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by panglott 10y ago
More context at "The echo, explained" http://www.vox.com/2016/6/6/11860796/echo-explained-parenthe... therightstuff.biz is just a nasty site.
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Well, except for 2002-2006 when the Republicans controlled all three branches.
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The guy has devoted his life to harassing people through litigation. I assume it's profitable enough to keep him in beer & Skittles. Your plan is to become an even more dedicated troll than he is, but doing direct intimidation and
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by panglott 10y ago
This is the problem with these small, nonpartisan offices. Virtually nobody votes in these elections because very few people can make an informed decision, and those informed few have incentives not to endorse/oppose. If the elections
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by panglott 10y ago
"According to court records, Zavodnik initially filed a lawsuit in Marion County Small Claims Court, where he asked for the maximum damages of $6,000. Zavodnik lost because he had thrown away the evidence (the printer), court records s
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by panglott 10y ago
People who are willing to endure being a grad student in order to become a professor are probably relatively less motivated by monetary incentives.
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by panglott 10y ago
These kinds of threads tend to be self-congratulatory, and obviously the answer is "self-selection". But I'll bite. Most of the conservative professors I have known in the Humanities have been in (military) history and classi
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by panglott 10y ago
"Liberal" means exactly what it always meant: there have always been different strains of liberalism. It's just the conservatives and libertarians who are picky about what they call themselves, defining themselves in oppositi
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by panglott 10y ago
Nope, "liberals" are by far the group who favors limited government and individual freedom. Conservatives are the ones who advocate torturing people, legislating womens' medical care, and otherwise intruding government into p
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by panglott 10y ago
I don't think social scientists are Marxist in perhaps the sense you understand it. Social scientists don't want to overthrow the bourgeosie so much as they interpret social systems through the machinery of gender, race, and socia
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by panglott 10y ago
John Rawls is of course the right answer here, but it seems odd that you cite Hayek, Nozick, Sowell, &c., who are all diametrically opposed. The other one I'd recommend is John Stuart Mill.
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by panglott 10y ago
The semantic problem here is that there is near-uniform agreement on liberalism in America, when "liberalism" is properly defined as the belief in human liberty, moral equality, and democracy. Since virtually no-one (<5%) in Am
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by panglott 10y ago
Pirahã has several different channels, such as whistle speech, hum speech, musical speech, yell speech, &c. http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003175.h... The Pirahã also have an unusual
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by panglott 10y ago
Defining and expressing "coolness" is an essential part of articulating an identity. As is curating your relationships to different audiences.
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by panglott 10y ago
What a terrible article. This article has no substance to it at all. The author rehashes the line about how Apple is doomed b/c Steve Jobs is irreplaceable. It's more nonsense from there. Simplicity in product lines: "Apple n
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by panglott 10y ago
Among my interest groups, it only found a niche among the old-school renaissance RPG bloggers, people like Eric Tenkar of tenkarstavern.com. I logged in, and those guys are still posting on Google+ regularly. I rarely go there, however.
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by panglott 10y ago
Came to Mac gaming in the early 2000s. It wasn't the high-end overcommercialized hardcore market of twitchy games on the PC; it was a small community of indie developers, who made some fun games (Escape Velocity: Nova &c.). The big
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by panglott 10y ago
Some classic proto-pulp. I got into "Princess of Mars" as a teenager, and they were hugely important to my understanding of SF&F, warts and all. So many weird ideas in that list that have not even become tropes. I'll have
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by panglott 10y ago
Atheists go to the Unitarian churches.
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by panglott 10y ago
Um, that link establishes that the word has had very strongly negative connotations since at least the 1850s. The article states that it had "more neutral" connotations earlier on...in a society that enforced racial human enslavem
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by panglott 10y ago
It's not that FB isn't cool. Facebook is something for people who have established identities. It's not a place where you can experiment with different identities. Young people have FB accounts, but they don't spend much
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by panglott 10y ago
That sounds like Open OS X more than it sounds like Open Darwin.
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Played around with panoramic QuickTime circa 2001-2002, after I got my first iBook. QuickTime was great on Mac, but man, (perhaps unless you spent a lot of money on photo-editing software) stitching those photos together was a bear.
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by panglott 10y ago
Does Poe's law apply here?
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I am constantly surprised at both the vehemence and the triviality of the ire that people direct at the Clintons. There is literally nothing that people will not attack them with.
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They're too busy to make an appointment with their desk to read emails, and the government can't supply a secure smartphone to anyone less high up than the President himself? Even the Secretary of State? Just bizarre.
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That's the most '90s-Microsoft comment I've seen. Google aspires to have such a pervasive monopoly that its design paradigm should be treated as universal.
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by panglott 10y ago
The guy writes about Javascript but would "A Great Side Project Is Your Most Important Asset" be wrong?
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Cross-national comparison between India and the US introduces a whole bunch of unrelated variables.
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The problem is not that Thiel's action here is unethical or illegal so much as it breaks norms. That's why you get so many slippery-slope arguments.

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