AnnikaL

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by AnnikaL 3y ago
This sounds similar to the goals of the "Wait until 8th" group: https://www.waituntil8th.org/ (In the US, kids typically turn 14 before or during 8th grade.)
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by AnnikaL 3y ago
The title on HN (currently "Children, alumni no longer have admissions edge at Carnegie Mellon, Pitt") is a little confusing; children and other relatives of alumni don't have an admissions edge. This isn't about some so
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by AnnikaL 3y ago
If anything, it might be easier to change a keycode than to change a lock.
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by AnnikaL 3y ago
I mean, I found learning calculus to be fun and rewarding in its own right! It can be challenging at times, but also beautiful.
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by AnnikaL 3y ago
This is hilarious -- I hope the author writes more like it!
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by AnnikaL 3y ago
Why not confiscate the phones for only the length of the school day and give them back when the student leaves? If you need a harsher punishment as escalation, use something unrelated to the phone like a detention or suspension.
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by AnnikaL 3y ago
I agree 100% with this, but I think this balancing act doesn't have to be gendered as the common view of crying is.
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by AnnikaL 3y ago
Wait, how can the Chinese government revoke a Swedish citizenship? Surely only the government of Sweden can do that?
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by AnnikaL 3y ago
My high school offered the SAT during a normal school day, which seems much nicer that having to do it early Saturday morning! (And means the teachers can double as proctors.)
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Zelda Tears of the Kingdom: Half Adder [video](youtube.com)
1 points by AnnikaL 3y ago|0 comments
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by AnnikaL 3y ago
This is very sweet.
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by AnnikaL 3y ago
Yes, America's involvement was pretty shameful, but the author's father was in the Indian army fighting against the genocidal Pakistani army.
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by AnnikaL 3y ago
In my view, the only way forward is providing more educational opportunities that are accessible to underserved groups, not reducing the total number of educational opportunities.
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by AnnikaL 4y ago
Even so, replacing fission reactors (negligible air pollution) with a mix of wind, solar, and natural gas will still probably increase air pollution. Of course, there are arguments that this is an acceptable tradeoff for cost or safety reas
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by AnnikaL 4y ago
Before the war, a solid majority (66%) favored using military force to overthrow Saddam Hussein. Once the war started, a similarly large fraction of the American people thought it was the right decision. Public opinion didn't shift in
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by AnnikaL 4y ago
May his memory be a blessing.
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Progressives Need to Embrace Progress(noahpinion.substack.com)
2 points by AnnikaL 4y ago|1 comments
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by AnnikaL 4y ago
= Testing Typst == yeah! Test! + one + two + three
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by AnnikaL 4y ago
I tried using the provided binary and it doesn't seem to work very well. Using the basic syntax from the tutorial, I got this PDF rendering: https://shottr.cc/s/MVhq/SCR-20230321-ipq.png
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by AnnikaL 4y ago
You can add /u/1 or /u/2 to the end of the URL to use another Google Account.
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by AnnikaL 4y ago
What economic statistics would those be?
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by AnnikaL 4y ago
You might save money, or your employer or government might invest money for your pension in the bank's stock.
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by AnnikaL 4y ago
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by AnnikaL 4y ago
https://manifold.markets/MarlonK/will-china-attempt-to-invad... https://manifold.markets/a/china-will-not-launch-a-fullscale...
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by AnnikaL 4y ago
As a community college student in California, one of my biggest complaints about the system (which I like overall!) is that some of the professors don't care or are too overworked to help students. Hopefully the results of this audit s
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by AnnikaL 4y ago
Confirmed the Early Life section? What do you mean? The blog post doesn't discuss the author's life before his current situation.
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by AnnikaL 4y ago
Which conflict would that be? I'm not aware of any wars that started in 2020/early 2021, when the US was preparing to withdraw from Afghanistan.
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by AnnikaL 4y ago
The entire SF Bay Area votes strongly Democratic already; the most Republican county in the Bay Area is Solano County, where Trump got 34% of the vote in 2020.
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by AnnikaL 4y ago
The math seems a bit off on the 70k USD per person redistribution; GDP per capita in rich countries is around $70,000, but worldwide it's much lower. Wikipedia: > The per capita PPP GWP in 2017 was approximately 17,500 internation
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That paper with the 'T' error bars was just retracted(retractionwatch.com)
19 points by AnnikaL 4y ago|0 comments

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