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by learc83 7y ago
>Most folks aren't bringing the "aren't you a japanophile insulting my gloriously progressive culture" angle to the table. Wow maybe you should tone it down a bit. You've actually manage to use an ad hominem in a
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by learc83 7y ago
>I don't really consider sandbox Minecraft a game any more than building something out of Legos or a stick fort in the woods is a game. Is it fun? Yes! Is it creative? Yes! Is it a game? I would say no. The definition of a game isn&
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by learc83 7y ago
>Unique? No. Distinct in character, yes. So not unique. But actually unique? >Minecraft. Night in the Woods. Slenderman. Kerbal Space Program. SpaceChem, TIS-80, InfiniMiner, InfiniFactory, a huge portion of Stellaris's gameplay.
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by learc83 7y ago
Those simulations are almost entirely about developing muscle memory. If you're talking driving or flying games with appropriate controllers, then they might provide some useful instruction. But first person shooters played with a cont
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by learc83 7y ago
> It's just a cultural artifact of the west's love and expectation of violent solutions to conflict that we glorify this activity over others. The implication to this sentence is that the west is unique in this regard. The only
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by learc83 7y ago
How is this any different than public schools buying baseballs from Rawlings (co-owned by the MLB). Or football pads, basketball goals etc... I guarantee that the district in question spends far more than $450k purchasing sports equipment f
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by learc83 7y ago
>Sure, but so are lots of things. It's just a cultural artifact of the west's love and expectation of violent solutions to conflict that we glorify this activity over others. For example, a game of Go is surely a conflict betwe
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by learc83 7y ago
The games you're talking about aren't particularly useful for training, their only real use if for recruiting. And the number of games being funded by militaries is so small compared to the size of the market, that it basically ha
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by learc83 7y ago
Conflict doesn't require violence though. It's just that physical conflict is the easiest kind of conflict to represent.
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by learc83 7y ago
From what my mom told about college in her day, her professors were much worse about those kinds of rules than mine were.
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by learc83 7y ago
If it was still a semi autonomous region, and a high enough percentage of the entire population wanted independence, yeah we probably would.
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by learc83 7y ago
A better example is Puerto Rico. If they had a referendum that showed a clear desire for independence, the US would almost certainly let them leave.
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by learc83 7y ago
Doesn't really matter what I think. It matters what the people making the decision and the people voting for them think. If they think the threat is real, they are being coerced. That's all there is to it. The survey was done by a
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by learc83 7y ago
>The part where anyone thinks it's a credible threat? 50% of people in Taiwan believe that China will invade if they declare independence. So yes half of the country thinks it's a credible threat. [1, 2] And only 6% think their
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by learc83 7y ago
>But we agree that that's the background and Taiwan hasn't reached consensus to change the official policy, right? What part of China has threatened to invade them over changing their policy makes that policy a coerced statemen
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by learc83 7y ago
Obama's response to contain China was the TPP. It could have been more (or less--no way to know) effective than Trump's, Obama just didn't tweet about it.
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by learc83 7y ago
It's probably easier to just rework the website than to try to enact that policy. Training, print collateral, keeping employees updated on current coupons verifying blindness. Vs some front end changes.
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by learc83 7y ago
https://cjil.uchicago.edu/publication/how-united-states-uses...
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by learc83 7y ago
The TPP was designed to contain China. China wasn't a part of it.
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by learc83 7y ago
>The more common scenario is for the cookies, chips and coke to come from the respective aisle-long displays at the supermarket. I'm not sure I see the point here? >Ready to eat frozen meals tend to be high calorie as well. They
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by learc83 7y ago
That's technically correct but it misses the whole picture. For an extreme example--it's a lot easier to gain weight if you regularly stop by the convience store and pick up cookies, chips and a bottle of coke for dinner than if y
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by learc83 7y ago
Homeopathic isn't the same as folksy. Folksy may or may not work, but at least there could be some potential method of action beyond the placebo effect. Homeopathic treatments are just placebos. They have been diluted repeatedly to the
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by learc83 7y ago
No true Scotsman isn't even remotely relevant. >that doesn’t mean there isn’t a big difference between living on your own or living in your mom’s basement. Where you live really says nothing about your level of responsibility or sel
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by learc83 7y ago
No one is really self sufficient. Unless you live in the woods, that's just an illusion. You're just dependent on people other than your family. Multi-generation housing has been the default throughout most of history, and is stil
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by learc83 7y ago
If it's an unaccredited school, then I sure I can see that.
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by learc83 7y ago
> There you go, yet another conclusion about something you have absolutely no knowledge about. From your public comments this is my conclusion. You have an axe to grind with academia, because you believe that academia is indoctrinating k
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by learc83 7y ago
Sorry but if you show up on a public forum and start making deragotory statments about the university system as a whole, and then refuse to provide any supporting evidence to back up those claims, I'm going to question your motive. You
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by learc83 7y ago
You wouldn't have made through my program that way. Projects were half the grade in moat classes. And you definitely weren't doing those well enough to pass in barley any hours. I'd already been working for years as a program
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by learc83 7y ago
>My son. If you think that posting a comment on hacker news revealing that your son was forced to take a particular class that you disagree with is going to harm your son, you are being deeply paranoid. > https://www.youtube
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by learc83 7y ago
I watched Fox News regularly until 2015 or so, so unless the changed dramatically since then the statement about them having more politically diverse guests is just wrong.

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