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Digital Kingdom
Personal blog · vrici.lojban.org/~cowanphilosophywriting
Digital Kingdom is a personal blog at vrici.lojban.org about philosophy and writing. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link John Cowan's personal pages, including his 'Essentialist Explanations' list about languages and an updated Omnilingual page. The comments cite them for linguistics and language topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Books which I have read and would recommend include: - _Ashley's Book of Knots_ --- everyone should be aware of knots and now at least the basics interesting, _The Klutz Book of Knots_ was also mentioned once - James Clavell _Noble House_ --- part of his "Asian Saga", not sure if it has aged well --- if a person could read only one of these, I'd recommend _King Rat_, based on his experience in a Japanese prison camp…
Comment linking /~cowan/omnilingual.html
on “Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025”Submitted Against Structured Names and Telephone Numbers (2009) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThat's "Omnilingual" See the nicely updated version at: http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan/omnilingual.html
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on “New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars”Submitted Essentialist Explanations (199x-2017) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou guys might enjoy http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan/essential.html
Comment linking /~cowan/essential.html
on “Why are some bilingual people dyslexic in English but not their other language?”From John Cowan's list of "Essentialist Explanations", credited to Kapitano Eglefino ( http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan/essential.html#Esperanto ): "Esperanto is essentially English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Latin, and Greek, invented by someone who speaks English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Latin, Greek...and Polish." --
Comment linking /~cowan/essential.html
on “Esperanto as an Asian language”This is the very definition of bikeshedding. Firstly, nobody enforces the rules in python documentation (as Guido says in the comments) so it's moot point. Secondly, Is there any advice in Strunk & White Standard English that is not good advice in any other dialect of English? The book contains very generic advice of style. I think that's good advice in all dialects and even in other languages. The book also has "Ma…
Comment linking /~cowan/style-revised.html
on “Python: Commit removing White Supremacy relics”
