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4 votes
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The US Supreme Court justices are misusing the ‘shadow docket’
8 votes -
Inside the Boogaloo: America’s extremely online extremists
14 votes -
What are some beautiful/brilliant/inventive games that were panned by critics?
In your opinion, what is a game/what are some games that were inventive/unique/original or just otherwise superb that you feel didn't receive the praise it deserved? Personally, I feel that the...
In your opinion, what is a game/what are some games that were inventive/unique/original or just otherwise superb that you feel didn't receive the praise it deserved?
Personally, I feel that the Scribblenauts series (Mainly the first two) are amazingly imaginative games that I don't hear talked about often. I feel that this is perhaps due to its being on the DS, a platform that was sort of mired in shovelware. I hadn't ever seen a game quite as painstakingly made as this one. The developers clearly had fun thinking of all the different ways to solve their puzzles. The soundtrack is also unexpectedly wonderful, and is very reminiscent (imo) of Katamari Damacy
Edit: I suppose mediocre popular reception would have been a better way to say it instead if critical reception
22 votes -
Vanguard is outsourcing recordkeeping work, along with 1,300 of its workforce, to Infosys
11 votes -
Ocean Vuong joins Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell and Karl Ove Knausgård to lock away work in the Future Library to be published in ninety-four years time
10 votes -
Ricotta Records – Anonymouse, a Malmö-based art collective that has installed several miniature buildings imagined for mice, reveal their latest creation
6 votes -
Are philosophical classics too difficult for students?
4 votes -
US universities seek ways to protect students and faculty from being prosecuted by Chinese authorities
7 votes -
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 fires lead narrative designer Brian Mitsoda and creative director Ka’ai Cluney
12 votes -
Theorizing racial capitalism
4 votes -
Eastshade postmortem - A look back at the five-year development of the open-world adventure where you play as a traveling artist
9 votes -
What are the Big Problems?
What are the Big Problems? I'm leaving this open-ended, there's no specific criteria for responses. I'm interested in both your list and the reasons why. Submitting your suggestions before reading...
What are the Big Problems? I'm leaving this open-ended, there's no specific criteria for responses.
I'm interested in both your list and the reasons why. Submitting your suggestions before reading others' contributions would be preferred.
Optionally: who is (or isn't) successfully addressing them. Individuals, organizations, companies, governments, other. How and/or why not?
I've asked this question periodically on several forums (G+, Reddit, HN, Tildes) for seven years now.
I've written fairly extensively on my own views, reasonably findable if you wish, but my interest here is in gaining fresh input, resetting my own biases, and not colouring the discussion overly myself.
27 votes -
New Toyotas will upload data to AWS
11 votes -
The golden age of computer user groups
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IOS app to train super basic (pre)algebra skills. Free or freemium.
I know those are easy to find on children's education materials, but the keyword here is simple. Anything kiddie, requiring too many clicks or that takes 3 seconds is off the table. I kinda need...
I know those are easy to find on children's education materials, but the keyword here is simple. Anything kiddie, requiring too many clicks or that takes 3 seconds is off the table.
I kinda need to brush up on my super basic reasoning. In part, because a grown man should know the time table by heart, and in part, because I wanna convince myself that I did not get brain damage after being hit by a car (there's really nothing indicating that, I'm just paranoid).
I'm looking for something simple that presents me with the multiplication table and or simple calculations to answer under a time frame. The requirement for iOS is that my computer is broken.
And it really can be super simple, even something I open from a mobile web browser or transfer to my Kindle.
Additionally: there is no need for if to be an app. A huge list of exercises (with answers) would be greatly helpful.
Thanks!
6 votes -
Transparent public toilets unveiled in Tokyo parks — but they also offer privacy
8 votes -
How men’s rights groups helped rewrite regulations on campus rape
6 votes -
EA Play page for Steam
9 votes -
iDKHOW - Leave Me Alone (2020)
10 votes -
Onyx Boox Nova 2: Gizmodo review
5 votes -
Apple becomes first US company to reach a $2 trillion market cap
12 votes -
Disappearance of multiple Saudi Arabian dissidents tied to Twitter data accessed in 2015 by employees allegedly spying for the government
7 votes -
Neighborhood Fixer Upper
9 votes -
Starting in October 2020, all new Oculus VR devices will require logging into a Facebook account, and support for existing Oculus accounts will end on January 1, 2023
43 votes -
Social media platforms can’t be a law unto themselves
5 votes -
Hades | v1.0 Launch trailer
6 votes -
Lila Iké: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert (2020)
4 votes -
Nintendo Switch Indie World Showcase - August 18, 2020
8 votes -
Voices from the pandemic: Tusdae Barr, on being evicted from her home during the coronavirus crisis
8 votes -
University of North Carolina researchers were potentially exposed to lab-created coronaviruses in several incidents since 2015, highlighting the risks even in respected research facilities
8 votes -
An interview with Playboy magazine nearly torpedoed Jimmy Carter's Presidential campaign: The pious Georgia Democrat spoke earnestly of his views on sex, a bridge too far for conservative Christians
6 votes -
A federal judge has blocked a Trump administration rule that would allow healthcare providers to discriminate against transgender individuals, one day before the rule was set to take effect
19 votes -
Hundreds of workers fell ill after cleaning up America’s largest industrial disaster without proper gear. At least fifty have died. Twelve years later, they’re still waiting for help
10 votes -
How industrial chicken farming transformed an ‘alternative’ meat to the most consumed meat in the US
7 votes -
The Bush-Gore recount is an omen for 2020: An oral history of the craziest presidential election in modern US history
16 votes -
How to make ice-cream cocktails like a true Wisconsinite
4 votes -
I was a postal service regulator for eighteen years. Don’t panic
5 votes -
Ubisoft fires former Assassin’s Creed Valhalla creative director following an investigation
8 votes -
Speech acts
2 votes -
Dear Google Cloud: your deprecation policy is killing you
12 votes -
Toward a more expansive conception of philosophy
1 vote -
The hard problem of breakfast — How does it emerge from bacon and eggs?
3 votes -
Spiritfarer | Launch trailer
7 votes -
Is dust mostly dead skin?
9 votes -
TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
8 votes -
Interview with extreme programming creator Kent Beck
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When should you consider it a good idea to delete your comments?
(I'm tagging as ask.advice and ask.discussion because while my motivation to make this comes from my comments I'm not the only one who this could apply to and deleting coments is very much a...
(I'm tagging as ask.advice and ask.discussion because while my motivation to make this comes from my comments I'm not the only one who this could apply to and deleting coments is very much a general topic.)
So basically, I wrote this comment, noone agrees with it and the contrary takes all are upvoted, so should I delete it? If noone agreed with what I had to say and upvoted contrary answers, then what I said wasn't valuable to anyone, and so I should delete it, right?
This also applies to quite a few comments I have written that have 0 votes like this, this this and this.
In the other hand, measuring a comment's value by how many people voted on it isn't that great and leaving clarifications and tecnical/minor details and if someone replied, even if only to point out your comment as wrong or not so unlikely, so other than the third comment, you can argue they aren't entirely bad. (And leaving someone's answer without a question is pretty bad if someone comes later since they wouldn't know why that answer was there.) So where does one draw the line?
11 votes -
Don't trust default timeouts
9 votes -
Learning Rust can be frustrating because it's different enough from other languages that you may not even be able to easily describe the issues you're having
11 votes