Chathamization

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by Chathamization 11y ago
People seem to forget that a law degree was probably the most common example of a "good degree" you'd hear about in the 90's. And if you want to get a law degree, the American Bar Association recommends an undergraduate
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by Chathamization 11y ago
The argument about that Common Core is bad because it comes from the Federal government is also based on fiction. Common Core was created by the states (specifically the National Governors Association) as an effort to have consistent standa
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by Chathamization 11y ago
I agree. For me, Forever War was a book with an interesting premise and a somewhat lackluster execution. None of the characters are pretty interesting or memorable, and the main character seems to be Hadelman inserting an idealized version
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by Chathamization 11y ago
Worth pointing out that Rand Paul has 2.06 million likes and he's polling at 2.7%.
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by Chathamization 11y ago
Not sure why you don't want to think that it could be a false memory; those are pretty common, particularly when you're dealing with a very young child and a very old memory (also seems to be common when dealing with dreams). Of c
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by Chathamization 11y ago
Yeah, it's interesting that right after the shutdown they said that they were closing it down merely to figure out how to operate without Victoria (what would they have done if she caught the flu?), not protesting. The shutdown was fai
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by Chathamization 11y ago
Not just other cars, but pedestrians too. It's common around here to see people trying to jam themselves into closing subway doors, often getting limbs or bags stuck in them. It's also not uncommon to see people try to help them b
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by Chathamization 11y ago
I imagine displaced blue-collar workers are looking for jobs in areas quite a bit different from displaced college-educated white-collar workers. The problem with the job market facing college graduates seeking white-collar jobs seems to be
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by Chathamization 11y ago
I first learned that sizeof was an operator when I was confused about how it dealt with arrays compared to functions. After I learned it was an operator and not a function things made sense and were (relatively) consistent again. Several co
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by Chathamization 12y ago
It's also worth pointing out that you almost never see people bringing up Dunning-Kruger to say that they might be over estimating their own understanding of a topic. It's almost always used as evidence that those that disagree wi
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by Chathamization 12y ago
Well, obfuscation with a hefty dose of "gee whiz!" at least. Goransson's paper that he links too at least states that it's about a "nonstandard parameterisation," as opposed to talking about how it's anoth
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by Chathamization 12y ago
Being a CFA carries a lot of weight. It seems like certifications (unsurprisingly) work when a lot of effort has been made to set up the certifications properly. The reason why we haven't seen such an effort in a lot of areas is probab
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by Chathamization 12y ago
That's an issue for academia in general. One gets the sense that during the boom times, the universities stopped caring about the job prospects of their graduates since they figured the degree would give them an advantage one way or an
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by Chathamization 12y ago
I wouldn't be surprised to see the big car manufacturers put a self-driving car on the market before Google. For instance, the car in the video looks much more like an actual product than the Google car, with it's spinning radar
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by Chathamization 12y ago
Haldean Lands sounds like it has players and puzzles. And most of the graphical adventure games I’ve played haven’t had scoring systems.
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by Chathamization 12y ago
Depending on your definition of temporary - as Keynes said “in the long run we’re all dead.” Eventually things will work themselves out, but how many years of self-imposed pain will it take? Employees are going to be much less likely to qui
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by Chathamization 12y ago
The wage issue isn’t that people are choosing unemployment over pay cuts. It’s that companies will generally opt for a hiring freeze over a pay cut. Most places aren’t going to cut the salary of every team member by $10k so they can hire a
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by Chathamization 12y ago
Hmm, I’ve heard multiple people talk about jumping in during the housing bubble because they thought if they didn’t buy right then the price would keep going up. And I’d say that there’s pretty good evidence that people will buy things soon
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by Chathamization 12y ago
While I don’t disagree with the general thrust of your post, I think the main issue is that a lot of people don’t feel that manned space exploration is the most efficient way to get these returns. Chances are we’ll at least get something ou
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by Chathamization 12y ago
Not really. Even if multiple extinction events hit Earth, Earth’s still going to be much more hospitable than Mars is now.
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by Chathamization 12y ago
I don’t get this argument. It’s fine to make poor investments as long as they’re better than our worst investments? I mean, the joint strike fighter proponent could make this argument as well. “Hey, we wasted over a trillion dollars destroy
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by Chathamization 12y ago
And predicting that it’d happen five years ago…
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by Chathamization 12y ago
Agreed. Does anyone really think there’s a single neuron that has an understanding of an aggregate thought. “I, neuron of this human, am transmitting this sense of joy because of the humor that is found watching this film.” No individual ce
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by Chathamization 12y ago
Eh… “…and thus did Melkor breed the hideous race of the Orcs in envy and mockery of the Elves, of whom they were afterwards the bitterest foes.” Tolkien saying that they were bred to be this way indicates it is a part of their biology, as d
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by Chathamization 12y ago
If I remember correctly, the swarthy eastern men were the bad humans. Beyond that, it’s hard to argue that having an inherently evil race like the orcs doesn’t have racist undertones (particularly with the descriptions of the orcs mirroring