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by civilian 11y ago
The Gates Foundations is a counterpoint to your theory. Yes they're volatile, but they've helped change the way that charities operate, with numbers and tracking progress. It feels like when single/double-digit millionaires d
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by civilian 11y ago
The port can't store 18,000 TEU, so bubble sort's memory requirements won't work.
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by civilian 11y ago
Yeah, trees are annoyingly good at absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere. They have the benefits: 1. CO2 dissolves into their fluids 2. The CO2 is almost immediately next to the places that is going to use it 3. Since the Calvin Cycle is distri
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by civilian 11y ago
What ars is saying that he wants to take the complex and partially-saturated hydrocarbons in coal and turn them into a hydrogen-satured hydrocarbon. (Most coal has a lot of double-bonds and loops within the carbon, in addition to a hydroxyl
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by civilian 11y ago
You're right, but with a few asterisks. Citizen's arrest can only be for felonys. The citizen who is arresting also is liable in the scenario where the arrestee isn't guilty--- because then the citizen arrester could be liabl
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by civilian 11y ago
I remember reading an Arthur C. Clarke book where a space liner has lost their engines and their airlocks. The protagonist on the military rescue ship decides to do something drastic: blow up the space liner. They seal the people into group
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by civilian 11y ago
Oh huh, it's weird to think about microsoft word's spelling and grammar checker as a linter. I like that it. It sure would have been cool to be able to write custom lint rules when I was writing a lot of history papers. Like: If
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by civilian 11y ago
Coffee was also a big cash crop in the new world and would have been a lot cheaper in the U.S. than in Europe, so maybe that was it?
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by civilian 11y ago
If you're looking for loud overseas cities, you should visit Beijing. :) Heavy car traffic, constant honking, loud salespeople, and everyone is constantly hawking a loogie (since it's unhealthy to swallow phlegm, according to trad
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by civilian 11y ago
I think you're getting downvoted for implying nuclear is evil. Let's look at deaths per kW of different power sources! http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-de... You
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by civilian 11y ago
The depression-fixing threshold is smaller that most recreational use, and it would only be once every two weeks. That side effect trivial to rule it out. Educate yourself and stop being a pawn of the drug war. I watched two documentaries i
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by civilian 11y ago
I think journalists and police chiefs/PR often misuse the "few bad apples" metaphor. A few rotten apples will ruin the whole barrel . Their rot encourages the rest of the apples to rot. A few bad apples can't be tolerat
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by civilian 11y ago
As a lefty, cursive can stay dead.
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by civilian 11y ago
What about it would you want automated? What kind of scripts would you add to your personal knowledgebase?
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by civilian 11y ago
Have you read the Pickwick Papers? It wouldn't surprise me if Dickens did speak that stuffily.
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by civilian 11y ago
This really just reminds me how much I hate Dickens' writing style. He adds unnecessary lists in the middle of sentences which distracts the reader, and adds little unrelated remarks that distracts from the point of an individual sente
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by civilian 11y ago
Huh, even if the bashing quotes came directly from chess grandmasters? I figured it was a good appeal to authority that a discouraged chess player would respect more.
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by civilian 11y ago
That is a great question. I've emailed your post to linguafranca@ in hopes that they answer it with a blog post. I just got back from a three-week vacation in China and I still don't feel informed enough to know the answer to that
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by civilian 11y ago
For more reading, the author recommends "English as a Global Language" by David Crystal. It's available in pdf here: http://www.culturaldiplomacy.org/academy/pdf/research/books/...
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by civilian 11y ago
In the graphic of where English is the official language, Quebec should really be colored grey. :D
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by civilian 11y ago
If you're someone who enjoys intense strategy games like Chess (and Dominion and other modern euro board games), but you're disappointed in Chess for some reason or another, I've got a game for you--- Go. Here are some chess
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by civilian 11y ago
No way, the checked-out drivers cause a ton more problems than aggressive drivers. If all drivers properly sorted themselves by desired speed from left to right we'd have much more efficient highways. I'd also make the argument t
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by civilian 11y ago
I don't think it's even a game theory problem, because most of the actors aren't even rationally looking at their options. In the Pacific Northwest, maybe 20% of drivers are trying to make any decision that will help them. M
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by civilian 11y ago
Really any drug company (or an anti-drug organization like the DEA) would be looking for someone who can do dark magic with statistics.
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by civilian 11y ago
I'm about to start tutoring with a teacher in Go. We're going to be doing similar things. My weekly homework includes: 1. 30 minutes of problems a day. 2. Play 5 rated games (i.e. games that COUNT with 30+mins on the clock for ea
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by civilian 11y ago
Wasn't Beat agreeing with Jonesb6? Did you forget a /sarcasm tag?
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by civilian 11y ago
I'm pretty sure they don't. There are PRs campaigns saying they would like to get closer to those quotas, but I don't think any engineering management is actually going to let their interview process be changed. At companies
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by civilian 11y ago
Why is 'decrminalise' in quotes? Is it b/c it's only partially decriminalized, or is it crappy journalism?
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by civilian 11y ago
Good point, but I believe he addresses that: > One thing we have to be wary of in this calculation of persistence is surname changing. If people going to the university born with the surname Anderson were changing this to Wigonius, then
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by civilian 11y ago
It's not even that mating like that is increasingly happening--- it's been that way in nobility for a long time. What is the True Rate of Social Mobility in Sweden? A Surname Analysis, 1700-2012 http://www.econ.ucdavis.

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