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by dpbriggs 4y ago
That edit is a nice but ultimately impotent statement. What matters is the mechanics of how we're in this situation. They're complicated and thankfully this decision doesn't mean an outright ban for all Americans. Providing a
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by dpbriggs 4y ago
Do you paint other religious groups with that same broad brush? I'm sure you supported similar rhetoric about Muslims post 9/11.
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by dpbriggs 4y ago
In a lot of countries around the world, after the first trimester. I'm sure some existing abortion laws at the state level have similar restrictions. Why use this sort of rhetoric? The legal backing of Roe v. Wade wasn't about tha
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by dpbriggs 4y ago
It's rhetorically interesting to reach and point at this result as if it's some binary gotcha. For those who believe that abortion is murder, that's it. They don't need to care whether a state's gun laws are compati
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by dpbriggs 4y ago
What is the purpose of this comment? OP is describing an issue they're having with the drug. I imagine it's not an uncommon story. That italic "if" reeks of a certain sort of sensitivity.
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by dpbriggs 4y ago
Poe's law?
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by dpbriggs 4y ago
Their revenue is proportional to volume. Which we can expect to eventually plummet as people are skittish to enter and happy to exit.
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by dpbriggs 4y ago
How about a poor white kid? My family certainly could not afford rackets so we never had an interest in the game.
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by dpbriggs 4y ago
Surely you had a class with a disruptive kid? They can suck the education value out of a lecture by forcing unnecessary context switches for the students who are paying attention. It would be ideal if each class was so engaging as to enrapt
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by dpbriggs 4y ago
You need some amount of this sort of practice to build numeracy. It's great to represent things in more accessible forms but at the end of the day it's useful for citizens to instantly recognize 3+5=8.
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by dpbriggs 4y ago
If you're telling me there's no recourse through congress or the supreme court around a delayed vote that's a serious flaw in the system. If course I'm not claiming the system is without flaws. Even then, what occurs fou
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by dpbriggs 4y ago
That would work better if things were more continuous. Having gifted classes imposes several practical barriers: - Resource constraints (e.g. can only afford to teach sixty students) - "catching up"; entering an existing gifted cl
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by dpbriggs 4y ago
Thank you for acknowledging that it wasn't close. It's awful what's transpired but unnecessary and breathless rhetoric will do us a disservice when the next, worse event occurs. Even if the vote was delayed the legal system i
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by dpbriggs 4y ago
Why exactly is that a bad thing? It's repetitive but most people here are - former children - attended public education - hated or loved aspects of that education Of course they're going to discuss ideas.
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by dpbriggs 4y ago
That helps a lot but not necessarily required. If you require/aspire for radical social mobility being gifted is extreme help. If you're looking to have a modest life with family outside of expensive cities being gifted isn't
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by dpbriggs 4y ago
At the very least it would be useful to offer supplements for the mathematically interested. If it's accredited we'll run into the same conversation but at least students will have access to more interesting material. In my experi
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by dpbriggs 4y ago
Any further reading recommendations? It's unclear why the cultural example of baking and sharing food would cause significant differences in test results but that's picking at an example. Were the six other questions also stereoty
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by dpbriggs 4y ago
It wasn't even close. Life isn't a movie or a video game; if you take over a building, you don't take over the government. Even if it escalated past that point (i.e. Trump messing around) there wasn't key buy-in from sev
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by dpbriggs 4y ago
Under "exceptional circumstances" one can still obtain the source code: > We may [grant source code access] again in the future under exceptional circumstances but because of the associated support burden and risk of leaks our
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by dpbriggs 4y ago
I don't know if you're already out of school, but if you are, can you afford to get caught? Is the system against you when you face some sort of punishment?
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by dpbriggs 4y ago
Would you support an alternative scheme where cheaters just receive the degree directly after the offer? It would save four years.
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by dpbriggs 4y ago
The reward for integrity is entirely personal. There's no need for any societal input aside from maybe motivating people to have integrity. There can be some "sacrifice" sure, but in this context there's no real sacrific
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by dpbriggs 4y ago
I can't agree, sorry.
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They could avoid falling behind by actually learning the material, and you know, pass exams and assignments. They don't need to cheat. If they're under such duress most institutions will alter degree plans or have other accommodat
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by dpbriggs 4y ago
> Just about everyone performs some amount or cheating in high school and college That's awful and not my experience. > To be honest I think academic integrity policies are stupid What's the point of waiting four years to gi
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by dpbriggs 4y ago
I personally find cheating repulsive. Are you not bothered by the lack of integrity?
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by dpbriggs 4y ago
It can be both. You can learn and earn those credentials.
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by dpbriggs 4y ago
There's the ideal and ethic of free speech which isn't "provided" by the government. It's ok to be annoyed or disagree with private censorship. Good or bad Musk wants to open the platform up. Whether that will just
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by dpbriggs 4y ago
Why do people use the word cult when it's someone popular who they dislike? It's inaccurate and a waste of connotation. He's not a cult leader as he's not doing cult things. Musk isn't making a new religion, he just
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by dpbriggs 5y ago
Let's redefine racism, nice play

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