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What are your thoughts on the goldfish being considered domesticated? I find it a little exaggerated, and I guess this applies to my thoughts on domesticated fish in general. You can put them in any water suited to their lifestyle and they'll do the exact same thing, mankind hasn't train them or evolved of millions of years with them like dogs. While we can selectively breed them and give them Pavlovian style conditioning for food, as we can with most animals. I feel that they could survive without us and we haven't tamed them, we're just able to control their environment.
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Give me +karma. Give me +karma. | | jellsprout |
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Dunno. Goldfish have been significantly altered since first being domesticated about 1000 years ago. Stray dogs and cats can survive without human intervention, but we still consider them domesticated.
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What are your thoughts on doop
I have no clue who made it but it is doop
'jellsprout' said: As a kid I always thought tennisballs looked delicious and I liked biting them. I still remember the feel of the fuzz on my teeth and tongue. | | jellsprout |
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Not much, really. I don't care all that much about Minecraft anymore.
| | Yaya |
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So there's this video streaming of TV site that I use. If I access a video on my PC or laptop, it will just play an embedded stream of the video off of Hulu. The difference between the site and just using Hulu though, is that if I access a video on a mobile device like an iPod or smartphone, the video will just be played through a generic mobile video player native to the site, devoid of all of Hulu's usual crap like ads and terrible buffering. Whereas if I would try to watch a standard Hulu video on a mobile device, I'd be required to get Hulu Plus. I don't know why there's a difference, but I'm not complaining
This led me to wonder, is there any setting on my computer I can enable or any third party software I can download that can make the internet believe my computer is a mobile device? I have no idea what this would entail so I'm not sure if I'm asking for the impossible or running on insane troll logic with this question.
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Give me +karma. Give me +karma. | | jellsprout |
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Yes. I use the Firefox add-on User Agent Overrider to make websites believe that I'm using Windows instead of Linux. I do this because there is no Silverlight native available for Linux, but there is an way through open-source software to still make it work. Netflix is an idiot and doesn't realize this, so they prevent Linux machines from accessing the videos by standard. So I say to the website "No, I'm totally Windows" and they go "Okay, here's your video" and everybody's happy.
A quick glance at the options shows that Android is available to be selected, so you should be able to use this to make websites think you're on a mobile device.
| | atvelonis |
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Does it annoy you when people call the Netherlands "Holland", or do you just not care?
'jellsprout' said: As a kid I always thought tennisballs looked delicious and I liked biting them. I still remember the feel of the fuzz on my teeth and tongue. | | jellsprout |
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I don't care. Most Dutch call it Holland as well.
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when i am king
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Hey sprout, what do you suggest to start learning Latin?
| | jazz |
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Here's a question.
Is there a simplified way to write a sequence formula for x, x^x, x^(x^x), x^(x^(x^x))... ?
| | jellsprout |
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see the definition of Graham's Number, jazz, that should be using knuth's up-arrow notation....you'll see.
| | Bang Jan |
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Do you think that China's One Child Policy is sustainable? I need a fully detailed explanation why you think either way. | | jellsprout |
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Permanently? No. Assuming no immigration or people breaking the law, this would mean that every generation the population would half. Two parents produce one child, simple math. However, it will take approximately 30 generations to destroy the entire population of China. Assuming an average generation time of 27 years, it will be over 800 years before the population becomes 1.
Obviously, there is immigration and emigration, there are people breaking the one child policy and this policy will get removed once the population drops too low. So in reality, this is not an issue at all.
And I see the last movie you watched was Blues Brothers? Great choice, I really love that movie. I still listen to some of the songs regularly. Minnie the Moocher is a favourite of mine.
| | Yaya |
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They've slightly laxed the one child policy as of late though because they can already see the effects it is having, particularly in gender population balance since males are favored in Chinese culture which leads to females getting aborted more often. In certain situations they're letting adults who were the only child to have two kids, mostly in rural areas I think. I had to research it for a paper last year, I don't remember much.
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Give me +karma. Give me +karma. | | Yaya |
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If someone is required to do a certain task a certain number of times, do you think the person knowing how many times they still have to do it before finishing will give them more motivation than if they didn't know how many more times?
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Give me +karma. Give me +karma. | | jellsprout |
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Yes. Knowing how much more you have to do it allows you to break it down into smaller bits.
"I'm not 5% done. I am now 10% done. I am now 15% done."
Breaking it down like this makes large tasks far better to manage. But if you don't know how much longer you need to continue, it is demotivating in itself. You don't know if the next time is the last or if you need to go on 10 times longer still.
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However, if each part is a different length, it can be demotivating. Think about those "Percentage Done" bars that get to 99% and then stay there for 5 hours.
'Livio' said: You know, I was thinking of getting an internship at Microsoft, but I'm not sure I want their lameness to rub off on me. | | Yaya |
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I get what you're saying, but I also think in the initial stage of having a huge number of times left to do the task, a large and seemingly impossible number can be demotivating
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Give me +karma. Give me +karma. | | Quirvy |
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The initial state isn't necessarily demotivating. For instance, you would probably feel better about just now having to walk a mile, rather than being at the halfway point of a 2 mile walk. You still have to do the same amount of work, but you've already been walking for however long in the other case, while you haven't done any work in the other. One mile doesn't really provide a great example, and I think that it does get demotivating after you've done a little bit of work and realize how much you have left, but I think if we're talking about the 2 mile example, after walking a mile, the remaining mile is much better knowing that you only have a mile left rather than being oblivious to how much longer that you have to walk.
Knowing how much work you have left to do (or to do in general) also allows you to pace yourself better, improving your production or something like that.
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Are Dark Souls prepare to die edition and Dark Souls 2 worth a combined total of 20 bucks?
| | Yaya |
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Just gonna jump in here because why not. DS1: Prepare To Die is supposed to be very buggy, somethings have been fixed, other things haven't. Probably worth it for $5. DS2 is getting an expanded rerelease soon, so buying the regular version might not be worth it. If you have no experience with the franchise and its punishing difficulty, you may just wanna buy the first on the cheap to see if it's your sorta thing rather than buying both for quadruple the cost.
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Give me +karma. Give me +karma. | | Yimmy |
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Is The Netherlands properly pronounced as Da Nederlands?
Interguild discord!! People use it!! | | Mymop |
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How exactly does a torsion bar suspension system work? Wikipedia doesn't do a very good job of explaining it
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Have you ever seen The Tick (cartoon from 1994)?
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