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by bentley 4y ago
Why does it tick you off? It seems to me like a simple cultural/language difference related to how we count the continents. In the Anglosphere (not just the USA) children are brought up thinking of seven continents, including North and
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by bentley 4y ago
> it's had a tangible effect on my mentality. What tangible effects did it have on your mentality?
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by bentley 4y ago
In the past the Authors Guild threatened to sue Amazon over providing text to speech in the Kindle. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2009/mar/01/auth... Not to be confused with the time t
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by bentley 4y ago
> Last, there is the problem of logistics. As I said I go through a lot of books. If I had to buy these physically I would have run out of storage space years ago. Books would be piling up all over my apartment. The other side of that is
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by bentley 4y ago
And then people who create third party server implementations get sued into oblivion. https://www.eff.org/cases/blizzard-v-bnetd
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by bentley 4y ago
“What is a yute?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6qGwmXZtsE&t=108s
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by bentley 4y ago
These kinds of etymologies are so fun. Other interesting “schoolyard sayings” to look up are high five (surprisingly recent) and rock‐paper‐scissors (surprisingly old).
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by bentley 4y ago
My first thought would be a coin changer. Although if I heard it from a foreigner an ATM would probably be the next thing to come to mind.
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by bentley 4y ago
> reputability The word you’re looking for is “repudiability.” Although one might say that lacking repudiability could be enough for a messaging system to lack reputability ;)
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by bentley 4y ago
The assertion that there are “not academically-inclined demographics” comes from those working to shut down gifted programs. Need we pull out the Smithsonian’s “whiteness” chart again?
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by bentley 4y ago
The original assertion I disputed was that we should accept that the social dynamics in a school match those of a prison. Certainly I don’t pretend there aren’t environments where adults are violent and unreasonable. Such as prisons, or oth
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by bentley 4y ago
My own experience growing up in rural America is not so romantic. Bullies were sometimes those who had a numeric advantage when it came to having relatives who were peers and adults at the school. Their victims, often, outsiders who were no
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by bentley 4y ago
Given that my interactions with adults outside of school (and later, when I was pulled out of public school to be homeschooled) were almost always positive, I’m willing to specifically blame school administration and/or their technique
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by bentley 4y ago
Not that it holds much scientific value, but my impression from reading news stories about school shootings is that the perpetrators usually were already known in their social circles as bullies, not bullying victims.
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by bentley 4y ago
I was a peaceful kid and no good at gym class, which played some part in why I was bullied. What benefit would I have received from officially sanctioning my regular physical humiliation?
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by bentley 4y ago
The problem with American zero tolerance policies is not that they attempt to stop violence, but that they find the bullied to be as culpable as the bully, because “participating” in violence is what’s considered wrong, not instigating it.
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by bentley 4y ago
In adulthood I’ve never had to resolve a problematic interaction through physical violence, and I hope to never have to. The methods I have used—distancing myself from the bully, reporting to management/HR/oversight agencies—are
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by bentley 4y ago
Install the alternative APK that doesn’t use Play Services. https://signal.org/android/apk/
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by bentley 4y ago
In addition to whatever else you do, it would be great if you uploaded each book to the Internet Archive/Open Library, with as much metadata as you can provide (title, author, publication date…). IA will automatically convert to a few
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by bentley 4y ago
IRC is not end‐to‐end encrypted.
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by bentley 4y ago
I sympathize with the sentiment, but the vast majority of my contacts already use other messaging systems that are identified by phone number such as SMS and WhatsApp—they don’t even use email, at least not for “text messaging”‐like things.
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by bentley 4y ago
A Canticle for Leibowitz is another very relevant book of the same genre.
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by bentley 4y ago
I don’t think anyone’s expecting the storytelling in a game aimed for 10‐year‐olds to be amazing. This is Pokémon , not Shadow of the Colossus . The original Pokémon does have a strong aesthetic of its own, coming from director Satoshi
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by bentley 4y ago
Yep. I appreciate how there are so many open source projects whose interests align to naturally work together at different layers toward a future of better curation: 1. Open Library providing a database of book titles, authors, and other me
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by bentley 4y ago
You’ll be happy to hear that the Internet Archive, who’s behind Open Library, regularly pushes the boundaries of digital lending, most recently by allowing uncontrolled digital lending during the early days of the pandemic (calling it the
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by bentley 4y ago
> If 'money was not involved' then Shakespeare, Michelangelo et. al. would not have made most of their works. Yes, but wasn’t their model one of patronage rather than “intellectual property”? William Shakespeare predated the St
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by bentley 4y ago
Having read several self‐published Kindle Direct books that are incredibly deficient in the editing and typesetting departments (compared to earlier traditionally‐published works from the same authors), I find the fact rather obvious.
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by bentley 4y ago
They removed the DRM‐free download option too.
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by bentley 4y ago
If I give a friend a copy of a DRM‐free copyrighted ebook, delete all of my own copies, and he pays me, isn’t that equivalent? It may be impractical to verify that all my copies are gone, but is there any reason it wouldn’t hold up under fi
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by bentley 4y ago
Around the Corner (1937), an explanation of differential steering in automobiles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI

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