Tsagadai

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by Tsagadai 14y ago
Yes, the purpose of all education is indoctrination to a set of ideas. Home schooling is also an exercise in indoctrination to a set of ideas. Critical thinking is an idea, egalitarianism is an idea, individuality is an idea, problem solvin
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
It's not the same and that wasn't the poster's point and it isn't a strawman. Metrics are hard. Metrics for complex, creative endeavours are exceptionally hard. Both programmers and teachers are difficult to accurately evaluate and manage.
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
What CISC legacy baggage? Most of the old and underused operations are emulated with microcode on modern x86 processors. Chip makers use profiling tools just like software makers, optimize the most common cases and your benchmarks improve.
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
We know different bachelors. Most of the non-fratboy pads I have seen that are truly depressing are an inflatable mattress/pile of yogamats/camping mattress on the floor and a pile of books (sometimes a laptop). I've been in 4 bedroom house
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
You basically summarized the entire immigration debate in one post. Well done. I think it should be required for anyone arguing immigration policy from either position to go through an immigration system first. When you experience the hoops
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
I wonder how much of that write down is due to Zynga's management of OMGPOP. Their games went from fairly fun to complete spamballs (popups and constant, invasive advertising) in a matter of weeks after the acquisition. That caused almost e
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
With growth in the middle classes you will get a lot more people not working "real" jobs. This is a repeated pattern across the world. First everyone forces their children into the money-making professions. Then the second generation attemp
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
All that coral bleaching makes me pretty sad. The reef was much more colourful but it has been declining for a long time now. I wonder how much will be left in another 10 years.
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
Something must be done or their (kickstarter's) business may collapse. Banning renderings will probably cut down a bit on expectations not matching delivery, which presently is a problem. Quite a few projects seem to have underestimated the
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17-stage Lego Great Ball Contraption(youtu.be)
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
Regretting things you have done is different to regretting things you haven't done. If you regret nothing you have done at the end of your life it probably means you never made any serious, life-ruining decisions or you were incredibly luck
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
Traditionally, editors and subs write the titles. Many online news sites ape the model that preceded them in the print world (except for the part about employing editors with a talent for actual editing).
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
Boycotts are a fantasy. You would love to think that you can just ethically spend your money and the world will be fine but it is a complete myth. So what if you never buy something marked "Made in China" then I guess Haiti, Vietnam and Ind
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
Rural migrant workers in China (who make up the bulk of factory labour) have less rights than people who are residents of the area they are working in. For one, it is very hard (near impossible) for migrant workers to send their children to
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
I've been using Unity for about a year and it's not as bad as many proclaim it to be. My biggest complaint is that advanced features are hidden away. If all those crazy Compiz editors and whatnot were easier to accidentally find it would al
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
This reads like a list written by any number of people in any number of workplaces where they have difficultly working well with others. Some people are pedantic. The way to sort these issues out is to sit people according to their sensitiv
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
That languages we speak have an impact on how we group and categorise things?
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
The way the article (I know it's Nature, but still) talks about "highest possible" makes it sound dubious. Surely there is a printing scale below this at a molecular or atomic level (or even at the sub-atomic level). Saying this is the "hig
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
I wonder if that has ever affected my grades. I have truly horrendous, mostly irregular handwriting but it is readable to most people. I can, however, write in calligraphic styles but it isn't automatic. Does handwriting say anything more a
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
Rocketry is a dual-use technology; it can be used for good (satellites, exploration, science) or for launching explosives around the world. Paints are also a dual-use technology; it can be used for good (art) or evil (it can get you high).
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
Note the date for the KCC's move to scrap it (the date is today for those who didn't read the source). The real names policy has been used by the government and corporations to stifle serious discussions and criticisms in South Korea. Korea
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
Kaesong Industrial Region area is run by Hyundai Asan (Hyundai is a big group of companies and Asan is not really connected to the Motors side). Kaesong mostly produces low-end, low-tech manufactured goods (think toothbrushes and plastic to
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
Many coastal cities do flood, right now, but this is mainly due to more people living on the coast in areas with lax engineering codes. Panic probably won't come until building sea walls any higher becomes too expensive in areas where sea w
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Micro-motor developed to treat strokes(abc.net.au)
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
I am a happier cyclist having moved to a country without pointless restrictions in the name of collective safety. If people want to brain themselves that should be their own choice. Encouraging people to take responsibility for their own ac
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
Previously Skype was registered in Luxembourg, maybe it is because they are now under US ownership.
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I think there is an increasing number of people here who have either stopped thinking big or never started. Disruption is becoming just a business meme like synergy and teamwork. Some people fear change and while the community here seems to
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
If you've been to India lately you would see that this is already happening. There is a new, massive, middle class forming. Nothing happens overnight but it has certainly been improving over the last decade.
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
It is hubris to think that your users should change for you. Usability is about adapting computers to fit humans not changing humans to fit someone's definition of "right".
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by Tsagadai 14y ago
Nobody finishes their PhD without enough food to eat as a child so they don't die before they reach age 12. It is luck that you were born to your parents. It is luck that you are still alive despite the hundreds of dangers and probabilistic

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