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by rotw 2y ago
Giving this album 9.1 is the most old-Pitchfork thing they've done in years. It's the anti-PR move to do.
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by rotw 2y ago
Cindy Lee isn't a retro revivalist IMO, their previous band Women already had that technique of using 1940s-60s songwriting form and warping it with a noisy, no-wave, DIY sensibility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=673
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by rotw 2y ago
The best and worst thing to happen to the album. It fully deserves the acclaim, but now loads of people are only going to listen to it through the prism of the hype rather than hear it for what it is
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by rotw 2y ago
See, all of those sound "derivative" to me. Absolutely nothing against Japanese yacht rock/soft funk, but it's silly to blame musicians for using genre conventions when those are inherently part of the musical language I
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by rotw 8y ago
That sounds like a great environment! It seems like a tricky issue for people without the requisite know-how (and most of all, time), though. I worry that in the future, there might be a measurable decline in attention span and cognitive ab
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by rotw 8y ago
> It is because in practice these are politically motivated trojan horses meant to tear down things like a meritocracy, the very thing that created this great software. 1. Why is respecting gender identity a "trojan horse" - i
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Climate report: Scientists politely urge 'act now, idiots'(bbc.com)
83 points by rotw 8y ago|48 comments
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by rotw 8y ago
> so humanity will just have to deal with it and adapt over the next century. Shame about the planet and the natural ecosystem, though. I don't think you understand that efforts to prevent climate change are efforts to preserve huma
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by rotw 8y ago
> Erm, no. Why do you bother commenting on this if you just flat-out refuse to accept scientific evidence in the original post?
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by rotw 8y ago
> I prefer having bearable temperatures where I live, sleep and have visitors, What gives you the right to all that at the direct expense of the people who can't afford it?
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by rotw 10y ago
What about Signal?
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by rotw 11y ago
Your comment is exactly the attitude the person you were replying to was mocking. What that person saying is that a lot of reasonably intelligent people who are nowhere near geniuses like to think of themselves as geniuses as a form of na
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by rotw 11y ago
> If you are taking diversity into account, you are taking things other than merit into account and so it isn't a 'true' meritocracy. Well, no. The point is that due to inherent unconscious biases (see my link for scientif
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by rotw 11y ago
Being considerate of other people is Stalinism, is that what you're saying?
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by rotw 11y ago
> believe that discriminating against white men is okay because they enjoy "white privilege", whatever that is > It is hard to distinguish the anti-white vitriol I see on this page from the antisemitism of yesteryear. It wa
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by rotw 11y ago
That's delusional conspiracy nonsense. Seriously, take a step back and look at what you're saying.
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by rotw 11y ago
The entire point of diversity initiatives is that the meritocracy in theory doest not translate into a meritocracy in practice, due to unconscious bias: https://library.gv.com/unconscious-bias-at-work-22e698e9b2d#... as w
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by rotw 11y ago
Your assertion that he "stole" Fez is really not supported by the purported evidence you linked. And you totally missed the point of Fez if you think it only has the 2.5D and artwork going for it.
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by rotw 11y ago
You say you're not trying to make excuses, but you literally are making excuses for him. As is he for himself. No matter how curious, it's just not acceptable to run a service to snoop on people. It's a serious ethical transg
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by rotw 11y ago
Don't link to the Daily Mail please. They're a rabid right-wing tabloid rag that deals in invasions of privacy and demagoguery, they're awful.
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by rotw 11y ago
That's blatantly not true, people on the internet have become massive cheapskates due to the easy availability of everything. Since Napster, piracy has flourished and continues to do so, and most often the most-pirated products corresp
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by rotw 11y ago
Pirate Bay has 21 seeders but yeah, there's not exactly an abundance of peers there. Really glad I picked up a bargain bin copy about 10 years ago
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by rotw 11y ago
If you don't mind breaking the law, it's probably a bit more efficient to just torrent it.
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by rotw 11y ago
A lot of your post touches on concepts touched upon in Walter Benjamin's classic essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. If you've not read it, it's well worth it: https://www.marxists.org&#x2F
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by rotw 12y ago
I read somewhere (forgotten the book title sorry, I'll try and get back to you on that!) that our patriarchal society's gender roles (and thus the games children play at a young age to educate them about these) differ for men and
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by rotw 13y ago
I was actually there. It was more of a laid back atmosphere of drinks and chatter, and not all of the music was danceable. Me and a friend caught 3 sets: Benoît and the Mandelbrots were not much about dancing, but had a mesmerising set that
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Google, FB, Yahoo pumping money into astroturfing the EU for lax data protection(ft.com)
2 points by rotw 13y ago|0 comments
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Why entrepreneurs will not save the world(speri.dept.shef.ac.uk)
1 points by rotw 13y ago|0 comments
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by rotw 13y ago
I wished they'd picked a better title for this. I think it makes an extremely important point though: Online-only just doesn't work in some contexts, and the centralisation and commodification (via revenue models for MOOCs) of research know
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by rotw 14y ago
Right. I went through the German system, and I'm not entirely sure what you mean here. First off, congratulations on doing Abitur, it will open up many many career options to you. To people not acquainted with he German school system, secon

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