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by byerley 12y ago
Because it's a poorly written article and the media on this issue is in a really silly place right now, but no one sane wants to deal with the hysteria currently associated with mentioning a burger chain so it's hard to construct
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by byerley 12y ago
I suppose, but nothing's secretive, that's just the standard across all art forms.
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by byerley 12y ago
"Surprisingly, there is no good resource, online or off, that compiles the work that women have done to influence the history of video games. Uncovering who did what and when can be a challenge in a secretive industry ruled by marketin
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by byerley 12y ago
I think this is an unstated (stated?) goal of Kubuntu, and there are some guides floating around to make it look even more like Windows.
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by byerley 12y ago
If you know a better word for requesting someone not say something I'd consider using it. Rewording things because someone might read too far into connotations wastes a lot of time though, which I guess brings us back to the original p
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by byerley 12y ago
Look, I'm sorry if this sounds snarky, but the burden of proof definitely has to be on the person trying to censor rather than the person being censored. Otherwise we end up in an endless political correctness circle jerk where no one
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by byerley 12y ago
The author, Franklin Cook, has a Master of Arts degree in humanities. He's an "editor" for "SPNAC" in that, as far as I can tell, he's the only contributor and uses the site to advertise his paid services as a
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by byerley 12y ago
Having an episode of depression doesn't give you special insight on this issue. Your experience wasn't universal and if you're browsing this site you probably ought to know better than to put excessive weight on your own anec
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by byerley 12y ago
Somewhat ironic that the high scores have already been hacked, though a little inevitable since the game is client side I guess.
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by byerley 12y ago
Obviously this doesn't apply everywhere, but gentrification is really rough on students. Between tuition increases, rent increases, and high demand for student neighborhoods because they're "hip", students moving to cert
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by byerley 12y ago
> You don't have a right to second chances You can argue that if you want. I'm personally of the opinion that people tend not to change much. However, you're giving a lot of power to people who probably shouldn't have
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by byerley 12y ago
I think you misunderstand the intent. It's not about making people forget, but rather protecting second chances. At some point, a red mark on your internet accessible past may become akin to ethnicity/gender/ect. It doesn&#x2
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by byerley 12y ago
> How do you know your complaints about style aren't an excuse to avoid confronting the problem? Because I would have the same complaints regardless of the subject. Not all opinions deserve equal consideration and you have a burden
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by byerley 12y ago
I'm pretty sure I already am (indirectly obviously since I'm a poor scientist). I pay taxes, the government funds universities and research. As far as I know, there's no significant gender gap in psychology/sociology&#x2
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by byerley 12y ago
> I was the exact opposite of "alienated" by the trigger warning. I don't doubt that it's a useful warning for some people, but that lingo in particular is generally used by people already sensitive to gender issues.
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by byerley 12y ago
Why can't we get any sensible articles about this problem? Do they just not get any attention on aggregation sites? Call this "victim blaming" if you want, but I'm going to critique the article because it's bad. I&#
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by byerley 12y ago
To me, this seems interesting because of its potential impact on us rather than an impressive feat of evolution. We'll call this science fiction, but - imagine doing your wiring on the fly with self-organizing bacteria, or having to wo
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by byerley 12y ago
> Yet you remain blissfully and completely unaware of any contextual relevance of what you are linking. They're all about the complex carbon footprint of burning wood. Perhaps you might try explaining why they're unrelated. &gt
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by byerley 12y ago
> There is astonishingly little fertilizer potential of fallen wood. What possible reason could you have for thinking this? Pointing out that wood has been used in mulches and fertilizes for ... millenia ought to suffice, but since you s
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by byerley 12y ago
> Worldwide, and across all scientific realms, burning wood is considered carbon neutral, right? Absolutely not. For wood burning to be carbon neutral, you have to replace the wood and produce exactly zero CO2 during harvesting and trans
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by byerley 12y ago
I don't know where you're getting that information. Burning wood produces significantly more CO2 than coal or oil regardless of your air flow; not to mention CO, volatile organic compounds, and nitrogen oxides. If you've ever
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by byerley 12y ago
Wood is worse than other fuels by most accounts, but I guess if you were planning to build a fire for warmth anyway it's not so bad. Thermoelectric generators are something like 200yrs old though and this isn't even the first hiki
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by byerley 12y ago
I'm not an OS wizard, but checking the continuity of your working memory sounds pretty expensive and wouldn't necessarily give you the source. I have no idea how you'd look for outside reads unless you had full permissions. C
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by byerley 12y ago
Isn't this directly at odds with the Stanford study from 2012? - http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2012/09/little-evidenc... "No consistent differences were seen in the vitamin content of o
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by byerley 12y ago
Reminds me of the GNU documentation - http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/index.html I feel like I was taught at one point that the web was supposed to be flat HTML/HTTP and that interactive stuf
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by byerley 12y ago
"the case began when the teen’s 15-year-old girlfriend sent photos of herself to the 17-year-old, who in turn sent her the video in question." For fuck's sake. Actual intercourse between the two would be punishable by at most
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by byerley 12y ago
> Why would you be interested in burning wood? Something you can stick in a cabin to power odd appliances or a computer and not have to worry about carrying fuel in (not very practical I admit). Simple thermoelectric generators are trick
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by byerley 12y ago
'off the grid' has gotten very overloaded because some people take it to mean the power grid, some people take it to mean all utilities, and some people take it to mean self-sufficiency for extended periods. An engine that could r
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by byerley 12y ago
Nothing of that nature was implied; rather, you read misogyny into the comment due to your own biases. The original post was very careful not to put either sex in either role. It even went so far as to not exclude homosexual relations by su
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by byerley 12y ago
I think you'd have trouble arguing that US involvement in WWII wasn't dictated by government regulation (Lend-Lease and the Japanese Oil Embargo), but the point was more that it's not an irreversible trend. Presumably if ther

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