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by curi 19y ago
reminds me of the physicist who wrote a fake post-modernist paper and submitted it to a journal and got it published.
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by curi 19y ago
While I agree with you that avoiding those discussions is a reasonable general policy, it's not the case that "no one is really right or wrong" in debates about computer languages, politics, or religion. There is a truth of the matter. Your
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by curi 19y ago
The primary evidence that "internet addiction" is bad, or a waste of time, is that people like it more than the other things they could be doing. Just like the primary evidence that video games are bad for children, is that children pref
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by curi 19y ago
you gotta watch this: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8246463980976635143... about using games to get people to do useful computation
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The American Middle Class(reason.tv)
5 points by curi 19y ago|2 comments
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Be Very Careful w/ Time Machine(curi.us)
1 points by curi 19y ago|0 comments
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by curi 19y ago
guys please don't downmod him. he's not trolling. he expressed an opinion and wrote it with some clarity. that's interesting even if you disagree. we shouldn't dissuade people form expressing unpopular opinions well. only from expressing an
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by curi 19y ago
so what? are you saying the reason poor people stay poor is their fear of starving?
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by curi 19y ago
all he had was knowledge of how to live. he didn't do stupid stuff. that doesn't take an advanced degree, but it is more prevalent among affluent people. This is exactly in accordance with the theory that the chronically poor are poor becau
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by curi 19y ago
the dirt is still there, if anyone wants it. the only case against elmo is that people prefer it.
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by curi 19y ago
i don't think you should force people to post comments. just rate limit their link submissions until they get 50 karma.
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by curi 19y ago
where do you get good and bad seed phrases?
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by curi 19y ago
come travel and downmod me to my face ;)
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by curi 19y ago
i didn't say college is a waste of time, i pointed out one way the pro-college arguments are flawed. repeating myself in different words: some arguments advocate a lifestyle (college) in part for certain benefits, that are easily available
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by curi 19y ago
i agree. btw it's possible to get actual professors to give you advice and help learning stuff, if you contact them and ask interesting questions, or make friends with them.
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by curi 19y ago
the internet has made travel obsolete :)
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by curi 19y ago
it amuses me that people advocate the importance of college -- supposedly an educational institution -- based in part on parties and sex. and in part based on avoiding work. if you can pay for college, you could pay less to not work or go t
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by curi 19y ago
umm, yes. a high cost. not just in money, but in "hassle". our culture, almost entirely, also thinks that kids have a high return. yes. i wasn't denying that. though i do think that set of opinions constitutes the wrong attitude to have.
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by curi 19y ago
what do rich cultures have in common? they are civilized enough to get rich. they have good enough values that let them cooperate peacefully with others, etc the sort of good values that make societies richer include caring about your child
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by curi 19y ago
pacific time for me. daytime is reasonably active IME. at 2am, not so many people are on. that's no surprise: 2am my time means it's later for the rest of the US.
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by curi 19y ago
viewing PDFs in safari is nice
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by curi 19y ago
hexstream and jward, i was suggesting you can learn about the target audience, by watching TV. this works even if the content is bad. like our culture or not, i'm interested in what it's like (which is important to know, if you hope to impr
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by curi 19y ago
TV contains lots of information about our culture.
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by curi 19y ago
Persuade parents to act much more rationally, invent enough life extension and backup-and-restore-of-people for immortality, win the war on terror (with a single heartfelt speech), make dirt cheap self-replicating, easily programmable nano-
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by curi 19y ago
shouldn't the default be public? i'm more inclined to write something for the whole site than for one particular person (especially someone i'm downmodding)
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by curi 19y ago
still involves a web app.
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by curi 19y ago
So, why did he use wordpress to write this, instead of a desktop application which outputs html pages or something?
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by curi 19y ago
he has 864 karma. wonder why he's trolling.
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by curi 19y ago
heh. that is another reason it's important to be an expert on the subject: the mainstream view is very confused. the whole knowledge is justified, true belief thing is such a mess. they've known induction doesn't work for ages, but haven't
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by curi 19y ago
all 3 downmods appeared between quick refreshes.

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