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by rpenm 12y ago
He mentions sending "cease and desist" letters - unclear if that means DMCA notices. He actually mentions receiving a DMCA notice for his own work despite providing proof of ownership to Youtube (but misspells DMCA, thus evading y
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by rpenm 12y ago
The writer does seem predisposed to casting everything in a sinister light. Apparently production is bad (environmental costs) but so are production cuts (market manipulation). I find this sort of first-person journalism interesting, but n
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by rpenm 12y ago
Not orthogonal: the article discusses the role of size in breakage and comfort. It also discusses how the FDA forced TheyFit to discontinue their custom-fit condoms due to unreasonable ASTM testing requirements.
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by rpenm 12y ago
Compress the helium into tanks and use atmosphere as ballast. Ballast can be dropped by directly purging with helium. Alternatively, contain the ballast in bladders that vent as helium pressure rises. Designing flexible bladders that don&
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by rpenm 12y ago
'Most' of us were not born 'in any given month'. That doesn't mean we weren't born 'at all'. Inaccurate headline.
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by rpenm 12y ago
Adding a separate salt water supply infrastructure would be expensive. Salt water is also quite corrosive; pipes, fittings and fixtures would have to be designed/tested for such use. Besides, having my clothes, dishes and body perpet
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by rpenm 12y ago
In terms of sustainability, coconut oil is not necessarily better than palm oil. It is probably worse since it has lower yield per hectare and more energy (drying + pressing) per liter output.
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by rpenm 12y ago
The Roman legions used saddled cavalry. Chariots were only really used for racing. But yes, Romans rode without stirrups.
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The flawed ‘science’ of bite mark analysis(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by rpenm 12y ago|0 comments
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by rpenm 12y ago
You'd think neoliberals would welcome a little creative destruction. I hope writers like Cohn, Beutler and Ioffe land on their feet, but I'm shedding no tears for TNR.
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by rpenm 12y ago
You're not going to have much political influence ("travel") if you don't have readership. TNR has been floundering for an ideological voice since the end of the Cold War, and took quite a few hits to its credibility und
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by rpenm 12y ago
The Aldi in Englewood isn't really a supermarket - it's more like a dollar-store version of Trader Joe's. They also don't sell much produce (maybe 10 feet of shelf space), and it's usually been sitting on the shelf
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by rpenm 12y ago
I've lived in Englewood. I can confirm a lack of quality produce - I'd have to travel to Hyde Park, Chinatown or the South Loop for that. However, I doubt Whole Foods will draw too many neighborhood customers away from the Food-
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by rpenm 12y ago
So perhaps the question is whether we need legislation to protect us while the new internet social norms are in their infancy, or is it better to be unprotected, so that the norms change more quickly?
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by rpenm 12y ago
I was being a bit snarky, apologies. But at the end of the day, we are still talking about making knowledge inaccessible. It may be necessary to protect individual privacy, but it still worries me. Each case will be about weighing the ha
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by rpenm 12y ago
The definition of public interest then becomes key. I also worry that information that does not seem to be in the public interest at present could become so in the future, but will be lost instead.
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by rpenm 12y ago
Mostly, I have a bias against book burning, which is what this kind of knowledge destruction resembles.
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by rpenm 12y ago
How do we determine whether it is 'your shit' and not someone else's? Do you have a right to erase my past if it intersects with yours? Would you have the right to erase memories from my brain if they referenced your past?
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by rpenm 12y ago
The title here is a canard. The article does not explore the question of Beethoven's impact on his successors, it is taken for granted. This piece reviews a bunch of recent books about Beethoven (mostly concerning his personal, polit
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by rpenm 12y ago
Obviously The Pork Board would wish to claim credit for the shift in demand for bacon. Lobbyists and advertisers will tend to portray themselves as essential to the industries that support them. It is more likely that "the bacon boom
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by rpenm 12y ago
Those were apparently written more than a hundred years after "the Viking Age" had ended.
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by rpenm 12y ago
Yes, most Russians support military intervention in Ukraine. This would probably be less surprising if ordinary Americans and Russians engaged in political dialogue.
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by rpenm 12y ago
To what extent is this driven by the rise of youth culture and and the rising market value of adolescent consumers?
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by rpenm 12y ago
Appending ?share=1 to a Quora URL should let you view it without logging in.
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by rpenm 12y ago
A response to a similar question on Quora ( https://www.quora.com/Tom-Harrington/Posts/Why-Im-Losing-Pat... ): We require that people join because many of those who join like the service and end up contributing bac
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by rpenm 12y ago
The title led me to believe they were using some kind of rocket technology.
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An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics(newcriterion.com)
31 points by rpenm 12y ago|4 comments
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by rpenm 12y ago
You could also say that we have evolved to fulfill the plant's needs (ie. genetic propagation).
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Because You’re Worthless: The Dark Side Of Indie PR(puppygames.net)
13 points by rpenm 12y ago|1 comments
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by rpenm 12y ago
You might be experiencing selection bias? I suspect that petty criminals tend to target perceived outsiders over locals - they are less canny and it is easier to avoid empathizing with your victim.

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