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by SiVal 11y ago
And a MUCH higher percentage of kids are taught garbage by the state than by religious homeschoolers. Children belong to their own families, not to the state, except in cases of serious abuse, and deviating from the state's (and statis
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by SiVal 11y ago
You left out the biggest cost of all: technology theft. The Chinese government wants its manufacturers to watch for technologies that could be of economic or military value and to pass them on to relevant Chinese organizations for use. When
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by SiVal 11y ago
Homeschooling in the US works out much better now than it did in the time the article describes, because the government did something out of character: it actually returned some liberty to parents that it had taken from them. When parents w
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by SiVal 11y ago
+1 to you for being such a good, decent person, but I think you're mistaking me for a different poster. I'm well-established in the industry, fortunately, but I'm annoyed at those who take advantage of people less fortunate t
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by SiVal 11y ago
Yeah, if only they knew somebody with the technical skills to edit an HTML document who was available for a tiny Web project and wouldn't cost very much. Now, where could a school that teaches people HTML editing, and assigns them HTML
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by SiVal 11y ago
Yes, I noticed that this story was a parable of what happens when a charismatic leader declares something taboo, because of all the unforeseen problems it always causes, so the acolytes resort to a workaround that has the same problems in a
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by SiVal 11y ago
No, the grouping I'm talking about is not by some arbitrary trait but by genetic relatedness. Two groups with recent common ancestry within the group and only distant common ancestry across groups. Genetic similarity is the "maste
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by SiVal 11y ago
And the fact that all studied traits in all categories were found to have a significant degree of heritability strongly suggests that where groups obviously differ in traits that are easily visible, a similar degree of group difference in n
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by SiVal 11y ago
All is well between us, and I can't thank you enough for what you're trying to do. Here I thought ES6 was the best news of the year for Web dev, but wasm will beat it by far --as long as the long-term cooperation you (correctly)
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by SiVal 11y ago
Actually I do recognize those final six lines. That's what I used to get on my terminal screen decades ago when I was trying to pull the phone out of the accoustic coupler and hang up.
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by SiVal 11y ago
As long as Apple hasn't officially agreed to this, and you seem to have some sort of embargo on even referring to them by name, something other than full buy-in from them is still a possibility. This possibility makes me nervous, becau
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by SiVal 11y ago
WebAssembly has so far been a joint effort among Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and a few other folks. I’m sorry the work was done via a private github account at first, but that was a temporary measure to help the several big companies reach
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by SiVal 11y ago
Beautiful effect. Well done. (And I have no weird scrolling effects on either Firefox on laptop or Safari on phone, so maybe it was fixed.)
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by SiVal 11y ago
Do videos of these post-keynote sessions ever become available to people not attending the show? Registered developers? General public?
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by SiVal 11y ago
They have this rule, which they claim is one of their most common reasons for rejecting and app (from Apple.com): NOT ENOUGH LASTING VALUE If your app doesn’t offer much functionality or content, or only applies to a small niche market,
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by SiVal 11y ago
Unfortunately, Apple offers a very short menu of business models to the (iOS) app developer, most of which are absurd for the developer. The very sensible approach you suggest is called a "demo" or "free trial" version b
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by SiVal 11y ago
I think Apple would likely reject such a design as being a "demo" version, which is explicitly forbidden--unfortunately.
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by SiVal 11y ago
The problem is that trying a language isn't like trying a new restaurant. At a new restaurant, I'll know within an hour almost all I would know after a year, and my chances of misjudging the restaurant that first hour are both low
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by SiVal 11y ago
So how about requiring all (US) federal financial aid be given in the form of a fixed-percentage federal salary deduction for the first decade after graduation? The school has to defer the aided portion of tuition, getting paid AFTER making
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by SiVal 11y ago
Also true. As you are saying, growth rate will remain non-zero birth rate minus non-zero death rate.
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by SiVal 11y ago
It was not the opposite in the US 30 years ago, when I chose EE over CS, because EE was clearly more respected as being the more intellectually demanding. This had a lot to do with the capabilities of hardware at the time and the locus of v
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by SiVal 11y ago
Kiloreux and others who have benefited in similar ways, PLEASE email your stories to Coursera, edX, MIT OCW, or any other sites whose MOOCs have helped you. Sometimes, they are sitting in a meeting room discussing whether to discontinue som
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by SiVal 11y ago
Even if population growth rate is negative, that only means that birth rate minus death rate is negative, not that birth rate itself is negative. If immortality makes the death rate zero, the growth rate can't be negative, and the birt
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by SiVal 11y ago
Has anyone here done a comparison of server-side PDF generators? PDFKit, ReportLab, etc?
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by SiVal 11y ago
So very true. From the article: In almost all societies a lot of men enjoy unwarranted advantages simply because of their sex. Much has been done over the past 50 years to put this injustice right; quite a bit still remains to be done. Ye
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by SiVal 11y ago
So, he thinks it's best for entrepreneurs to ramp up the volatility, because a 90% chance of failure with a 10% chance of $100M is the way to go. Advice from a guy with his own risk spread over a portfolio of such companies to a guy wh
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by SiVal 11y ago
When you use an encoding based on integral bytes, you can use the hardware-accelerated and often parallelized "memcpy" bulk byte moving hardware features to manipulate your strings. But inserting a codepoint with your approach wou
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by SiVal 11y ago
They do, usually edge on. Every year they get more focused on what their hardware looks like from the side and seem less concerned with how their software works when you're facing the screen.
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And in others, passing such legislation for your cronies' financial profit makes you a criminal.
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by SiVal 11y ago
Swimming, by which I mean being able to be in the water without touching the bottom or holding onto anything and moving around comfortably, is not much of a skill. You can do it, dogs can do it, it's no big deal, BUT ONLY if you feel s

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