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   by reflexive 10y ago

   Clip from "Mean Streets", 1973... 40 years on and we're still not sure what a MOOC is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TswwON_Hs1M
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   by reflexive 10y ago

   > those who, when faced with a problem, solve it directly I think you mean "use the tools they already know". > those who, faced with the same problem, try to fit it to the tools they want to use I think you mean "use t
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   by reflexive 10y ago

   I'm all for individual achievements, but I wouldn't call turning people into lawyers and Arsenal supporters an unequivocally positive outcome. Should you feel moved to give to Bram's organization, at least consider an offsett
4. 124.▲
   by reflexive 10y ago

   > I'm not going to stand still and do nothing The advice "Don't just do something, stand there!" comes to mind. Bram has been going to Kibaale since 1994, and he's now presumably busy feeding and clothing a new
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   by reflexive 10y ago

   I understand that assisting AIDS sufferers in Uganda is a favorite cause of Bram Moolenaar. However in the absence of an overall plan to help the country develop, such short-term interventions may be a net harm to the very populations they&
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   by reflexive 10y ago

   I don't see any mention of race. Is the belief that phenotype expresses genotype racist?
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   by reflexive 10y ago

   Yankee Doodle went to town Without his shaving razor Ate so much his pants got tight And called himself a hipster
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   by reflexive 10y ago

   There is an implicit assumption that maximizing the number of people who can be squeezed on to the planet is "good" for humanity. I have never heard a reasonable justification for this. Anyone who's taken a long car trip in a
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   by reflexive 10y ago

   Actually you didn't say "why is it controversial" - you said "where is the controversy", implying that it isn't controversial at all.
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    by reflexive 10y ago

    Unfortunately, Apple's own App Store Terms of Service don't allow use of GPL software on iOS. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store...
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    by reflexive 10y ago

    I don't know what the title was before but the current title [Projects at Kestrel Institute] is suitably leading.
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    by reflexive 10y ago

    Cultural things can be transmitted through geographic proximity rather than along ethnic lines, using "ethnic" in its original sense of "from a foreign nation" (ethnos). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki&#x2