Tichy

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by Tichy 13y ago
Or they'll pivot, like they've always done before.
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by Tichy 13y ago
It's all about money, I guess. Probably they think you'll cost the country more than you'll contribute. (Not saying I like it).
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by Tichy 13y ago
Interesting, although I wonder if "death by dehydration" would be the correct labeling of those cases. Like if you are being stabbed through the heart, technically you die of heart failure.
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by Tichy 13y ago
"If you use your thumb to unlock it, the way Apple designed it, then you are looking for the finger which is least likely to leave a decent print on the iPhone." If the issue is smudgy prints, I wonder if some image processing cou
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by Tichy 13y ago
I think it is generally understood that such articles are about averages. Your existence has no bearing on the proportions of boys vs girls who display certain behaviors. If there are on average gender differences in behavior, it makes sens
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by Tichy 13y ago
Sure, but that approach is also a root cause of overpopulation of the planet. Maybe you could even call it a kind of pyramid scheme, because everybody needs several children to support them (one is not enough, too risky). So obviously it is
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by Tichy 13y ago
The article mentions that he actually has enough money to live on, but works to get extra perks, like flights to visit his children. I suppose he is also a "protestant work ethic" kind of guy who can't stand not working.
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by Tichy 13y ago
Does this even need scientific validation? There seem to be people who can't code at all, so if you can code, compared to them you are an infinity times engineer.
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by Tichy 13y ago
Yes? For those who bother to learn about it.
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by Tichy 13y ago
How does that work - they forget to drink and die?
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by Tichy 13y ago
I'm not sure it has stricter controls (think you can buy it OTC, too, but not 100% sure), but it also has better health insurance for everyone. Perhaps that could be a factor - people are more likely to see a physician before overdosin
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by Tichy 13y ago
You can kill yourself with Aspirin, in fact I thought that Aspirin was the #1 choice for that (without research). In any case, take too much and you are dead - I think not because of stomach ulsters, but because of bleeding in the brain. Ag
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by Tichy 13y ago
Typing "timer for 10 seconds" is similar to programming. Most people don't want to program. In a world where people still don't know what a browser is, I am optimistic for online-stopwatch.
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by Tichy 13y ago
Nice - although I have to wonder. It says "96% understand politics, vs 60% of non-homeschoolers". What would be the corresponding quotas for evolution theory? Also it would be good to have a comparison of pupils from similar socio
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by Tichy 13y ago
Isn't it rather easy to obtain somebody's DNA, and also clone it? Seems even easier than obtaining somebody's fingerprints.
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by Tichy 13y ago
I like that story because my kid has such a birthday that will make us have to decide. But it is a bit annoying that now there are conflicting statements: some research seems to claim the disadvantage of being the younger kid is statistical
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by Tichy 13y ago
That's nice, too, although I think the concept of fractional powers was only introduced much later in my school.
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by Tichy 13y ago
I agree that probably training too much manual addition and multiplication is a waste of time these days. However, a bit of it still seems to be useful. For example I am often able to calculate the bill in a restaurant (not always, though).
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by Tichy 13y ago
I feel a bit bad for not memorizing it, to be honest. Not sure if there is any other way for learning to multiply? How do you "understand" that 6x 8 = 48? With bigger numbers, then you can apply a system. And as I mentioned I also
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by Tichy 13y ago
The problem is that something like sqrt(2) can not be represented as a number in a calculator. So as long as the calculator only operates with numbers, instead of doing algebra, it will do it wrong. In the case of sqrt(2) x sqrt(2), most ca
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by Tichy 13y ago
Well that is also wrong, or at least the .0 shows that the calculator is not doing the equations, it is just calculating. It doesn't know know that sqrt(2) x sqrt(2) = sqrt(2 x 2) = sqrt(2^2) = 2 And that is the kind of thing you get t
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by Tichy 13y ago
I think studies found that around 8 hours of work per day are the optimum to maximize performance. That means firms, and also schools, take the best out of you. After having worked those 9 hours, forget about doing an interesting project of
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by Tichy 13y ago
I think it's mostly parents who want to be at work in time.
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by Tichy 13y ago
The driving factor for mathematics is laziness. I didn't even memorize the basic multiplication table (1-10) for a long time, but I remembered some shortcuts (like multiplying stuff by 9 was easy) and got by.
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by Tichy 13y ago
Do calculators even routinely work with infinite precision (like (sqrt(2) x sqrt(2) = 2)? I guess you could achieve some results with Mathematia or something like that, but I have my doubts about the average calculator. Sometimes it is stil
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by Tichy 13y ago
Why mention the gender, or anything? Why not just "3 people"? Was the number of people even relevant. It was a story. I don't think we want stories in general to be devoid of any ornaments at all.
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by Tichy 13y ago
I looked on Wikipedia, apparently Asian Americans comprise 5.6% of the population. Perhaps that is low enough to not be the default assumption about somebody, warranting special mention? Also according to Wikipedia "White Americans&quo
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by Tichy 13y ago
Asian ladies tend to look different from Caucasian ladies. So it evokes a different picture. I don't think racism or sexism or anything needs to be cited. Sure, you can point out that he seems to be writing from the default perspective
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by Tichy 13y ago
How to interpret that, though? Seems likely to me that who asks for custody would be influenced by their chances of receiving it. How many of those cases are "contested custody"? Then that article places the claim "Additional
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by Tichy 13y ago
It's certainly a worry, but the Minecraft example shows that there might be games that are creative and intelligent. Naturally I hope to get my son interested in programming, too. But I suppose I can't take it for granted that he

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