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by Zanni 6y ago
Ditto. I score 98+ percentile on SAT, GRE, etc., but only 50th percentile on this. Ran out of time on question 34 of 50. I didn't take advantage of scratch paper and pencil, which would have helped. Or pay much attention to the timer.
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by Zanni 6y ago
Unravel 2 is also on Switch, Xbox and Windows, and it is delightful. I don't generally like platformers, but I love everything about this game: character design, puzzles, graphics, even the slightly menacing storyline. The co-op play i
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by Zanni 6y ago
Yes, it looks like that, but it isn't. All those distinct lineages are functionally equivalent. That's the point. A detectable difference isn't the same as a functional difference in transmissibility, virulence, etc.
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by Zanni 6y ago
Here's an article on why that figure might be overblown (tl;dr - sampling bias): https://towardsdatascience.com/were-21-of-new-york-city-resi...
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by Zanni 6y ago
Freshly prepared food is more expensive for all sorts of reasons than shelf-stable, highly-processed junk food. To buy fresh vegetables, you need to be able to shop frequently. To prepare fresh food, you need the time and energy to cook plu
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Professor creates unanswerable exam question, posts “answer” on cheat site(twitter.com)
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by Zanni 6y ago
Typing classes. That would be typing on an actual typewriter, not "keyboarding" on a computer.
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by Zanni 7y ago
But it sounds like your recipe for responsibility is mob justice. What other possible result could come from publicizing the name of "the person responsible" for the firing?
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by Zanni 7y ago
VR already has a killer app: Beat Saber. As for Half-Life: Alyx, it's very well done, but dear god is it intense. I'm playing through it a few minutes at a time because that's all I can handle. VR is incredibly immersive, but
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by Zanni 7y ago
https://lovebloodrhetoric.com/2019/05/08/writing-the-fight-r... You should read my series on writing fight scenes (from the perspective of a fight director) ... if you have any interest in that sort of thing.
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by Zanni 7y ago
You can keep saying it, until you provide an argument. ALL CAPS is not an argument, you're just stating your opinion louder.
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by Zanni 7y ago
Have you tried PythonAnywhere? [1] Should be a good fit for Chromebooks, assuming you've got decent internet in your class room. [1] https://www.pythonanywhere.com/details/education
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by Zanni 7y ago
To clarify, yes, Speaker for the Dead is the book Card wanted to write, but he found he had to write Ender's Game first to lay the groundwork. And he did. He wrote them in that order (Ender, Speaker). A prequel usually refers to a work
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by Zanni 7y ago
My sister, a practicing MD, says that cloth masks are worse than nothing because they act as disease reservoirs. N95 masks are single-use. People aren't throwing their homemade masks after every trip outdoors, so any contamination th
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by Zanni 7y ago
Hmm. I'm an introvert, and I find I'm less likely to participate in online discussions, mostly for the reason cycloptic mentioned above: online discussions will be read by more people and require extra care (which can be emotion
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by Zanni 7y ago
Fun fact: some are functional. The only way to know for sure is to not press the button and watch an entire light cycle go by without an opportunity to cross.
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by Zanni 7y ago
You make a good case why UBI might not affect rent in high-rent areas, but what makes you think there would be a place where housing costs are $300 a month when everyone has UBI? Why wouldn't the floor immediately become $1000 everyw
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by Zanni 7y ago
Good question. Why does it remind you of the aether and humors and not, say, the positron [1] and quarks? [2] Sometimes experiment leads theory, but sometimes theory leads experiment. It's only when theory proceeds untethered to any po
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by Zanni 7y ago
I'm guessing it's the power cable. The author is not a native English speaker, and Google says alimentation is "the provision of nourishment or other necessities."
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by Zanni 7y ago
I couldn't get into Mistborn either--solid, just didn't grab me. His Reckoner series is my favorite (Steelheart, Firefight, Calamity), though it's YA and more superhero than fantasy. Also Elantris, his first published novel,
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by Zanni 7y ago
Hmm. The article says "retailer" twice in the first paragraph, but the policy only applies to the distribution center (according to the second paragraph). In other words, the jobs they're hiring "the first person who app
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by Zanni 7y ago
Of all the things I hate about Windows, unified search is the worst. If I want to search the web, I'll search the web--there's an app for that, the browser. Let me just search my hard drive, please. I didn't experience this b
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by Zanni 7y ago
Assuming the letter is real, it may refer to a job where the quality and care of your car directly reflect your job performance--say if you work at a car dealership, detailer, mechanic, custom finish shop, etc., or if your job requires you
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by Zanni 7y ago
I think you missed the point. Graham is explicitly not using hater to disqualify genuine criticism but to identify people whose hate is irrational, who can't be reasoned with. Obviously it's a risk that someone can dismiss genui
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by Zanni 7y ago
I see this argument ("similar capabilities for 20.000 € or less") a lot, and I'm not buying it. I supposed it depends on what "capabilities" you're talking about (number of passengers?), but a Tesla is going to
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by Zanni 7y ago
That's standard practice for Amazon (the author of the introduction being listed as an author of the book). It's confusing and annoying.
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by Zanni 7y ago
No, the hype is over the vehicles themselves. EVs are the future. And, as William Gibson famously said, "The future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed." Once you experience the quiet, convenience and power of an
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by Zanni 7y ago
Here's one for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Fam%C3%ADlia
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by Zanni 7y ago
Ink is much closer to a markup language than a full programming language (though it does support variables, branching, loops and functions). Where Inform lets you build an interactive world, special-case certain interactions, and provides a
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by Zanni 7y ago
When (some) people claim the Mac Pro is overpriced, what they're really reacting to is that there isn't an upgradable tower Mac available at a price point they can afford. There are people who don't need Xeon processors and m

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