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kleinbl00  ·  3961 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Gifs that elegantly demonstrate some hard to learn math concepts

Yay math, boo distractify. Most of those are ripped directly from Wikipedia.





user-inactivated  ·  3961 days ago  ·  link  ·  

By the way, have you read this?

kleinbl00  ·  3961 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, but I don't remember being wowed by it.

user-inactivated  ·  3961 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, sure. Found this on a friend's facebook. Never mucked with distractify before.

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It's worth noting that with the right add ons all websites look basically the same and are thoroughly harmless.

kleinbl00  ·  3961 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Only some of them actually generate content, though. The rest of them recycle them for pageviews.

Such as 95% of everything on Facebook.

user-inactivated  ·  3961 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah but I'm fine with letting the market take its course. I found a link which I thought had some interesting gifs. So distractify filled my need in this instance and I used it. I'll probably never go back, but I will if they start producing interesting content with regularity and I happen to see it.

kleinbl00  ·  3961 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My problem is that they're driving out everything else. This is now the only shit I see on Facebook. So yeah - the market is taking its course, and it's course is the death of the Internet.

user-inactivated  ·  3961 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You can control what you see on facebook, yo. Anyway distractify &c. were inevitable. Just deal with as can be dealt.

PS, where are all the bl00sreviews?

kleinbl00  ·  3960 days ago  ·  link  ·  

How do you block the bullshit websites without blocking people? 'cuz I'd be into that.

so the bl00's reviews were for books that were recommended by Hubski. And I'm about ready to roll into Godel Escher Bach but I need to get through another Kindle book first. And I spent a shit ton of time on Piketty, which wasn't a part of the discussion, and rather than start the Poisonwood Bible I started a 5 hour [trifle.](.com/Escape-Camp-14-Remarkable-Odyssey/dp/0143122916)

I'm also knee-deep in one of my shows at the moment. These three months I make about 60% of my yearly earnings.

user-inactivated  ·  3960 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Like this.

That should do it, though I haven't tried myself.

kleinbl00  ·  3960 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That was super-effective! Since I only ever see Facebook when I run out of phone Internet, I never thought to check the browser! yay!

user-inactivated  ·  3960 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What 8bit said, yeah -- anyway those are good reasons. GEB I'll be interested to hear from you on. Piketty I have slotted for September.

Extremely skeptical of Poisonwood Bible because we read it in 7th grade or so.

kleinbl00  ·  3960 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My wife was not a fan. We'll see.