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by magpi3 4y ago
I think you have to define what "smart" means. I mean if you dropped me into some of my undergrad courses today, especially my CS courses, I would dominate like Wilt Chamberlain and people would think I am a genius. But what does
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by magpi3 4y ago
You're just playing with semantics. If everything humans do is natural than everything is natural: computers, plastics, concrete, etc. The purpose of using the word natural is to distinguish from what is unnatural, and without grabbing
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I remember, but that wasn't really a third-party. That was just Ross Perot. I do think the two parties are slightly vulnerable to a strong enough, and rich enough, candidate surrounded by a cult of personality, but even in this case it
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by magpi3 4y ago
Yes. The mathematics make zero sense for a third party in the United States. But, I think Bernie Sanders showed that it is at least viable to form a wing in an existing party and have an effect on the platform even if your preferred party c
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RSA Animate: How to Help Every Child Fulfil Their Potential(youtube.com)
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by magpi3 4y ago
A really great video about helping children develop a growth mindset as opposed to a fixed mindset. I think this absolutely applies to entrepreneurs as well.
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Do you really thing a book like 1984 is "not that deep"?
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He wasn't testing wings, but you make me think of this poor, brave man. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Reichelt#Eiffel_Tower_ju...
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by magpi3 4y ago
Agreed. Contra is my go to when I think of this experience. Just dropped into a war zone and you start shooting. No explanation necessary.
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by magpi3 4y ago
You joke, but you make an important point. A book is just a dead thing without a reader who has something in them that can respond to the book's contents. A book by itself has no value. It is the event that occurs between the book and
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by magpi3 4y ago
Well what's really the difference between this and going to a movie vs a play? There's value to being in a big crowd with like-minded fans, even if just to watch a recording. Don't get me wrong, I love live shows, but when th
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by magpi3 4y ago
Stories involve conflict, and almost all conflict in video games are going to resemble violence in some way. Even the Super Mario games are violent if you want to look at them that way. If fantasy violence is okay, then Nintendo Zelda and M
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by magpi3 4y ago
I understand, but I still say you have to go deeper before a discussion takes place. Why are ethnic stereotypes being reinforced in this instance? Are the cultural elements or other factors at play? It _is_ a sensitive topic, and a complex
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It is sensitive territory, but the main point is that correlation does not equal causation. I imagine if there is a correlation between immigrant owned and poor quality, there might be some cultural factors at play. An immigrant taking over
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by magpi3 4y ago
To simply imply that immigrant owned == poor quality is lazy and incorrect. I am sure there is more to the story than that, and in order to have a proper discussion we need the rest of that story.
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by magpi3 4y ago
This just creates a market for zine reviews. And what you write is eventually true of every medium: movies, books, apps, etc.
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by magpi3 4y ago
Zines are great ways for people to get into publishing their own stuff for the first time. You are right, very few people will want to read what you create, but a few will and this is of course an amazing thrill. Most zines are amateurish b
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by magpi3 4y ago
I think game developers are at the front lines of changing requirements and that is why they build scriptable engines and not programs perse. I think engines and libraries are the ultimate solution if you want to program defensively.
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Minecraft is written in Java.
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> Congratulations, you've now created a totalitarian one-party dictatorship! This is not true. It totally discounts independents (38% of American are independent), and districts obviously evolve and the popularity of the party in po
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by magpi3 4y ago
All internet-powered depression. I am not saying the issues you list aren't real, but the need to doomscroll through these issues on the daily is not necessary. Ukraine was that for me. Put me in a huge helpless funk and I could not s
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by magpi3 4y ago
It's easy to do it, but I have never really heard of anyone doing it successfully like this. Most programmers come up with a basic plan and then just start coding it and things evolve from there. As the saying going, "a battle pla
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by magpi3 4y ago
This is an amazing, amazing skill. Do any university classes teach programmers how to think like this? Can it be taught?
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Justices can be impeached. I'm not saying they would be, but it's possible. Why risk it? The opinion is going to come out anyway.
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by magpi3 4y ago
Don't you think it was for money? A law clerk would be risking their entire career for this, and I can't imagine they would do that just to get the news out early. I wonder if politico will acknowledge whether or not they paid for
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by magpi3 4y ago
Wanting to cut down two dozen trees to put up a white tent perfectly encapsulates everything I dislike about Apple.
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by magpi3 4y ago
Very interesting. And the passages about different Steamboat inventors failing to learn from each other as they iteratively moved through different designs definitely made me think of the modern programmer, and about how just going ahead an
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by magpi3 4y ago
I am in Shenzhen, and have been told by friends that it is impossible to get a license for gas powered cars. There is a strong push for all cars to be electric, electric bikes are everywhere, and all buses are electric. And China is making
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by magpi3 4y ago
Is this opinion just Stockholm syndrome since we were all forced to go through it? What other models do we have to compare it to? I would argue that segregating children by age for schooling purposes is a relatively modern idea that probabl
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by magpi3 4y ago
I hear this argument a lot, but lets's ask the question: are high schools the best way to learn to "deal with people?" How much trauma have high schools inspired and can we do better now that we have other options?

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