeners, etc.
Would be a neat idea for a gem, if one doesn’t exist yet.
RT @TCSparents:
“I shall feel that I have got to be back at a certain time and it would hang like a dark shadow over my pleasure.”
- Winst…
RT @JonErlichman:
Apple’s first computer: pic.twitter.com/1MkyaOPZhC
RT @codinghorror:
Please, please don't use SMS for authentication. Ever. Use authenticator apps (good) or 2FA hardware keys (best). https:/…
Correction: I'm told the show is not historically accurate. twitter.com/dchackethal/st…
It also says "I don’t think his depravity is worthy of curiosity." It's def not to be celebrated, but if we're interested in criminal rehabilitation, say, it seems worthy of curiosity.
In any case, I should have been more careful to recommend it, esp. as a historical piece.
This article (slate.com/culture/2022/1…) claims they made up things about his childhood, too. That's lame.
I noticed that there was another apartment on the other side of Dahmer's, and I wondered why we never learned who lived there. I'm guessing that's the other real-life person you speak of.
RT @hubertus_knabe:
#onthisday feiert #Putin seinen 70. Geburtstag. Als #KGB-Offizier in #Dresden gratulierte ihm jedes Jahr die #Stasi mit…
They aren't offended, I don't have to worry about never getting my book back. Win/win
Another way is to say you have a general policy against doing something, and that it is has nothing to do with them personally.
Eg when someone asks to borrow a book of mine, I tell them I have a policy of not doing that, so it's nothing personal.
They're just decolonizing the place.
Kidding aside, now that politicians are personally affected, maybe they'll realize that all this immigration wasn't a good idea, and act accordingly. twitter.com/Klaus_Arminius…
Each time I said “no thanks” again until he realized why I didn’t want it and he offered for me to tear off a portion instead, which I then did.
It was difficult but I stayed strong 😅
One can practice with lower-stake situations and gradually increase stakes.
I was recently invited to a dinner and the host passed me, with his hand, a crepe he had made, which I found unsanitary. I said “no thanks” and he insisted three or four times.
Ein Bekannter (Jurist) hat mir mal gesagt, es gebe im Verwaltungsrecht drei Grundprinzipien:
1, „Das haben wir schon immer so gemacht.“
2. „Da könnt‘ ja jeder kommen.“
3. „Wo kämen wir denn da hin?“
Diese drei Ausreden scheinen das Anti-Freiheit-Gemüt generell widerzuspiegeln.
"All I had to do was offer you a drink. It's hard to believe that fear of offending can be stronger than the fear of pain, but you know what? It is. And they always come willingly." :(
Thanks. Starting at 0:54, perp to victim:
"Why don't people trust their instincts? They sense something is wrong, someone is walking too close behind them... You knew something was wrong, but you came back into the house. Did I force you, did I drag you in? No."
To that last point, IIRC there's a scene in Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo where the perp (spoiler alert, sorta) remarks how his victims would accept his invitation to come into his home for fear of offending him, even when they expected the worst.
The Dahmer series on Netflix is really good. I learned about a piece of American history and how he got away with his murders for so long.
Social conventions are powerful. Ppl would rather drink questionable drinks than offend the host.
More evidence that the movement-imitation algorithms of cats are too indiscriminate.
The cat does not, in fact, think it’s a horse, nor does it think any thoughts whatsoever. twitter.com/B__S/status/…
RT @MrAndyNgo:
Photos of schoolgirls removing their hijabs & flipping off #Iran’s supreme leader have been posted on social media. #MahsaAm…
RT @dougboneparth:
“Come back to the office, you’ll be more productive here.” pic.twitter.com/2x7q14IxVB
RT @nixcraft:
Linux meme based upon @FieldExplores comic pic.twitter.com/ZzDjfZ2agz