Ollinson

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by Ollinson 11y ago
Your use of "screen" seems to suggest that you group e-ink displays and lcd displays together. Do you really see no practical difference between the two in reading experience? A sincere question because I don't enjoy reading
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by Ollinson 11y ago
I should have included this in my original post but InstantWatcher sounds like what you're looking for. That website is how I discovered netflix has thousands of movies in the first place.
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by Ollinson 11y ago
Well let me put it this way. I was stuck in a hotel for a few days with nothing but netflix to keep me entertained. I browsed through all the documentaries and found nothing worth watching that I hadn't already watched. Frustrated, I f
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by Ollinson 11y ago
I had a close friend who refused to wear his Patka/Keski Dastaar anymore (sorry if this is incorrect, I'm going off of images on google) and was nearly disowned by his family. The crazy thing is his family wasn't, to my eyes,
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by Ollinson 11y ago
I was honestly shocked to find out that there are almost 8000 movies available right now on netflix streaming. Their "custom tailored" selection screen gives the impression that they have 300 films available at most.
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by Ollinson 11y ago
I find that nice pair of in-ear etymotics with their biggest foam tips is the best way to block out noise. The noise isolation is so strong that I can't even listen to music at higher than half volume without discomfort.
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by Ollinson 11y ago
I'm curious how you interpreted this culture shock. Was it that you regretted not having similar experiences?
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by Ollinson 11y ago
All of the people criticizing homeschooling on the basis of socialization seem to advocate the "throw them in the water and let them learn how to swim" methodology. I have to ask though what is the real advantage of this? With hom
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by Ollinson 11y ago
That's 4-5 pages that claim to adequately cover the financial and political current events of 71 countries I think I'm justified in being skeptical.
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by Ollinson 11y ago
The economist is very good at providing readers with the illusion of being informed. Think about how multifaceted US policy is on any given day of the year. The economist boils down similar issues to a blurb on a page with a heading that sa
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by Ollinson 11y ago
Sticking to the theme of US elections, it also came out for Barack Obama in 2012. That's pretty contrarian considering The Economists history and Mitt Romney's policies on Wall Street. The vast majority of economist articles can b
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by Ollinson 11y ago
I subscribed to the economist sometime in the middle of 2012 and did not have a positive experience. I'm convinced that much of the allure of the economist comes from that it is frank contrarian news source. I don't like the anony
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by Ollinson 11y ago
We know that the output which describes his life is true but the details of the input are dodgy at best. The input in this case matters a lot.
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by Ollinson 11y ago
This is also called the euphemism treadmill. Over time almost any word assigned to a social stigma will become pejorative. The word retard used to be the only way to refer to the "differently abled" in polite society.
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by Ollinson 11y ago
I believe the OP is talking about a car service, not a medallion taxi cab.
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by Ollinson 11y ago
I live in Queens and the only complaint of yours I can qualify is that they don't take credit cards. Car service cabs are plentiful and cheap in my area. Many of the drivers directly communicate with you by phone and have GPS.
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by Ollinson 11y ago
hah I like your endless cycle analogy
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by Ollinson 11y ago
I think a lot of what you call fluff/noise was the author's attempt to show the humanity of scientists who some readers might misidentify as gods on earth. I absolutely agree it can sometimes be tedious but I don't think it w
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by Ollinson 11y ago
I mentioned this in another comment but really BusTime has been one of the greatest public transit innovations in NYC of the past 20 years.
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by Ollinson 11y ago
Bus routes are not supposed to replace train routes. It is by design that bus routes are longer, buses are meant to service areas not accessible by train. I'm curious if you traveled by bus since the introduction of bus time last yea
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by Ollinson 11y ago
The state of nutritional science really is pathetic. The ability to prey on the FUD surrounding "a long and healthy life" is second only to promises of get rich quick schemes. Sometimes I think it would be more practical to educat
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by Ollinson 11y ago
It really is wacky. I understand why the author made the omission though. I've been on public bus systems in many major US cities and they are entirely the domain of the elderly, handicapped or impoverished. The NYC bus system though i
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by Ollinson 11y ago
After a while I realized that all this "freedom of speech" talk is really just a euphemism for "let us form hate groups and post pictures of 13 year olds in bikinis."
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by Ollinson 11y ago
This just sounds like another example of the euphemism treadmill.[0] Here's an interesting article from 5 years ago about a NYC agency with "retarded" in the name which refused to remove the word [1] The answer isn't as
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by Ollinson 11y ago
I've raised free range chickens on my small personal farm for years and let me assure you, they don't need to any human intervention to be inspired to procreate. If anyone is committing rape on my farm it's the roosters, not
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by Ollinson 11y ago
Don't forget taxes.
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by Ollinson 11y ago
These days I watch more hours of twitch.tv than I do films and TV shows combined.
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by Ollinson 11y ago
The article itself criticizes Jaynes' use of The Iliad as an example; he handwaved these criticisms away by saying that "consciousness" was added at a later date. The article is candidly critical of Jaynes and so are all the
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by Ollinson 11y ago
Unscientific ideas can inspire useful and possibly prescient thoughts. To me that was the real subtext of this article. The people you're quoting clearly read at least part of the article (they quoted or paraphrased it). I think it&#x2
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by Ollinson 11y ago
I'm sure Jaynes would have made the same argument against your example that he did when others told him about examples of consciousness in The Iliad, "they are later additions or mistranslations." A pretty convenient and unco

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