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by rohern 14y ago
Again, this is just begging the question. You are positing that we need free time because we are humans to explain the assumption that we need free time because we are humans. I understand that people work lousy jobs. This is not the intere
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by rohern 14y ago
Amen.
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by rohern 14y ago
I see where you are coming from and your response is of the form that expected to receive, but I am not convinced by your objections. Part of the problem, I realized while writing an initial response to you, is the split definitions of "fre
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by rohern 14y ago
I do not think this is dumb at all. You have stated the problem very clearly. I would like to ask a question that nags me every time I read an article like this: Why do we assume that we need "free time"? And to answer this, I have to ask a
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by rohern 14y ago
Now you are arguing that OP should have pivoted to something new under the assumption that he had an idea of how to so pivot. That's fine, but it is not a defense of the point you originally made and instead agrees with my counterargument.
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by rohern 14y ago
This doesn't make sense as a critique. There is no other way for a person to make a decision to continue to do something than to base it on their belief in its possible success. The frailty of these beliefs as proven by past failures in jud
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by rohern 14y ago
I do not understand the gamer community. EA has been treating you guys like crap for years and you keep coming back for more. Just stop buying their products. I know it sucks not to have access to a new game, but make a stand for an industr
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by rohern 14y ago
I am going to give you the benefit of the doubt because this is the internet and it is very difficult to judge one's own written tone, but I hope you'll reread what you have written to see why it makes you come off as a deeply arrogant pers
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by rohern 14y ago
I do not think it is a good use of time for either of us to continue this, but to give you some recompense for the time you put into your response, I will write a few things. 1) I have no opinion on Mexico and I have no basis for concurring
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by rohern 14y ago
These are not good forms of reasoning. You have here committed several fallacies that are very common and very worrying, as they tend to lead to the public adoption of poorly reasoned explanations and baseless facts. This is not an attack o
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by rohern 14y ago
It doesn't seem like you know very much about modern AI work. Watson was on Jeopardy two years ago.
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by rohern 14y ago
Can you explain what NYC being liberal has to do with it?
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by rohern 14y ago
I love this comment. This is exactly how parents need to be thinking. Yes, being a doctor is a relatively safe career choice now, but your kid is going to be graduating from college in a decade...
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by rohern 14y ago
I completely agree about useless degrees, but we're talking about 18-year-olds smart enough to get into college. They are responsible for wisely choosing what to study.
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by rohern 14y ago
I think OP's comments about being a good Asian parent are pretty silly, but the kind of wishy-washy "everything works out in the end" reasoning that you use here is exactly what has gotten so many young people stuck in the position describe
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by rohern 14y ago
I think you're probably right. Then again, people seem to have a great time at reddit meetups.
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by rohern 14y ago
Absolutely yes.
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by rohern 14y ago
This is basically Unix shamanism.
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by rohern 14y ago
It seems to me that Facebook has always been stuck with a damned lot: to make their product profitable, they have make their product worse. This is exactly the problem with "social" games. These games are lousy exactly because the lousy fea
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by rohern 14y ago
I love Firefox, but I am encountering problems like this more and more often. It's a disaster to use with Coursera or Netflix.
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by rohern 14y ago
It might be that there is a growing population of companies with strong incentive to move away from the model of the public corporation given that short-term growth trumps all other concerns on Wall Street. We have seen Michael Dell buying
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by rohern 14y ago
Actually, even without the restrictions of the One Child Policy, the ethnic minorities in China are disappearing as distinct cultural groups. Homogenization of culture is a powerful force. Ironically for your point, this issue seems to be m
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by rohern 14y ago
The one child policy does not apply to ethnic minorities.
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by rohern 14y ago
Obviously I am not going to link you to sites where you can watch without these issues, but the third link that comes up on Google is one of them. Visit it with Firefox with Adblock installed and you'll have no problems. This is extremely c
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by rohern 14y ago
The most populous nation on Earth is by Western standards non-religious -- China. I do not mean that everyone is an atheist as demanded by communism. Rather, the folk "religions" that are most common (there is a large portion of the populat
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by rohern 14y ago
Apologies for the typo and insane grammar in the fourth paragraph. I can no longer edit it to fix it.
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by rohern 14y ago
That's fine, but then piracy is going to continue in huge numbers.
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by rohern 14y ago
This is exactly my point. If you grew up in a time when all you needed to do to watch a TV show online was google "watch Game of Thrones online" and go to the first link, you would feel much more relaxed about it than you obviously do. I ma
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by rohern 14y ago
I don't see how what I wrote is any way insulting to old people. I am drawing a distinction between how young people use the internet and how older people use it. This distinction exists in reality. It also appears to account for much of th
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by rohern 14y ago
Don't forget $300/hour fees for tech support when the system inevitably crashes during dinner hour.

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