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by yontherubicon 8y ago
/r/weekendgunnit ?
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by yontherubicon 8y ago
I would rather have read a polemic. The article doesn't necessarily make a claim. It seems to be getting at something akin to: "Science is important so we shouldn't underfund it. We shouldn't kill science funding to pay
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by yontherubicon 8y ago
>Some campus free speech critics, I suspect, aren’t operating in good faith. For them, the entire debate is a way to attack universities as hopelessly and dangerously liberal — to undermine higher education for nakedly partisan reasons.
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by yontherubicon 8y ago
I don't think this matters. To my knowledge, much of what would cause the negative social consequences isn't necessarily coming out of the academy, or up for peer review. Instead, it's coming from companies who handle massive
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by yontherubicon 8y ago
I meant it in the context of the article, where the metaphor was made between a dogshed-builder--a person who can code--and an architect--a person who understands CS and uses it to build things using code. Appreciate the rec!
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by yontherubicon 8y ago
So, for the dogshed builders among us, what might be the recommended pathway to learn some architecture--beyond the obvious academic options? I'm sure this has been covered to death on HN already, but if anyone has a link bookmarked an
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by yontherubicon 8y ago
This is oddly enough, a lie. Read Sexual Sabotage by Judith Reissmann. It's a reframing of Kinseyism and the Sexual Revolution, showing that the sexual statistics on Adultry, Pre-Marital Sex, and Homosexuality which precipitated the Se
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by yontherubicon 8y ago
Sorry, the outraged "How can we let them get away with this?" tone of the article got to me a bit. I'll try to keep it civil.
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by yontherubicon 8y ago
Fair enough I suppose. But realistically, aren't corporations organized in a similar manner? You're mostly working with people in your workgroup, then your division. You're not interacting with the whole company, unless you&#
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by yontherubicon 8y ago
In the article, there was a graph that indicated that degrees Interdisciplinary studies were actually increasing. TBH, I think you've identified the real problem here: Having a degree in the Humanities no longer means a well-rounded ed
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by yontherubicon 8y ago
I haven't the slightest idea of what "Critical Thinking" is; the term seems more cant of the education decryer than anything else. However, I will say that the apprehension of works of beauty and the development of abstract t
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by yontherubicon 8y ago
> Ancient Rome may have had a senate, an emperor and a few generals to run the army, but in realty, there wasn’t a single sociopolitical structure larger than a few hundred people, and there really hasn’t been, until after modern times.
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by yontherubicon 8y ago
I'm in my 20's. I remember the same
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by yontherubicon 8y ago
> A lot of homeless people are just having a bit of bad luck and a few steps in the right direction will have them be non-homeless people is short order. If you live paycheck to paycheck and then don't have a paycheck anymore then t
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by yontherubicon 8y ago
I am 100% in favor of public libraries, and I think that the ones we have are too ill stocked, particularly in their classics sections. Necessarily, I am in favor of increasing funding. However, my response to this article was "Let&#x2
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by yontherubicon 8y ago
There are tons of documents relevant to the local community that have no home but the local library, yet might be tremendously valuable for those who have roots there. Libraries are an essential community staple.
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by yontherubicon 8y ago
Agreed, Library Genesis and IPFS simply haven't advanced that far. I'd love to see digital archives of all the books ever written, but we're not there yet. Nevermind the fact that reading a physical book avoids much of the is
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by yontherubicon 8y ago
I must say I'm rather dissappointed in the writing quality of someone who purports to be an MFA candidate in Creative NonFiction. Though this may be more the fault of the blogstyle medium than antyhing else. It is still better than the
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by yontherubicon 8y ago
I can't say I blame him. I mean, if I thought someone had written a better book on a subject than I could, I doubt I'd bother writing the book!
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by yontherubicon 8y ago
Considering the ugliness espoused by "The Art World," I can't imagine that any true artist would want to be anything other than an "Outsider Artist."
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by yontherubicon 8y ago
Doesn't d.tube only run on one main server, but transmit over ipfs?
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by yontherubicon 8y ago
Archive link for losers like me who can't get past the paywall: http://archive.is/8mRZ0
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by yontherubicon 8y ago
I'm guessing he showed a picture or two of his students all posing in the field with a couple turtles, smiling with their find. And, of course, prudish harridans must have gotten mad at him showing girls in swimsuits and thrown a tantr
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by yontherubicon 8y ago
/e/, the phone for people who want to hide their ecchi, but let people know that they're into 2d. If you don't know, /e/ is 4chan's ecchi board. Ecchi is softcore japanese cartoon porn.
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by yontherubicon 8y ago
It might not be that they believe they are the smartest person in the room. It might be that all the cognitive distortions, particularly the 7th one that you bring up, might be precisely because they are , generally speaking, the smartest
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by yontherubicon 8y ago
Hmmm, I wonder if there might be some evolutionary reason why we shouldn't do this? I mean it's not like a deferrence to authority allows human beings to coordinate and work together efficiently. Hierarchies are totally ineffici
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by yontherubicon 8y ago
Very real problem. TBH, this is the utility of conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories aren't necessarily useful because they're true. They're useful because the vulnerabilities which are brought up in conspiracy theories of
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by yontherubicon 8y ago
TBH, we're far better at reducing executive function and impulse control simply by widespread drug usage, pornography usage and (IMHO) highly rewarding, low-attention media, esp social meda, youtube, and video games. All of those are F
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by yontherubicon 8y ago
I mean, if they did, think about how much greater the risk would be for people like PornHub.
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by yontherubicon 8y ago
Archive Link: http://archive.is/nmoqk To get around the paywalls.

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