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by hydrox24 7y ago
Sorry, sloppy phrasing about an often confused topic on my part. You're quite right.
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by hydrox24 7y ago
Dazzle camouflage[0] was used extensively in WWI to make it difficult to see ships because they were so brightly coloured. It's not quite the same principle, but it comes close. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D
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by hydrox24 7y ago
What a good list. Most Australians would tell you if you asked them that you can achieve something extraordinary, or begin something new after the age of 35. But I think people are just trying to say the right thing. They know it's tru
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by hydrox24 7y ago
> This article incorrectly claims that the bystander effect is when a group of people are less likely to help than an individual You are right. On the other hand, it may well be the correct popular definition of 'bystander effect&
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by hydrox24 7y ago
> I often have this weird fear that I wont accomplish anything in my life like it is some sort of personal failure. It's not a weird fear. It is rooted in the expressive individualism of our age, which strips us of tribal identity a
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by hydrox24 7y ago
It is tracking, but it is not invasive.
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by hydrox24 7y ago
> Why imitate the Euro when that experiment has gone badly? Because the Euro solved a problem that did not exist in the EU. Every nation that joined was able to convert their currency to other EU currencies at reasonably low cost, and be
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by hydrox24 7y ago
> Durable isn't timeless ... for that product looks pretty average. The design can be timeless without the design being beautiful. The design is more than its appearance.
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The Internet Pinball Database(ipdb.org)
8 points by hydrox24 7y ago|0 comments
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by hydrox24 7y ago
> Why do we consider it ethical for a state to execute prisoners, but consider harvesting their (now useless) organs to save more lives is ethically abhorrent? I don't know if the following moral argument would pursuade most people,
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by hydrox24 7y ago
The report this is referencing is available here[0] The tribunal was setup, for what it is worth, by a campaign group called: "International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China"[1] [0]: https://chinatribunal.com&
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by hydrox24 7y ago
I understand. I have taken to reading his column almost exclusively via RSS. But it is worth noting that he works for the Mail on Sunday, which sounds similar but is editorially independent of the Daily Mail. They now share a website. I bel
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by hydrox24 7y ago
We still have Peter Hitchens, who won the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2010[0], two years before his elder brother was memorialised in 2012[1]. The two disagreed vehemently on a great deal of fundamental stuff, but Peter posseses all of C
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by hydrox24 7y ago
> if they really wanted. They just don't want The premise of working for cash is that no-one really wants to do it, which is why you need to give people money in exchange for the work. So if they don't want to work, and they ar
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by hydrox24 7y ago
I'm not sure that Nietzche got the Stoic philosophy quite right, but his words address a strain of thinking that absolutely does exist. One which considers the natural world an almost sacred good, a model or standard which humans fail
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by hydrox24 7y ago
It may be amongst them, but do not discount other organizations with a similar pedigree merely because they're not American. Financial Times, The Economist, and so on. At any rate, this article is an opinion piece along with plenty of
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by hydrox24 7y ago
> Maybe the author meant that having children don't make people happy He did not necessarily mean this, but necessarily did mean a weaker thing: Having children does not make some people happier. Let me explain. > if the only r
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by hydrox24 7y ago
The article did not address this use case enough, but it was addressed in part. > Reproducing colors in photographs accurately demands a lot more than just some barrels of color ink; it demands a high-resolution printer and special, trea
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by hydrox24 8y ago
> fail to take into account the bootstrap and maintenance cost of the infrastructure. Is the bootstrap cost different from the startup cost? Are they just synonymous?
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by hydrox24 8y ago
I don't, but the abstract of the paper he published may offer some insight if you understand the key words: > In the last decade, new methods of estimating global species richness have been developed and existing ones improved throu
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Medieval Animal Data Network(mad.hypotheses.org)
2 points by hydrox24 8y ago|0 comments
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by hydrox24 8y ago
The Seattle Times article is available here[0] [0]: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faile...
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by hydrox24 8y ago
I suspect that part of the reversion to censorship is a reaction to a shift in the information environment. We've moved from a situation in which more free speech mostly meant pumping more signal into the public space to one where more
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by hydrox24 8y ago
Such breakthroughs will undoubtedly occur. But we cannot rely on breakthroughs for any particular problem. In the case of the horse→car substitution in NY in the late 19th century, the optimal situation was that noone worries too much, and
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by hydrox24 8y ago
I understand the opening sentence is a rhetorical flourish... but it is also astoundingly wrong. > This year, on Imbolc – a Gaelic tradition that sees Ireland celebrate the patron saint Brigid, a Celtic goddess... Imbolc is a celebration
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by hydrox24 8y ago
> Actually this borrowing is far older than the British Empire. You're quite right. I wasn't suggesting that the borrowing occurred during the British empire (I don't think they conquered anywhere that spoke latin). I was
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by hydrox24 8y ago
English is undoubtedly already creole. See the "Anglish" movement for an idea of what English would be like if it were true to its roots. It is a mix of Anglo-Saxon, German, Latin, French, and Dutch. On top of these fundamental co
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by hydrox24 8y ago
The zero sum game is students' time. Not contribution to society. Whether it has to be a zero sum game is another matter, but you seem to have misunderstood the assertion of your parent comment.
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by hydrox24 8y ago
Giving them the information could certainly help, and it is a good first step. Mammographers would still be missing the motivation surgeons get when they see a patient die hours or days later. The emotional kick in the pants is harder to pr
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by hydrox24 8y ago
> I have now also decided to basically cut out any easy-to-consume entertainment out of my life. I am by no means addicted to easy-to-consume entertainment, but I'm worried that it does impact my ability to focus on boring but imp

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