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by panglott 9y ago
Hex and Y are also pencil-and-paper games, although the paper usually needs to be some kind of pre-printed board. Mudcrack Y especially. Sid Sackson's Games of Art collects a number of these. https://www.eaglegames.net/
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by panglott 9y ago
There's also Realm of Racket https://realmofracket.com/ Which maybe is shorter? I don't recall.
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As far as I can tell, the fact that it remains a taboo to discuss means that it remains extremely socially salient. Some of that is the fallout of the 1960s-era denunciation campaigns, which were both seemingly effective and very painful in
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by panglott 9y ago
I do not believe this is entirely true. Hashimoto had to change his name to hide his background, for example. Many Japanese are extremely hesitant to speak about this issue at all; it remains a very sensitive topic. There is evidence of rec
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by panglott 9y ago
I think the problem is summed up in the second sentence: "The boom is driven by the country’s agricultural and heavy industrial interests, is being carried out with little regard to the impacts on indigenous people and the environment,
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by panglott 9y ago
"Scuttlebutt is slang for gossip, particularly among sailors. It is also the name of a peer-to-peer system ideal for social graphs, identity and messaging. ...Secure Scuttlebutt is also different to federated social networks like Masto
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by panglott 9y ago
Wikipedia is not the sum of our collective knowledge. It's little more than the preface.
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by panglott 9y ago
Just because you don't care about some old book doesn't mean that it has value to noone. One of the books found in the monastery was a thousand-year-old document written in Caucasian Albanian, for which there is no other documenta
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by panglott 9y ago
This is in fact an article about discoveries in palimpsets, where an older manuscript was erased and used to write a new manuscript over it. Lots of similar discoveries in papyri re-used to wrap mummies, as well. It's the ancient equiv
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by panglott 9y ago
It can be grease for the wheels of appropriation, sure. And that kind of universalization can be a further cultural attack on minority peoples—saying that not even the language shared between mother and child is the legitimate domain of the
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by panglott 9y ago
"It was possible to get on a text-based version of the internet for free in many areas, using only a modem and a phone line. An entire section of Free $tuff From the Internet offers up a lengthy list of free-nets, grassroots phone syst
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by panglott 9y ago
The person first has to realize that it is an actual paper that they are supposed to be reading, instead of some kind of mangled file.
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by panglott 9y ago
To demonstrate what a barrier LaTeX is, he illustrates by writing the title of a paper, the author, date, and first line. The result is obviously human-readable in a word processer without special training, but not in LaTeX.
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by panglott 9y ago
The single best resource for fantasy cartographers is the Cartographer's Guild forum. https://cartographersguild.com Mark Rosenfelder's site is an amazing rabbithole of world-building. http://www.zompist.com
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by panglott 9y ago
this isn't really a weird/normal issue. People have all kinds of likes and ideas and preferences. If you live in an apartment or a tiny house or a detached suburban house with a long commute, you will be the kind of person with th
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by panglott 9y ago
Government-issued currencies have an underlying value in that the government requires you to discharge your tax obligations in them. Everybody has to pay taxes. Since you have to have some, they make a fine currency as well. Moreover, becau
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by panglott 9y ago
Had to replace my iPod classic a while back; I just went on eBay.
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by panglott 9y ago
Maybe he was doing one of those "try a ketogenic diets for 30 days", or stumbled upon one of those keto advocates who only eats meat and lard. If all you read about low-carb diets is the first paragraph about any popular news stor
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by panglott 9y ago
'"These studies represent the first rigorous scientific tests of the carb-insulin model in humans," Hall added. "The public needs to understand that this [insulin-carbohydrate] model now has pretty strong evidence agains
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by panglott 9y ago
My point is how this is communicated to the public. It's nice that you have spend dozens or hundreds of hours reading ketogenic diet books, and have a clear idea about the limitations, tradeoffs, and risks of this. Ordinary members of
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by panglott 9y ago
There's a lot of people here who are really into this, but this is really the opinion of a minority of nutrionists, without a large body of scientific evidence supporting them. Low-carb diets are being sold to the public on a ridiculou
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by panglott 9y ago
was about to quip that Japan also has 100-year mortgages, until I saw this: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/10619518959...
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by panglott 9y ago
http://urbanedge.blogs.rice.edu/2015/09/08/forget-what-youve...
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by panglott 9y ago
If a man shows up with a gun to run me off my land, it doesn't matter whether it was my father that bought it or my grandfather or my great-grandfather. What's important is the forcible dispropriation itself. Cases like this just
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by panglott 9y ago
Might makes the rules, but that doesn't mean the rules are right. We can definitely shove our hands in the sand and say that they are not fair.
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by panglott 9y ago
Why is that an important distinction? Is forcible expulsion and dispropriration more acceptable if the people were brought to the island as slaves and laborers in the mid-1700s?
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by panglott 9y ago
Ultimately you're mostly talking about the cost of digital typography.
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by panglott 9y ago
The claim that France/Italy/Spain had obesity rates of 5-10% was a misread of the charts, where I should have said 10-15%. But the OECD reports pretty wide discrepancies among developed nations. http://www.oecd.org&#x2
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by panglott 9y ago
You must hear from relatively a lot of generativist linguists and syntacticians. The linguists at Language Log and elsewhere regularly praise Everett's scholarship in descriptive linguistics. And there is literally no important dispute
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by panglott 9y ago
It's worth reading some of the papers where they discuss performance at counting tasks among the Pirahã. IIRC there were some people who seemed understood there was a difference in the quantity but struggled to quantify or articulate i

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