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by ambler0 11y ago
"trying to keep everyone happy when that is an impossibility." This is something I think we can all agree upon. There's no need to denigrate people who may feel triggered or are offended, though. Reddit just needs to decide w
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by ambler0 11y ago
Last I checked, Reddit was hosted on private servers. Hence, what you can say on their site is dictated by their TOS. The Internet is not a place where you can "say anything you want". It's a collection of servers. If you wan
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by ambler0 11y ago
I think the clone I'm semi-remembering was a PC game. Regarding your second question: There were very many unlicensed Nintendo games. I don't know how many of these Nintendo fought. They very famously battled Tengen over this issu
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by ambler0 11y ago
I seemed to recall such Mario clones as well. Nintendo is quite protective of their IP, so I have to think that they must have threatened legal action. Does anyone know? Is there precedent for legally protecting the layout of a level?
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by ambler0 11y ago
This statement surprised me. Is it really true? It appears that there is conflicting precedent: "The first approach is from the 2nd circuit "The Subtractive Approach" (Altai, Nichols) and the other approach is "The Conce
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by ambler0 11y ago
In any case, it doesn't hurt to try and grow some milkweed in one's own yard, which many of us in my area do.
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by ambler0 11y ago
For anyone who, like me, was unfamiliar with this reference: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Darmok_%28episode%29
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by ambler0 11y ago
I'm all for correcting oversimplified news stories, but I don't understand why you call this "significantly less direct". As far as I can see, it's exactly one step less direct, i.e. as close as you can get without
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by ambler0 12y ago
It seems likely that for the people designing such web sites, these "bugs" are actually features, since they get paid by the click, accidental or not.
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by ambler0 12y ago
Could you please explain this comment? (I apologize if it is addressed in the article, which I have only been able to quickly skim since I'm at work)
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by ambler0 12y ago
Ignoring all the other things that affect cancer rates, a difference between Argentinian and American beef does come time mind: I believe that grass fed beef is still the norm in Argentina, whereas most US beef is grain fed.
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by ambler0 12y ago
I get this in Firefox (I'm at work): An error occurred during a connection to www.wordsapi.com. The server rejected the handshake because the client downgraded to a lower TLS version than the server supports. (Error code: ssl_error_ina
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by ambler0 12y ago
"The subjects were eight long-term Buddhist practitioners (mean age, 49 ± 15 years) and 10 healthy student volunteers (mean age, 21 ± 1.5 years)" Why not recruit older controls?
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by ambler0 12y ago
Actually I'm sure that elites feel a sense of moral duty, for example to their family members and friends. That's a problem we all have: Extending our ethical intuitions to everyone. It's much easier to act ethically with res
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by ambler0 12y ago
Thanks for bringing this up for the people who aren't familiar with the history of the term. In my opinion, "cargo cult" is overused and overly specific. We have a perfectly good word for these kinds of behaviors, i.e. "
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by ambler0 12y ago
You're lumping them all together again, but each issue deserves to be discussed by itself. Regarding GMOs, what is interesting is not the fact that an organism was geneticially modified in a lab. What one wants to know is why it was
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by ambler0 12y ago
Of course eating non-organic produce is better than eating no produce at all. Eating only organic is a straw man position.
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by ambler0 12y ago
Whether or not an organic diet (whatever that may be exactly) ultimately proves to be healthier, it's wrong to describe the movement to eat such food as a "ridiculous cargo cult". It's clear what people are worried about
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by ambler0 12y ago
But you can get a lot of that out of your tap water with a filter, which in my opinion makes tap water the healthier choice.
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by ambler0 12y ago
Alan Alda has done a great job of bringing charisma and humor to science shows without dumbing anything down. The key is to find a comedian/actor/whatever who has a genuine interest in the material.
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by ambler0 12y ago
Maybe it's just because people believe the police are ever-so-slightly easier to change than the federal government, which seems far away and immovable.
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by ambler0 12y ago
You're making plenty of sense, beers or no I would say that the V7 gets it's power from the flatted fifth interval, aka the tritone, aka the most dissonant interval this side of a minor second. And like you say, it can be understo
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by ambler0 12y ago
I feel the same way about gaining insight from studying the history of music theory, but I have to disagree with a couple of points, too: 1. Studying the history of Western music theory doesn't give you insight into any music, as you
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by ambler0 12y ago
I completely disagree. For one thing, a lot of what one learns studying Common Practice music theory most definitely is applicable to modern styles. Things like dominant function, for example, aren't going anywhere. That said, I agre
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by ambler0 12y ago
Has anyone figured out what the refresh rate of this display is going to be?
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by ambler0 12y ago
"It's worth remembering in the case of discoveries like this that the oldest instance of the practice is almost certainly far older than the oldest preserved instance of the practice." An excellent point and one I came here t
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by ambler0 12y ago
The article is not trying to minimize the perception that drugs can cause harm. Rather, it is suggesting that we can reduce the harm caused by drugs by understanding addiction in a different way. Did you read it?
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by ambler0 12y ago
People are downvoting you, but your comment seems fair enough to me, since the alternative scenario discussed in the article is that the epidemic could be "almost ended" by the same date. So, could be 1.4 million, could be "a
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by ambler0 12y ago
I'm not sure why you have been downvoted. I think the sentiment you're expressing is a very common intuition that people have about art. It's uncomfortable to think about, because it leads to the logical conclusion that art i
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by ambler0 12y ago
Sure, a lot of philosophers are so audacious, but not all. See, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-realism

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