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by cjohnson318 7y ago
demo.zotonic.com refused to connect
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by cjohnson318 7y ago
I did not get much out of frog dissection. There were lot of squishy bits in there, but I could have just taken someone's word for that.
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by cjohnson318 7y ago
The article's phrasing of "until the nation confronts and acknowledges this history" is accurate. I grew up in the Mississippi Delta. Practically no one knows about these massacres. People think the sum total of racial violen
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by cjohnson318 7y ago
> Just how much more acknowledged can this history get? The massacres in Elaine, Greenwood, Slocum, Wrightsville, and other places are not acknowledged in primary or secondary school, and are not common knowledge. If we can all agree tha
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America’s Worst Racial Massacre(nytimes.com)
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by cjohnson318 7y ago
It is an exception because it is not representative of most assault charges in the US. Getting charged for assault, and then a pat on the wrist, for punching a Nazi is by definition an exceptional event. Rolling Stone, a cultural icon, does
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by cjohnson318 7y ago
This is a very good list. I especially like asking number 8. If they can't talk about something they were passionate about, then that's a red flag. I also ask people to implement the Blum Mental Hash, which I heard about on NPR in
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by cjohnson318 7y ago
No. This idea of "innocent because X needs killing" is a bad idea. Everyone's idea of "needs killing" is different. Imagine how this hypothetical law would work out for minorities. It would not go well.
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by cjohnson318 7y ago
See it where? This anecdote sounds more like a jury or a judge making an exception in an extenuating circumstance, than the exercise of an existing law, or precedent.
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by cjohnson318 7y ago
This is not a facet of Texas law, or reflective of law in any other state. Sometimes jurors choose not to penalize or convict a person for homicide in extenuating circumstances. This is more about the nature of trial by jury in America, tha
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by cjohnson318 7y ago
Mosquitoes are valuable pollinators, and the majority do not carry diseases. If you have a simple solution to a big problem, then most likely, you're going to have more problems.
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by cjohnson318 7y ago
I just came back from an oil and gas conference, and this dog running after missing/wrong data is painfully accurate. Datasets are often partially or completely suspect. Two geologists might have contradictory opinions regarding the in
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by cjohnson318 7y ago
Thank you for posting this. I grew up in the area and I'd never heard about this.
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by cjohnson318 7y ago
I really only disagree with your characterization of my point: "Because opportunities aren't equally available to everyone, they shouldn't be made available to anyone?" I'm not saying opportunities shouldn't be
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by cjohnson318 7y ago
I agree with the general idea that coaches are able to provide a much more personal and thorough training than the traditional teacher, but that's not a good thing for students and society in general. The reason is because students sho
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by cjohnson318 7y ago
> but which is so intimidatingly enormous that you can't keep track of it, which turns every program into a trek through the documentation in case there's something there that already does what you need (and then trying to figu
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by cjohnson318 7y ago
India aside, we have the same issue with zip codes in America. The number of high school students from Santa Clara County to become developers or work in lucrative tech jobs dwarfs the number of students from similarly populous counties fro
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by cjohnson318 8y ago
No, that's not what racism is. Racism is saying that a group is less human because of their skin tone or heritage. I am not saying that white people are less human; I am saying that they enjoy privileges in America that other racial or
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by cjohnson318 8y ago
I didn't know that about Naval. I'm used to hearing this sort of self-serving advice from "self-made" people that really weren't self-made at all. The reason this vague helpless advice is appealing to people is beca
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by cjohnson318 8y ago
Pointing out the fact of white privilege and the fact that wealth often flows through generations in families is not a racist statement.
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by cjohnson318 8y ago
This is just a bunch of vague garbage. Sure, "don't trade your time for money, invest and make money off of your investments", but saying so is a lot harder than doing. All of this vague garbage is a lot easier for white uppe
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by cjohnson318 8y ago
I don't think that a list of historically unsolved problems in math, and the Collatz Conjecture in particular, count as low-hanging fruit. The fact that they have remained unsolved for so long suggests that they are rather high-hanging
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by cjohnson318 8y ago
What's some low-hanging fruit in mathematics?