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I have a friend who has done this with professional sports.
My keys are attached to my wallet; I can’t forget one without forgetting both. I am terrifically absent-minded but haven’t left without them since I started doing this.
Tangentially: that is in fact my wet-type earwax illustrating the Wikipedia article. (Picture taken by my partner. No terrible story.)
I like this, and also “I don’t quite understand why [X]”, which puts them in the pleasant position of explaining to me from a position of superiority—or sometimes realizing that they can’t.
The vast majority of activity on Wikipedia is nice and friendly. But some of that minority, well…
(More in high-conflict areas than elsewhere, yes, but crazy people are everywhere. Articles get written on obscure subjects because no matter what the topic is, someone is obsessive about it. But people go crazy about unexpected topics, because no matter what the topic is, someone is obsessive about it...)
David is correct about the way the copyleft works, which almost no one ever is: your content never “becomes” copylefted just because you build upon a copylefted work; you must either explicitly license it under a compatible license, be using the original work in a way that doesn’t require a license (fair use, de minimis, etc.), or you are infringing.
Just to go into slightly more technicalities: if CAR doesn’t take copyrightable expression from CAH, you can license original work in the new game under a different license; the share-alike requirement doesn’t get triggered if what you got from the original wasn’t something that would have been protected under the original license.
What counts as taking copyrightable expression can be pretty fuzzy, though. I haven’t compared the two games—just clarifying the requirement. And practically, it’s advisable to use the BY-NC-SA license from CAH if you’re at all unsure.
What David said. If you hit one of his hot buttons, he will get worked up about it until you come around (using the term “intellectual property”, for example). But in general he’s forward-thinking and holds positions that he’s come to after a long time considering their implications and how they fit into his goals—I think very hard before disagreeing with him. (Even if he is lacking in social graces.)
I can’t keep track of my keys, and I don’t drive. (No car keys, but housekey/mailbox key/office key all fairly important.) So I attached my keychain to the zipper on my wallet, because I basically can’t go anywhere without my wallet. Astonishingly, I have not misplaced my keys or my wallet since doing this.
Thank you. I bookmarked this after this thread and just found occasion to use it (successfully); I was more inclined to try it on the recommendation of someone here.
UnderArmour ColdGear Frosty: I hate being cold—these made it tolerable to go out biking in cold weather, and I also found myself wearing them as leggings under regular skirts when I was tired of a winter full of pants.
The words “I am...” are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you’re claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.
--A.L. Kitselman
Residential seminar?
Reminds me of advice to people who want to know if they can sue someone: You can always sue. You just can’t always expect to win.
In most places I think it’s unnecessarily costly for the small added value. But in SF, I’m really not sure how else you’re supposed to get a cab without budgeting a half-hour on top of your travel time to flag one down.
I’m not applying for this because I’m not quite in the right circumstances for it—but I’m female and moving to the peninsula in mid-August for work, and would be interested in being part of social events. (I’ve been to 2 or 3 Berkeley meetups in the past when on other trips in fact.)
“In war you will generally find that the enemy has at any time three courses of action open to him. Of those three, he will invariably choose the fourth.” —Helmuth Von Moltke
(quoted in “Capturing the Potential of Outlier Ideas in the Intelligence Community”, via Bruce Schneier)
This has just beat out Alan Sidelle’s “The Answering Machine Paradox” (paywalled, sorry) as my favorite philosophical paper.
I don’t like it much—it brings up mental images that you’re going be there with a bunch of people who treat it as a game, rather than a serious endeavor (something that suggests it might be fun is fine, but not something that suggests it is not serious). And maybe that it will be mostly intended for the video game demographic of socially awkward college-aged men.
I am laughing at this being in the brag thread when I might brag about being smart enough never to run for the committee again, and looking forward to meeting you in person—I turn up at the WMF office on my work from home days.