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by doctorstupid 11y ago
People are noting counterexamples where pictures are more efficient, such as warning symbols which are resilient to cultural translation. However, I would argue that such cases are actually forms of text. By 'text', the author rea
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by doctorstupid 11y ago
But jets combine the energy of air and fuel, whilst electric motors are solely powered by batteries.
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by doctorstupid 11y ago
Having a mental illness doesn’t make you a genius: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/10/mental-...
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by doctorstupid 11y ago
Computer scientists of all people should understand why standard notation is used. It's a high-level symbolic language that allows for music to be ported across instruments and for the communication between musicians. Low-level markups
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by doctorstupid 11y ago
Corporations are the true citizens.
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by doctorstupid 11y ago
Naturally, upon meeting someone in a maze the first feature one would want is the ability to shoot them. Perhaps something about human nature is revealed by the history of the development of games.
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by doctorstupid 11y ago
I believe that what we call the non-dreaming state, or being awake, is fundamentally the same as the dream state but stabilized by constant feedback from the world.
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by doctorstupid 11y ago
And yet the opening paragraph of the about page is still fairly pretentious.
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by doctorstupid 11y ago
It's so refreshing to hear someone speak in a calm and understated tone for a change.
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by doctorstupid 11y ago
At Japanese weddings there is sometimes a white man dressed as a priest. I guess that Asian restaurants in the West often have a similar 'Hire-an-Asian' policy to make the food seem more authentic.
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by doctorstupid 12y ago
It looks like that in Danish society, being darker may be correlated with perceptions of dominance.
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by doctorstupid 12y ago
It seems rather tenuous to suggest that because all the parts of a conscious brain are active, all of the brain must then be conscious.
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by doctorstupid 12y ago
Seneca warns against the perils of indulging in heedless luxury, and yet according to Dio, he at one point ordered “five hundred tables of citrus wood with legs of ivory, all identically alike, and he served banquets on them.”
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by doctorstupid 12y ago
It's quite patronising to be assisted by someone who doesn't really care for you, but is just using you to get into college, something that you might never experience.
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by doctorstupid 12y ago
Sending affluent students to volunteer in poor neighbourhoods to get them into college is disgusting.
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by doctorstupid 12y ago
"Hi there, [name]! That's a pretty name. Honest. You're getting the hang of this!" I fear that this style of childish and somewhat condescending tutorial content is becoming fashionable. Was it the best fit for the audie
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by doctorstupid 12y ago
Perhaps you meant older?
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by doctorstupid 12y ago
I've found the Realforce to feel great and to be quiet.
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by doctorstupid 12y ago
Let actions determine mood, and not rely on mood to determine one's actions.
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by doctorstupid 12y ago
Of course, the other side of the coin says that there are too many people.
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by doctorstupid 12y ago
My point is that they are not relating to each other. Modern conversation seems to be morphing into the art of using others' comments as triggers for one's own monologue. Instead of having the discipline of quieting ourselves in
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by doctorstupid 12y ago
I'm saddened that most of the comments here are of the "me too, time for my story" variety. The amount of self references is disheartening.
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by doctorstupid 12y ago
I'm sure the NSA has a free-reign there. Even if the BND cannot spy internally, they could just ask the NSA for what they need.
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by doctorstupid 12y ago
I (a white male) was once going to clubs in Tokyo with an Indian friend when he was denied entry into a fairly low-class establishment. Flabbergasted, I ranted and raved in shock at the overt racism of a type I'd never before witnessed
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by doctorstupid 12y ago
And I thought that the only totalitarian things about my macbook were its aesthetics and operating system.
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by doctorstupid 12y ago
The question was philosophical (and paradoxical) in nature, but thanks for the link.
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by doctorstupid 12y ago
How can one receive a signal from one's brain?
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by doctorstupid 12y ago
Imagine the uproar that would ensue if Germany were to be found spying on U.S. citizens.
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by doctorstupid 12y ago
But Tom was, by his own admission, merely a programmer and not a software engineer.
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by doctorstupid 12y ago
Walking occupies the body and thus releases the mind.

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