Comment author: mstevens 12 June 2014 11:18:17AM 0 points [-]

I don't promise this will work, but I found my desire for sugar significantly reduced by trying to go cold turkey on refined sugar specifically.

It's a pain to do, because it's in an amazing variety of foods, but after a few weeks of cravings I found sugar desire decreased massively.

Comment author: BloodyShrimp 10 April 2014 08:54:40PM *  4 points [-]

There's the obvious "Harry appears to be about to destroy the universe; Voldemort might be trying to stop him" one. But I don't know any real answers to your question.

Comment author: mstevens 11 April 2014 12:53:08PM 0 points [-]

I did further research after I posted the question and found this:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3000137/1/On-the-Wings-of-a-Phoenix

which is about Voldemort being good, and Harry being sort of neutral then converted to Voldemort's side.

But it's not the ideal of what I was looking for.

Comment author: mstevens 10 April 2014 01:47:37PM 1 point [-]

Harry Potter question:

Is there any good "Harry is evil, Voldemort is the good guy" fanfic?

Comment author: ChristianKl 19 March 2014 03:50:35PM 0 points [-]

I think our conversation raised a lot of interesting points, I think all the interesting stuff has been said. How about we switch topics?

Comment author: mstevens 19 March 2014 03:54:19PM 1 point [-]

That works as a neutral "let's move on". I sort of want a feeling of conceding more (but not totally) though.

Comment author: mstevens 19 March 2014 03:39:25PM 6 points [-]

Any tips on bailing out of an argument if you want to very nearly concede the whole thing without quite saying your opponent is right?

eg if you realise the whole conversation was a terrible mistake and you're totally unequipped to have the conversation, but still think you're right.

Should you just admit they're right for simplicity even if you're not quite convinced?

Comment author: Alejandro1 18 March 2014 11:40:36PM 3 points [-]

Happens in Safari, not in Firefox.

Comment author: mstevens 19 March 2014 03:35:55PM 4 points [-]

I'm seeing the same problem in Chrome.

Comment author: Dahlen 18 March 2014 09:34:54PM 3 points [-]

Apologies for the nitpick, but didn't you mean ethnic group?

Comment author: mstevens 19 March 2014 12:24:46PM 0 points [-]

I did actually mean ethnic group, but now I see my typo I'm actually quite liking it this way as it's less likely to trigger real-world connotations.

Comment author: mstevens 18 March 2014 04:57:30PM 10 points [-]

Is there a name for the situation where the same piece of evidence is seen as obviously supporting their side by both sides of an argument?

eg: New statistics are published showing ethic group X is committing crimes at 10 times the rate of ethic group Y.

To one side, this is obvious evidence that ethic group X are criminals.

To another side, this is obvious evidence the justice system is biased.

Both sides are totally opposed, yet see the same fact as proving they are right.

Comment author: Emily 03 September 2013 08:47:13AM 2 points [-]

Has anyone got a recommendation for a nice RSS reader? Ideally I'm looking for one that runs on the desktop rather than in-browser (I'm running Ubuntu). I still haven't found a replacement that I like for Lightread for Google Reader.

Comment author: mstevens 03 September 2013 11:50:25AM 1 point [-]

I used to like liferea, but I don't have an up to date opinion as I switched to non-desktop RSS reading options.

Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 21 August 2013 09:36:17AM 1 point [-]

OK, I'm interested. Can you explain a little more?

Comment author: mstevens 21 August 2013 10:20:00AM 1 point [-]

It's a little bit intuition and might turn out to be daft, but

a) I've read just enough about game theory in the past to know what the prisoner's dilemma is

b) I was reading an argument/discussion on another blog about the men chatting up women, who may or may not be interested, scenario, and various discussions on irc with MixedNuts have given me the feeling that male/female interactions (which are obviously an area of central interest to feminism) are a similar class of thing and possibly game theory will help me understand said feminism and/or opposition to it.

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