catzaa

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by catzaa 17y ago
> That Global Warming ranks so low warrants attention. What sacrifices are we in the developed world causing by focusing on Global Warming and overlooking the other issues? If you look at the numbers, global warming are not nearly one o
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A Nobel Prize wasn't even given for the first heart transplant.
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> I rarely see any well thought out, cohesive arguments for re-structuring wikipedia. Yes, there are a few (such as the examples to improve citizendium). The first would be to remove anonymity. If the editors are know it would improve q
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Hmm… I can think of one reason. Public school is designed for the bottom 60%. Therefore the top 40% will always be dragged down towards that level. I also found (this may not be true in general) that the majority of public school teachers c
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> n the one hand there are people who think that "black economic empowerment" should stop because it's causing reverse-discrimination towards young white South-Africans who were born after apartheid and therefore have nothing to do with
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> San Francisco's BART is a lot better, to be fair, although it's still not better than the trains I've been on in a handful of other countries (Canada, mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea). Trains in mainland China is cheap and fast.
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That is true. But google also got a lot of problems. One of the biggest is spam. I hate it when you search for something and the site you get is just a listing of your search terms.
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Works now for what it is worth: Hacker News | If microsoft and yahoo are much worse than google ... ... doesn't return results in google: conquistador monkey bakery laughter confusion fear hatred love citizen kane mantra manhatten mongrel m
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This may be true. But France also has public schooling that is a mess. They have incredibly powerful teacher unions that rape the state budget. Since it is such a large amount of people, they have an incredible amount of political clout. Fr
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I always wonder if the cost of complying with new regulations is contemplated. If I think of how long our family take just to do stupid and inane administrative tasks (VAT, Union payments, tax, unemployment insurance, etc…). All this admini
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> Yeah and disabled people and ill people. The take up precious time and space! These are completely different issues. A lot of disabled people are able to sit still in their allotted space. A disability is usually also not a lifestyle
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> It's accurate that what we have is not insurance. Real health insurance would look more like life insurance, with fixed premiums that can't increase if your health degrades over time. That is what I have. It is called a “hospital plan
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> Ryanair story about charging for , or obese passengers... I see no problem with it. It is torture to sit on a flight next to an extremely obese person. They take up more plane space so they should pay more. They also turn a 13 hour fl
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Another SAfrican ;) I have seen led lights - but they all are extremely expensive. If you want to use to replace incandecent bulbs, CFLs would be a lot cheaper (IMHO). Some of my friends built their own lighting system and they ordered the
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To split a document up into multiple files. But the disadvantage is that Latex only has single includes - so you can not split a document up that much. (This is also a problem if you use images with equations such as those created by xfig (
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by catzaa 17y ago
I think it is unfair to group Chinese English with Japanese English ability. The English ability of mainland Chinese people is terrible (even though they are enthusiastic). Talking to them, even those who are well educated (grad students/pr
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Outlines in Word is excellent for ensuring that a document has excellent structure. I use latex a lot (more than Word) yet people do not see its limitations. It would be best if Latex is replaced with something like open source Adobe Framem
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I wanted to use a certain drawing program (better than xfig but proprietary) for some of my studies. Since I was too cheap to pay the $10 registration fee I decided to try and crack it. It took an afternoon with OllyDbg to crack the program
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Singapore also have an excelent system to minimize drug use.
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> Yes, because he has demonstrated his scientific objectivity by changing his point of view from time to time, digging up new evidence when scientists say his previously offered evidence is inadequate, and scrupulously honoring his most
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> 'It's just the opposite,' says Richard Haier, of the University of California, Irvine, who works with Thompson. 'If it's genetic, it's biochemical, and we have all kinds of ways of influencing biochemistry.'" There is good evidence th
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Here is a full list of comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=catz . Nothing of the last 3 days appear. In this topic there are at least 5 comments that also does not appear: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=565206 (I poste
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We had almost this exact same discussion a month ago. Firstly, you quote only from Flynn and not from any scientist holding an opposing viewpoint (e.g. Arthur Jensen). Although Flynn is a good scientist, I don't think that it is good to rel