olavk

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by olavk 8y ago
Well using the term bisexuality does not really explain anything. The traditional definition of "bisexual" is someone who is attracted to both genders. But if we accept sexuality is fluid (i.e. you preference may change over t
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by olavk 8y ago
It is hard to apply terms like "liberal" and "conservative" to ancient societies, and I don't get at all how the Roman Empire cold be considered "extremely liberal". It was thoroughly militarized dictators
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by olavk 8y ago
Where do you get the 90% number? Not disputing it, just curious. I do find it interesting people counter such sociological research with "in my opinion...". Sure the research may be flawed or incomplete. So point out the flaws or
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by olavk 8y ago
The question of choice is orthogonal to the question of fluidity. I don't think you choose who you become attracted to, but obviously it may change over your lifetime. I call it 19th century theory because this is when the theory origi
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by olavk 8y ago
So you are buying into the 19th century idea that sexuality is some immutable property - a person is either gay straight or bi, and this cannot change throughout their life. Given that the research in the article seem to falsify this theor
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by olavk 8y ago
Yeah movies would be reduced to commercials. Commercials are free after all, so that proves it is possible. So we would probably still have movies like Transformers and Star Wars, so I guess geeks would be happy.
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by olavk 8y ago
Yeah, although there is a difference between planning for a specific future which may not arrive, and planning to make any future change less painful.
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by olavk 8y ago
Making professional movies is a full time job.
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by olavk 8y ago
I don't really look forward to the day when Martin Scorsese has to finance his movies through toy sales.
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by olavk 8y ago
May I ask how you pay your rent and buy food?
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by olavk 8y ago
How would you finance movies made under an open license? Movies are expensive to produce.
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by olavk 8y ago
HTML shows the downsides to the robustness principle. Any lenience in interpreting the spec will lead to a de-facto standard which in turn will make it harder to create new implementations: It is not enough to follow the spec, you also have
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by olavk 8y ago
Antisemitism absolutely was incompatible with official USSR ideology. So was any form of racism and nationalism. That doesn't mean it didn't exist of course, but it was never official policy as in Nazi Germany.
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by olavk 8y ago
Doesn't that make everything socialism? What political system wouldn't be socialism?
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by olavk 8y ago
Are you talking about the controversies regarding statues of Confederate war heroes? The thing they were celebrated for was fighting for the right of the confederate states to keep slavery. > at a time when owning slaves was accepted by
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by olavk 8y ago
> The Nazi leadership wanted expansion of the German state to include all of Europe. No they didn't. They wanted to expand the German state to include areas with significant German population (Austria, Sudentenland, Elsass, Slovenia
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by olavk 8y ago
> Under such circumstances, you might expect people to revolt, but that didn't (and doesn't) happen. People wouldn't revolt, not even the Jews being deported. Not true, there are multiple instances of Jewish uprisings - mo
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by olavk 8y ago
But shouldn't this effect be across all health issues then, not just heart attacks?
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by olavk 8y ago
This is really fascinating (and troubling) statistics, but I can imagine what the explanations can be? Some of the possible explanations suggested in the article does not seem to correspond to the result. For example, if female doctors are
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by olavk 8y ago
No. (But I have read an account of the Irving v. Penguin trial, if you take issue with calling him a Holocaust denier.)
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The question is not whether US history books should relay the Nazi narrative of WWII or a western narrative. The question is which western narrative. There is a million ways of telling the story about WWII even while remaining factual, by
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by olavk 8y ago
> This anti-classics argument is distressingly common I have literally never heard this before, not even on the internet. In what communities is this a common viewpoint?
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by olavk 8y ago
> It advised parents to talk with their kids about... Was the implication that parent would read Kant for their kids? Or what is going on here? Edit: A bit of googling shows that apparently this publisher only publishes texts old enough
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by olavk 8y ago
Do you think that "nuance" means that everything is equally true? I think that is a strawman. Holocaust deniers are factually wrong just like flat-earthers. Understanding that there is no single concise objectively true narrative
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by olavk 8y ago
We can agree that the earth is not flat, but I don't think this is really the issue. The article mentions the question whether the Japanese internement is treated in single sentence, or on multiple pages with pictures, personal account
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by olavk 8y ago
Hanlons Razor is often appropriate, but I'm not sure it is in the case of history teaching. Teachers don't teach an incorrect or skewed version of history because they are "dumb". They either do it because the want to im
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by olavk 8y ago
History is extremely complex and nuanced, that is the problem. It literally encompasses everything that ever happened. So anything you can say about history is inherently an oversimplification with ignores a lot of possible angles and voi
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I don't know about many still image movies, but La Jetée is pretty respected. So if it can even be called a genre, it does not seem to be especially disrespected. Exploitation is movies like the infamous "Ilse" which mixed Na
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by olavk 8y ago
Porn is more disrespected I think. The term "torture porn" is used disparaging even by horror enthusiasts. Movies catering to base physical reactions (sexual arousal, fear, laughter) is considered less prestigious. Although intell
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by olavk 8y ago
I know correlation is not causation but come on... if a set of students follows as CS introductory course and ends up learning some CS during the span of course, it is overreaching to assume the CS course had something to do with it.

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