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by bbctol 9y ago
Well, if you don't want Google making decisions about what content is placed at the top... I'm not sure what you think Google does.
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by bbctol 9y ago
Wearing clothes is a hallmark of religions across time and space...
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by bbctol 9y ago
Also, a lot of cops themselves are ex-military, a consequence of maintaining decade-long wars.
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by bbctol 9y ago
People who are used to software success stories, not medical tech success stories. An undergraduate having an idea that changes the world is possible in the relatively unconstrained space of software (which the bubble is used to), less so i
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by bbctol 9y ago
I don't think people realize how much dynamic pricing disrupts what we think of as capitalism, and many of the benefits it creates. The idea of goods having singular prices, determined by the market, has been taken for granted by propo
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by bbctol 9y ago
"Hmmmm, what's an object that's heavy but still shows off my high-tech credentials..."
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by bbctol 9y ago
Not a media conspiracy, just a media echo chamber/feeding frenzy. Now that the story's picked up, everyone wants to cover it to get attention. It picked up originally because it's funny and because people like making fun of d
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by bbctol 9y ago
That's the cloud forests of Northern California. Southern California isn't a true desert, but the largest things you'll find are mostly scrub.
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by bbctol 9y ago
Yeah, this concept that people like having a "sense of mission in their lives" that only a job can fill is such insidious nonsense I lose respect for anyone who repeats it. It's true that people prefer jobs to handouts, and t
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by bbctol 9y ago
Right, but it's not a scientific paper. It's a problem when people trust something just because it came out of Princeton, but the problem you're identifying isn't one with scientific papers (and the citations you'
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by bbctol 9y ago
I think this is actually more important than the "too much democracy" argument top comment was heading towards. Representatives are supposed to do just that: represent their communities. They should be voted in based on how much t
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by bbctol 9y ago
It's mainly a video, the text is just a caption.
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I figured it was just in reference to how often the USA/Military uses 5-pointed stars on things.
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by bbctol 10y ago
You do realize all of these images started out as templates? Like, someone created a pixelized version of the Mona Lisa, then told the users of a subreddit "Go make this at these coordinates." This art wasn't generated sponta
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by bbctol 10y ago
One might say... yin and yang, my friend, yin and yang.
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by bbctol 10y ago
I've actually been told that the graphic design of The Outline is supposed to be the cool feature that gets people coming back to the site. Which is weird, as it's... awful.
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by bbctol 10y ago
The way that compromises emerged was actually kind of inspiring. Everyone knew that a harmonious picture would be more pleasing than a chaotic blob, and it would be easy for a failed negotiation to descend into chaos, so neighboring groups
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by bbctol 10y ago
Near as I can tell, the number one way people stereotype the other side is by saying those people stereotype us all the time. Everyone knows that the country is too divided--and we all know the people responsible for that division are tho
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by bbctol 10y ago
Yeah, this is applicable to huge swathes of Internet culture. Tons of Pinterest boards, tumblrs, and subreddits are just collections of images that fit a particular aesthetic. What will the web look like when almost all curation can be auto
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by bbctol 10y ago
Yeah, without data on how other people perceive podcasts, the author is just inadvertently revealing their own perceptions. I've never thought of listening to podcasts as highbrow, and they've gone through a very particular set of
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by bbctol 10y ago
It's startling how much the current era reminds me of the late 1800s/early 1900s, as well as how little that era was focused on in my history classes. We jumped from the Civil War to World War 1 pretty quickly, with scarce attenti
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by bbctol 10y ago
The Rothschilds aren't that rich, and there's a lot of them. Old money may prefer obscurity, but it also doesn't go that far anymore.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Why is Wikipedia worse with pages for every movie ever made, though? Why would it be better without them?
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by bbctol 10y ago
What's insulting about "mansplaining"? EDIT: this could be seen as a rhetorical jab, but I really don't mean it that way, I'm just not sure in what context that would be insulting.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Kids used to chase DDT trucks and play in the fog they sprayed out. While we may talk these days about how people are too paranoid over "chemicals," before films like Silent Spring people were far too confident that they were safe
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by bbctol 10y ago
To be fair, that is a ludicrous misrepresentation of Dennett's position.
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by bbctol 10y ago
The thing is, "facts" aren't just mined out of the ground, and people underestimated how much our concept of what a "fact" is was affected by our information infrastructure. There is very little true foundation of f
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by bbctol 10y ago
Fun fact: for radiocarbon dating and similar techniques, when something is identified as from "ten thousand years before now," "now" is defined as January 1st, 1950. Anything past that date is too screwed up compared to
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by bbctol 10y ago
I like the idea behind this, and I appreciate that it makes a complicated concept dirt-simple to use, but I think it's a little too simple. You can't diagram anything but a closed system, and most things are better modeled as op
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by bbctol 10y ago
What's the worst that can happen from a vociferous vegan?

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