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by Crito 11y ago
In my case, there were two professors that were widely loved and often cited as the best professors. One was an english professor who had control over the courses about science fiction and fantasy, and often taught a Tolkien course. No rea
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I had a terrible professor that was actually reasonably competent at teaching (the material wasn't hard in the first place, but still) , but was terrible because of how she behaved in class. The best way to describe it is abusive. As
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So basically you are saying that you will tell your son to go back to Argentina if he wants to attend University? You know, I don't think your advice is very good. I think instead I'll go the "college fund" route for my
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However a 6 month cycle allows you to gain a better idea of what it is like to be a full time employee at a company, not merely an intern. I did several 6 month cycles, but most of the other interns I worked with at these companies were doi
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> "If nothing else they should get audited down to their grade school allowance to be sure they were merely grossly negligent." That would not even be sufficient, because for all we know they were bribed with hookers and coca
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Madoff was sentenced to more prison time than many murderers. Murder and fraud may not be equivalent , but that does not mean that one must necessarily be less serious than the other.
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I think we're all on the same page here. I have found that talking about things indirectly is a decent way to avoid annoying personal attacks (which, in my case, have reached out beyond the internet in the past, albeit with limited su
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My favourite account of Plato involves one of his alleged interactions with Diogenes. As told by wikipedia: > "When Plato gave Socrates' definition of man as "featherless bipeds" and was much praised for the definit
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In such a movement, the lack of privilege would become a form of psuedo-power. The people with genuine power (the rich celebrities with large social followings) would dominate of course, but they would all argue they they were less privi
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I am curious whether anybody else has experienced this in professional settings. I make as much money as most of my peers at work, but fairly regularly I am made aware of the fact that my upbringing was less affluent than many of theirs. T
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Evolution is a stupid process that happened to create a species sophisticated enough that individual instances of this species are able to realize that evolution is going on. Being instances of this cutting-edge phenomenon, we (individual
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Throw the chimp in a pool. If the chimp swims out, it seems to have a (at least instinctual) desire to not drown. Put it into a more complex situation where the danger would only be recognizable through reasoning, see if it still tries to
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The way I see it, life is a race, and humans won when we woke up, gained perspective, and realized/discovered the nature of that race. Everything else currently living? They're racing their hearts out, but they do not understand
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I am waiting for the billionaire that, when asked how they became a billionaire, says "Well I read an article/book by [some other billionaire] on how to become a billionaire."
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Also it is easier to crash a train when you aren't on it. All you need is a sufficiently long prybar.
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I predict it would turn into nothing more than the worlds largest refugee camp. A humanitarian crisis the size of a country. Still, better it be done somewhere other than Europe.
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How many people do micronations actually have the capacity to harm? I mean in the real world, going from real world performance, not in fevered day-dreams of what "could" happen. I don't think the "rest of the world&q
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From your link: > "This partly reflects racial differences in the drug markets in black and white communities. In poor black neighborhoods, drugs tend to be sold outdoors, in the open. In white neighborhoods, by contrast, drug tran
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In fact the 13th Amendment explicitly calls out being convicted of a crime as an exception to the "no slavery" thing. The full text of the amendment: > Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punish
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> "I have had some black friends over the years who get berated by other blacks for "acting white."" What can white people do to fix this specifically ?
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> "We can never know for sure whether Google would have interfered with that goal or diluted their focus, but that's how acquisition stories often turn out." There would be a short production run of small cars with cheer
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Where exactly do you think those cars come from? People who immerse themselves in the software world too deeply gain a very distorted view of the world.
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I frequently babysat my six year old twin brother s when I was eight . You should seriously consider the possibility that you are the victim of media sensationalism. The world is safer for children today than it ever has been. Chi
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Recently a playground near my apartment got torn down. I was talking to my mother on the phone recently, and mentioned how tragic it was that playgrounds were being torn down across the nation in the name of "safety" ( http:&#x2F
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> "The government needs to protect children before they're maimed by careless or stupid parents." > "Here's a story about a woman who left her 11 year old boy alone at home while she went on a three week ho
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Every single parent alive today is descended from a long line of parents, dating back to the origin of life itself, that did not need CPS to tell them how to act. The idea that after all of those successful iterations we are now too stupi
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma
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I don't buy it. "The f-word" is used exclusively by people being descriptive. Nobody says "So I was f-wording my spouse..." or stubs their toe and exclaims "oh f-word!" . It is used when people are
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> Similarly, computer programs today are increasingly diverging into a state where there is a tiny amount of extremely performance critical code, and a large amount of code where performance is so good on our hardware today that even ho
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This may be what you are driving at, but in case it isn't: The impression that chimps are suddenly rapidly evolving may simply be a consequence of us watching them closely. We may simply be noticing behaviors that have been present

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