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by bazoom42 3y ago
> 7 million premature deaths per year from particulate emissions from fossil and biofuel combustion energy sources. Does this include emissions from stuff like motor vehicles, kitchen stoves etc? Or just emissions from power plants which
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by bazoom42 4y ago
“High litterature” tend to mean litterature with high prestige among elites and long-lasting cultural impact. Good for you if you appreciate Marvel-branded content, but it doesn’t make Marvel Homer. The closest analogy to marvel movies woul
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by bazoom42 4y ago
Sure. We also know the actor is not actually Cleopatra, and she probably looked quite different in reality.
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by bazoom42 4y ago
> We think of epic poetry as some kind of high literature. They were more like Marvel movies of the day. Homer was considered the highest litterature at the time, so I’m not sure what this analogy means?
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by bazoom42 4y ago
> Like someone who's 3/4 Greek and 1/4 Egyptian. Yeah, but how should her nose look? Should she be beautiful or ugly? How old?
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by bazoom42 4y ago
It goes back at least to Gilgamesh.
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by bazoom42 4y ago
There is a big difference between editing/censoring existing art to conform to contemporay values (as OP is talking about) and to create new content. New content (like a new netflix production) will always reflect contemporary values.
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by bazoom42 4y ago
Agree - if a function is otherwise cohesive and doesnt mix independent concerns, I prefer one 100 line fuction to 25 4-line functions. Splitting functions is tempting because it makes each individual function seem simper, but the higher cos
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by bazoom42 4y ago
Typescript is a great remedy when you are forced to use JavaScript. But in a context where you can use any language it makes zero sense. If you want static types just use C# or whatever, otherwise just use Python.
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by bazoom42 4y ago
It is not illegal to own and preserve media which is still under copyright. IP is not the problem, the problem is nobody cared until it was too late.
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by bazoom42 4y ago
> Placing the earth at the centre of anything in your theory is applying a human-centric bias to your ideas. No, it is applying an earth-centric bias. Humans are not in the center, they live between the earth and the celestial spheres. &
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by bazoom42 4y ago
A sibling comment calls geocentrism “human centric bias”, so yes, some have the misconception that geocentrism places humans at the center.
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by bazoom42 4y ago
> Furthermore, one of the lessons we learned from the bad assumptions of Ptolemy (geocentrism) is to never assume that we occupy a special position from which we make observations. The geocentric model does not assume “we” are in a speci
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by bazoom42 4y ago
My take is the opposite. DRY can be overused, but it is much easier to “undry”, than it is to consolidate duplicate code which should have been dry from the beginning. Sections of duplicate code tend to drift apart over time, making it mo
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by bazoom42 4y ago
Thank you. I was really confused by the article. This makes a lot more sense.
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by bazoom42 4y ago
> How do you generalize this principle? Look at evidence rather than at how many people belive something?
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by bazoom42 4y ago
As a non-religious person, it is hard to grasp the mindset where one can denounce the abuse in words, but in actions support the institution which perpetrated the abuse and protected the abusers. But I understand faith is not rational.
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by bazoom42 4y ago
If every other person cared about it wouldnt be arcane or obscure, would it? Given you talk about ‘poseurs’ you sound more like a hipster than a geek.
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by bazoom42 4y ago
As far as I know, we dont even know if Homer was a single individual. But if you have better information about Homer which is relevant for the discussion at hand, I would love to know more.
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by bazoom42 4y ago
Does the child abuse bother you?
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by bazoom42 4y ago
Good for them, but you will notice all the greatest art in the world was created by people who got paid for their work.
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by bazoom42 4y ago
This is a good argument for making real estate ownership temporary and non-inheritable. For a finite resource like land, ownership is literally depriving the land from everybody else. Ownership of creative works you create yourself does not
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by bazoom42 4y ago
Apply the same logic to any kind of asset. Why should real estate, ownership of land, or any other material posession be inherited through generations? Why not let it revert to the public domain upon the death of the owner?
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by bazoom42 4y ago
There are plenty of examples of heavily marketed films which flops.
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by bazoom42 4y ago
Is this question in good faith? Wagner recruiting from prisons have been widely reported.
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by bazoom42 4y ago
It is possible the writers know what they are doing. In the end, what matters is if the audience shows up. Who wants to see the same thing again without any new twists or ideas?
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by bazoom42 4y ago
> they wanted to create a walled garden, more similar to an app store Clearly this didnt happen - you can still run native executables on Windows, here 25 years later. Indeed this is why Windows was and remains popular - the amount of so
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by bazoom42 4y ago
If most cops are mostly good, why dont they stop the bad cops in cases such as this?
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by bazoom42 4y ago
Espresso refers to how pressure is used to force water through ground coffee.
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by bazoom42 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_effect “In religious studies and sociology, the pizza effect is the phenomenon of elements of a nation's or people's culture being transformed or at least more fully embr

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