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by Crake 14y ago
Then we go back and make sure they get adequate algebra education. We have to trace the problem back and fix it before the trajectory becomes irreparably set in stone. Math takes time and lots of practice to learn. Trying to cram it all in
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by Crake 14y ago
Yeah, I've gotten an earful of it IRL too, though. I'm liberal and hang with a mostly liberal crowd, so any liberal extremism usually comes from direct interaction (and/or horrifying stuff from the hellhole known as tumblr) and I just watc
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by Crake 14y ago
And if you look at body counts over time, Anglo Saxon countries are pretty indiscriminately bloodthirsty, and usually kill with much less provocation. Wow, racist much? Cruelty isn't copyright caucasian. Plenty of shit has gone down that
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by Crake 14y ago
Honestly, I'd really rather the crazy social justice warriors stay on their infernally poorly constructed home base of tumblr. I find them really annoying. (Surf around for 20 minutes there and you'll see what I mean. Age is a "social const
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by Crake 14y ago
I guess that’s a little mean. Sorry, middle-class white boys. I’m not calling you dumb. I’m calling you soft. That's really inflammatory. I'd be pretty mad if that were directed at me, not inspired to consider the guy's point (if he even
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by Crake 14y ago
Honestly, there are so many studies with conflicting results that I feel like it's hard to tell to what extent there may or may not be a sex based difference in math aptitude. However, I feel like we can't throw out the possibility of it ha
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by Crake 14y ago
I propose that it is easier to give unfair advantages to minorities at the college level than it is to fix the unfair disadvantages before that level. This is why I support affirmative action. This is interesting, because it really does g
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by Crake 14y ago
I'm glad you agree that they're wrong, but they aren't practically non existent, at least in my social circles. I won't say they're a majority (they aren't) but they're definitely a presence.
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by Crake 14y ago
With consoles linked to the home company so strongly these days, it's relatively unsurprising that Microsoft would do something like this. I mean, it's not like you don't know that your console's connected to them, right?
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by Crake 14y ago
Regardless of who you blame, you shouldn't be going around murdering them. Yes? Also, the person you may be killing might have voted -for- the reform. In which case, the blame was not even justified in the first place. And even if it was so
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by Crake 14y ago
Well, if you don't agree with the social justice crowd, that automatically makes you a privileged white person. Duh.
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by Crake 14y ago
For the most part, I agree. Affirmative action in hiring only serves to promote stereotypes. I wish they'd do away with it so I wouldn't have to deal with people telling me that it'll be omg SO easy for me because I'm a minority. Just treat
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by Crake 14y ago
I don't know if anyone has ever told you this, but real life is a lot more difficult than a video game.
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by Crake 14y ago
I've seen people say with a straight face that when a white person is a victim of a black person's crime, the white person deserves it because SLAVERY! I've also had people tell me that the civilians who died in the WTC attacks deserved it
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by Crake 14y ago
This metaphor is overly simplistic to the point of absurdity. I wish people would stop profligately promoting this nonsense.
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by Crake 14y ago
I can't take the word "privilege" seriously anymore. I'm generally liberal myself, but the extremists have coopted the word to mean "all white and/or male people everywhere" and I just cannot get behind that. A hacker girl can't get married
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by Crake 14y ago
I really doubt it. Hormonal differences have a large impact on what traits are most commonly found in the "average" woman (or man, depending on what you're looking for), at the very least in regards to increased chance of risk-taking. I thi
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by Crake 14y ago
Faith (so to speak) in the scientific method is what all of our modern technology is derived from. The sociopolitical implications of this article are immense--I'd consider it fairly relevant in terms of impact on attitudes towards technolo
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by Crake 14y ago
I wonder if he considers the COBE graph to be a demonic trick or something. (Most likely, he's probably never even heard of blackbody radiation, but.) I really don't understand how he is "unopposed" for re election. If this guy represents t
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by Crake 14y ago
I know it gets real hot in Georgia in the summer, so you'd think they'd recognize hell when they see it. Apparently not. How do these people even get elected? Atheists are very rarely elected in the US, so we mostly get to choose between Ch
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by Crake 14y ago
Where do you think your job will be? On manhattan or off? Lower manhattan is really expensive, but upper manhattan is actually remarkably affordable (for NYC). You can actually find prices comparable to brooklyn or queens if you go up far e
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by Crake 14y ago
Yeah, this matches my experience pretty well. Buying an access code just to be able to do the homework really sucks. (Trying to input mathematical notations onto blackboard is possibly the only thing that sucks more.)
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by Crake 14y ago
Yes, I quite enjoyed that bit of snark as well.
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by Crake 14y ago
A pity that the only ones who will take heed of this are the people who aren't already brainwashed into the cult of their own self-superiority.
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by Crake 14y ago
That and people who did art in undergrad. I know quite a few that still live with their parents and/or work for close to minimum wage.
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by Crake 14y ago
Don't let the art schools hear about this! LOL. Not that they're big on empirical stuff anyway. (Except as an occasional brief aside to "prove" why their arbitrary choice is "better" than anyone else's arbitrary choice.)
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by Crake 14y ago
I mostly have a problem with the people for whom it CLEARLY was a bad decision and they continually try to insist that it was a good one when it clearly did not work out at all for them. Such unwillingness to think rationally about poor dec
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by Crake 14y ago
I don't think there's a private solution to this problem. If we look to functional educational systems (example: germany), we see that other countries are often much better at matching people up with careers that match their talents (or lac
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by Crake 14y ago
Thank you very much for your advice.
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by Crake 14y ago
You could listen to someone tell you what books are worth reading, or you could learn critical thinking by trying to work it out for yourself. In the real world, you often have to parse data from a variety of sources without much guidance f

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