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The Oakland homeless problem is beyond belief(youtube.com)
48 points by wombatmobile 5y ago|64 comments
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
Invention and technology and social change work in a more granular form than TFA supposes. When the electric lightbulb took off it lead to so many new ways of working and studying and entertainment, the world changed a thousand times over.
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
> It is easier to bring about a revolutionary scientific discovery such as that of the X-ray than to alter in the least degree the quality of emotion that arises between a man and a maid. The relationship between a man and a maid is a co
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
Top. Thanks!
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
Is there a text version of this? I’m having trouble navigating the pdf with one hand on my phone from this hospital bed.
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
I still have my beloved Parker 45s but the squeeze reservoirs perished. I tried quite a few screw and pull piston reservoirs but all have the problem of not venting or something so the ink only runs for a short while then is held back by va
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
> His sell recommendations did not pan out so well. Even though they dropped in price the next day, over the next week and month, they returned inline or even better than his buy recommendations! Given that there is a counter-intuitive t
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
I see what you're saying from a human's subjective point of view. If aliens from Tralfalmadore were to adopt the same values, they might choose to experiment on humans because - humans don't live as long as Tralfalmadorians -
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
> an exclusive club The club is affordable. What makes it exclusive is the intellectual alignment required to unlock the value of the information. Not everyone has that. If you have it, consider joining the club while you are still al
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
Same with TV and film in Thailand.
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
> A hundred mice to save a human seems like a fair trade What are you measuring or estimating in that calculus?
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
> we don't use mouse models because they're great models. They're just cheap, reproducible, and relatively quick to scale. Mice models don't attract many rights protesters, the way other animals would, even though the
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
> it is impossible to avoid a diet in western society that relies on high quantities of sugar as a lynchpin for mass produced food. I live in the western society you describe and enjoy a diet with no added sugar. How? I prepare my own f
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
> Holmes was the poster child of Silicone Valley hubris Holmes was convicted of fraud, which is a crime. If hubris was a crime, the meek would inherit the earth, and Silicone Valley real estate would be affordable.
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
> At risk of being one of the nitpickers; I do quite enjoy reading caveats Caveats are sometimes in order. Other times not. It depends...
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
Awesome! How do I embed this?
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
TFA is a comprehensive compendium of cliche tropes, skilfully crafted. What could a similarly resourced effort produce written without tongue in cheek? I’d like to read that .
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
> the key to unlocking evolutionary secrets about intelligence Cuttlefish teach us that the "secret" about intelligence is that it is all around us. What blinds us to seeing it is that we only recognise it easily in things tha
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
USA had more violence and strife in the 1960s, with the assassinations of a president, attorney general, and popular civil rights leaders, a bitter divisive futile war that killed tens of thousands of American youths, and a generation that
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Where is your next song coming from?
1 points by wombatmobile 5y ago|2 comments
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
Good question. Before you consider the various answers offered here, consider that attention is the key executive function of consciousness, and the ability to marshall it is a core aspect of what we call “self”. Everyone is different, in w
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? by Frederick Douglass https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/frederick-douglass... "Upon finishing his speech to the six hundred or so mostly white abolitionists, Dougla
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
> as it stands these continuous attempts to bring up race at every opportune moment Listen to yourself. Your exaggerations and name-calling say more about your own internal state of mind then they do about the world. What can you learn a
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
> Their implicit claim is that, other than in mid-eighteenth century Britain, save for a few short-lived cases, choosing innovation was simply just not worth it. When I studied the industrial revolution at university, in a course on inte
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
The limits of empathy. I got into a situation with a friend who I now assume has ADHD. I’d not noticed before, because our circumstances didn’t reveal it. We were just dog owners, and our dogs were friends. Then I invited her to stay at my
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
Google: Don’t be evil
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
With similar objectives, Edward Tufte achieved contemporary fame in data viz with his approach to presentation that can be stated simply: less is more. Tufte taught and demonstrated that in charts, anything other than the barest of axis and
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
Has Larry Page made any public comment about Google's surveillance capitalism at all since retiring? Has any journalist asked him lately how he feels about "Don't be evil" in the context of his Alphabet stock holding? I&
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
Wow. This article is practically a whole university course in graphical visual communications study. Looks good. Give me a few days…
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
The word you are looking for is 'patisserie'.

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