steauengeglase

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by steauengeglase 8y ago
OK, but first you have to solve for X in the following example: The Romans would displace conquered peoples by resettling them in Rome while the Romans went out into the hinterlands. This allowed the new influx of slaves to become "Rom
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by steauengeglase 8y ago
It's not a panacea, but nothing is. When you have almost nothing to start with, there is always food. I'm from the south and the foodie boom has been an enormous benefit for us. For most of my life there was a hard push to make a
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by steauengeglase 9y ago
"I think there are ISP options that net neutrality prohibits which are worth exploring for some people, and if repealing net neutrality benefits decentralization or creates a radical shift in the Internet design instead, I won't c
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by steauengeglase 9y ago
Because they are a bit of an untapped resource. The right are more likely to be open to conservation efforts rather than traditional crunchy environmental efforts, but they too often feel driven out.
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by steauengeglase 9y ago
From what I gather she is, my only point is that when you are in a dense field, generally your partner isn't too enthusiastic when you get into the minutia you've spent a 1000+ hours in that year, so when you get the chance to rea
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by steauengeglase 9y ago
Probably helps that he is in a field that is so esoteric that he really doesn't have a lot of other people to talk to this stuff about. It's not like people go home and talk to their partners about vertex shaders for a half hour.
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by steauengeglase 9y ago
Agreed. Not to mention hitting the gym for an hour every night closes a lot of access to self-medication.
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by steauengeglase 9y ago
No idea why it was posted. I've only started this one, but what Scott seems to be advocating is essentially Anarcho-syndicalism. Where Marx said that hunter-gatherers were engaging in Primitive Communism, Scott argues that they were en
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by steauengeglase 9y ago
I have no real interest in ever trying to live in one, but as an outside observer, I find the question of turning one of these into a cheap habitat to be a fascinating question. Kinda like the whole Tiny House thing ("How are they goin
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by steauengeglase 9y ago
Really it all boils down to a lack of community. Yeah I know, it sounds like something the dad from Leave it to Beaver would say. My favorite example goes back to the days of Quake(World). It was a surprisingly bright and sunny place. You&#
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by steauengeglase 10y ago
"WYSIWYG text editors, spreadsheets, desktops, and web browsers" are all more than serviceable in Linux. I seldom find Firefox less useful on Linux than any other platform. For the rest the problem is that they are moving targets
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by steauengeglase 10y ago
K&R gets so much hell, but it's a good, raw back to basics text. It deserves a place on the shelf beside the ARRL Ham Radio License Manual, or Wheelock's Latin, or Lyman's Guide to Reloading, or The Joy of Cooking, or the
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by steauengeglase 10y ago
And some people still have the cartridges laying around in boxes from 1980s and aren't in the mood to lug all that stuff out, let alone re-purchase what they already own. EDIT I'm not bashing Nintendo's IP rights, just the
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by steauengeglase 10y ago
While it may often be true, it is a bit like saying "the only good artist is a miserable one". In reality, the good artist is driven by their passion and misery is a passion life often hands us for free.
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by steauengeglase 10y ago
Thanks for the suggestion, I picked it up on Kindle and will give it a go over the weekend. Granted I'm not sure if I can handle too many more Marxist views of the Antebellum South --especially if they are name dropping Hofstadter.
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by steauengeglase 10y ago
Time to patch in a pan-dimensional baka-hammer.
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by steauengeglase 10y ago
It should be noted that Lysenkoism was a Soviet state doctrine. In Belyaev's heyday, he had to dodge legitimate genetics research and make his work appear to be the study of animal psychology.
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by steauengeglase 10y ago
That's a valid reason. So is "I wanna knock some of the BS in my head loose". I may be close minded, but "To receive the essence of Grandmother's wisdom and understand the psychic vibrations, not within us, but besi
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by steauengeglase 10y ago
Yep. It's been a while since I read that.
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by steauengeglase 10y ago
While I don't doubt the psychological benefits of ayahuasca (or any hallucinogenic), the language of many of those advocating in the article set off red flags. "Format your harddrive", reminds of Arch Oboler's "Soci
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by steauengeglase 10y ago
People have built upon, but (at least in Stallman's case) also built around. You can go back as far as the late 2000's and the GPL still had a huge following. With the mobile boom F/OSS was still embraced, but the GPL has ste
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by steauengeglase 10y ago
I put Chomsky on the same shelf that I put Richard Stallman on. They've both spent years building huge and sometimes impenetrable rhetorical castles. Yet there is a cost of staking out all of your moral high ground and putting out impa
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by steauengeglase 10y ago
Snarky me says to create better Kafka-esque experiences. Pragmatic me says legislators were more than happy to essentially rubber-stamp, "We'll defer to a higher power because this stuff is super complicated and really esoteric st
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by steauengeglase 10y ago
So essentially the same fight we use to have over pinball, back when LaGuardia was in office? Useless fact of the day: Prior to 1947 pinball machines didn't have flippers, making it a game of chance (and yes, people bet on it). Afterwa
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by steauengeglase 10y ago
They just want to protect their walled garden. Thankfully Dolphin's word of mouth has been really strong.
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by steauengeglase 10y ago
a.) Long car trips across many state lines with poor coverage and/or limited data plans. b.) People who work in offices or live in places that block YouTube, so they just run the script from some kind of VPS. Honestly, those are the o
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by steauengeglase 11y ago
Not to mention it is a very popular line with volunteer fire depts and rescue squads. Mostly because they can hand them out cheaply and no one cares if the equipment is damaged.
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by steauengeglase 11y ago
I'd imagine depression also plays a huge role. "Why stop? You are going to die anyway. And don't you deserve to die? You are smoking after all. No point in stopping now. Not like your life was ever going to go anywhere."
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by steauengeglase 11y ago
That would be the freedom FROM association. Freedom of Association is the right to join or remove yourself from a group for the sake of collective right.
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by steauengeglase 11y ago
Same here. As a kid in rural South Carolina the first place I saw a deer was at a county fair locked up in a pen. We had over hunted them to the brink. There were also many plants you no longer see today. All kinds of hardwoods and shrubs h

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