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Re:If Sapiens were a blog post by latexr on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @07:51AM (#20401036)
> This blog post seems to start off with the premise that you understand what's going on, which I don't.

From the top of the blog post:

> The goal? Future-me should be happy to read this once future-me forgets how we evolved.

The post isn’t for you, but a reference for the author. It seems to be one of those “I’m making this for me, but if it’s useful for anyone else, so much the better” cases.

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Re:If Sapiens were a blog post by neilkakkar on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @11:49AM (#20403096)
Thanks, author here.

And for the other comments, no, I didn't update that right now. :)

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Re:If Sapiens were a blog post by OJFord on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @08:24AM (#20401257)
Why not quote the sentence before that? The actual first sentence is:

> I spent over 25 hours building a cut-down version of Sapiens.

Unless OP is on HN and added that after comments here.

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Re:If Sapiens were a blog post by latexr on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @08:52AM (#20401457)
> Why not quote the sentence before that?

Because however many hours were spent making it is irrelevant as to why it was made, which was the point.

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Re:If Sapiens were a blog post by OJFord on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @09:01AM (#20401521)
I don't mean the hours, I mean the "cut-down version of".
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Re:If Sapiens were a blog post by latexr on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @09:20AM (#20401656)
Similar reason. Explaining how it was made (by cutting it dow) has no bearing on the why, which was the point.
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Re:If Sapiens were a blog post by OJFord on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @09:49AM (#20401897)
No it wasn't, you were replying to:

> Is the author summarising his own impressions of Sapiens (surely acceptable), or literally lifting the original text of the book and taking it as his own [...]?

The first sentence about cutting it down answers that.

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Re:If Sapiens were a blog post by latexr on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @02:06PM (#20404619)
> No it wasn't, you were replying to

No, I was not, I was replying to the section I quoted (hence quoting it, that’s how that works).

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