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by nescioquid 3y ago
I was once reminded of a movie I had watched two weeks prior and realized I hadn't thought about the movie once since leaving the theater. It occurred to me that this is a good proxy for whether I think the movie or book was worth-whil
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by nescioquid 3y ago
Couldn't the protocol be set up like a psych experiment in which you misdirect the subject (making the sleeping mask incidental from the subject's perspective)? I'm assuming your objection is that the research biased the resu
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by nescioquid 3y ago
I started watching German television on YouTube a couple years ago and had a very eerie feeling when I discovered the ZDF Heute Show and Harald Schmidt's show (modeled after the Daily Show and David Letterman, respectively). It might s
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by nescioquid 3y ago
An essay, an attempt, a try at something. Promising premise immediately deflated by the four-square (and then the paragraphoid to over-explain the four-square). Fine, let's scan over text because the four-square was over-explained. Gro
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by nescioquid 3y ago
I can count to ten in Japanese in my sleep because that's how we drilled when I was a child learning judo, but were you ask me to say "six" in Japanese, I'd have to start counting. To learn a language, I think you really
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by nescioquid 3y ago
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, newspapers frequently reported on suicides in detail. It was observed that the reporting on suicide had a potential epidemic effect. As a result, a standard was adopted in which suicides were generally
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by nescioquid 3y ago
Sounds like a reference to The Cuckoo's Egg (fun read).
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by nescioquid 3y ago
You are invested enough in this story to comment on it. You said that credit for your ideas was stolen and you seem to have projected your own problems onto the Montañez story. When challenged, you took refuge behind the fallibility of huma
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by nescioquid 4y ago
I imagine it is not always possible to distinguish between a car accident and a suicide.
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by nescioquid 4y ago
On your third point: I think the frequency with which courts have been asked to take up societal issues is a symptom of general, systemic legislative corruption and pusillanimity. Pusillanimity on social issues (why abortion went to he cour
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by nescioquid 4y ago
Cultural attitudes and norms have changed greatly. There would generally be one television in the house and deciding which station to watch was often not an individual decision. People would also think there was something wrong with you if
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by nescioquid 4y ago
> The whole UFO / UAP thing is a psyop. As to what such a psyop is supposed to achieve is beyond me though. I've always suspected that the "show and tell" had to do with securing funding or status for the program(s).
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by nescioquid 4y ago
This is advice to individuals on how to be more effective at finding answers to their own questions, and how to reduce the burden on those who are willing to help. If you want to be effective at getting answers, please do follow this advice
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by nescioquid 4y ago
Edit: I was too prolix in my initial enthusiasm to point out the obvious analog. >> Can scholarly work, viewed from the perspective of its author's life story, be therefore perceived as a performative act, rather than as primaril
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by nescioquid 4y ago
Stefan Zweig, whose memoir I'm currently savoring, was born to a bourgeois family in 1880's Vienna, and died in Brazil in 1942. He appears to have known absolutely everyone you might have heard of living in this time and traveled
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by nescioquid 4y ago
Going back to the question you're responding to: > How can [corporations] be, in good conscience, allowed to get a pass? I sort of expected you to answer that corporations don't get a pass. I agree with your premises: 1) corp
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by nescioquid 4y ago
If you start with the presumption that anti-discrimination laws already exist, then you may see this law as merely performative -- it didn't outlaw anything that was actually permitted prior. But it could also be that such a redundant
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by nescioquid 4y ago
The issue is Go/Google forcing default-on "transparent" telemetry. The only nuance here is that by forcing default-on, a) they get more data, and b) they believe few would opt-in because of the level of trust Google merits.
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by nescioquid 4y ago
I bought a laptop from System76 with Pop_OS! installed. After turning on wifi and running the updates, I then installed emacs, firefox, and KDE from the Pop_OS! repo, then ran the updates again. Instead of continuing the process of "mo
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by nescioquid 4y ago
I would agree to "leave that shit at home" insofar as it means "leave that shit at home until it is mature enough to be taken out in public". If you can discuss your opinions without giving or taking offense, then fine.
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by nescioquid 4y ago
My main purpose was to point out that even with a facile comparison, we are missing a very salient element (normalization of violence as a political tool). For the rest, I really should have just said "signal event". I wasn't
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by nescioquid 4y ago
The sad story of the Gracchi brothers is often considered a turning point in the republic because it "normalized" violence as a political tool. What followed were proscriptions, the Catilinarian conspiracy, civil wars. I don'
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by nescioquid 4y ago
I think there is a fair bit of discussion on software fragility under the rubric of "robust" software in the SE literature -- sort of the negative space of what you are looking for, but within that topic, causes of fragility are e
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by nescioquid 4y ago
Someone on the Lawfare podcast quoted a judge who said that how a case is settled is very often not the most important thing. Rather, what is most often of paramount importance is just that a case is settled, so that the disputants can
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by nescioquid 4y ago
It's an important distinction you make and hard to talk about without a vocabulary. The terms I've seen music historians use for this concept were: - generic expression: commercial/pop/entertainment; audience makes deman
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by nescioquid 4y ago
I've seen a complaint throughout the later half of the 20th century which I don't see much anymore: culture has become "youth culture". It is no longer a common gripe because we can't see this distinction any more.
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by nescioquid 4y ago
The article must be having its fun with trying to _argue_ like Gladwell because it surely gave me the Gladwell roller-coaster ride. A strong, surprising, provocative claim gets you into the car; the winch drags you in train of qualification
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by nescioquid 4y ago
Also can't access the story, but it seems safe to assume there are no funds that beat any index, no? The headline mentions the market, so if there were at least one fund that beat at least one of the market indices, it would seem diffi
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by nescioquid 4y ago
In the U.S. we have no non-commercial media free of commercial influence. Our "public" broadcasting services rely on commercial advertisements. Is the European programming you're impressed with publicly funded by any chance?
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In all my prior jobs, I was able to focus deeply on one or two things; picking up a new language over the weekend was not a big deal if instrumental to some goal I was working towards. Some time ago, I took a position at a large financial c

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