NineStarPoint

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by NineStarPoint 6y ago
Basic maths is pretty much the only pure discipline I can think of, unfortunately. Indeed I cannot think of any reason for politics to influence math teachers. There are still people today in the US who consider teaching evolution a step to
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I'd think that assuming knowledge of the seeds isn't an interesting question from the perspective of the player. To me the much more interesting question, and what I presume 1 is asking, would be "Assuming true randomness, is
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It’s possible you heard about it a whole ago, it’s been an ongoing boycott for a while: http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_internation... http://www.businesskorea.co.kr/news/arti
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by NineStarPoint 6y ago
If I could have when I was in college, I totally would have just watched the 100+ people lectures online. If I wanted clarification office hours were always more useful, and most of my teachers and TAs were very pleasant to engage in that c
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You’re too used to privlage being used as a pejorative I think. It’s highly relevant that if a school admin wanted to use Malan’s work as an example to base some classes off of, that they can’t just throw a teacher at their normal course lo
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It’s not quite like natural, natural is a word that would predate any comoany trying to take it for their own ends. “Open Source” as a terminology was coined in 1998 by a group of people, and the OSI was formed by one of those people that s
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I think the context was of soon to be college graduates trying to get their first job. Which somewhat makes sense given how little information employers have to go off for those hires to begin with. Once you have your first job I can’t imag
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It’s actually the Japanese version of MapleStory that first had the “Gachapon ticket” in 2004, which gave random in game items and cost real money. (While it seems to have been ported to other versions later on, I can’t figure out when that
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Hmmm, there probably is actually a benefit to the other students there, but not “Harvard Experience.” Assuming the child of a previous Harvard grad is more likely to have important social connections than the average applicant, them being a
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100% the US is better than the more corrupt countries in the world, even if it does seem we tend to have more problems than the other first world countries. But on nepotism, I wonder if it’s not just that we are somewhat more against nepoti
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They are the sellers of a VR headset, and want to increase the odds of that market taking off by adding a great game to it. Business decision wasn’t based around the game’s ability to sell well, but it’s ability to sell headsets. While this
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TF2 definitely feels to me like the origin of widespread loot boxes in gaming (The actual origin appears to be MapleStory in 2004, and the appearance of widespread free to play social network games with loot boxes does slightly predate thei
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In the general sense, I think you’re right that part of it is US employees getting unhappy that jobs are moving elsewhere because they’re cheaper. From a moral standpoint there’s not much wrong about giving people in other countries a bette
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by NineStarPoint 6y ago
While I’d take approval voting over FPTP, to me it exacerbates the issue of voting being highly tactical. Checking approve on someone I believe to be more popular than my favorite candidate lowers the chance my favorite candidate wins. If t
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Most people I know only use WhatsApp specifically with friends who came from/are in other countries. Even then I personally know more people who use LINE than WhatsApp for some reason. Internal to the US, very few people I know use Wha
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It only become Hypocrisy if Apple starts to argue google isn't allowed to require them to use google payment/isn't allowed to boot them from the play store for trying to circumvent rules. Without any action from google, it&#x
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I agree, but would say that in real life most of the people I know who like mechanical keyboards like them for hand strain reasons. They find them more comfortable to work with. While the code written is the same on both, that things like 4
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The theory I hadn’t heard before was the theory that human children uniquely help with the raising children process when compared to other complex species, and this helped make the population boom faster than it would have been otherwise. A
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In as much as the other members of NATO (particularly the US, who is the primary funder of NATO) care about those commitments, yes. Which is to say, I’m not sure how much it maters historically when the US did not seem to particularly care.
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Functionally, I agree with you on China in many respects. Ultimately no trade with them is really free trade regardless due to the way they manage their own economy. The problem with Trump in this regard is that he didn’t just call out Chin
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But what Trump represents to allies is not just an oscilating to conservative control. It represents the willingness of the american public to put someone in charge of foreign policy that has a complete disrespect for America’s allies, and
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EDIT: Didn’t take much reflection to realize a lot of awful stuff liberty wise happened during the cold war, so scrap my comment.
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They say in the article that “In all likelihood, they probably don’t miss humans per se. They probably miss a free meal and the routine.” and “When it’s not happening, maybe it’s just out of boredom.” Which actually seems more plausible to
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We don’t even have enough PPE for current use levels yet do we? I hope people are trying to solve issues like that too, but I feel we’ve got quite a ways to go.
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It’s definitely fair to disagree with the majority here. The written dissents also make sense, and as a 5:4 decision that wasn’t along party lines you’re in good company with Supreme Court Justices who think it was an incorrect decision.
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I’m not so sure it ignores precedent, although it definitely extends it. I think Ginsberg in her dissent says it well that the issue follows from related precedent as such: “To explain why, I proceed from common ground. All agree that headn
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There are, rightly or wrongly, strong incentives to not be creative. To do the thing the medical consensus recommends, even if it is incredibly flawed, leaves the doctor personally safe. To try an experimental idea on your own could get you
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While it’s true that working hard is not sufficient to have things pay off, I think waiting to find something that pays off to work hard would result in most people missing the opportunity they were given. To sustainably work hard is a skil