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by arrrg 7y ago
iFixit are not even pretending to be a neutral party here. They have a clear agenda and a clear viewpoint and that is very much the point. And there is nothing wrong with that. While I agree with them in broad strokes I also disagree on som
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by arrrg 7y ago
That’s an actual joke. Also one that’s kicking up (as opposed to one simply reproducing, say, racism or sexism), so I’m quite ok with it.
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Some do, some don’t. I despise having to communicate with people.
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by arrrg 7y ago
Hotels are superior if you don’t want to cook. That, to me, is the central advantage of AirBnB: you can get one with a kitchen. Otherwise I see no reason to use it and I’m also not opposed to alternatives because I can very well see the des
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Not everyone rejects everything and not everyone even rejects the same things. I even deliberately avoided using the term “rejection” since that’s not even what it is, in many cases. Even someone like Pollock uses paint, uses a canvas. His
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by arrrg 7y ago
When you are talking about modern art you are talking about more than a century of work from thousands of different artists with probably hundreds of different approaches. Those approaches are only connected insofar as they remove tradition
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Sure. Look for example at studies of resumes with “black sounding” and “white sounding” names.
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Those are facets of the same thing, one is just more narrow than the other. They certainly don’t contradict each other.
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But I thought you don’t have to register copyright? I thought you just had it automatically as soon as you make something?
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Public-facing communication has always been trickier and much more muddied. Twitter is not like telephone (except direct messages I suppose). A more apt comparison would be newspapers (which have publishers and editorial staff) or radio&#x2
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by arrrg 7y ago
Banning Neo-Nazis did work out pretty good in Germany. It‘s not a perfect or complete solution but exactly the right approach. Allowing them to only play in the kiddie pool by disallowing symbols and certain speech is also great and works t
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by arrrg 7y ago
But I would argue that because of the political nature of the prize (and the deliberate political nature of it) the Peace Prize is unlike the other Prizes and should maybe be awarded differently, i.e. while being less certain about whether
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Up front I just have to say that this comment is not meant as a criticism of the choice. These are just my loose thoughts on the particulars of this prize. Without wanting to say anything about this year’s winner (if only because of a lack
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by arrrg 7y ago
Yeah, ok, no you can’t do that with an Apple Watch. Seems an alright trade-off for Apple to make. The amount of people running ultra-marathons is probably miniscule.
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Why couldn’t you? I had the Apple Watch track me during my hour long bike tours, GPS and heart rate sensor on and all, without any problems and with battery left to spare at the end of the day. Seven to eight hours is probably the critical
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by arrrg 7y ago
Talking about technicalities is an extremely common derailing tactic. So that’s the reason why people are upset about technicalities that don’t matter. They derail discussions and it doesn’t even matter if it’s intentional or not. They are
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by arrrg 7y ago
How do you know/measure who is the best and what justifications do you have for doing it that way? You(and probably everyone else) have an intuitive understanding of what being the best means and that’s alright, but it’s important to q
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by arrrg 7y ago
How is “the best” defined? Who defines who is “the best”? How do we know that hiring “the best” is a valid concept to begin with if it’s quite arbitrarily defined? I think there is more behind those two words than you are willing to admit.
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by arrrg 7y ago
It triggered for me after breaking really hard on my bike (not a fall). My hand must have experienced quite the rapid deceleration. That said, I don’t think it’s a problem in most situations but during winter I might not have reached my wat
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by arrrg 7y ago
18h is a conservative estimate, anyway. It assumes heavy use. Apple doesn’t bullshit with battery estimates.
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by arrrg 7y ago
If you want an overview of minifigure weapons Lego has used over the years you can get a pretty complete picture here: https://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?v=2&pg=1&catString... Even though Lego sets do sometim
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by arrrg 7y ago
I don’t think that’s true at all. I looked at every police set Lego is selling currently and not a single one of them included even a suggestion of a gun. Typical police equipment are handcuffs, megaphones, walkie-talkies, traffic paddles a
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by arrrg 7y ago
Vinegar and sugar are the two other vital components of tomato ketchup, with vinegar probably being the more characteristic of the two. (Tomatoes are naturally somewhat sweet, so you are always going to have some sweetness in your tomato sa
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Something that’s prone to misreading is misleading. Intent doesn’t factor into whether something is misleading or not and neither does when something is in some sense correct but not understood correctly by many people. Language can be used
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by arrrg 7y ago
Yeah, something has to give and we as a society have to find out what. I don’t get why people shy away from making these hard calls. I mean, I don’t even think this one is a hard one to make. Of course all of this does not exist in an ideol
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by arrrg 7y ago
Being gay is a life choice now? That’s what I mean when I say denying one’s existence. There is clear intent behind those words. I didn’t pick them arbitrarily. That’s a necessary condition for tolerance to become abhorrent. You are either
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I know that this didn’t work out in the past and the result were not hurt feelings, the result were millions of murdered people. I know that tolerating intolerance is not solely to blame for that, it probably didn’t even play a major role,
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Tolerance of someone who wants to deny your whole existence is not something anyone should ever tolerate. That‘s not a virtue, that‘s madness and potentially suicidal.
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That’s an absurd statement and reeks of the most vile arrogance. I’m so confused, do you honestly and in good faith make a statement like that? Do you not understand the disastrous social and political implications of approaching the proble
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That’s correct, but science also won’t solve this. This is a political/social issue that has to be approached this way. The science should inform our decisions but in order to reach that goal one might have to do more than insist that

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