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by manachar 11y ago
You should see what they've done in Olduvai and Pompeii!
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My limit was reached a while ago when intrusive ads starting becoming the norm. My personal least favorite are ones that move the content of the page so I'm bouncing around trying to read the same paragraph and ones that somehow think
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I was playing Civ 5 a while ago and had good relations with my neighboring civs. I tend to aim for science or cultural victories, so playing nice works well. Come to find out I had no iron resources. Without iron I could not progress and wo
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by manachar 11y ago
I get horridly and painfully seasick, others don't. Most that don't were "raised on the sea". I suspect younger generations could adapt to VR the way my generation adapted to the spatial awareness required for 3D gaming.
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by manachar 11y ago
The public seeing something as a -3 to 2 level of severity while scientists seeing something as a 9 or 11 seems to be the standard way science and public policy interact. 1. Scientists potentially find $somethingBad in the world. 2. The wor
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by manachar 11y ago
Looking at a political speech... just skipping to some of it is an abhorrent idea. That's how you lose context and likely meaning to words. Without condoning or condemning Trump's speeches, skipping to just parts can radically cha
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I agree. I am uncomfortable at the idea that people feel compelled to sanitize their realities so they only see the narratives they want to see. Social media already makes this far too easy. For art, this can make a movie have a very differ
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by manachar 11y ago
Ignoring the Schafer comments... it's 15 dollars. Depending on your locale, this is probably roughly the price of a movie ticket. It's odd to me that people value games so little. A quick look suggests this is at least 6 hours of
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by manachar 11y ago
http://modernistcuisine.com/recipes/silky-smooth-macaroni-an... This is supremely unfussy. Best part is the cheese sauce reheats perfectly. The final result is creamy and can be made with any cheese on hand to taste. (
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by manachar 11y ago
TALOS principle might be something you enjoy. You start as a robot that is basically attempting to prove it's human.
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by manachar 11y ago
Nobody is a strong word. The person above does, I do, and many other intelligent people do. Maybe you could argue that they're just worried about their own particular genes (i.e. the Selfish Gene), but some people certainly care about
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by manachar 11y ago
At this point we still cannot actually negotiate with our pets to establish a mutually satisfactory relationship. Domesticated animals are animals that co-evolved with modern humans (lately with a lot of human selection). Some of our practi
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by manachar 11y ago
Google tries to show what the web and web users think is relevant to a search term. Not what is true, neutral, peer-reviewed, curated, balanced, etc. It'd be interesting to see if Google could come up with a way to use machine learning
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by manachar 11y ago
It provides evidence that search engine rankings influence opinion, which I do not doubt. From a business perspective SEO exists for this very reason. It also provides evidence that Google as a company likely supports Hillary to at least so
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by manachar 11y ago
This read like anti-Google FUD. The basic argument is search engine rank determines trustworthiness of a source. This influences people's opinions on politics, what they buy, what they think, etc. This is absolutely true, and the core
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by manachar 11y ago
It's been the recurring thread in American politics since the "Turn on, tune in, drop out" and "state's rights" of the 60s. Social media might be nurturing more extreme views by fostering more isolation from ch
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by manachar 11y ago
That's precisely his base. If the establishment hates him, he must be doing something right.
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I'm vegetarian... but I can't sympathize with your position. Dogs do have a pretty tight evolutionary history with humans, but they've been used as food animals for plenty of that. Pigs are at least as intelligent as dogs and
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by manachar 11y ago
This is my biggest beef with most WWII movies/games. They most horrifying aspect of Nazis, Fascists, and tyrants is that they're made up and supported by real people. People with loved ones just trying to get by in the world. Give
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by manachar 11y ago
It's a tough dilemma for any ad-supported news organization. You get paid by getting eyeballs on a story. With most people getting their news via social networks and aggregators you need a headline that is shareable and yet still gets
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by manachar 11y ago
Oof. Clickbait headlines are like watching evolution in action. The article is a better read than the title suggests. Of note, the extra cold spot in the North Atlantic is proposed to be connect to the extra warmth of the Artic. This radica
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by manachar 11y ago
Most houses in the U.S. built prior to a few decades ago have lead paint and many have asbestos. Then there's the whole leaded gasoline fiasco. The world has known of the danger of lead and many other dangerous substances, but often st
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Another example is the yellow in cheddar cheese. Apparently the yellow-ish color was originally a mark of high-quality milk from grass-fed Jersey and Guernsey cow. Now they use annatto and other spices/dyes to add color to the cheese.
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It's always interesting to see what happens when something is optimized for the "wrong" metric. No consumer would actually say they want worse tasting tomatoes, but consumers as a whole clearly made that choice by buying only
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Seems that Github is recognizing that more and more non-dev types are interacting with Github in various ways and are providing tools to help them out. I suppose it's fine, and certainly easier than teaching newbies Github-flavored mar
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It's a touch focused pattern. With a keyboard and mouse you had the ability to right-click or use a modifier key while clicking to bring up more options. For more and more users touch is going to be their primary experience and eventua
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Wikipedia has a nice section on the history and includes this about constitutionality: "While the 1993 Supreme Court case Austin v. United States ruled that a forfeiture could be considered as an excessive fine, the court upheld the pr
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I'm not sold that civil forfeiture is an atomic bomb. It's more like guns in the hands of police. It's a very dangerous tool in the hands of people who are charged with achieving something that occasionally needs dangerous to
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The police operate at the will of the people. They are as heavily armed as they are because the political process highly rewards "tough-on-crime" politicians. Maybe instead of buying guns we should invest more of our time and reso
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It does go through a process, which at this point is considered constitutional, or more properly worded, has yet to be ruled unconstitutional in court. Civil forfeiture was a highly successful tool to combat organized crime and grew enormou

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