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by Ollinson 11y ago
Anyone looking for more information on the topic of the peace we live in today might be interested in the book The Better Angels of our Nature by Steven Pinker: Why Violence Has Declined http://www.amazon.com/The-Better-Ange
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by Ollinson 11y ago
What is the story behind the last photograph with the two women? You mentioned that most women on your trip were totally covered except one you saw at a currency exchange. Great article by the way.
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by Ollinson 11y ago
The problem with streaming film services is distribution rights not software. Even netflix, the poster child of film streaming, struggles with this same problem.
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by Ollinson 11y ago
The california republic flag with the bear is quite popular.
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by Ollinson 11y ago
he was also a great actor in the third man
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by Ollinson 11y ago
The perfect is the enemy of the good. The question is simply "what do we know about this problem" not "what is the absolute unquestionable universal answer." Also your comment has some interesting points but starting off
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by Ollinson 11y ago
Could you expand on this comment? It seems to agree with what I said.
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by Ollinson 11y ago
To paraphrase Nobel prize winning economist Paul Samuelson, everyone has predicted 9 of the last 5 recessions.
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by Ollinson 11y ago
>If that's the case, then just don't say silly generalizations like The context of our conversation was video games. No koan, maxim or quote contains the unquestionable logical truth in all applications. Ultimately your video g
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by Ollinson 11y ago
I think it might be useful to distinguish between playing video games and breaking drug laws.
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by Ollinson 11y ago
Do you like the person you are now? How do you know TV didn't help shape that person. There is wisdom to be had in learning first hand why a bad thing is bad, rather than just being told it is forbidden.
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by Ollinson 11y ago
Spacechem http://www.zachtronics.com/spacechem/ It's not intended at all as a programming education product but I think that's what's so great about it.
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by Ollinson 11y ago
poor kids
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by Ollinson 11y ago
I wonder if there are actual educational benefits to attending an ivy league school beyond the commonly mentioned networking. Given a competent A student is there knowledge you will gain from the finance department at say Harvard that you w
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by Ollinson 11y ago
I don't find that argument convincing. Chomsky makes it clear that if he was interested in understanding something, in this case C, he would make an honest effort at finding the people and resources necessary to reach that goal. Contin
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by Ollinson 11y ago
Same here. I used to have panic attacks from any unusual physical stimulation (too hot, too cold, hungover, hungry, ate too much). These would happen weekly and many times put me in the ER. I have not had a single panic attack since I'
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by Ollinson 12y ago
Maybe B&T was an insult 30 years ago but since some of the most trendy neighborhoods in NYC today are in Brooklyn....yeah not so much.
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by Ollinson 12y ago
Times Square is not downtown new york.
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by Ollinson 12y ago
Relying on ad revenue is exactly how buzzfeed got into this mess.
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by Ollinson 12y ago
I do pay for content. I pay for The New York Times, The Economist, American Scientist, Lapham's Quarterly, Nautilus and The New York Review of Books. I encourage Buzzfeed to put up a paywall. They will find out quickly how little peopl
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by Ollinson 12y ago
In New York City there is an agency called "The Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities." There is a fascinating article about how this agency has resisted changing their name.* >The debate over erasing the
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by Ollinson 12y ago
Notice how I qualified my statement by saying in the US . I'm perfectly open to criticism of the subway compared to other countries more modern systems. As it stands though, for a person with only a US passport, the NYC subway is in a
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by Ollinson 12y ago
This is one of those ideas that makes complete sense on paper but would never fly in real life. I'm sure even for crap fast food customers attach value to the fact that their food is prepared by humans as a sort of quality assurance.
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by Ollinson 12y ago
The subway makes the culture in NYC different than almost any other major city in the US. If you lived in NYC maybe you understand. In other cities you can get around with public transportation, in NYC it's unquestionably the way to
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by Ollinson 12y ago
Ask Metafilter and the Metafilter archives are among the most valuable corners of the internet. Mathowie has been an excellent steward and I wish him the best.
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by Ollinson 12y ago
Before enlightenment, chop wood carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood carry water.
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by Ollinson 12y ago
Online poker is very much alive. You can check it out for yourself twitch.tv I personally recommend pokerstaples stream. He's a very math based MTT player.
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by Ollinson 12y ago
You might be interested in the works of Marshall McLuhan, specifically The Medium is the Message. >McLuhan understood "medium" in a broad sense. He identified the light bulb as a clear demonstration of the concept of “the mediu
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by Ollinson 12y ago
I watch twitch a lot and have noticed that streamers who average 2,000 viewers or more treat streaming as their primary full time job. By virtue of their popularity many of them also get endorsements, donations and other perks to supplement
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by Ollinson 12y ago
The oldest living woman smoked daily into her late 90s.

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