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by bnralt 5y ago
I think Walter Lippmann covered this pretty well 100 years ago in his book Public Opinion (an excellent book by the way, I highly recommend it). Newspapers get money from the public through a hidden commodity tax by way of advertisements. I
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There are hundreds of billions of galaxies in the observable universe. Imagine if most of them were teaming with interstellar civilizations, but we happened to be stuck in one of the few where such a thing was rare.
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They still drown out opposing opinions here for specific issues. I think it's more the case that those topics don't come up as often. One of the issues is that places like Hacker News and Reddit use an aggregate vote count. You ca
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The thing is, people tend to exaggerate how many of these the Beatles actually were first with. For example, here's fuzz bass from 1961[1], and another instrumental from 1961 with a lot of fuzz[2]. Both by Grady Martin, who's hard
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True, but there's also the tendency of people to look at a fairly rich period of change and wrongly attribute the new ideas to just one or two popular people/groups. This happens a lot with the Beatles (you even get extreme ideas
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This is an important point that gets overlooked. It's likely that we already reached something like "the singularity," but most of the extra productive output didn't go towards finding ways to increase productivity, it w
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> The article makes the point that people do not build fences for no reason. Naturally everything that ends up happening has a cause and happens for _some_ reason; that's nearly a tautology. But I think the is that there are many th
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I played it for the first time a few years ago and was pretty impressed. I haven't played a lot of modern games, but are there many that have a real time living world/branching story like this? It seems like that was more of a 90&
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Personally, I've found service better in non-tipping countries than in tipping countries. My guess is it's because in most non-tipping countries, waiters spend less time trying to pretend to be friends with customers at every tabl
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I don't think I've ever been in a movie theater other than restaurant/theater hybrids (where tables have specific waiters) where this was done. But either way, the author says he was working the bar (which sounds more like a
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He also says it was during "a movie night for kids," and the author thinks people should be paying for normal movie theater stuff, like popcorn: >You want to see Spider Man? You desperately want to bring your kids to Encanto or
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If you want a real look at things, I'd suggest looking at servers discussing places that try to eliminate tipping. When tipping is discussed generally, it's often discussed like in this article - talking about how restaurants are
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> no one is calling for an end of law enforcement. There are several comments in this discussion calling for abolishing the police. Whenever this topic gets brought up, it usually seems like half the people are defending "Defund the
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Schools here were completely remote for 10 months (mid-March 2020 until the end of January 2021), then part time for the next few months, only going back to full time this past fall. Now they seem intent on being full time, even though case
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> It's fun to hang out and party with other travelers, but you don't really learn anything about the country when you do that. The country you're traveling in gets reduced to an amusement park for you and your fellow trave
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I agree. I'll add that I've known plenty of people who have done all the things you listed, and still aren't seen as a local, and are treated as more of a prop. This isn't just true of Americans going to other countries,
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I think many of your examples are of times we failed to counter problematic tendencies as a society, gave up, and then even worse (in this case, more addictive time consuming activities) things come along. It's basically the realizatio
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> Colleges do. At least, liberal arts colleges do. Where's the evidence that they do? And how would we determine which schools/teachers/courses do this effectively, and which don't? It's not unusual that people w
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by bnralt 5y ago
Indeed, ads aren't charity. If companies are spending $1,000 per adult in the United States for advertising (which the are, from the figures I can find), that's because they either: A. Expect the ads will manipulate spending habit
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I think visiting and seeing the country for yourself is a good idea. I have a lot of experience with the country (lived there, keep in contact with many friends from there, consume a lot of TV and podcasts from there), and the picture of it
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Yeah, anyone who's been following the way the virus spreads will have seen how countries will be declared success stories that beat the virus, and then a couple of months later get an enormous surge. Or we'll be told that a countr
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That's been my observation as well. Feeding people more information or giving them more tools often doesn't change their minds, it just gives them more ways to argue a position that was decided upon by the beginning. This shouldn&
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> no scientific evidence that 'learning how to learn' or 'transfer of learning' or 'critical thinking' are taught well in classroom. It's shocking how this appears on every syllabus but that actual rese
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> Even though provable, tech transfer in aerospace innovation proves most abundant. When someone (usually NASA or NASA fanboys) does a Gish gallop and drops of huge list of things supposedly created by NASA, it's worth picking a cou
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As far as I can tell, many planetary scientists aren't particularly fond of the definition either. I believe the initial plan that the IAU had after the discovery of Eris was to classify dwarf planets as planets, but some of the member
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> Consider this: music as metaphor, which surely existed before the Beatles, became required for any serious critical acceptance. Before that, Rock and Roll was pure bubblegum, and afterwards: a political force. I think there's a te
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Someone mentioned hicetnunc.xyz here, so I went and took a look at their FAQ. I thought this was interesting[1]: > To make it easier for buyers, please leave a trace to any social profile or website in the description of your artwork, so
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> There’s no kiraana stores (i.e. small local stores) that sell grains and rice and vegetables here, it seems. (Or small stationery shops, or shops of any kind.) Almost all shopping has to be done at a big chain retail store like Lidl or
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Yeah, in my experience there's a lot of misinformation floating around r/badhistory. It's not uncommon to have some comments halfway down (below all the highly upvoted snark and attempts at humor) that point out the inaccurac
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> Interesting that these topics always focus on smartphones or the Internet... These are well-thought business decisions, made by well-known people. And yet, as a society, we shrink away from talking about them, preferring instead to put

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