etage3

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by etage3 9mo ago
I'm not sure, but the grand-parent might be drawing from Hakim Bey's distinction between Net and Web. This is from TAZ, The Temporary Autonomous Zone (1991): We’ve spoken of the Net, which can be defined as the totality of all
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by etage3 4y ago
I think itake understands this and was making a point (an important one at that). Douglas R. Hofstadter made the same point (perhaps more eloquently) in "A Person Paper on Purity in Language"[0], which might be another avenue if y
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by etage3 4y ago
Portugal decriminalised drugs in 2000 and this is regarded as a better solution. Drug use is treated as a health issue rather than a crime issue, and the results are better. See here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dru
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by etage3 4y ago
It also appears to be similar to Jakobson phatic function (checking if the channel is working).
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by etage3 5y ago
>Please, we can discuss art theory without political dimension. Bourdieu discusses this very point in the Preface of The Rules of Art . "(...) countless are those who forbid sociology any profaning contact with the work of art. (..
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by etage3 5y ago
The excessive detail is a necessity and a precaution. Researchers need that information (textual genetics or any art history for instance, maybe future archeology). A message can't be separated from the form it embodied; you need both
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by etage3 6y ago
I use Scribus. It can be rough around the edges, but I've made everything with it (magazines, pamphlet, art books...). https://www.scribus.net/
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by etage3 6y ago
French Guyana (1) (=part of the EU) requires a 10 day old yellow fever vaccination on entry. (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_fever#Compulsory_vaccin...
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by etage3 6y ago
Speaking for France, but I suspect it is the same elsewhere: back in the day, the license exam was to build your own radio and operate it in front of an inspector, so it might be a remnant of that era. You also need to know this stuff to se
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by etage3 6y ago
Science is faith based for the non-scientific. As you put it yourself, it is about trusting studies and the institutions that produced it (including whatever in them creates the incentives for p-hacking).
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by etage3 6y ago
I only ever look for old links in my mailbox (I either save them or send them to someone). So I use the Linkdrop add-on : one click, and it sends a daily e-mail with the links. Everything ends up being centralized and searchable in my mailb
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by etage3 6y ago
Another study on homemade masks: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258525804_Testing_t... "Both masks significantly reduced the number of microorganisms expelled by volunteers, although the surgical mask wa
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by etage3 7y ago
Somewhat connected: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21818730
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by etage3 7y ago
Bloomberg received a release from vinci.group instead of vinci.com according to Le Monde's article. https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2019/12/16/l-agence-...
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by etage3 7y ago
Galileo being right or wrong is not really pertinent for PG's argument. See this piece of his text appearing as a html comment: "When you suppress heresy, you silence not just your opponents but also everyone who contradicts you u
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by etage3 7y ago
"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern." Aldous Huxley had a similar intuition in
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by etage3 7y ago
r/woke is a flavour of r/thathappened focused on parents embellishing their kid's achievements. That said, it is interesting how we imagine (maybe expect) the next generation avoiding what we see as traps we fell in. Almost a
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by etage3 7y ago
Common baguette is regarded as a low quality, industrial version of "real" bread (in France). Some traditional bakeries still use ancient methods (and flour and yeast), the bread is good to eat for more than a week.