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   by gohrt 10y ago

   Or just "size 4, size 5", etc, with the "/32" as overall metadata
2. 182.▲
   by gohrt 10y ago

   You're pinning too much on supposed bad teachers, and not enough on your past-self's youthful incomplete understanding. 1/2 of a pie is 2/4 of a pie, 2 slices of four is the same fraction as 1 slice of 2. It's exact
3. 183.▲
   by gohrt 10y ago

   Cohesion is not an inverse-square field
4. 184.▲
   by gohrt 10y ago

   It's hardly fair to say that water analogies are good but "capacitors store charge" is bad, they are both weak analogies
5. 185.▲
   by gohrt 10y ago

   those cards are jokes, right?
6. 186.▲
   by gohrt 10y ago

   Tetris was a blockbuster hit without realistic interpersonal dynamics.
7. 187.▲
   by gohrt 10y ago

   Hey no one dies in Super Mario Bros. The mushrooms get swished and bopped off-screen.
8. 188.▲
   by gohrt 10y ago

   Your entire first paragraph reads just as well without the word "Christian". One-word proof: Nickelback. I'm not even Christian, and I found myself enjoying an evangelical Christian rock CD as just good music, until I listene
9. 189.▲
   by gohrt 10y ago

   The arbitrary mechanics of chess and poker (to name just two) haven't changed in over two months.
10. 190.▲
    by gohrt 10y ago

    Videogames (and most art and literature) are at there best when they can expose you things you couldn't imagine without them. When you are a ~teenage, old enough to understand things, but still inexperienced enough to not understand so
11. 191.▲
    by gohrt 10y ago

    Spreadsheets are used to make real decisions. Spreadsheet bugs kill too.
12. 192.▲
    by gohrt 10y ago

    > an already perfect product, namely real, clean, unadulterated food. Name one food you eat that is "real, clean, unadulterated". You are conflating "food I ate as a child" with "food in its original natural sta
13. 193.▲
    by gohrt 10y ago

    > That's not an argument against transgenetic modification, it's an argument about intellectual property and economic practices. That's not a refutation, that's a goalpost shift. In the real world today, you can'
14. 194.▲
    by gohrt 10y ago

    It's actually for the same reason that a placebo is good: a but more sugar.
15. 195.▲
    by gohrt 10y ago

    > free-range eggs are safer or healthier than eggs from caged birds. This makes absolutely no sense. "free-range" is a question about chicken health, not egg safety.
16. 196.▲
    by gohrt 10y ago

    Sigh, Why isn't just "Cloud"? They thought "cloud" sounded old and lame, so they made up an even dumber name to sound futuristic?
17. 197.▲
    by gohrt 10y ago

    Simpson's paradox! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
18. 198.▲
    by gohrt 10y ago

    So, accumulating ever more amounts of personal wealth is fine as long as you aren't the the top 1%, er 0.1%, er 0.01%, er, as long as you have less than someone you know.
19. 199.▲
    by gohrt 10y ago

    "Opinion" is a subjective judgment based on personal weighing of facts by priority and probability. We must rely on judges and juries and expert opinions to form opinions. This junk forensics is just "guessing" and &quot
20. 200.▲
    by gohrt 10y ago

    Very efficient decision-process, when you know that no one's opinions can be strong enough to overcome your preferences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch-Drunk_Love
21. 201.▲
    by gohrt 10y ago

    It's too small to have statistical confidence, and we shy away from experimenting directly on the suicide rate.
22. 202.▲
    by gohrt 10y ago

    We expected better based on nostalgia for the generation of pre-hipster-run NPR
23. 203.▲
    by gohrt 10y ago

    Years is a strange unit of responsibility. What were the methods, how do they compare? Some methods are ongoing maintenance with side effects, some are permanent with varying short-term side effects.
24. 204.▲
    by gohrt 10y ago

    Birth control responsibility always falls on the partner who really cares about its effectiveness. Trusting your partner is a non-starter, statistically, overall.
25. 205.▲
    by gohrt 10y ago

    With a patent on a formulation and delivery method. Most patented drugs sell at huge multiples of production cost.
26. 206.▲
    by gohrt 10y ago

    historical context: https://cvdazzle.com/
27. 207.▲
    by gohrt 10y ago

    "tenants of property tax" would be a rental tax ;-)
28. 208.▲
    by gohrt 10y ago

    Everything you said applies to other forms of communication as well as email.
29. 209.▲
    by gohrt 10y ago

    There's no way to know for certain if an organization is abusive, until it is examined.
30. 210.▲
    by gohrt 10y ago

    So, they have something to hide.