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by curi 19y ago
I liked the comments and I'm glad they exist. How can that be trolling?
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by curi 19y ago
At least some people here are interested in what is trolling, or not, and what should be allowed or encouraged here, or not.
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Poll: Is this trolling?
4 points by curi 19y ago|33 comments
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by curi 19y ago
Yes
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by curi 19y ago
No
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by curi 19y ago
Yes, but it's a good thing anyway
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by curi 19y ago
2 cpu g5, imac, sometimes an old pc or macbook, don't use electricity for much else besides light, varies but often 80-100. in berkeley. i wonder what's causing the large difference. edit: i'm buying this http://www.amazon.com/P3-Internati
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by curi 19y ago
Experience does not automatically make one able to learn quickly. Knowing how to learn well is a skill itself that many people are bad at. It's not always like this. Better people exist. But I hear it's common.
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by curi 19y ago
You're missing http://www.curi.us/ , enjoy :) And http://www.settingtheworldtorights.com/
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by curi 19y ago
Electric is significantly more if you keep multiple computers on 24/7.
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by curi 19y ago
One thing about experience is if you learned something important from it, you can say so, and make it part of the discussion. I've done the same thing with upmods. :) But I periodically skim my whole threads page for replies, anyway.
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by curi 19y ago
The theory that you have to be a parent to make comments about parenting is really annoying. It's not a serious, logical position, it's just a way to shut people up. BTW Godwin was a parent, so one can't say it about his stuff anyway.
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by curi 19y ago
I prefer AIM to voice chat. It's easier to write precisely than speak precisely. And it's easier to understand just what someone is saying when you can reread bits.
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by curi 19y ago
For example, if I were sufficiently famous, I would be invited to give a TED talk. That's valuable. Certainly there are different types of fame, and something more along the lines of 'influential' is better than the type where people want t
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by curi 19y ago
For example of already-thought-of important ideas, William Godwin is very neglected. In part due to sexual scandal -- basically just sex outside marriage which was a lot worse then (1800ish). In part due to honest memoirs about his dead wif
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by curi 19y ago
lol? And if you're serious, I happen to have some already-thought-of ideas that are very important and not well known. Do those make you smile?
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by curi 19y ago
I want fame. The cost of having important ideas, and not being listened to, is higher.
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by curi 19y ago
Oh, we are talking about different issues. We can have a policy for a forum as a whole that aims to exclude trolls, and also develop personal skills to ignore them. I don't want to be personally dependent on effective forum maintainers, s
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by curi 19y ago
It is unfortunate, but learning to disregard trolls (and serious personal attacks that you don't find helpful) is worthwhile. Getting upset about that kind of thing is a large cost (even if it just distracts you for a couple hours per incid
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by curi 19y ago
What's next, age segregation?
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by curi 19y ago
The less a child knows, the easier it is to reach a (simple) agreement. Objecting requires having ideas, not ignorance. I don't think there's usually any reason for a very young child to disagree with his parent frequently since he generall
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by curi 19y ago
My philosophy is more like "all things thoughtfully". We should care about why TV seems to cause various effects, and what effects unplugging it may have. For example, suppose a child wants to read a good book, you take it away, and he "get
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by curi 19y ago
The arguments against TVs are very similar to the older arguments made against letting children have books.
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by curi 19y ago
How are you confident of that? I'd like to be. But I have self-selected friends that don't give me any valid way to extrapolate what proportion of smart hackers advocate spanking. Similarly I don't know how to make a valid estimate of how m
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by curi 19y ago
I don't think parents have a fundamental right to hit their children. What about children's rights? And I don't like to analyze things in terms of rights, anyway. But I don't think spanking should be banned today in the USA. I don't want to
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by curi 19y ago
Your approach is to assume the parent is right, and that his rules must be obeyed. This is not a way to find good ways to proceed on any issue. A better approach is to recognize that everyone makes mistakes, and the important thing is to in
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by curi 19y ago
so suppose a child doesn't understand what "don't stray very far from me" means (like how far is OK). then imagine a spanking from his perspective. first he's confused, then hurt. or suppose he doesn't understand why to not stray very far a
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by curi 19y ago
"don't object to making children cry until you've tried it"
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by curi 19y ago
What criterion did you use for determining which are the best places to hit children?
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by curi 19y ago
The Ferber method involves leaving your child, alone, even if he's crying. And you do it for progressively longer periods of time no matter how unpleasant he finds it.

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