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plytheman

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    Comment #21845060

    This is a little aside from the topic at hand but do you have any links or literature to expound on the 90s media blitz you mention? I was born in 87 and so grew up with only a fai…

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    Comment #21825398

    Not that I know of. We were just running off the materials En-Roads provided. From what I remember, though, each bloc is given cues as to what industries and population they repres…

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    Comment #21813378

    About 5 or 6 years ago towards the end of my undergrad my professor picked up on this and we held some mock UN Climate assemblies using this tool.[1] The class divided up into firs…

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    Comment #19657726

    I dunno, on the other hand, I got a B.S. in Ecology and have about 5 years of experience doing field work, long term monitoring, and data analysis and report writing on said resear…

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    Comment #18699750

    The real sad state is why is that site uploaded as a reddit video? Instead of linking to the original content it's a video of someone else clicking through? As for the Smithsonian …

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    Comment #18377694

    Super fun to play with! The first time I messed with this a week ago I had no clue what I was doing and didn't accomplish much. Giving it a second go I'm starting to get the hang o…

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    Comment #18148742

    Given what you say about wind farms being placed on traditional farms, I wonder if the localized warming the paper discusses would actually be a benefit to the crops. It could exte…

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    Comment #17943246

    Advice on a good mail service? I've got one foot in the door of really increasing my privacy online but one is still stuck behind with Google products.

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    Comment #17079792

    For a while now I've felt like I've just been trolling the same stale corners of the internet while learning nothing and not really being entertained but out of boredom keep refres…

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    Comment #15672419

    Personally I (30 years old now) went to Catholic school (K-12) and learned cursive somewhere around 2nd or 3rd grade and was forced to write in cursive until I graduated 8th grade.…

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    Comment #14047487

    I'm curious when self-driving cars become common place how the law will react to it. It's my assumption that the law will still require a driver to be sober in the event that manua…

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    Comment #6647716

    I don't have any authoritative source to confirm or deny why certain things were closed, but I would like to point out that there were some rangers still on duty and search and res…

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    Comment #6346073

    >Fuck off Google. Not map-related but I find myself saying that every time google throws a pop-up at me on youtube. No, I don't want my gmail and youtube account name to be the sam…

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    Comment #6072465

    Yeah? And who's going to pay for all their modern antibiotics, dentistry, surgery, and preventative medicine? I'm no expert on native/Western interactions but it's my understanding…

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    Comment #3298361

    Speaking as someone who isn't a programmer at all and needed (still needs, actually) to learn a language for dealing with a massive amount of data for a school project, I decided t…

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    Comment #3295392

    It's funny because watching a concert I thought how cool it was that when someone had a camera or phone in my line of sight I could simply switch to another unobstructed view. Then…