hurbledr

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by hurbledr 10y ago
I fail to see how political correctness is both a nebulous concept and a dogmatic belief system at the same time. Along the same lines, the idea that their is some sort of over-arching "liberal elite" belief system that colleges s
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by hurbledr 10y ago
If the author didn't want to talk about the banh mi thing, why even mention it? It is relevant to the discussion after all, since the portrayal of such instances in the media have had a strong influence on the way political correctnes
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by hurbledr 10y ago
When did not wanting to eat shitty banh mi become a case of political correctness gone too far? If I pay for a slice of prosciutto di parma and get ham from some farm in the US, shouldn't I rightfully be pissed off? It also seems to m
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by hurbledr 10y ago
Your source doesn't agree with your statement. from the wiki page: In addition to the many unresolved arguments about the construction techniques, there have been disagreements as to the kind of workforce used. The Greeks, many years a
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by hurbledr 10y ago
I'll second that. The part about Russian PR tactics is especially relevant to Americans today.
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by hurbledr 10y ago
Latency is the biggest issue with ipad for me. Laptops and desktops respond almost instantly when you type or scroll, while ipads and other tablets have a lot of latency built into the OS. I know an extra 20-60 milliseconds doesn't s
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by hurbledr 10y ago
Tautology or not, it's actually pretty easy not to eat too much, considering that our bodies are pretty good at telling us when we've had enough. All you have to do is eat a moderate amount, wait twenty or thirty minutes (for your
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by hurbledr 10y ago
Thanks, was trying to parse the actual document and not getting very far. Interesting to try and read that stuff, but it's pretty dense with acronyms, and I wasn't getting too far trying to google them.
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by hurbledr 10y ago
It would be nice if the article mentioned exactly which agencies would have access.
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by hurbledr 10y ago
No real habits to report, but for anyone interested in sit to stand desks, I found a site that sells them for relatively cheap. I can't personally vouch for the quality of these desks, but as far as I can tell, they are the same sort
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by hurbledr 10y ago
>Boston did not have a Jim Crow system – if a black child lived in a white area, he could go to the local mostly white school. So you are arguing that Boston was so racially tolerant in the 70's that they had no racist policies eith
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by hurbledr 10y ago
> My point is simply that large-scale, forced integration made race relation problems much worse. It created problems where little existed. Are you really arguing that desegregation created these problems? Seems a bit backwards to me.
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by hurbledr 10y ago
IIRC there are also studies that suggest employers are more likely to give you raises, promotions, and increased hours if you have a family.
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by hurbledr 10y ago
Actually, several developers have stated as much, most notably Thomas Biskup, who develops Ancient Domains of Mystery. That's not to say you're wrong on any of your other points, but I think the reasoning for it isn't so much
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by hurbledr 10y ago
You're not wrong, but the idea is that it has a longer shelf life, and perhaps more consistency in flavor. Many American staples are throwbacks to the depression era, where buying a flat of Campbell's soup was a safer bet than buy
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by hurbledr 10y ago
Heh, kinda like kraft singles being so named because they are no longer allowed to call themselves cheese. My grandmother, who grew up during the depression, occasionally complained about the decline in the quality of sweets and chocolates.
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by hurbledr 10y ago
These things aren't mutually exclusive, and I think it's pretty clear that they all played a role. Also, bear in mind that a determined cheater will take any edge they can get, regardless of how small.
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by hurbledr 10y ago
This article neglected to mention the apps most often used while driving, map apps.
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by hurbledr 10y ago
It can certainly justify being short with people though.
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by hurbledr 10y ago
I think that a lot of it comes down to designers needing/wanting to justify their job. If a designer or typographer does good work, it goes largely unnoticed, since navigating the page and reading the text is easy and fluid. This can
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by hurbledr 10y ago
>They complain about the shape of someone's arms in Street Fighter? Who cares about realism, these characters can shoot fireballs from their hands. Well, the whole point is to make them shoot fireballs out of their hands in a convin
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by hurbledr 10y ago
>These lottery sites are just a product of the opportunity Valve created and its not surprising they are being used in fraudulent and immoral ways. While I definitely agree that valve is in some way culpable, I do feel that even without
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by hurbledr 10y ago
Gotta take a sec to recommend his book Why Engineers Need to Grow a Long Tail. It's an unusual and inspiring book.
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by hurbledr 10y ago
Very cool prototype. Like many in this thread, I've been dreaming of a calendar app like this, something that I can pick up and use without having to read a bunch of documentation. It seems like most of the calendar programs I've
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by hurbledr 10y ago
Good point. One solution I can think of would be to have a button or tab that would turn the longer running events on/off. You could also have the app only display the beginning and ending of an event when you zoom out past a certain
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by hurbledr 10y ago
No one is saying that the idea is to immediately and completely dismantle the current welfare system. It seems to me that the general idea is that current welfare systems, at least in the US, are piecemeal at best. There are many, many peo
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by hurbledr 10y ago
It's worth noting that the folks in the article reporting simulator sickness and long term disorientation are pilots, meaning they have been screened and selected for their endurance and resistance to motion sickness. On top of that,
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by hurbledr 10y ago
I think the real issue here isn't if or how often VR headsets cause simulator sickness. The real issue is that VR can fuck up your proprioception. If pilots, who are using it relatively infrequently, are having issues lasting for sev
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by hurbledr 10y ago
Thanks for putting your finger on that.
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by hurbledr 10y ago
P.S. On Ugliness might be the most metal book ever published.

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