DoubleCribble

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by DoubleCribble 8y ago
That's actually completely the opposite. Low Floor High Ceiling lessons are the antithesis of monologues. Here's a primer:[0] [0] https://nrich.maths.org/7701
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by DoubleCribble 8y ago
Article, no. Graduate degree programs, yes.
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by DoubleCribble 8y ago
Sure it can. Here's the formula: Good teaching = subject mastery + good public speaking + good classroom management + lessons designed with a low floor and high ceiling (allowing for a wide range of zones of proximal development)
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by DoubleCribble 8y ago
A reservoir of wet sand seems like a great natural filtration medium. Line the reservoir basin with a french drain and just stick a tap on the downstream side of the damn to access some relatively clean water.
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by DoubleCribble 8y ago
I take it you have never worked in retail because the difference would be immediately obvious. Why work at large Bay Area tech: - Free catered breakfast, lunch and dinner - Free gourmet coffee - Free snacks - Free drinks - Free company merc
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by DoubleCribble 8y ago
Sure we can. It's the "A" in AR-15. What you're probably thinking of is "automatic".
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by DoubleCribble 8y ago
I thought this was a solved problem. Is there some reason why we don't have more urban raptors? Are the city pigeons so fouled with urban byproducts that their consumption eventually kills off any unwitting predators?
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by DoubleCribble 8y ago
I wasn't making any claim to the tendencies of many/most/all prisoners. My point was that putting non-violent petty offenders in jail/prison puts them in the path of a concentration of sociopathic people, those who real
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by DoubleCribble 8y ago
It won't map because of our national obsession with crime and punishment . I'd bet dollars to donuts that it's far cheaper to put a drunk in a homeless shelter AND give him treatment (AlAnon, etc) than it is to lock him in
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by DoubleCribble 8y ago
This. Specialties that have a high quality of life but are often impossibly underpaid relative to the student loan debt burden (eg Family Medicine / Rural Medicine) should see a boost in residency candidates.
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by DoubleCribble 8y ago
Because the government will reimburse for the full cost of a rental vs just 53.5 cents per mile (circa 2017 GSA policy) in your own vehicle.
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by DoubleCribble 8y ago
Tell that to Kevin McCarthy (R-CA 23rd District), who's trying to be the next Speaker of the House. Or Devin Nunes (R-CA 22nd District), the chairman of the House Intelligence committee. Some of the biggest players in the Trump soap
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by DoubleCribble 8y ago
Vallco was doomed as soon as Valley Fair opened for business 4.5 miles away and cornered the market for upscale anchor tenants.
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by DoubleCribble 8y ago
Hear, hear. Having experienced a similar transition, the improved quality of instruction and the impressive caliber of my cohort was shockingly apparent in my very first class. I liken the transition to switching from the minor leagues to
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by DoubleCribble 8y ago
Keeping up with the Jonses? Maybe others parts of the country but not so much in the Bay Area. More like NIMBY's protecting the insane value of their dilapidated 2bed/1bath fixer uppers offered at $1M+ and selling to all cash buy
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by DoubleCribble 8y ago
Have there been any attempts to use blockchain in combating a Tragedy of the Commons?
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by DoubleCribble 8y ago
One of the other co-founders, Suroosh Alvi, was interviewed on How I Built This awhile back: https://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=547933499:547934223
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by DoubleCribble 8y ago
Ever see those liquid filled milk jugs along the side of the road when public restrooms are scarce. Maybe there's a bad milk conspiracy nobody knows about?
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by DoubleCribble 8y ago
If clusters of these tanks are eventually deployed, it could have some surprising effects on local marine life and might be a good way to jumpstart a marine preserve. [0] [0] https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-news
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by DoubleCribble 8y ago
The Valley of the Sun has 300+ days of sun a year. Perhaps SRP sees the Tesla Powerpack as an existential threat? For the millions of tract homes in the valley, a decent setup (panels/battery) would allow MONTHS without needing any e
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by DoubleCribble 8y ago
You are confusing tree branches (1-monkeys, 2-humans) with tree trunks (DNA). Looking at a tree, you'll notice that the branches are never the same and yet they all come from the same trunk. Branches can fork, split, or twig, but bran
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by DoubleCribble 8y ago
There's such a low threshold for the police's justified use of deadly force in the US, that Ken Lam's restraint was almost unbelievable for this 'merican.[0] [0] https://twitter.com/boyermichel/status
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by DoubleCribble 8y ago
>Professor Greaves suggests that childhood leukaemia, in common with type I diabetes, other autoimmune diseases and allergies... I suspect we will eventually realize that an obsession with a sterile household and Anti-Bacterial Everythin
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by DoubleCribble 8y ago
I'm not sure how eating one's own feces would affect the microbiome but Coprophagia is not unusual for many different species. Without a ruminant's multi-chambered digestive system (see: cattle, deer), animals like rabbits a
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by DoubleCribble 8y ago
For the record - The Port is nowhere near full capacity. The Outer Harbor has been mothballed for 2+ years. [0] The coal shipments would displace the current bulk shipments terminal as it would be converted to a dedicated coal export term
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by DoubleCribble 8y ago
Honestly, that depends on the interest rate spread. If I could get the same terms as a new car (let's say 1.9% on 60 months) during a boom economy/post-crash correction, I just might. Of course, you're never going to see tha
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by DoubleCribble 8y ago
If you have the cash and can invest it better (net taxes and fees) than what the cost of the loan is, why not? If you are fortunate enough to qualify for a very low interest loan (usually on a new car), even a very reasonable growth rate o
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by DoubleCribble 8y ago
We canceled service and returned our Comcast box to the local office once a local WISP became available. A week later, a bill arrived in the mail charging us for the box. Apparently, the billing system doesn't first check the equipme
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by DoubleCribble 8y ago
Lotlita is only #4 on the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list.[0] Maybe he would've done better if he'd stuck to writing novels in his first language (Russian)? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Libra
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by DoubleCribble 8y ago
Reflective flare from the sun, perhaps?

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