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by vehemenz 3y ago
Do you mean legally or morally? Because adblocking is legal and moral realism is not a tenable position.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
Everyone uses an adblocker. It's not really circumvention if everyone is doing it. You know it, I know it, Google knows it. It's how they've been able to keep their YouTube monopoly intact. If everyone had ads from day one, Y
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by vehemenz 3y ago
I thought about it more and realized it wasn't stealing. What do we do now?
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by vehemenz 3y ago
I'd argue that non-technical normies that ruined the Internet because they lacked the ethos and the knowhow to push back against ads and just use an adblocker. It's only because of these people that YouTube was ever an ad-supporte
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by vehemenz 3y ago
Your understanding of theft is so broad that viewing parties would be theft too.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
> Would that make it correct? Nonsense. Why not? Plenty of English words evolved this way. What's the problem exactly? In linguistic terms, "comprised of" in English is commonly accepted and understood, and usage almost al
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Lucas was an EP and writer for all three Indiana Jones films. I think these films hold up better than Star Wars, so I wouldn't say he has any passion or talent since Star Wars. With respect to the three Star Wars films though (and all
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by vehemenz 4y ago
There are DVD rips of each LaserDisc, not sure if that torrent is still in circulation, but the video quality isn't as good as Harmy's.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Narrative content is not the same as interactive content. The quality of the content is not the same. I'm not sure what compelled you to make your point in the presence of such obvious points. This is quite a big pond, my friend. The &
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by vehemenz 4y ago
The Meta products are more beholden to their demographics, unlike Twitter. Most of my family and friends stopped using Facebook around 2015, and Instagram is predominantly for young people, vain people, or photographers.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
You're probably right that for pedagogical purposes, English reading can be taught the same way as Spanish because they are both based on phonetic alphabets. I don't disagree that knowing English (and knowing things in general, al
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by vehemenz 4y ago
The same point applies to the phrase "something rather than "nothing." It's not a general concern about "why" questions but a concern about applying quantification to non-specific things. Quantification in the
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by vehemenz 4y ago
I notice that the study you cite is measuring effectiveness in reading interventions. Obviously, that's where the data is coming from because we don't carefully track readers who learn successfully at a much earlier age. However,
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by vehemenz 4y ago
I never gave it much thought, but I am currently teaching my 3-year-old to write letters first because I think the recognition and muscle memory with the letters would help with stringing the letters together later. It might be pedagogicall
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by vehemenz 4y ago
To be fair, English pronunciation is not as regular as Spanish. Spanish is a purely phonetic language, while English is phonetic but irregular.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
In the US, kindergarten starts at 5/6.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
The same reasoning could have applied to AVIF and WebP a few years ago. Nobody used these formats back then, so what's the problem if Google discontinues them?
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by vehemenz 4y ago
It’s tangential, but I don’t know how physicists understand the “why is there something rather than nothing?” question. At best, it’s quantification without a predicate. At worst, it’s metaphysical gobbledygook of the same variety that phys
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by vehemenz 4y ago
I agree, but I also think the marketing around the ideas wasn't good either. You need public mindshare to build an ecosystem like this, and a lot of the potential audience never understood the point of it. To this day, I have no idea w
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by vehemenz 4y ago
As others have said, it's probably easiest to resign yourself to reality. Buy a newer TV with a good panel, which will be a "smart" TV, and make sure to never connect it to the Internet. You can get a smart remote from there
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Put epistemology to the side. Logical consequence applies to all of your beliefs, no matter how you came to arrive to them. For example, you wouldn't believe (p & ~p) or (p -> ~p), independent of what your beliefs are. The fact
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by vehemenz 4y ago
I hear this line a lot. Writing is not the same as thinking. Rather, it's a type of thinking that forces you to lay out your argument in a particular, static way. There are pros and cons with this style of thinking, just as there are w
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Science is not some abstract thing, disconnected from the rest of the world. The age of the universe is not magically separate from clay pots in Mesopotamia or the fact that one's parents immigrated from Italy. We know where these reli
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by vehemenz 4y ago
I assume you are talking dubbed anime in English because Japanese voice-acting has been a mature industry since at least the 1970s.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Agreed. Greenwald has jumped the shark. To be fair, Snowden didn't have many choices.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
The Snowden affair was the first time I've seen the mainstream news outlets do a complete 180 on its coverage in the span of hours. Initially, the serious (non Fox News) outlets were concerned about the overreach by the government and
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Tailwind is a bird's nest in one place instead of a bird's nest in two places with hidden abstractions.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
It's okay if there are differences. Arab-speaking countries use RTL, which causes huge issues everywhere. We don't tell them to change their language, we just adapt to it. Software developers are not using M/D/Y anyway,
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by vehemenz 4y ago
There are more factors of 12 than of 10. This makes some imperial units more practical for certain types of things that involve mental math or quick calculations. Fahrenheit is higher resolution than Celsius for weather/climate measure
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Developers aren't using M/D/Y. This is a straw man.

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