Assuming the premise of the short story is true, of course. Otherwise, what's the point. I can't simultaneously grant the premise and pretend that I didn't just grant it, by denying my knowledge of the rebirth mechanism.
I'm always wary of colleagues like that. They start doing everybody's job (worse) and immediately management expects everybody to do the same ("there are no excuses..."), with terrible consequences. From experience, they need to be recognized and isolated soon.
Isn't inherent impermanence one of the factors that make street art art? If we treat graffiti like museum pieces exposed outside instead of inside, we don't do justice to them (and we end up in these kind of ridiculous situations). Graffiti are defaced, painted over, repainted, even modified over time. They're intrinsecally not immutable. If we think of them as immutable, they're just spray-painted art brut that happens to be on a wall instead of a picture panel - not very interesting.
By the name, I thought this was gonna be a lightweight AI vector distributed database with data science analysis baked in (for AI, of course) at the minimum.
Imagine my relief when I discovered this is... an atlas of actual bird feathers.
> It still means something different because you took it.
Well, no. At least, for me this cheap "feel good" stuff never really worked. It means something different if you made it different in some way. Could be a different technique, or different focus. If it's the same stuff that everybody else does it's worth less than nothing, and I can't see how me being the author changes that.
Many ancient paradoxes are not really paradoxes. Zeno's ones are resolved today with infinite series.
But this is a real one. Is it possible to describe an arbitrary real number? Almost all reals are not describable. But you cannot find a single such number.
The 'paradox' is that the search itself is self-failing - a broken strategy. Of course, now we have the language of sets and functions between them and cardinalities and we resolve this for us in a way that is meaningful. But still now you know the 'existence' of this thing? Can't be described.
It's interesting because of the property of creating with finite words universes of infiniteness.
It depends how you define "named", but for example, not all the grain of sands you see on a beach are named (yes, they are named collectively, but not individually. If "collectively" is valid, then that's further proof that "unnameable" things can't exist, because they already have a collective name).
To be fair, he's suggesting remigrating the illegal immigrants, that are millions in Europe. Unfortunately the European asylum laws are a big loophole: if you claim asylum and you're subsequently denied (sometimes after months or years), there's no legal way of sending you back to your original country against your will. That's why the hard right (and soon the center of right, and maybe some parts of the left) insists on remigration: because it's the only way of avoiding / responding to illegal immigration with the laws we have today.
> Remigration is a far-right concept referring to the ethnic cleansing[1] via mass deportation of non-white minority populations, especially immigrants and sometimes including native-born citizens, to their place of racial ancestry.
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