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by bena 3y ago
I'm going to go with both of you. They know what they're doing is wrong. But I don't think they did it because "everyone does it", they did it because they think they're ultimately right. They believe in their
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by bena 3y ago
Yes, but none of the solutions will be implemented. It's ultimately navel gazing. And one of the qualities of a wicked problem is that you can't really run experiments. Finding out if (for example) a new method of teaching during
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by bena 3y ago
I think the lack of a web client is a big reason. Also, I'm not sure if there's an API for it. If there isn't, that would need to be implemented.
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by bena 3y ago
This is hilarious, because it misses one of the core issues with wicked problems. Wicked problems are wicked because they are nearly impossible to theorize about. You cannot know if a solution is viable unless you actually implement the sol
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by bena 3y ago
I would say that's because those that literally control the narrative have a vested interest in not providing the actor's side of this. But parts of it are quite simple. One thing they want: The actors want to be paid residuals fo
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by bena 3y ago
Support for Office 2003 ended in 2014. Close to a decade ago. No maintenance, no patches, no service packs, nothing. No energy expended working on that codebase. Office 2016 is going EOL in two years. That's from Microsoft themselves.
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by bena 3y ago
He spent a lot of time and effort working against people who were working to promote climate change and mitigate its effects. Years, articles, TV shows. And he dismisses all of that with a “eh, guess I was wrong, still their fault”. He hasn
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by bena 3y ago
We're closing in on the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the end of World War II. To put that in perspective, the Civil War ended 80 years prior to that. We are almost as far removed from WWII as WWII is fr
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by bena 3y ago
This is the one thing I dislike about Penn Jillette. The way he excuses himself from his former stance on climate change. He accepts it now, but he says "there wasn't enough evidence back then" and "they didn't do a
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by bena 3y ago
I'm still running a Slackware box. While not my first distro, that would be the copy of Red Hat Linux 5.2 I got with the Unleashed book, it is the distro I'm most comfortable with.
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by bena 3y ago
To call back a previous post: Is it a car in the park though? We can all likely agree that trespassing physically on the property is not allowed. But that's not what happened here. They were in airspace they were allowed to be in. They
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by bena 3y ago
And after analyzing the data, they've found that the average Roblox developer is a married woman in her mid 30s. Weird. Edit: Seriously though, this seems like a bigger deal because it seems as if Roblox kind of just has a big ol bucke
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by bena 3y ago
I've been there a couple of times. I wouldn't say it's outright incorrect, but everything is very US-centric. The place is also massive, you do get a sort of mental fatigue going through, reading, and processing all of the st
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by bena 3y ago
Yeah. Operation Paperclip is a thing. It's really weird to take a Nazi and say, "Hey, could you shoot us to the moon please?"
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by bena 3y ago
How does not having kids cause you to be a failure at evolutionary biology?
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by bena 3y ago
Dunning-Kruger is more of a statistical effect than a psychological one. The same graphs can be reproduced using random noise.
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by bena 3y ago
I think the issue you may have with metaphors is that people tend to argue the metaphor rather than engage with the concept. Arguing the metaphor is pointless, because the metaphor isn’t the thing, it’s just a way to explain an aspect of th
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by bena 3y ago
Don't confuse results with effort. "Cancer" is a nebulous area. You can't really study "cancer". Cancer isn't a disease. It's a class of diseases characterized by a breakdown of your own cells'
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by bena 3y ago
Yes, but sugar is incredibly calorie dense. A teaspoon of sugar (or about 5 grams) is about 20 calories. A 12 oz can of most soft drinks have about 40 grams. They clock about 140 calories. All from sugar. You're going to hit 2000 calor
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by bena 3y ago
It's also quite possible this is knowledge lost and reacquired. Maybe the Romans did know it, but we lost records of them knowing it. And then we subsequently lost the knowledge itself.
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by bena 3y ago
"Class" is often a way to discriminate by race without explicitly doing so. You can't enslave a people for generations then let them go and say "Our bad, I guess we're equal now, you're on your own now". L
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by bena 3y ago
I have not seen this argument used when discussing the striking down of affirmative action. That anyone who doesn't get accepted to a school "because of affirmative action" could still "be accepted to another school and
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by bena 3y ago
Mouthwash is typically alcohol based. Alcohol is a pretty good disinfectant in general. But it's efficacy will really only be decent while it's in your mouth. Once it gets diluted past a certain point, it's not going to be do
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by bena 3y ago
Lego is quality from top to bottom. Between the actual design of the bricks to the tolerances the bricks are built to. The moulding and printing of the bricks are top-notch and they make very few mistakes. Anyone trying to compete with Lego
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by bena 3y ago
Neither does the Lego site. I've been rebuilding all of my childhood sets (and Bricklinking the missing pieces if any) and there are sets for which I've lost the instructions for various reasons. Finding a decent copy of the instr
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by bena 3y ago
“A small number of well connected elites” benefiting in “at the expense of everyone else”. So exactly like it was under the gold standard? While there may be a reason to change back to a gold standard, trying to claim it was more egalitaria
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by bena 3y ago
Lego Builder is already an app. For newer sets, it has step by step instructions with 3d models that can be rotated.
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by bena 3y ago
I thought this was weird because you can get a lot of set instructions from Lego’s website. And you can search by set number or keyword. So unless this has sets that Lego doesn’t, it’s actually less useful. Internet Archive says it is a dum
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by bena 3y ago
But Devon Welsh's dad was a successful Canadian actor with a net worth of several million. Being the girlfriend of a millionaire's son is not a bad position to be in. Failure wouldn't even be a blip on her radar at any point
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by bena 3y ago
Barbie seems to be in that brilliantly satirical self-aware position. It plays on our expectation of what the material should be and gives it to us in a way that is simultaneously sincere and flippant. Everyone involved seem to be able to w

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