Chathamization

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by Chathamization 6y ago
The publish or perish nature of blogs is one of the many reasons why I feel they're generally inferior to the personal web pages that were popular during the early web. It seems that there has been a general trend towards a constant ch
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by Chathamization 6y ago
I noticed episodes that seems to be edited lectures in both Mark Goodacre's NT Pod and Philip Harland's Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean. Both are academic studies of the Christian New Testament (though the later also spends
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by Chathamization 6y ago
It depends on the podcast. I tend to listen to podcasts over lectures because the podcasts are often more information rich and deeper than the lectures I've found on the same subject. Some podcasts even seem to include edited universit
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by Chathamization 6y ago
I suppose it depends on the individual. I personally haven't found podcasts to be worse than written sources when it comes to retention.
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by Chathamization 6y ago
I've never been a fan of Chekhov's gun. Interactions and details that aren't directly connected to the main plot do a good job at giving the world texture and making it feel alive. Fiction that does away with too many unrelat
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by Chathamization 6y ago
Yeah, there's a good chance that what we think of as humanity will be different 500 years from now. As such, trying to find ways to get today's humanity to live on other worlds (a questionable proposition even if things remain rel
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by Chathamization 6y ago
It's even more wasteful if you look at it at a societal level. There's an incredible amount of economic output that's devoted to advertising, so much so that there are large secondary industries (broadcast television, radio,
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by Chathamization 7y ago
In the 2018 poll the majority of Republicans (52%) actually supported it. There's just been a lot of effort pushing against it by most of the leadership in America (the media, the Republican party, most of the Democratic party leadersh
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by Chathamization 7y ago
55% in the latest Morning Consult poll[1]. And this is after a heavy push from the healthcare industry against it, as well as strong opposition from all of the Republican leadership and most of the Democratic leadership. Before the recent b
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by Chathamization 7y ago
In addition, my understanding is that while Shakespeare was well regarded during his life, he wasn't particularly held in much higher regard than many of his contemporaries. The excessive elevation of Shakespeare (Bardolatry) seems to
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by Chathamization 7y ago
I remember Doom in particular being considered the poster child for what some considered to be lowbrow gaming. Of course people dividing entertainment into highbrow and lowbrow groups is nothing new - it's common for people to think of
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by Chathamization 7y ago
I think this is a key to understanding online discourse. A lot of the stuff you see is generated by a very small percentage of the users (probably much less than 1% if you look at the numbers[1]), and this small percentage likely consists o
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by Chathamization 7y ago
I've only read her first three Earthsea books and some of her short stories, but The Wizard of Earthsea had a big impact on me. Also, one short story of hers that I really like is available online: http://www.lightspeedmagaz
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by Chathamization 7y ago
The Boston plan was to start elementary school kids at 7:15, which is why parents were complaining about forcing young kids out of bed at 5:30-6:00 am. Not an unreasonable criticism, I think (there were also complaints from working families
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by Chathamization 7y ago
The Boston plan was to move a lot of younger students to earlier start times. People seem to just shrug this part off for some reason. People talk about the benefit of later start times for teenagers, but the negative impact that earlier st
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by Chathamization 7y ago
Buttigieg's positive coverage started when he was polling below 2% (even when he was polling below 1%). A lot of it had to do with having the right establishment connections[1]. His success in the polls seems to be the result of the me
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by Chathamization 7y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if we develop brain uploads sometime in the next 400 years, at which point the focus on trying to recreate earth-like environments anywhere will look silly. There's probably a lot of other advancements over
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by Chathamization 7y ago
> It should put a limit on how weird or explicitly unfair the law can be. The defense isn't allowed to tell jurors about jury nullification and there's an effort to keep out any potential jurors who are aware of it. In general
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by Chathamization 7y ago
The non-materialist argument is similar to creationist critiques of evolution. Scientists who study these things see a material explanation, but because these are enormously complex emergent properties they don't know the exact details
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by Chathamization 7y ago
It's a mistake to think that school is the best way to appreciate "pure knowledge" for all people. I "taught myself" a lot, and later had the opportunity to take CS classes in a highly ranked (for CS) university (I
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by Chathamization 7y ago
Vitamin A supplements are a cheap and effective solution, and one that groups like the WHO have focused on[1]. They almost never come up when golden rice is discussed, because discussions of golden rice seem to be more about pushing on part
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by Chathamization 7y ago
Vitamin A deficiency is also effectively combated by low cost supplements (which is why groups like the WHO focus on this as well as dietary solutions)[1]. Though people who talk about golden rice claim that they're very concerned abou
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by Chathamization 7y ago
> the Norwegian sandwich definitely has less fat (less cheese, less calories in the butter than mayo or other sauce, less fatty meats) Butter is much higher in saturated fat and calories than mayo, and you're putting butter on 3 sli
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by Chathamization 7y ago
Read the above post, this is the meal we're discussing: > last year I have made a matpakke with 3 slices of bread Which also aligns with what's said in the article. If you eat three of these in a meal, you're getting one m
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by Chathamization 7y ago
Yeah, if you look at the calories in the ingredients (3 slices of buttered bread each with a slice of cheese, liver paste, or peanut butter) you're looking at something that at best has the same amount of calories as a quarter pounder
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by Chathamization 7y ago
> In other word, "real" learning is hard, it takes work, it's not fun. The article compares active learning to passive learning like listening to lectures, and sees evidence that active learning is better. I don't thi
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by Chathamization 7y ago
The Harvard Extension School is a good example of this. The school wants to make money by offering classes to more students, but doesn't want people to call them "Harvard students" because it would diminish the exclusivity in
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by Chathamization 7y ago
Like most of the media, it has a strong establishment bias. The center-left types are somewhat liberal in the older sense of the term[1], but establishment conservatives seem to be pretty welcome as well (Diane Rehm used to have people from
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by Chathamization 7y ago
> It's unfortunate that internet people have been falsely conditioned to believe the people who create the media we consume shouldn't be paid. Most of the media we consume is probably detrimental to us, even before advertising
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by Chathamization 7y ago
Very much this. I think a large issue with MOOCs is that they're too focused on emulating the structure of a university class - focus on lectures, community built around specific classes, focusing on the metric of course completion rat

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