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541.
by ashark 9y ago
A revealing thought experiment is trying to come up with how much awful crap would have to happen to Earth to make living here less desirable than even a somewhat-terraformed Mars.
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by ashark 9y ago
IIRC 3-4 years after the financial crisis NPR ran a story the premise of which was basically "WTF is up with major white collar crime seemingly never being punished?" and they claimed the FBI's division devoted to financial c
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by ashark 9y ago
> Or what happens when curiosity is quenched withing seconds of being aroused? Packages show up on the lawn it is astonishing how they appear. They are astonishing surprises. It’s what I ordered the cat food the espresso machine the two
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by ashark 9y ago
My experience is that it's easy to waste tons of time on the Internet trying to learn how to learn things the best possible way when if you'd just spent that time on the first mediocre book on a given topic at your local libra
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by ashark 9y ago
> Is python a bad introductory language because it's not named "A Dynamic Language With Syntax that Looks Like Pseudo Code and Significant Whitespace"? OTOH we say Python is a programming language , where both of those wo
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by ashark 9y ago
> Surely in 2017 the average person would know what an algorithm is, outside of any tv show. Right? No. It doesn't take much effort to reach the top, say, 10% of the population for knowledge or ability in most areas. For people in t
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by ashark 9y ago
> Imagine if tech were stuck where it was in even 1999. So many things possible today would not be possible (due to cost or unavailability). Where tech directly touches my life, I wouldn't say today's tech makes me any happie
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by ashark 9y ago
There's even an exception for it in the 13th amendment. Some slavery is still legal under the US constitution, as amended, which is probably a fun/easy bar bet to win. Not sure how the wider legal landscape treats this, especial
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by ashark 9y ago
I don't care about using a sex/gender modifier on the names of the positions, but using the adjectives women/men woman/man instead of female/male. Comes off really weird to me. We don't do it for men, we use
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by ashark 9y ago
I continue to find the use of "woman" or "women" as an adjective to be really grating. "Women firefighters", for example—we don't say "men nurses", ya know? Reads/sounds awful to me, like we
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by ashark 9y ago
Cheaper to stage live (you can spend the money on theatrics instead, if you like), fewer takes. Composition blends into final recording, without an intermediate step. [EDIT] You can basically have most or all of your non-vocal tracks ready
552.
by ashark 9y ago
"Turn of the century" isn't only used for 1900-1909, but is sometimes used in that rôle.
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by ashark 9y ago
We seem to have stabilized at "electronic (=cheap to make) hip-hop influenced auto-tune pop" as the basic standard for top-40s music. [EDIT] I gather someone may have thought I was taking a swipe at electronic music? I wasn't
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by ashark 9y ago
Something lost on second-half-of-millenial-generation and up will be just how inaccessible media was, even well into the 90s. Movies took years to be released on video. What you could buy was mostly whatever the local stores chose to stoc
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by ashark 9y ago
> Yet AdSense is raking in billions. I've always wondered who actually clicks on the ads :D A lot of users have a really poor sense of what all the stuff on their screen is. Google started putting ads inline with search results for
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by ashark 9y ago
Yes, but that's not true of Expo, is it?
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by ashark 9y ago
There are a lot of things that need to come together for great literature to happen. Qualities of the author's use of language are some of them, but not all. It is true that if a piece's language is poor, or simply unremarkable, i
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by ashark 9y ago
Sure, but the recent popularity of the topic, and the typical subjects of the coverage (not likely Hillary voters, often rust belt and coal country folks) is probably because it's been chosen as a leading answer to the question "h
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by ashark 9y ago
I wasn't trying to degrade anyone with that description, just present the point of view that I think is driving these sorts of articles in such quantity and prominence. I think it's fair to say that Trump's winning the nomina
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by ashark 9y ago
To be perfectly frank: everyone on the coasts suddenly cares a lot about poor rural flyover-country and Appalachian people's problems because they elected Trump and they'd really like them not to do anything like that ever again.
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by ashark 9y ago
It's all fun and games until you break the very expensive family computer (and when your parents have written instructions for the sequence of magic commands to run various programs and don't understand the directory tree, "b
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by ashark 9y ago
> Thanks for clearly articulating this in 6 words: "Stupid Computer Shit we all know". This is something many people aren't willing to acknowledge. I think a lot of us have forgotten how strange and frightening a blank com
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by ashark 9y ago
I don't think it's even the programming that's the problem. There's a ton of Stupid Computer Shit we all know, mostly from messing around on our own time, that makes programming or doing anything else with computers m
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by ashark 9y ago
Read. Study. Listen to music or radio shows (podcasts). Play music. Board games. Prep food for the next day (pizza dough ought to rest at least overnight, for instance). Tidy and clean so you don't have to do that while the sun'
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by ashark 9y ago
Not that long ago, everyone did 1-3 all the time. Until ~20 years ago "screen time" was at least mostly limited to a (by modern standards) tiny CRT TV on the other side of the room for most people. Glowing screens filling a bi
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by ashark 9y ago
1) no glowing screens at all after the sun goes down. 2) no glowing screens at all after the sun goes down. 3) no glowing screens at all after the sun goes down. 4) very low candle-temperature lighting only after dark. Especially try to k
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by ashark 9y ago
This piece is definitely awful and lazy. I know who he is, that's why I wrote that the most interesting thing about this was that he'd put his name on it.
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by ashark 9y ago
I didn't flag it, but it's of such low quality that I'd understand why someone might.
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by ashark 9y ago
I thought it was a really lazy article that fails miserably to sell me on the idea that I've got a better life than a billionaire in 1916, including some really stupid stuff about there not being refrigerators (only iceboxes, on no! Wh
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by ashark 9y ago
The only convincing things here are healthcare advancements (obviously). Meanwhile, the 1916 billionaire can spend 95+% of their waking time in leisure or doing things entirely of their choosing, even if raising kids (various staff do the h

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