Cushman

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by Cushman 14y ago
I'd support a change to auto-kill submissions that end with '?'. If you can't say it as a declarative statement, it's link-bait.
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by Cushman 14y ago
I also checked the site out for the first time in a while. My first thought: "This looks like AOL.com." But of course I haven't been to AOL in forever either, maybe they've changed. So I checked them out too. Yep, can't tell the difference.
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by Cushman 14y ago
That there is a preference is a statistical fact; the controversial question is what is the cause for the preference. Incidentally, even if we were to pretend to compare the industries of "technology" and "education of children between the
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by Cushman 14y ago
I'd be more worried about the fact that without the line break it reads like "Pink is the new purple, dear Marisa" which sounds pretty condescending.
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by Cushman 14y ago
This presupposes that the industry-wide preference for male employees is not discriminatory, which scarcely goes without saying.
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by Cushman 14y ago
> Do people who get these magnetic implants actually develop different "qualia" along with their new perceptions, or do they just add different interpretations to existing qualia? I'm not sure what the right answer is with regards to ma
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by Cushman 14y ago
> Let's agree to disagree on that then. Absolutely. We obviously have very different backgrounds, and I certainly don't want to seem like I'm telling anyone the right way to have fun :) If you'll indulge me for just one more point on ke
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by Cushman 14y ago
> It's not a design limitation. Of course it is. The ergonomics of controller design are profoundly based on gripping the device with both palms while pushing buttons with the thumbs. The buttons are too small and too close together t
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by Cushman 14y ago
And unless I'm mistaken, home-schooled children tend to consistently outperform their public-schooled peers in testing, yes?
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by Cushman 14y ago
Okay, well, that's kind of the point. Why are you holding a device designed to fit the human hand a particular way in a different way to get around its design limitations while claiming it's superior to another device designed without tho
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by Cushman 14y ago
The way I've understood it, Khan isn't trying to disrupt the idea of teachers or schools per se , only alter it. Basically, the traditional schooling model consists of "lectures" in class, where the teacher presents you with information fo
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by Cushman 14y ago
Maybe it pretends it's a keyboard. It's not like they're tied down to gamepad drivers.
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by Cushman 14y ago
The D-pad setup has a serious limitation in that it forces you to use your thumbs. I have ten fingers; with a keyboard, I can have instantaneous command over ten actions (though eight or nine is more usual). With a console controller, it's
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by Cushman 14y ago
Important edit to the article: My students are adults, which wasn't really the point of the article (and wasn't clear). Their ridiculous exclusion policy is. As smart as kids are these days, I'm not sure a "Pinterest scaling talk" is somet
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by Cushman 14y ago
What makes you think her name wasn't on the list?
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by Cushman 14y ago
Can you imagine if someone you were expecting immediate payment from for a service you just provided said "I can't write you a check, but give me your email address or bank routing number and account number, and I will be sure to have that
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by Cushman 14y ago
Were you really expecting all that from a company called "Simple"? :P Seriously, those are all nice features , and the check depositing is a must-have that I'm sure they're working hard on, but for me and most of my peers, all I really w
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by Cushman 14y ago
I think Poe's Law.
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by Cushman 14y ago
> the U.S. government which is currently over 15 trillion dollars in debt As opposed to US consumer debt which is only, what, 11 trillion?
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by Cushman 14y ago
I think it's fair to say a solid financial plan could be the difference between comfort and affluence. For it to be the difference between comfort and poverty is inhumane. That's where I'm coming from: No one who spends their life contrib
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by Cushman 14y ago
In the paragraph immediately after that, she notes that retirement planning requires not merely competence, but prescience: You need to know when you'll retire, and when you'll die. You need to know when you'll get fired, get sick, have a c
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by Cushman 14y ago
> Assuming it survives appeal, it would, at most, apply to the state of Washington. That's not completely true. A decision at a state's highest court may not be legally binding elsewhere, but it can have precedential weight in other jur
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by Cushman 14y ago
I think people have a much closer connection to electronic devices. We arbitrarily say that police can't force me to say something, so where do we draw the line? Can they fake my voice in a recording? Can they use a clone? As brain-comput
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by Cushman 14y ago
But validating simulations of hydrogen bombs is fusion research, isn't it?
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by Cushman 14y ago
It has been pointed out before that the CSS `px` is such a unit: http://inamidst.com/stuff/notes/csspx (Although I seem to recall the discussion here was skeptical of the idea.)
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by Cushman 14y ago
I wonder if this will light a fire under Apple's ass to finally pull whatever Apple TV play they've been planning.
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by Cushman 14y ago
I have an iPhone 3G and an iPhone 4 here-- they both say "iPhone" on the back. I have an iPad 2 and an iPad 3-- they both say "iPad". I have a MacBook labeled "MacBook", a MacBook Pro labeled "MacBook Pro", and a MacBook Air labeled "MacBoo
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by Cushman 14y ago
Well put. Environmentalism's opposition to nuclear power will go down in history as one of the most tragic ironies of all time. It would be funny if it weren't so horrible.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Out of curiosity, how precise are we talking? I assume the top-level military tech is classified, but if I buy off-the-shelf parts, how far can I fly and still land on the runway using pure dead reckoning?
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by Cushman 14y ago
Indeed? Where did you go to school?

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