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by jbattle 10y ago
+ cervantes - dox quixote shocked me with how funny it is. Like a three stooges novel.
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by jbattle 10y ago
I'm extraordinarily opposed to Trump as a candidate for prez, but this does not sit right: "Facebook, Oculus and Luckey are yet to respond to the developments, which call into question partnerships between the virtual reality comp
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by jbattle 10y ago
make sure you have someone close by who feels comfortable telling you when you are wrong
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by jbattle 10y ago
I think this is the most effective way to get people's attention at this point in history. The current waves of migration from Syria, North Africa, and from Central/South America are just a tiny foretaste of what's to come i
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by jbattle 10y ago
People eat fermented shark meat and blue cheese neither of which 'seem like food to me'. I'm not sure the great grandma test is particularly useful other than to reinforce one's preexisting notions.
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by jbattle 10y ago
Canada and Australia have really shameful legacies of mistreatment of indigenous people. Much of which happened while these two countries were legally and culturally part of the UK (Dominions). The UK has a really complex past full of its
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by jbattle 10y ago
> Combining business logic with business objects is a mistake. That's a textbook example of tight coupling. Isn't that a textbook example of object oriented programming? Whether OOP is a mistake in and of itself is another que
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by jbattle 10y ago
Scratch is really great. It's free, and kids can publish their work online. Being able to see what other people are doing, tinker with their work, and show off your own projects was a big draw for my son. It's a visual programmi
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by jbattle 10y ago
But what if it turns out that torture really is effective? I think it is wrong and should be banned on that basis - but I am very open to the idea that properly used it might be a really valid way of collecting imperfect but useful informa
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by jbattle 10y ago
Another articulation is - we aren't paid to write code, we are paid to build stuff. Authors get paid to write prose people can read - the readability of our work only 'matters' insofar as good craftsmanship practices help the
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by jbattle 10y ago
The counter-point presumably being that law enforcement are not soldiers? Maybe the 3rd amendment has been interpreted as applicable to all government agents.
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by jbattle 10y ago
I lived in three different apartments in uptown and edgewater and was able to walk to a supermarket within a half-mile. Two of the locations were also close to other general shopping choices. All three were close enough to the El to get u
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by jbattle 10y ago
some significant portion of English is descended from Latin as well
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by jbattle 10y ago
wait - didnt you just break the question? It's not about molecules vibrating, it's about whether the concept of "sound" has meaning without a hear-er
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by jbattle 10y ago
Along those lines ... http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/mythic-creatures/land-creatu...
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by jbattle 10y ago
The 'death' of antibiotics? Soil depletion? Hopefully mankind can scrape together the energy & resources to tackle a few existential risks concurrently
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by jbattle 10y ago
how much does each facility cost (ballpark)?
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by jbattle 10y ago
It's a problem if the math behind UBI presumes savings from eliminating a ton of social programs and we later find that there are substantial numbers of people that still need those programs even with UBI for non-financial reasons. I
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by jbattle 10y ago
There are probably two tax districts in the town
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by jbattle 10y ago
I'm often struck how long the roman empire was able to continue operating even with terrible emperors at the helm for years or even decades. You almost get the sense that a Augustus or Trajan or Justinian was able to refill some deep
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by jbattle 11y ago
Also - wasn't the battlecruiser concept largely discredited after WW1? I wouldn't be surprised if they were seen as more obsolete/expendable than battleships. Better to convert them to an aircraft carrier than have those ex
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by jbattle 11y ago
This is an article on using kmeans clustering to partition congressional districts ... https://dsparks.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/k-means-redistricti...
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by jbattle 11y ago
Or even having their massive bonuses clawed back. Ignoring the motivations of the company for a second, employees at places like GS are clearly incentivized to push the limits. Personally collect big bonuses now, let the company as a whol
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by jbattle 11y ago
Also the Aliso Canyon natural gas leak - something like 100+ days of the thing uncontrollably spewing gas
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by jbattle 11y ago
I'm wondering who exactly the target audience was. School children? University students? The general reading public? And yeah for sure it is propaganda. It is clearly trying to tell a pretty standard colonialist narrative that &quo
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by jbattle 11y ago
This is interesting reading. Such subtle and comprehensive propaganda. Anyone know more about this book? It seems to have been written by an English woman with a target audience of ??? Africans? I thought it might be a sort of catalogue
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by jbattle 11y ago
There's a big difference between coastwise travel in the Indian ocean and crossing the middle of the south atlantic. Even the big portuguese ships couldn't round the cape of good hope til what - the mid 1500's?. Also it&#x2
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by jbattle 11y ago
Another good one - speculation that proto-norse were involved in a copper trade network spanning from Michigan to North Africa, and left some runes (in a Moroccan script no less) in Ontario. http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legne
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by jbattle 11y ago
it is an interesting question - would we go to war to prevent carbon release? for me to have a position on the question would depend on the particulars. A related thought - there aren't a ton of countries that have both large fossil fu
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by jbattle 11y ago
Phase two will be "of course everyone always believed in climate change, we just disagreed on policies for addressing it". Phase three will be "it was actually the liberals who blocked action on climate change"

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