xibernetik

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by xibernetik 15y ago
The rise of the printing press lead to the decline of scribes and handwritten books. Illumination, for the most part, is a lost art. The rise of gun-based warfare lead to the decline of sword-making in Japan. It never recovered. The movemen
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by xibernetik 15y ago
If you (or someone else) hasn't managed to look it up, it refers to the days when the internet was primarily used by universities (i.e. home users were not a thing). Every September there'd be a bunch of freshmen who didn't understand the c
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by xibernetik 15y ago
Except now students leave highschool without a solid background in math as is. The North American education system should be fixed before new topics get piled on.
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by xibernetik 15y ago
You're wrong about not being able to live happily ever after: It's never accepting you'll be forever unhappy -- it's accepting you can't be without aid or intervention (e.g. medication, therapy, etc). I never stated that they're doomed to f
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by xibernetik 15y ago
A good design works with human nature, not against it. If you want people to adjust to the elevator's ideal behavior, you have to subtly guide them to the right direction -- which is possible, but the way you asked it sounds along the lines
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by xibernetik 15y ago
For many people, what you say rings true, but it's dangerous to imply that that these feelings are purely a product of someone's thinking and that they can fix them on their own. There are people who, no matter how much they sit down and th
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by xibernetik 15y ago
This reminds me a lot of this article: The Acceleration of Addictiveness ( http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html ). Same theme. It goes a little more into talking about societal implication; e.g. there'll be a divide in society as a resu
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by xibernetik 15y ago
I'm not going to disagree with the meaning behind your post, but I am going to disagree with the wording. Calling kids who shouldn't be in university dumb is incredibly harmful and reinforces the idea that you need some sort of Bachelor's d
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Nanotechnologists Are Targets of Unabomber Copycat in Mexico(chronicle.com)
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by xibernetik 15y ago
It started when speciation occurred -- if something looks "different" enough to you, you are not going to be attracted to it or treat it like one of your own. That's been around a lot longer than higher thinking, so in a way, it's been inhe
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by xibernetik 15y ago
The problem with moving to explicitly tablets is that the feel of different papers/pens is radically different than any electronic technology can provide. There are smartpens now, but there's still a loss of texture when storing images, and
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by xibernetik 15y ago
This depends on your degree, university, and year of study. 30 hours/week of class is pretty normal in my program, and I've seen schedules with 40 hours/week. The rule of thumb thrown around is 1 hour in class == 1 hour studying on your own
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by xibernetik 15y ago
A better argument regarding arms and liberty is that an armed civilian population is a lot harder to brutally repress than an unarmed civilian population. However, it's well to note that an armed civilian population is also less stable, be
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by xibernetik 15y ago
Interesting read on the history of diamonds/marketing them: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-you...
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by xibernetik 15y ago
This article is fairly evenhanded in that it says "you're entitled to your opinion, I find it weird, here's a possible explanation for how you feel and here's why I don't feel the same way" while your comment makes it out to be a bitter att
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by xibernetik 15y ago
How about if you were sick, but there was a serial killer who had a 98% of dying that, due to this sort of argument, was utilizing resources that would increase your chance of survival from 10% to 95%? This argument fails to show that when