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January 30: 50th Anniversary of Tet Offensive(en.wikipedia.org)
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That's 30k potential deaths compared to 30k deaths right now , every year. If terrorist attacks on cars killed 20k/year it would still be much safer than our current situation. We should mandate that every vehicle death be broa
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I understand your concern but right now 30k Americans die in car accidents. Will (potentially) hackable self-driving cars be any more dangerous than today? If you're that concerned about being involved in a car crash it seems to me th
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I understand your concern but I disagree that Pinker's book will lead to complacency. I believe the opposite: Pinker's book will prevent us from sliding into nihilism and despondency. We have plenty of media and politicians remi
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I think the distinction is that Graham's Number is a "useful" number; i.e. it was used to help answer a problem. As you note, G + 1 is larger than G but G + 1 has (so far) no known significance. BTW, I totally geeked out rea
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I presume (perhaps wrongly) that the parent finds it worrisome that Pinterest is hiring neuroscience researchers with a background of knowing how to change peoples' minds. On the other hand Kitty Xu is almost certainly a very smart per
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My apologies if my comment appeared to make a distinction between boys and girls; it wasn't my intent. In my opinion the original premise that "rules and obedience are bad" is wrong (for both boys and girls). While this top
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I completely agree. In the book Reviving Ophelia [1] the author asserts that the most well-adjusted girls were the ones who had plenty of well-defined boundaries at home. Rules are good and accepted in the adult world; why would the chi
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The ranks of the tech industry are dominated by men so if a man tried to use his sexuality to capture more eyeballs he'd likely be ignored or widely mocked. Also, since men do not endure the sexual harassment or objectification like w
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Our industry is (rightfully) going through a lot of self-examination on how we treat women as sex objects and here is a technically savvy woman projecting herself (among other things) as...a sex object. While it is certainly her right to d
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Sorry, I should have been more specific. For AdaFruit, there are two (among many) options. A general "Learn" page (learn.adafruit.com) with all sorts of step-by-step projects using different microcontrollers. Most products page
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adafruit.com and sparkfun.com are two of my go-tos. Pretty strong community support.
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My own opinion after talking with conservative friends and on the 'net is that if climate change is real, the only known option for countering it requires government (or world) regulation. It is hard for people to accept a problem if
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Another option instead of 'find' in BASH is the globstar option. If set then pathname expansion will include zero or more subdirectories: ls **/*.c Results in something like: array.c helpers&#x2F