JabavuAdams

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by JabavuAdams 18y ago
Straw-man generalization. Read the specific claims in the article about the mothers who persuaded their sons to leave the Taliban. We need to imprison or kill the violent people who can't be reasoned with, but we need to offer an alternat
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by JabavuAdams 18y ago
Interesting.
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by JabavuAdams 18y ago
It's all fun and games until your first psychotic episode.
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by JabavuAdams 18y ago
No, we need to win the war against violent, Islamic extremism, and violent religious fundamentalism, in general. In that regard, schools and education are just another weapon in a combined military / social arsenal. As it turns out, the sch
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by JabavuAdams 18y ago
Because you're in the developing world, and you're desperate to become an engineer / civil servant / whatever, so your kids don't have to drive taxis? I'm all for studying what you're interested in, and in general, I don't do things that I'
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by JabavuAdams 18y ago
This is a strawman argument. Your tax dollars are paying for the military anyway. The article claims they can build 20 schools for the cost of one cruise missile. In the long-run, we can't win the GWOT through military force alone. Even rel
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by JabavuAdams 18y ago
Well, I suppose he'll never know. Euthanasia is always an option. Why pessimize prematurely?
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by JabavuAdams 18y ago
network of trust?
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by JabavuAdams 18y ago
How much less happy? And will you still agree when you're 49? What if you change your habits sufficiently that after an initial period of (slight) unhappiness, eating less no longer makes you unhappy?
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by JabavuAdams 18y ago
Neat! There's an article in the 1997 Game Developer's Conference Proceedings on a similar technique that Naughty Dog used in their Crash Bandicoot tool-chain. Given a binary file format, it's nice to be able to specify a reader or writer co
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by JabavuAdams 18y ago
Interesting. I was telling one of the artists that I work with that a programmer is like a cross between an architect and a lawyer. We build [abstract, conceptual] structures, but need to assign precise meanings to concepts. It's not as cat
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Toronto Indie Game Jam: Office Smash Game! [unity plugin](tojam.ca)
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