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by bloaf 7y ago
https://imgur.com/aJJ3nvD
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by bloaf 7y ago
So the obvious question is: how many uneventful naps do we need to take before we declare that it actually is safe?
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by bloaf 7y ago
Youtube is just following its own policy: "[we] specifically prohibit videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion based on qualities like age" So because they cannot justif
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by bloaf 7y ago
This question of the relationship between math and CS always boggles my mind. Computers are, in a very real sense, automatic math machines. Programmers are, in a very real sense, telling the automatic math machines what math to do. No
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by bloaf 7y ago
One other thing to keep in mind about social psychology: http://www.spsp.org/news-center/blog/stereotype-accuracy-res... > Stereotype accuracy is one of the largest and most replicable effects in all of social
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by bloaf 7y ago
Where I work, there is currently a push to get python on the computers that manage physical equipment operation. These computers are not allowed to connect to the internet, and have extremely limited connectivity to the rest of the busines
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by bloaf 7y ago
I recall reading in an older running book (maybe one of Jeff Galloway's) something along the lines of: because of physiological differences, in theory women may be able to outperform men in ultra-high mileage events. I suspect the aut
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by bloaf 7y ago
I suspect your question has an unmarked asterisk, which is that the students end up with similar standardized test scores and GPA. For that to happen, it must be the case that a student at the good school can get good grades while learning
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by bloaf 7y ago
Probably something along the lines of: Without accommodation, being able to learn, participate, and demonstrate competency in a series of courses which presume a student's mastery of information presented through secondary education.
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by bloaf 7y ago
The crime rate in a neighborhood is actually something kids can control (i.e. they can commit crimes to boost their scores).
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by bloaf 7y ago
I don't think you can ever eliminate that, short of removing kids from their parents Plato's Republic style. Adding more rules will just create perverse incentives (e.g. parents incentivized to increase crime rate in their neighbo
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by bloaf 7y ago
I'm going to posit that Mathematica knows that its value proposition is not its syntax.
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by bloaf 8y ago
https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-si... Savings rate is basically the only number that matters in determining how long until you can comfortably retire. A 10% savings rate puts you
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by bloaf 8y ago
"Low" is a relative term, and so we must ask "low compared to what?"
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by bloaf 8y ago
>That kind of lifestyle is just not worth it. Different people have different tolerances. For some, a spartan lifestyle "costs" them nothing at all.
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by bloaf 8y ago
I'm mildly interested in industrial-ready boards myself, but my industrial-ready means sitting outside in a hot and high-vibration environment doing signal processing. Everything I've heard about Erlang says it would be great at
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by bloaf 8y ago
Tom Waits has such a unique guttural sound, I can't get enough of it. Daniel Durchholz said of his voice: "it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over wi
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by bloaf 8y ago
See also: the drive to return the American Chestnut to the forests of Appalachia. https://www.acf.org/the-american-chestnut/history-american-c...
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by bloaf 8y ago
The one universal piece of money advice is "Spend less than you earn, and put the difference somewhere that earns interest." Most articles, recognizing this universal truth, go on to propose ways of spending less and saving more
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by bloaf 8y ago
I'm not a fan of the Randy Newman's Rednecks. I think most of Tom Lehrer's music would be a better, "I wanna go back to dixie" would even one up Newman on the same topic. https://www.youtube.com/wat
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by bloaf 8y ago
As an author of a book on a niche technical subject, the profit motive was not actually in the revenue from book sales, but rather the prestige associated with being the author of a book on something.
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by bloaf 8y ago
I'm sure you're aware that one of the "engineers from oil and gas companies" that I mentioned is Dr. Flannery, an author of the literal bible of computational numerical methods [1]. I'm sure you're aware that
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by bloaf 8y ago
All models are wrong. Some are useful. Basically every organization that has looked at the issue and built a serious model has reached the same conclusion. From early studies done by engineers at oil and gas companies, to research underta
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by bloaf 8y ago
That's a super cool dataset. It does drive the more philosophical question of "what constitutes a building" though. Looking at the map, it seems that large liquid storage tanks count as buildings, but pipelines do not. Othe
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by bloaf 8y ago
Are you making this to sell as a fun game, or as something you'd put into a portfolio to advertise yourself to employers? If you're trying to sell games, your site focuses on all the wrong things. 1) I need a reason to want to pla
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by bloaf 8y ago
Do you believe tracking in websites is the only mechanism by which they collect information about you? Hint: it is not. At all.
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by bloaf 8y ago
I am like 90% sure Facebook still keeps track of you indirectly. So as far as Facebook is concerned, you definitely still exist after quitting. https://spideroak.com/articles/facebook-shadow-profiles-a-pr...
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by bloaf 8y ago
A bit off topic, but your talk of industrially-produced perfect cupcakes made me remember this old story about just such a thing: http://aliendovecote.com/uploads/twine/sauna.html
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by bloaf 8y ago
The issue is that the forced interactions via geographical proximity are a kind of moderating force. Communities built around what they love are usually good, but what if what you love is terrible? https://imgur.com/GripW3M
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by bloaf 8y ago
Web hosting is cheap enough that Wikipedia runs entirely on donations.

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