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by panglott 10y ago
"Midwest" can mean anything from Pennsylvania to Kansas. It can mean the Old Northwest (the original "the West") [0], or it can mean "just west of the Mississippi River". As Humpty-Dumpty says, it's just a
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...maybe. I think we underrate the physicality of our minds. For example, if you transplanted a male head on a female body or vice versa, some personality changes would be expected. Or a male head on a male body with different testosterone
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One problem with these games is that getting a group together willing to play these games can be kind of onerous. It's one of the things I try to do at Gencon: there's usually a couple of games scheduled for Advanced Civilization,
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by panglott 10y ago
This is a great example of how intellectual property supports and hampers innovation. Board games can be protected by trademark, copyright and patents; patenting game used to be very common (I have a copy of Camelot from 1932 with the pat
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I dunno, I've been reading the book Playing at the World [0], and while in the 1960s, wargames and miniatures were at the center of hobby gaming, it seems to have more of a small-but-passionate fanbase. There was one major company th
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Yep, GMT Games's P500 is just better than the old wargaming business model, and there are plenty of other companies, like Victory Point Games. It may be that a rising tide lifts all boats. Board games have exploded in recent years, but
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We have strong norms against overt bigotry now, but actual racism is very common. Go but two generations back, and white supremacism was still a governing ideology in most industrialized democracies. The modern world is not immune to racism
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"Modernity" is a term of art that refers to the physical conditions and philosophical preoccupations of the modern world (ca. 1600 CE Europe, and after). [0] Through this lens, it's kind of a circular question: of course we a
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Seems like nearly every HN thread has a discussion of the linked article's web design. Maybe not relevant to the author, but relevant to the audience.
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I only have the sweat problem in July and August where I live, and it's easily fixed for me by simply wiping off my arms and face with a damp towel when I come in. It's quick and works surprisingly well. Everyone's situation
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The essential question at the end, for parents caught in the bind: "Even if I do send them out, will there be anyone to play with?" Free-range children are just rare these days.
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Support groups also deserve freedom of association. Requiring them to prove that the people who constantly derail their groups' activities are harassers puts the burden on them, rather than on the people who are crashing and disrupting
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Absolutely. But what he actually said was "we don't condone 'safe spaces'".
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I suspect that there are more sexual assault survivors than combat trauma survivors, so if your threshold is the incidence of combat-traumatized veterans, then you don't need to extend the limit further to include sexual assault surviv
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The Instapundit is attempting to debunk public-health assessments of the incidence of sexual assault with crime-report data, when a key argument of anti-rape activists is that rape/sexual assault largely goes unreported. And given the
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Universities are places where unpopular points of view must be entertained and debated. Expressing or advocating unpopular or unpleasant points of view is not against university codes of conduct—nor should it be. But must it then also be t
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You'd think that students should be able to feel safe at least somewhere on campus! But apparently they don't accept that. I certainly understand and agree with the need for the university as a whole being a place where students w
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They don't want students to have any spaces where they feel safe/accepted? That's weird.
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The extra time it takes to ride a bicycle can be minimal. When I drive to work, it takes about 20 minutes; when I cycle it takes about 30. In urban traffic a car tavels only about twice as fast as a bicycle on average, and bicycles are easi
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Yep, but even if it is not anything close to habitable (as it likely is not), it seems like we could learn a huge amount about about the habitability of red dwarf systems in general. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habit
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You're implying that the only reason women wear burkinis is the fear of acid attacks and reprisal. You can't know what motivates people to wear burkinis. But the harm there is the acid attacks and threat of reprisal, not the weari
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If religious practices cause actual harm to other people, that's a reasonable cause for state intervention. But as far as I can see, this is about people who to wear a certain kind of hat or style of swimsuit. How is that conceivably a
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This kind of thing is just amazing to me as an American. I'm an atheist, but people have a fundamental right to express their personal values in their dress and practice their religion. France's bans on religious expression in the
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This is true, but I was glad to see Gruber put his money where his mouth is and spend some time in an app developer's shoes.
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Thanks for the great response, btw.
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In the humanities, 75% of courses are taught by grad students and adjuncts. I think the split between them is about half and half. An overwhelming percentage of the actual work of higher education is done by grad students and contingent fac
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Children's education has always been dominated by women. I think the problem is more that young children are suddenly being held to a standardized curriculum in which they are expected to learn to read in kindergarten (instead of 1st g
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Yes, the effect is very dramatic over the last 10-20 years, but I suspect it's been hard to document. It's clear in terms of some expectations: a generation ago, it was expected that children would learn the alphabet in kindergart
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The main question is whether medication-based treatment encourages ADHD to persist past adolescence. Non-medication-based treatment, of course, does not necessarily imply non-treatment or non-intervention.
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> ADHD by definition is a condition that originates in childhood and persists into adulthood in about 1/2 or more of cases. Right, and all of this is a question about under what conditions it persists or fails to persist. Does ADHD

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