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by crusso 12y ago
Well, first of all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdeterminism Second of all, you missed the point of this sub-thread. Even one of the quoted scientists claims, "Bell's theorem is the most profound discov
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by crusso 12y ago
Imagine this. Imagine that tomorrow, a string theory physicist made the discovery that the strings vibrations can actually be predicted. If you know their configuration and certain starting parameters, you can predict the spin of an elect
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by crusso 12y ago
Mine was a French "teacher". Fortunately only for one year. She normally smelled of stale beer.
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by crusso 12y ago
Good example of out of context quoting of even a short post. He said it's not the teachers' job to have the type of control that the original poster was saying that teachers should seize.
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by crusso 12y ago
As though the results of randomly flipping a coin "destroyed the definition of science"? Dealing with randomness has always been a part of science. Understanding how far that randomness permeated the nature of the universe was a
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by crusso 12y ago
You posted something to be deliberately antagonistic on a programming topic and then whined about down votes. That's two downvote reasons right there.
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by crusso 12y ago
down through reentry into an atmosphere in a deep gravity well The good news there is that space elevator climbing efficiencies could be gained without having to worry about flying some kind of aircraft.
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by crusso 12y ago
Name one thing accomplished by the occupy movement. If anything, they were a distraction from the worst culprits of the unholy corporate-government alliance.
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by crusso 12y ago
The whole point of the Singularity is that the technology will progress to a point where AI techniques will advance to produce something that is creative and intelligent enough to advance itself. Obviously, we haven't hit that point ye
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by crusso 12y ago
Yeah, I agree with that statement. It doesn't really connect with your previous post which was just a mouth-foaming political attack without any real substance.
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by crusso 12y ago
voting against their better interests in the name of conviction Yes, that's called having principles.
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by crusso 12y ago
$1200 to $350 and almost certainly back to $1200 at some point I lost a significant amount of money thinking that way during the .com bubble collapse.
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by crusso 12y ago
which means instead of a discovery in lab A spurring a totally new way of thinking in lab B Without the patent system's protections, lab A would be unlikely to divulge its discoveries to lab B.
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by crusso 12y ago
Models that don't prove their ability to predict are much worse than untrustworthy.
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by crusso 12y ago
The flip side of that is that the USA has heavily subsidized the defenses of Europe and the rest of the world. Not that they've asked for it - but it's difficult to conceive that Europe would have escaped Hitler or the USSR's
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by crusso 12y ago
if the purpose of prison is to rehabilitate people You imply that rehabilitation is the only reason for prison and that there are proven methods of rehabilitation. Rehabilitating people is hard and we don't know of any great ways to
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by crusso 12y ago
I mean that once you are across the border, you can claim "persecution" without any evidence and won't be deported.
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by crusso 12y ago
It's a tragedy. The worst thing is that you're trying to do things legally within the US system but those who intentionally break the law have a much easier time of it. Whether or not someone believes in more open or less open imm
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by crusso 12y ago
will not damage the market position of the service I'm sure that's what MySpace thought during their heyday.
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by crusso 12y ago
You guys are not really arguing about more regulation vs less regulation. You're arguing about more corruption vs less corruption.
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by crusso 12y ago
The article you linked to mentions that the standardized testing organizations have such a lock on testing that schools have to buy their specific expensive study materials or else the students will do worse on the standardized tests. I don
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by crusso 12y ago
Meh, I'll let TokenAdult post the very long and detailed refutation of the statistics themselves and the validity of the questions being asked. You seem to be saying that we shouldn't care about controlling for variables like thi
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by crusso 12y ago
But we already know that raw education spending is not the problem. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/25/oecd-education-repo...
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by crusso 12y ago
It purports to be an article about correctly analyzing Charter school articles, but then it goes into advocacy mode cherry picking the stats it wants to while framing the whole argument in a specific light. I didn't call it a "hit
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by crusso 12y ago
Your comment indicates that you didn't really even read or attempt to think about mine. You're asking me to nitpick statistics that frame the exact worldview the article was pushing. I'm saying that in the big picture, those
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by crusso 12y ago
Because it's a political hit piece, designed to help nip this nasty threat to the established public education power structure in the bud. At the end of the day, school choice doesn't matter. The fact that Charter schools are rel
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by crusso 12y ago
Civic or Tenderloin is ever going to change. Why? Because the city and the electorate lack the will to deal with the problem vs doing little feel-good things that dance around the edges.
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by crusso 12y ago
What does "unbiased" mean in the context of a group that has a stated advocacy purpose? Why would we expect or want anything else? You're free to act or not upon the EFF's urging - but at least they're honest about
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by crusso 12y ago
In your own way, you're doing the exact same thing that you're accusing your grandparent poster of doing. You're implying/assuming that he has no foundation for his argument. When you have no trust in an authority, it&#
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by crusso 12y ago
1. These script-based solutions generally work across a variety of platforms where compiled executables would need to be customized. 2. They give an easy way to automatically download and install a tool in one pasteable command without havi

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