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by mrec 8y ago
His opinion is backed by NUCLEAR WEAPONS!
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by mrec 8y ago
IIRC Campbell was also mainly responsible for the obsession with "psi" which pervades so much SF of that era. He was so utterly convinced that it represented the next stage of human evolution, imminent and wholly beneficial, that
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by mrec 8y ago
There are still posters everywhere, obviously, and they've increasingly become animated screens here. But the only time I see video-with-sound ads now is at the cinema. My tolerance has dropped enough that it's becoming a signific
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by mrec 8y ago
I take your point, and I was mostly just pointing out the parallels with OP's description of the US (which also included "soil conservation"). For the CAP, my reading is that most of the payment really is just for "not f
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by mrec 8y ago
Interesting. We have relatively high rural suicide rates in the UK too, and a similar "paid to not farm" situation via the EU's Common Agricultural Policy, but the causal waters are muddied here by farmers being among the ver
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by mrec 8y ago
Thank you. Democracy is not about guaranteeing competent government, or government that agrees with you. Democracy is about avoiding civil wars. I think people forget this, and forget how hideous civil wars can be, because it's been so
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by mrec 8y ago
Which in practice just means that everyone labels anything they don't like "intolerance", bans it and toddles off congratulating themselves on how tolerant they are. I have no idea what the solution is. I suspect anyone comin
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by mrec 8y ago
> The moral of the story is: if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen, your new society will end up consisting of approximately three principled civil
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by mrec 8y ago
We were almost the exact opposite; I don't think we really touched on ancient and mediaeval writers at all. Not much in the religious vein either, we more topic-centric (personal identity, ethics, formal logic etc) than philosopher-cen
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by mrec 8y ago
In general, no, but generalizing can miss important local markets. I live in London and trains and busses do me fine. I honestly can't remember the last time I got into a car here; certainly years rather than months. Big-city issues li
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by mrec 8y ago
He was very much included when I was doing undergrad philosophy. (UK, ~30 years ago.)
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by mrec 8y ago
That's awesome. Particularly the idea that the Amazon, the biggest river (by discharge volume) on the planet, once changed direction .
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by mrec 8y ago
Blocked for me. web.uconn.edu uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for the following names: web2.uconn.edu, phonebook.uconn.edu, testsite.uconn.edu Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN
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by mrec 8y ago
Dunno. They might just be more popular destinations to immigrate to, being (mostly) stable and rich, and English being one of the more common second languages around the world.
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by mrec 8y ago
Yeah, the first time I ever drove solo was at night, in pouring rain, during rush hour, on the Autobahn. (This was Germany, having learned to drive in the UK.) Oddly enough, I never really warmed to driving...
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by mrec 8y ago
The point sonusario is making is that your assertion about the future behaviour of the Sun is based on our understanding of physics, and physics is itself inherently inductive - it's an abstraction and formalisation of empirical experi
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by mrec 8y ago
I'm not sure there was a need for filler B-plot and C-plot. There's no particular reason it needed to be planned as 5 seasons if there wasn't enough A-plot to fill 5 seasons. Hell, Severed Dreams felt like a season's
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by mrec 8y ago
I'm a big B5 fan, but you have to admit there's an awful lot of filler in there. (Also, it definitely wasn't what GP was referring to, since B5 didn't vary its runtime appreciably.)
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by mrec 8y ago
Yes, that's what GP is saying.
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by mrec 8y ago
That's an impressively smooth yak.
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by mrec 8y ago
I back out of them all time. Particularly the egregious dark-pattern ones: "Click this giant green button to let us track you out the wazoo, or click this tiny misleadingly-named link to drag you through a six-hour hell of settings dia
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by mrec 8y ago
Excellent explanation. Have you considered writing some sort of book? :P
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by mrec 8y ago
> I'm french. My country has a VERY strong view on the local language protection. [...] Peace, democracy, exchange, cooperation, archiving, education: they are too hard to do in hundreds of languages. I can't find where I ori
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by mrec 8y ago
> I'm not sure how you can complain that the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland's claim on Scotland is "tenuous" I'm not "complaining" anything of the sort. I think you have me mixed
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by mrec 8y ago
That didn't create the UK - it was a personal union, with two independent countries who happened to have the same monarch. Great Britain as a combined state didn't appear for another century, via the 1707 Act of Union.
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by mrec 8y ago
I picked up a cheap Android a couple of years ago to see if mobiles had become worth the hassle yet. Permissions handling was one of the big things that convinced me they hadn't. The most memorable example was trying to take a picture
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by mrec 8y ago
> I haven't heard of anyone walking off a 1-on-1 plane crash Offtopic and nitpicking, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Negev_mid-air_collision
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by mrec 8y ago
What's the benefit of PDF forms over HTML forms? Other than being able to share the "digital" and dead-tree designs, which may be an advantage for someone, but not for the person filling it in.
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by mrec 8y ago
> Using POST where GET should have been used hasn't caused horrendous bugs in the same way, but it still introduces annoyances. In my experience, "using POST where GET should have been used" is normally a consequence of
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by mrec 8y ago
The Russian Tu-144 knockoff was even worse. I've seen the passenger experience memorably described as " so loud you couldn't hear the person next to you screaming ".

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