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by araneae 17y ago
Point 1: It's perfectly possible for the average woman to do better than the average male on the verbal portion of the SAT and for the average male to do better on his verbal portion of the SAT than on his math score. Not that that's true
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by araneae 17y ago
I guess 6 coders is kind of like 100 ninjas. In other news, I don't understand why so many people would up-vote a post which is has almost no content and is ostensibly promotional.
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Why women read more than men (2007)(npr.org)
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by araneae 17y ago
I wonder if some of this confusion has to do with the way you count words; do you count duplicates or don't you? One of the studies cited found that men and women talk about the same amount (it was a review, and some of the papers in revi
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by araneae 17y ago
I'm interested by the gender split. The man reads only non-fiction, and the woman reads only fiction; the same is true for my parents. My dad doesn't read fiction because he thinks its useless, but rather because he just doesn't enjoy it
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by araneae 17y ago
Meal Minder is cool, but you might want to work on the automatic-filling-in bit. It read my directions as an ingredients list... AND as directions. I listed my ingredients with bullet points (*) which is a pretty common format, and they w
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by araneae 17y ago
The problem is that we don't have a good metric for what a good education is. Anytime you try to come up with one and enforce it, like No Child Left Behind, someone doesn't like it. In that Alan Greenspan book that was posted, he remarked
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by araneae 17y ago
"Ms. Derrick" lied to the other teachers about asking him to install software on her computer. She apologized to him, but she's still portrayed in a bad light and used as an example throughout the book as the proof that "all adults lie." I
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by araneae 17y ago
I actually wish my my thinkpad would display a dialog when it was overheating, instead of just completely shutting down randomly in the middle of my work. Come to think of that, my Dell did that too... (and this is coming from someone who
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Zim- a desktop wiki(zim-wiki.org)
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by araneae 17y ago
This is a good example of how patents prevent the very innovation they're supposed to protect.
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by araneae 17y ago
I'm on page 73, and I don't think this guy has said one positive thing about a single person so far (except his parents, who always take his side). What an anger-filled rant.
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by araneae 17y ago
Every place I've ever worked had people working on Saturdays. I'm sure there are statistics on this somewhere, though.
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It's... a novelty account. And here I thought the reports of a Reddit overthrow were overblown.
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http://hackerhousewife.wordpress.com/2010/02/21/hack-shredde...
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by araneae 17y ago
Right. It may be temporary, but how long it's temporary is something that could really hurt them. Hardly anything I want to watch on Netflix is On Demand, and I already hate Sundays.
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by araneae 17y ago
Why Saturday? They should cut out a day in the middle of the week. This way, you'll have to wait up to two days longer for a given item. It's better to distribute that wait time.
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by araneae 17y ago
You can get free shipping at the xkcd store. cheat mode cd store
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by araneae 17y ago
Hey, that's what my cat said too! And we don't even have a cat flap, she's indoor only. Something seems fishy...
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by araneae 17y ago
it's just that we're socialized Okcupid has the data, and men are more likely to message women than vice versa. Whether or not it's innate is irrelevant to this conversation. But since you like anecdotal evidence so much, here: http://w
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by araneae 17y ago
"I felt for those guys. Each one pouring out his heart, projecting his hopes onto Valerie, hoping she'll reply with equal enthusiasm, hoping she might be the one that will finally see and appreciate him. She said, “Ugh. Losers. I get like
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by araneae 17y ago
This article reminds me of when I tried to use Weebly. Weebly is like the iPad of the website-building world ^-^.
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Data sifted from Facebook wiped after legal threats (newscientist.com)
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"This is training for permanent underclasses, people who are to be deprived forever of finding the center of their own special genius. And it is training shaken loose from its original logic: to regulate the poor." Having taught unruly 7th
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That sounds like Freud, who is pretty much discredited on everything. There's really no evidence for "latent" or "subconscious" processes that are analogous to conscious processes, such as fear. Fear is always pretty damn conscious.
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SEO
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by araneae 17y ago
I do that for all 2 digit multiplication I do in my head- I just use foil.
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by araneae 17y ago
Interesting, mostly because I have no idea who avc is but I do remember fnid2 as someone who really annoyed me at one time or another. I think we have better memories for people who piss us off than for those we respect ^-^
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by araneae 17y ago
Hmm, not working my version of Mozilla either.
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by araneae 17y ago
Really? Reformatting will solve the "bracket should be on a new line" problem, anyway.

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