[HN Gopher] The Milky Way according to Anton Pannekoek
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       The Milky Way according to Anton Pannekoek
        
       Author : apollinaire
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2021-10-27 16:51 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | swebs wrote:
       | Ah, this isn't the half A-press guy.
        
         | dane-pgp wrote:
         | Yeah, if the article was about pannenkoek2012, it would first
         | have to talk about Parallel Universes.
        
           | Bootvis wrote:
           | Fun fact: The surname Pannekoek (pancake) is correctly
           | spelled without the n you find in the nickname pannenkoek2012
           | which is also correctly spelled. The Dutch rules of spelling
           | changed: if a word is the concatenation of two words of which
           | the first one can be put in plural form by appending 'en' the
           | formerly correct spelling of just an 'e' became wrong and
           | needed to be spelled with the extra 'n', e.g. 'sterrestof' ->
           | 'sterrenstof' (stardust). This rule holds except when there
           | is only one instance of the first word: Koninginnedag (Queens
           | Day) or zonnesteek (heat stroke, literally sun sting).
        
             | dylan604 wrote:
             | I'm glad that you find that a fun fact. A little esoteric
             | for me, but for those that like it, go nuts. /non-s
        
       | cassepipe wrote:
       | Wow, I did not expect to see Anton Pannekoek appear on Hacker
       | News frontpage. I had read a booklet from him when I was younger
       | that was, we may say, an epistemological piece of criticism of
       | Lenin and his followers, attempting to demonstrate how they had
       | in the end a very "bourgeois" state of mind/epistemology and I
       | must say rather interesting for its time. He also spent time
       | attacking Mach, a now almost unknown physicist/philosopher that
       | was very famous at the time. I had read an interesting article on
       | HN about him (can't seem to find it right now). What you should
       | know is that Anton Pannekoek is an heir of the German/Dutch anti-
       | authoritarian Lef, people who were into workers self-
       | organization/councils and not much into Third International
       | "Communism".
        
         | lastgeniusua wrote:
         | what are you reading now if you read Pannekoek when you were
         | younger, I wonder?
        
           | cassepipe wrote:
           | Robert Brenner and Robert Sapolsky right now. Still
           | interested about systems, especially in how capitalism works
           | (or does not work depending on where you stand) and how it
           | came about. But also a little bit more interested in how
           | human work (as biological systems). Thanks for asking.
        
             | lastgeniusua wrote:
             | the "doesn't" camp, of course. Brenner in the context of
             | the larger debates or on his own? Have you read Jairus
             | Banaji?
             | 
             | What's particularly interesting in Sapolsky's work for you?
        
         | orhmeh09 wrote:
         | Fun fact - Mach is the Mach 3 in razor blades, among other
         | places (obscure things like units of measurement).
        
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