jemorya

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by jemorya 3y ago
A more generous interpretation of their comment is that they are glad that some legal precedence has been set. The same case would not go through courts for another decade.
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by jemorya 4y ago
>Don't forget that the "fruit" for scientists is fame, not the truth. This is a pretty shocking thing to say. It's not true whatsoever for the field of physics. Is there a particular field or a particular experience y
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by jemorya 6y ago
I use this every single day on my locked-down work laptop. It fixes so many sites! I recommend it as often as I can, and I'm surprised that its use is not more widespread.
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by jemorya 6y ago
David Foster Wallace makes the same observation in his article "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction," which I read in the excellent "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" collection of some of his ess
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by jemorya 7y ago
After a little more than a decade away from video games, I'm finding myself really enjoying 1st person horror games with no combat element: Soma, Amnesia: Dark Descent, and Outlast. This didn't really exist before, at least not ga
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by jemorya 7y ago
There are some really good responses to lisper's post: what about 96% of the universe's mass, neutrino mass, what about gravity for that matter. (zing!) The thing about those particular questions is that they only tell us that the
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by jemorya 7y ago
I'm not sure that the information from such experiments is only really relevant to applications in microgravity environments. (Hopefully I'm not misunderstanding your point too much.) The data points from microgravity experiments
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by jemorya 7y ago
Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
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by jemorya 7y ago
>>This is the case for most novels: you have to read seven hundred pages to get the handful of insights that were the reason the book was written, and the apparatus of the novel is there as a huge, elaborate, overbuilt stage set. This
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by jemorya 7y ago
I was about to post the same view (though I hadn't bumped into Exploration vs Exploitation before). One year I decided to blow through as many books as I could, and the next year I took my time and re-read the interesting ones much mor