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by amp108 8y ago
Specificity of recall is not an end, but it is a necessary means to the end goal of education. We can only know that someone is an independent lifelong learner if we can tell that they have learned something; not only that, but that they ha
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by amp108 8y ago
"Sink or swim" advice is laden with survivorship bias.
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by amp108 8y ago
>> EAV (Entity Attribute Value) tables—use a specialist product intended for handling such schema-less data instead. > What if you have to use the data in some complex join-heavy query? Make a copy of the data needed in the relatio
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by amp108 8y ago
People poke fun at other people who avoid gluten without having a legitimate condition that justifies it. I don't know if psoriasis does or not, but I know a friend of mine whose mother was diagnosed with Celiac disease. Once he star
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by amp108 8y ago
Leave a pen in a pair of jeans and wind up with ink spots on everything.
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by amp108 8y ago
I resent the smug tone of this post. I have ADHD; I am neither lazy nor stupid, but cooking is an ordeal for me. I cannot follow cooking instructions, at least not reliably. I'll look at the list of ingredients and get the amounts wron
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by amp108 8y ago
You're making a logical error. The article isn't saying that pain is an inevitable result of losing a source of happiness, only that this kind of pain is an indication that something impacted your happiness. If you're having
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by amp108 8y ago
I already know the difference between "MUST", "MUST NOT", "MAY", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "Obsoletes", et al, but I still feel like there's an RFC code that I haven't crac
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by amp108 8y ago
> It looks like it was "too hard" so standards are being lowered. Not at all. It turns out one of the standards was not relevant to the target population. As you quoted: "This is because in early cases of Alzheimer’s, pati
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by amp108 8y ago
We're not talking about movies with a giant snake.
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by amp108 8y ago
http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm > My answer to him was, "John, when people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong.
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by amp108 8y ago
Likewise impressed, but the fireman's own body transmitted much of the force to the window frame. So it's less the equivalent of launching someone into the air, and more like hanging on to someone while you are launched into the
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by amp108 8y ago
> Reading is just consumption. You don't have to do any critical thinking If that were true, you would believe anything and everything you read. I doubt that, barring Trump tweets, I will read a more ignorant statement all week.
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by amp108 8y ago
I don't know what makes the storyline "bad", necessarily, but I really don't understand the acting charge, especially against the original 1977 release. Alec Guinness, James Earl Jones, Peter Cushing, Harrison Ford--no
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by amp108 8y ago
I don't know which specific novels you're referring to, but the first sentence/paragraph/chapter of a novel often need to have a different tone from the rest. The opening of a novel sets the scene and sets the tone and r
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by amp108 8y ago
The two are very different. A book is mostly prose, in black and white, by the author. A cover is graphic design elements (and even the text is treated as a design element on the cover), most often in color, created by someone else.
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by amp108 8y ago
Just to clarify, that's Cornell College, not Cornell University.
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by amp108 8y ago
With regard to famine: the word "news" means "new things". It is literally the plural of "new". Famines are typically long-term events that have built up over time. Famine in (parts of) Africa? Old story. Famin
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by amp108 8y ago
> Remember that you've got through every single day after a bad night's sleep before just fine. Not everyone has gotten through every day just fine, though. Drowsiness increases the chance of automobile accidents, decreases wor
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by amp108 8y ago
While it is possible that this is the case, I doubt that it is equally likely. Parents who fight for that long would have to be bad at reading faces, and abnormally bad at speaking, to accidentally misread each other through an entire argum
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by amp108 8y ago
"Closed as duplicate" is such a frustrating experience with SO, especially since the canonical answer for the original post so often has so little to do with the supposed "duplicate" post, other than a superficial simila
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by amp108 8y ago
I looked for pluralization in the standard, and couldn't find it. Of course, I only glanced over the Table of Content.
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by amp108 8y ago
> I'm not trying to marginalize his message that skin color is the cause. But it's certainly not the only cause. The root of the problem lies with the police, and society, villifying anyone who isn't diurnal. I had similar
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by amp108 8y ago
> Did she? Did many people really called that crisis hotline because of her, and to the point of making it "unavailable"? The article implies that it did. Even if it didn't, saying that it's okay is like saying it&#x2
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by amp108 8y ago
Those statistics are over one's entire lifetime, though, a lifetime full of potential accidents. How do they translate to a per-trip chance?
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by amp108 8y ago
> Because in the end, nothing too great happened She fake-doxxed another school's crisis hotline, made that resource unavailable to students who needed it; she embarrassed her school and forced the administration to issue a statemen
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by amp108 8y ago
She also told people to contact her, and gave out the schools counseling hotline number instead of her real one. She deliberately messed with the school and dragged them into her personal conflict. Why shouldn't they fire her, if they
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by amp108 8y ago
She presented the school's student counseling number as her own contact #. That could and should land her in hot water with her employers, state employee or not.
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by amp108 8y ago
Are there styles which are not tied to the type of sense input? I know that I sometimes learn some things by rote, going through a linear process, and subsequently discover patterns in it. Other times, I need to know the abstract principles
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by amp108 9y ago
My mother has Alzheimer's, and I have the ApoE4 gene. Knowing is better. The only other options are (a) knowing after it's too late to do anything, or (b) knowing at the exact moment science makes a discovery. Since we can't

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