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Re: the glorification of reading. I've thought about this. I agree with you not all reading is equal, and reading social posts (including HN) is the equivalent of junk food, but there's something about reading that sets…
In the movie Kusanagi isn't bisexual. No reference is made to her sexuality at all. One could argue her demeanor is completely asexual. The only human side we see of her is her wondering whether she's human at all.…
Yes, I addressed this: Kusanagi appears naked often. However, there's little sexy about this, the characters don't behave sexy, there are no lecherous moments, etc. In fact, sex is barely acknowledged at all. It's not a…
That's valid! I just can't get over how pretentious it is, and also I miss Motoko in it. I mean, the first movie (1995) also toyed with pretentiousness, but this was miraculously curtailed before it had a chance to bog…
If you've seen the original movie, other than nudity there is very little horny in it. No sex, no banter about sex, no erotica. The female body, even if well endowed, is depicted clinically and emotionless. There are no…
Fans of Shirow will probably lynch me, but I didn't like the manga all that much. Not even the art style, which the new animé seems to replicate. To me, Mamoru Oshii's 1995 GitS is THE version, because I'm seldom in the…
I'd also argue in LotR only Frodo has an archetypal Hero's Journey, but the novel itself is an ensamble piece with many other important characters that are not necessarily embarked on a steretypical Hero's Journey…
Sidestepping the Hero's Journey for a second (which Dune actually subverts, one of its key points being that heroes are bad for mankind), Villeneuve's Dune is nowhere near a massive pop culture phenomenon of its time…
Oh, the similarities to fundamentalist Islam are absolutely warranted, I just wanted to address the incorrect claim that Atwood wrote Handmain about Iran or Islam (which is false). Of course all fundamentalist…
Nope. A Christian theocracy of Puritan values. From Atwood herself (https://lithub.com/margaret-atwood-on-how-she-came-to-write-...) "The deep foundation of the United States—so went my thinking—was not the…
https://lithub.com/margaret-atwood-on-how-she-came-to-write-... From Atwood herself: "The deep foundation of the United States—so went my thinking—was not the comparatively recent 18th-century Enlightenment structures…
It's not about Islam. If that's what you thought, I suggest a second read, this time paying more attention?
I didn't mention the show, isn't this thread and article about books? > It was a thinly veiled world-building exercise on the subjection of women in Islam… then it ends. Nothing really happens. The Handmaid's Tale…
> Books that are simply bad books and in addition to being bad take an aggressive, political bent. (eg: the handmaid's tale) Weird example. The Handmaid's Tale is quite good.
True in principle, but I find in practice the Hugo and Nebula seldom disappoint me (in the sense of having wasted my time, not that every winner is a masterpiece). And these are not the only prizes (or genres), I just…
No. You claimed I said it was "trivial" which I didn't, I said it was "relatively easy". Strike one. Then you went into that nonsense of if it's so easy then why don't you do it and become a millionaire yadda yadda,…
I agree it's a difficult problem. For scifi, I usually look for Hugo or Nebula winners, but also word of mouth and recommendations. Never Amazon! I also don't know anyone who goes to Amazon to look for book…
A snarky reply. I never said "trivial", and I didn't mean it's easy in absolute terms, just that this seems relatively easy to disrupt compared to other endeavors. I have no desire to become a millionaire, and do I need…
This should be relatively easy to disrupt for ebooks. It doesn't seem necessary to have the infrastructure and pockets of Amazon to sell ebooks (and be fairer to authors and readers). I'm not convinced about…
Agreed that the comparison is extreme; I wouldn't have made it myself. But it's also not harmless to work at a company which makes tools/components/software for killing people. It wouldn't be "just an office job".…
> We are talking about ads on the computer. Not just ads on the computer. TFA also discusses AI for surveillance, weapons, etc.
The criticism of Google and their abandoning of their "Don't Be Evil" motto has been a constant here since before Trump's first term. There's no correlation with Dems being in government. If anything, what Google (and…
> The problem is that the author may have been right Even worse, it's very likely the author wasn't even right most of the time. They claim a frequent occurrence is that "the room" turns against them. Now, their…
I've done this, and even more: very often lately I've written a response on HN, let it sit for a few minutes, then delete it. Not because I think I'm right (I think I'm aware of my flaws), but because I realize I don't…
I am, too, like the author, very rational and almost always correct, and like the author, I find it hard to understand why irrational ego-driven people who are clearly wrong cannot take my wisdom in stride, or why the…