MaxScheiber

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by MaxScheiber 13y ago
I really wish I could agree with you. My gut tells me that a good number of the students that failed probably decided that it must have been because they're not good at math or engineering.
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by MaxScheiber 13y ago
I'm not sure if you're a fan of HPMOR. I personally am, and I think that this parody would lose a lot of appeal were non-Canon potter not a Mary Sue. I also don't read fan-fiction at all (this is the only fan-fiction I&#x27
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by MaxScheiber 13y ago
Interestingly enough, Yudkowsky probably uses these tropes deliberately. He himself is a reader of tvtropes.org[1], he's made explicit reference to using tropes before[2], and it makes senes that someone like Yudkowsky would know exact
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by MaxScheiber 13y ago
Tucker argues that his books teach important lessons and are deeper than just "got drunk, had sex." A common theme in a lot of his stories is that he almost always came out the loser — did something incredibly stupid, or lost a fr
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by MaxScheiber 13y ago
I find this particularly tingling because Tucker himself is a perfect example of doing things. He gets a lot of flak from people calling him a poor writer and lambasting him for writing about some of the "finer" topics in life. Ye
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by MaxScheiber 13y ago
Don't forget that Instagram wanted to achieve this goal by no longer permitting Twitter to display their images, only a link to their images.
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by MaxScheiber 13y ago
To be fair, it's really not like Instagram had never considered doing video up until Vine came out. Hell, I'm sure every high schooler had the idea of "Instagram for video"; it's a very accessible, logical progressi
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by MaxScheiber 13y ago
Two words: Bayes' theorem. I think I learned this in the fourth or fifth week of my first probability course. Thought it was a bit more commonly known.
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by MaxScheiber 13y ago
This could easily be a solid example in years to come of how a business should handle a negative event such as a recall. For another really great example of this sort of thing, watch the Domino's pizza prank response ( http:/&#x2F