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Historical examples of audiences drawn to a work that was “so bad it's good”?(history.stackexchange.com)
2 points by voltooid 7y ago|0 comments
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by voltooid 8y ago
I see a lot of comments asking what a fear of learning something new is. I interpret is as the fear of appearing stupid when trying to learn something new. This means, that one doesn't ask questions, doesn't take big steps in the
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by voltooid 8y ago
I am an engineer and I particularly relate to the problem that the doctor has with having to click multiple times to order medical tests where previously only one sufficed. Also, the problem of multiple links named with very similar, thus c
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by voltooid 8y ago
>The QWERTY design predated any potential jamming problems. Perhaps it was so foreseeing? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/fact-of-fiction-... Apparently it was partly publicity stunt, partly defined thro
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by voltooid 8y ago
> Why should an architect know Shakespeare and QWERTY? Well why not? QWERTY could refer to just being able to type. An artist could possibly do well to be able to use a computer? It could also refer to the placement on old style typewrit
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by voltooid 8y ago
I remember reading about baby name fads that were caused by names of TV characters. The one I remember is "Emma" catching on after the baby on the TV show Friends.
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by voltooid 8y ago
Your comment is very interesting. I recently took a course on Design Patterns. I sat squirming during the lectures because I didn't like what was being said, but couldn't put my finger on what exactly I disliked. What I understand
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by voltooid 8y ago
>> Not that of some long gone boogeyman. Since the boogeyman has been "gone", the entire region (not just India) has gone through several wars, a very messy, violent and tumultuous process of nation building. The region is
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by voltooid 8y ago
You make a good point. It is simplistic and lazy to blame the colonials for all the ills of a society too. But the slow progress in fixing something like this is not so much because of a backwards attitude. Nation building takes time. Espec
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by voltooid 8y ago
There is more history to this. The introduction of the law relating to making gay sex illegal "... dating back to 1861, (that was) introduced during the British rule of India (modelled on the Buggery Act of 1533) criminalised sexual ac
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by voltooid 8y ago
Have they also taken away your stapler?
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by voltooid 8y ago
That's the thing about being a rebel in a hierarchical system. You really are up against much more than a "rebel" in say the U.S. would be up against. For example, think of the adoration that American people seem to have for
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by voltooid 8y ago
What do you mean by a colonial system? edited to add: I ask the question because I genuinely don't understand what you mean by it in this context. It seems to me that it might mean some sort of system that the British introduced in Ind
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by voltooid 8y ago
Respectfully, it seems to me that India (and other countries in the region and maybe elsewhere) has a problem with strictly hierarchical structure, issues with accessibility and availability of resources. There is no investment in improving
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by voltooid 8y ago
Hacker news is definitely more a forum than social media platform. But the temptation to collect "likes" and the resulting dopamine high is a thing on HN too.
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by voltooid 8y ago
Definitely not. https://qz.com/547641/theres-an-awful-cost-to-getting-a-phd-... (Most of the article is anecdotal but it does make references to studies & statistics of self-reported stress levels among academics.)
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by voltooid 8y ago
I don't think anyone needs 7 pairs of shoes a year. I have had the same three pairs of shoes (each for a different kind of weather) for the past 2 or so years. One of these pairs has been with me for close to 4 years. Buying 7 pairs a
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by voltooid 8y ago
Sure health and energy are helpful when raising kids. But what about wisdom and perspective? I would think it really depends on the person and how prepared they feel with respect to having kids - mentally and physically.
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by voltooid 8y ago
It makes sense that the language is too young to have evolved to be a means of communication. I remember being surprised that the phenomenon of colonial rulers of a country imposing their own language on the population (occurred with the Br
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by voltooid 8y ago
:vsplit filename to open file called "filename" in a vertical split of the console window. Also :split filename will open it in a horizontal split
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by voltooid 8y ago
In today's research community this doesn't matter. All that matters is how many papers you publish - no matter how stupid they are.
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People tolerant of ambiguity work better with others(futurity.org)
2 points by voltooid 8y ago|0 comments
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by voltooid 8y ago
Do you mean forcible abortions? The article is not focused on voluntary sexual sterilization. It is focused on sexual sterilization of people tricked/forced into it or paid for it. So I don't see why the article should have mentio
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by voltooid 8y ago
I think that the comment above mentioned killing baby girls because that is a thing. The killing of live born baby girls. You are right, that is different from aborting fetuses. Both these things happen.
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by voltooid 8y ago
People's last names often give away their caste, sometimes where they come from. I have seen people being treated poorly because of the way they dressed - that is the rich/poor divide. Also, a lot of Indians, even in cities, do st
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by voltooid 8y ago
Engaging in discriminatory, derogatory and demeaning behaviour actively. That comes from hate. The experiences of the person featured in the linked article, that could only come from hate. I think people that oppose gay marriage do so becau
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by voltooid 8y ago
I am wondering now if you read the linked article. There is logic in not wanting a giraffe in your field of vision at a movie hall. Actively discriminating against people because of arbitrary conditions of their birth is not that logical. A
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by voltooid 8y ago
From personal experience, I know that the people that may be described as the oppressors in Indian "urban" societies are often the ones that take on servile qualities when they try to assimilate in Western societies. Western socie
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by voltooid 8y ago
People that do want to hate others, will find reasons to hate.
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by voltooid 9y ago
Does anyone else have problems reading that blog because of the font?

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