Afton

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by Afton 11y ago
I wouldn't just find it astonishing, I would be deeply confused about what it could possibly mean !
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by Afton 11y ago
I think that it's pretty obvious that simply 'money' isn't the solution to our educational needs. There are lots of ways of spending money that won't change outcomes, and probably several that would. But I'm an
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by Afton 11y ago
I feel like everyone in this thread should go watch season 4 of the The Wire. There is a lot of relevant work there, including the various pressures on, and requirements of the educational system. tl:dr; Teacher's can only ever be a
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by Afton 11y ago
> And the way to do that in a way that scales is through a video game. Well, that's one way. Any teacher who has used word-searches, acting, rhyming games, etc has found other ways. Don't get me wrong, there are a wealth of awe
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by Afton 11y ago
Not OP, but while I've had a lot of success, the evidence doesn't support blanket application of 'Yoga' to back pain. The real problem is that back pain typically goes away regardless of treatment modality, which leads t
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by Afton 11y ago
> > It hurts men and competition by devaluing the prizes. > To quote jstanley again: "She's no better than me, but she is a WGM and I am nothing" Well, don't they still have their score? I mean, I'm not int
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by Afton 11y ago
I want to start out by pointing that I'm generally in agreement with your points. I urge you to consider that aggregate statistics are not individual experiences. It is a totally normal, expected outcome that there are individual men w
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by Afton 11y ago
Please rein in your dismissiveness. It is not insane to consider the ways that men and women have advantages. I'm not trying to step into this argument on one side or the other, but this kind of mocking is unhelpful. > Women are c
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by Afton 11y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Tableau, but I don't claim to represent them, and I'm not in tech support or sales. Two things that are likely: If you think the statistical tooling is limited you may not be aware that Tableau offers R integ
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by Afton 11y ago
https://xkcd.com/1576/
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by Afton 11y ago
The fogginess that the author describes sounds like the 'keto-flu'. But if he was eating carbs from vegetables and fruits, he shouldn't have noticed this. I also found this odd: "I missed the sugar and milk in my coffee
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by Afton 11y ago
As someone in my early-towards-mid 40s, is it really hard to stay employed? I get that lots of folks are into consulting at this age or other versions of self-employed, but as a guy who got into this field fairly late, I'm concerned th
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by Afton 11y ago
Thank you. I completely agree that 'better' is not straightforward and am on record as claiming that 'healthy food' is silly, we should only care about 'healthy diets' (for example, simple salad isn't heal
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by Afton 11y ago
Is there some evidence that raw food is better for you? It's a lot more work to get through a giant bowl of cabbage than some sauteed in butter, but is it better for you? I imagine that there may be specific nutrients that don't
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by Afton 11y ago
Be charitable. If you haven't been exposed to actual linguistics (and know about things like PIE), you have the current, normal, common-sense view on language, which is that what you speak is normal, and what speakers of any other dial
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by Afton 11y ago
I don't actually understand the downvotes you are getting, unless people think that this just isn't adding to the conversation, but in the interests of making lemonaide: We often use neuter (gender-neutral) pronouns in English, ju
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by Afton 11y ago
It gives the DA an incentive to apply any charges that might possibly stick because it increases the likelihood of a plea deal by shifting the perceived risk to the accused. This is absolutely a bad situation, but presumably the DAs aren&#x
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by Afton 11y ago
Of course there is. If you think that there is a 10% chance you might go to prison for life (for some crime), and the DA offers you a six month sentence, with a significant chance to be served as house arrest, then it might make a lot of se
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by Afton 11y ago
I knew someone was going to notice that! :) It's true, but it is 'open source', and many of my coworkers were not particularly discriminating among the different interpretations of OSS.
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by Afton 11y ago
This statement is false as a blanket. I worked at MS in 2010, and I had vim and git installed on my machine. What they didn't want me to do was to install (or look at!) the source code. The amount of FUD from rank-and-file employees wa
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by Afton 11y ago
In my idiolect, those two words are homonyms. When I worked construction, you couldn't ask someone for caulk without raucous laughter. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/caulk this link seems to agree, with th
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by Afton 11y ago
> I mean that's how things work, you don't have to invent anything, just make up some new expressions. Let's be somewhat more charitable, and say "you don't have to invent anything, just provide an insight".
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by Afton 11y ago
The Living Computer Museum in Seattle has one of these set up if you want to play some of the old classics. http://www.livingcomputermuseum.org/
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by Afton 11y ago
Please answer these two questions: 1. What is wrong with revising a patent based on Patent Office feedback? "P.O.:This is objectionable for reasons x, y, z" , "Applicant: Ok, thanks, I'll change x, y, z so as not to be o
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by Afton 11y ago
How would a rejection differ from sending it back for revisions? Are you imagining a blackout period for that submitter?
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> Languages were invented as means of communication, so if all languages disappear except one it'll be tremendous boost to humanity. It isn't at all obvious that it would be a straight-up boon. It would help some things, hurt o
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by Afton 12y ago
If you leave it full of grounds for any length of time, it starts to corrode the interior of the tube (it starts to look 'scratched'). This can lead to seepage.
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by Afton 12y ago
Sort of. The finer grind, increased pressure, and shortness of steep time make it different. It's more like a cross between an espresso machine and a french press. I bought it thinking it would be a novelty item. I was mistaken.
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by Afton 12y ago
I never notice when my comments are replied to! Sorry for the delay: The biggest change is that I used to get migraines from lack of sleep (even while sleeping 8-10 hours plus occasional naps). Now I can get 6 a night continuously and be mo
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by Afton 12y ago
Do it. Seriously. I can't believe the change in my life since discovering (in my 40s!) that I've suffered from sleep apnea my entire teen/adult life.

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