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by irb 8y ago
Considering that one of the main points of the article was that academic philosophy was disconnected from the 'real world', the fact that the demographic spread within academic philosophy is so narrow and and out of whack with the
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by irb 9y ago
It's about seeing natures that we consider separate and opposing as instead complimentary, and part of the same whole - light/dark, male/female... Whether or not you consider this meaningful or profound is of course up to you
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by irb 9y ago
Integration with AWS products. And I assume Amazon is developing a game engine that integrates well with AWS products in order to sell more AWS products.
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How the sandwich consumed Britain(theguardian.com)
108 points by irb 9y ago|137 comments
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by irb 9y ago
No one is assuming anything, they are investigating. It's what archaeologists and historians do when they find something interesting. Why are you so quick to want to shut it down?
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by irb 9y ago
How can maximising earnings be basic human behaviour when 'earnings' have only existed for a few thousand years, a tiny fraction of the history of our species?
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by irb 9y ago
I don't think taxes will disappear until money does.
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by irb 9y ago
Ok, that's fair, I was being a bit over dramatic. However, I still think that the kind of 'eye for an eye' approach proposed by the comment I was relying to would have a non-trivial, negative impact on the reporting of crimes
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by irb 9y ago
That's a terrible idea. It would mean that people would fear to report genuine crimes because they are then harshly punished if the accused is acquitted. The fact is that the justice system is not perfect. Occasionally a guilty person
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by irb 9y ago
I think that the majority of the country is generally less comfortable with the idea of coalitions/minority governments/power sharing than many other parliamentary democracies where those things happen more regularly. Consider the
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by irb 9y ago
I don't think it alienates any of their base. The Lib Dems have always been hugely pro-Europe, I doubt that anyone who voted Leave would have been a supporter in the first place.
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by irb 10y ago
Yes, but it's not as though western Europeans all have exactly the same skin tone either - you can still make the wrong assumption. I think the idea would be to have multiple people with different skin tones so that you can check that
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by irb 10y ago
Switched from Java to Python as my main moneymaker several years go and I still don't understand why some people have such a big problem with significant whitespace. You format your code anyway, right? So what's the difference if
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by irb 10y ago
Both of these things depend on what country you live in. The US, EU etc are not the world. The biological consequences, on the other hand, are certain and universal.
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by irb 10y ago
Plenty of men aren't there and don't feel guilty about it. And stigma? Only if you live in a very small, close-knit community. For men, unlike women, involvement is a choice. Not an easy choice, but still a choice.
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by irb 10y ago
I think the contention is that lyrics and novels are non-overlapping subsets of literature.