Basil Cleveland

Dark Ride philosopher, Ultimate Christmas architect.

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@TPCarney @SamWellerEsq The feedback loop would be challenging to model.

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@jrzscodes @usgraphics @neilpanchal You forgot to mention the sheer joy of using their website—my favorite commercial website with a dozen beautiful flourishes.

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@JulienPasteur1 @Aella_Girl Liking just for the list. A really brilliant list.

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@AliceRHamilton SPOT ON. Fourth-season atmosphere with some killer moments. Would watch!

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@arithmoquine And there’s a whole world of research supporting their conclusions.

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@arithmoquine It’s also interesting to learn (in the same paper) that conservatives prefer “tighter” geometric structures.

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@arithmoquine The authors didn’t comment on it, but it’s kinda funny to note that liberals are less good at clicking on numbers than conservatives—as indicated by the original heat maps. Universal love advocates are sloppier point allocators.

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@arithmoquine Here are examples of the geometric structures shown to participants.

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@arithmoquine The images represent the actual location on the screen where participants clicked, given a specific set of questions. It is not a heat map in the usual sense with meaningful x-y axes.

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@TheProfRog Same!

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@paulg Also: Gibbons calling out the Greeks for the muchness of their ornamentation is charmingly ironic.

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@paulg Long time listener, first time caller. Framing the issue around fancy vs simple words isn’t quite right, though I appreciate your motives. Being precise (and/or concise) sometimes requires the bigger or fancier word; choosing a simpler word in those cases is condescending.

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@john_voorheis Your recent posts are shallow and condescending. Taxing unrealized gains—specifically paid by owner occupants—has considerably more side effects than your 2D view suggests. You offered a sloppy take on a complex topic—one that actually needs discussion.

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@MoJee3d @BambulabGlobal I have an Ultimaker S5, an S7, and a Bambulabs X1. The print quality on the Ultimaker is superior for some kinds of prints (involving steep curvature). And the Ultimakers have very high reliability in my experience. I use the Bambu for multicolor.

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@DerbyGisclair I would love to see a book that surveyed New Orleans travel guides over the decades. A tour of NOLA through time, through the voices of different “tour leaders”.

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@JoshuaSteinman It’s a heuristic meant to get analysts to think objectively about system behavior (and not get lost in ‘intentionalist’ fallacies). It’s not a tool for conspiratorial analysis. No deep thinking is required.

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@phl43 @Britonomist Your counter example well illustrates my point: the person talking to a non-Jewish friend isn’t harassing anyone. Precisely because that person is not ‘calling’ for action in the sense we normally use the word.

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@phl43 @Britonomist I appreciate the effort to make a nuanced case. Your point hinges on whether ‘saying something’ and ‘calling for something’ are different kinds of speech acts—which they clearly are. Calling for genocide of any group is harassment by any reasonable definition. Good luck.

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@phl43 @Britonomist I’m not sure you realize that by conceding this point you’ve dismantled your own argument. If harassment doesn’t have to target individuals, then the context dependency is just that it happens on campus. The dependency is always trivially true.

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@amasad Limited evidence in support of a proposition is not the same as evidence against it. Why foreclose the possibility prematurely? It would be more accurate to say that pessimism is warranted.