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Yes, I’ve used Libby and OverDrive at various points. It’s pretty hard to avoid them if one frequents a library at all. Since, you know, the whole monopoly thing. I don’t believe I ever told you how to feel about your UX with these. . . hmm
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I don’t really see the point of applying rigorous ontology to a blog post. Adding dead clicks to a feature you don’t want people to use is a dark pattern whether it affects you personally or not. Normally one tries to remove dead clicks in
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Where did they say one has to install the app? They use the web interface exclusively and the feature that went missing was a web interface feature. . . > “For about a decade now, OverDrive has provided users with digital library access
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The author blames it primarily on a single venture capital group, KRR. In fact the article doesn’t mention “capitalism” the economic system at all; only “venture capitalism” and “vampire capitalism”.
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The reason public health refers to “men who have sex with men” or MSM is because it was discovered very early on in the HIV/AIDS crisis that the phrase “gay men” missed a significant portion of those at risk. Some straight men really d
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I dunno who “we” is but just in case others missed the news, men who have sex with men in the United States no longer need to abstain from sex at all in order to donate blood, provided they’re in a monogamous relationship and meet other ris
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by thebooktocome 3y ago
Not behind the paywall = free content. That’s the fundamental rule of running a Patreon.
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Heidegger, no. Žižek said some faintly reasonable things during his pandemic period, and semi-recently published an okay introduction to Hegel in the context of contemporary life. Also the man is very hot when he takes his shirt off.
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by thebooktocome 3y ago
I’m frankly surprised Judea Pearl’s name didn’t come up in this article, they love waving him around at times like this.
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The trick behind Alexander’s supposedly non-platonic correlationism is that the hierarchy of “sub-claims and sub-sub-claims” are difficult to enumerate for specific cases. Because of this it’s not immediately apparent that the bundle of cor
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She was a diver/swimmer and is also a mathematician, yes. I wish I had half her energy, lol.
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Long COVID pretty much obliterated the career of a mentor of mine. She went from being a competitive athlete in her late sixties to a home-bound invalid in her early seventies. You know a health condition is grievous when it makes a mathema
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One blind mathematician I know prefers reading LaTeX over pdf math for exactly this reason.
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> Why are you so adverse to accepting the reality of the situation? Because your reality contradicts the evidence I’ve seen. Really, there’s a convincing, logical argument in Section 2.2 of that third link above about exactly this kind o
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by thebooktocome 3y ago
Here’s a simple metaphor to illustrate the difference, if we’re going to argue the meaning of terms of art by their dictionary definitions. When Sully Sullenberger pulled off the Miracle on the Hudson, that was an emergency use of the airpl
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https://www.umms.org/coronavirus/covid-vaccine/testing Calling this process a “rubber stamp” is disingenuous.
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I don’t follow the relevance of your examples; of course retirees should still challenge themselves and stay mentally active. I didn’t say otherwise. The opposite of overwork isn’t “excessive idleness”. My comment was in reference to someon
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I'm not a huge fan of this kind of essay. > First there is the issue of vacations foreshadowing retirement, which is a partial death. By the age of retirement, your profession has become a big part of who you are, and the justificat
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The Nuremberg Code is about medical experimentation, not vaccination programs. The Nuremberg Code is not really relevant to modern medical ethics, or even to the history of medical ethics--its authors plagiarized [1] half of it from the 193
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Mere identity is not usually covered under attorney-client privilege, I’m not sure why you think it would be. Here’s a semi-recent analysis of the situation. https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2020
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To be clear, the recommendation of N=30 came from the LessWrong article the author is critiquing, not the author themselves.
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I find it really hard to believe that even a mere “technologist” wouldn’t understand how their bread gets buttered, but maybe they’re even less engaged than I’ve heard & seen. I think we’re starting to talk past each other, but for the
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It’s not really about liberal versus conservative. Their livelihood depends on the federal government maintaining a certain consistent laxity in financial regulation; unfortunately, it seems like consistent strictness in regulation will be
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Something tells me these Wall Street types aren’t going to be too interested in the pervasive industrial re-regulation necessary to make a dent in atmospheric CO2 levels over the next century.
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The popularity of the sentiment seems to depend crucially on who precisely the father is, and what the sins were.
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> You say 400 years, but the United States didn't exist 400 years ago. As a historical fact, West Germany and East Germany both paid reparations to Holocaust survivors, despite neither being legally identical to the German Reich. If
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“The one most people are already using” is Mandarin, followed by Spanish, then followed by English.
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The article does suggest two “fixes” and none of them involve your conspiracy theory about leftists. * Journals could provide more editing support, possibly with AI translation tools. * Journals could allow multilingual submissions.
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> I'm not sure why the police or military wouldn't be allowed to host a book reading website, though. Many religions have an injunction against killing or otherwise contributing to the harm of sentient beings.
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A necessary evil as long as the publishing industry continues to have a choke-hold on copyright law. IA recently lost a lawsuit trying to fight this “digital copies must be lent like physical objects” nonsense.

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