Cushman

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by Cushman 14y ago
> The goal as I see it should not be to elect the Most Popular President The goal is for every American citizen's vote for President to count for exactly as much as any other citizen's. That means, yes, the person who gets the most vote
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by Cushman 14y ago
FWIW, if the House were truly proportional then Democrats would control it as well.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Somewhat off-topic, but since people are using this to riff on the Electoral College I'll drop in a mention for the National Popular Vote: http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/ Basically: The states themselves can require a fair election fo
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by Cushman 14y ago
I think it takes a very credulous reading of the original article to get that. Here's the trip: http://goo.gl/maps/oUEQV The charging does add half an hour to a three-and-a-half hour trip, about 15%; maybe a little longer if it's below fr
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by Cushman 14y ago
Sure. If you can't stay on the Supercharger network, or can't charge your car where you're going, an electric vehicle is not suitable for your purpose, even if it is in other respects the best car ever built. The infrastructure just isn't t
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by Cushman 14y ago
Well, yeah; "Shut up, do as you're told, and we'll succeed in exterminating those other people" is a lesson the military takes in a somewhat different light from the general public.
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by Cushman 14y ago
If your daily drives are three hours, I'm concerned for you .
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by Cushman 14y ago
Ender is profoundly not a role model. I think you may have missed something crucial there.
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by Cushman 14y ago
It's not exactly so, if you use a server that spawns child processes: http://michaelvanrooijen.com/articles/2011/06/01-more-concur... you can potentially handle 3-4 requests per dyno at a time. That doesn't fix the root problem, though.
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by Cushman 14y ago
I did miss that— thanks for the rerun.
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by Cushman 14y ago
I'm sure it's possible, but I haven't heard of anyone eating a sheet of acid who wasn't at least a little messed up afterwards.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Yeah, I started wondering about that immediately after posting. Not curious enough to try it again, though :)
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by Cushman 14y ago
That dose is referring to psilocybin, I believe. 20,000µg would be a psychosis-inducing dose of LSD.
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by Cushman 14y ago
> We don't understand the point of heavily-glued batteries. This kind of planned obsolesce is completely unnecessary. I dropped my iPhone 5 on a tile floor recently. Looked fine apart from a small scuff on the bevel, but the home button
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by Cushman 14y ago
This headline is altogether too clever for its own good.
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by Cushman 14y ago
> It just has too work, there is no place for a list of "buts" Of course there is! Here are some example buts for ICEs: Gasoline is a dense energy source, but... it stinks. it's toxic. it's too noisy. its price is too determ
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by Cushman 14y ago
Why on earth would someone suspect that? I mean, given Mega's cash:goodwill position, what would be their possible motive for welching out on a few $1000 bounties?
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by Cushman 14y ago
I'll strongly agree with that: The foundational problem with our public education system is that its primary utility to us is not education, but dealing with issues with poverty and parenting that shouldn't exist in the first place. I remem
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by Cushman 14y ago
When my dad was my age, a statement like "The entire global economy will soon be managed by a publicly-accessible world-wide computer network" would have seemed similarly ridiculous. Computers are way too slow for that. The problems we have
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by Cushman 14y ago
I realize that last sentence is a mouthful, but yes, that's what I'm saying :)
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by Cushman 14y ago
Since this is the second time you mention it: The noble savage trope is about the innate goodness of indigenous peoples, particularly in their connection to nature and the spiritual. It's a pretty weak analogy here— may I suggest you instea
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by Cushman 14y ago
> The problem with Step 1 is "all". The whole point of my initial post is that children vary, and the methods by which they're educated need to vary as well. "All children will be lead into the forest by an experienced guide who will le
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by Cushman 14y ago
Sorry, are you implying that there are kids out there who are drilling a list of dinosaur names every night without any interest in what those dinosaurs looked like, or sounded like, or ate? Every kid who's ever wanted to tell me about all
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by Cushman 14y ago
> Teachers talk endlessly about methods of engaging children and teenagers Step 1: Force all children to go to a big building eight hours a day for twelve years "to learn". Step 2: They aren't learning. Figure out a way to make the aver
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by Cushman 14y ago
> they're frustrated that it frequently feels like leading them by the nose and making them drink. And aren't they? I mean, isn't that exactly what we are talking about? > Watch children at play This also cuts to the core of the iss
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by Cushman 14y ago
You get utility from knowing your times tables proportionally to how often you use them. The difference between the amount of time and energy it took you to memorize them deliberately and the amount of time you would spend manually multiply
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by Cushman 14y ago
Let's invert that and close the loop: memorization is by nature a side-effect of accessing knowledge for some useful purpose. Accessing knowledge for no purpose but to memorize it is, by that definition, pointless.
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by Cushman 14y ago
> Lots of people aren't curious Lots of adults aren't curious, but it seems like most small children are. What's going on there?
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by Cushman 14y ago
It seems to me like you're using the future as a proxy for complaining about the present. I can't help you with that.
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by Cushman 14y ago
I think sufficient organization could put those tasks on the level of assembling a piece of IKEA furniture, yeah.

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