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by drdec 5y ago
You aren't necessarily taking the standardized tests if you are homeschooled. E.g. in New York, they have statewide tests called Regents. Not all districts allow homeschoolers to take these tests. I'm not against homeschooling,
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by drdec 5y ago
Depending on which jurisdiction you live in, there can be a significant difference in terms of paperwork. Also, if you think that the student might transition back from homeschool to public school, the school will want to do some kind of ev
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by drdec 5y ago
Classpath isolation is part of the JEE (and now Jakarta EE) specification for application servers. This guarantees that the application servers can host multiple applications without the classes in one application bring used in another. Mo
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by drdec 5y ago
It might not be true, but it is so revealing of the mindset of people who think that way.
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Let's say you are a criminal with $1M to launder. You create an NFT and sell it to you buddy for $1M. Hopefully your buddy is also a criminal mastermind* that already did some laundering, so it's not inconceivable that s/he
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by drdec 5y ago
Maybe it's a clever hack. Suppose you are making a universe. You want to ensure that the universe you make is interesting, i.e. contains consciousness. So you set up the rules like QM: everything exists in probabilistic superposition
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by drdec 5y ago
We are currently running through that surplus. Current estimate project the surplus will last (and make up for the deficit between revenues and benefits) until the early 2030s.
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by drdec 5y ago
You seen to be confusing two different issues. The current situation with social security is that the expenditures for benefits exceed the revenues from taxes. The difference is being made up by the social security reserve fund. This fund
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by drdec 5y ago
I think that a lot of issues for America could be solved by a loosening of immigration policy. In a nutshell, we need more young people. We aren't making enough here, so let's import them. Adding enough young people via immigrat
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by drdec 5y ago
But as a renter, you are exposed to the risk that your landlord won't have your deposit when you are ready to move out. To me, that seems like a bigger risk.
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That doesn't make it right, easy to address or something to dismiss. The feminist movement showed that it is possible to address gender roles and inequities in society without it being a zero-sum game. Some men have noticed.
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by drdec 5y ago
I would consider finding a journalist that is interested in the story. You should consider which journalist carefully, the wrong one might cause more damage. If the story gets enough attention, it might make Google pay attention. Good lu
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Before it became a video game, Fortnight was a popular facetious codename for projects at my employer.
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It strikes me as totally reasonable and predictable that the people who spend the most money on music would be the people who download the most music.
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by drdec 5y ago
If we counted goofing off as part of productivity, we might start to see the gains we expected. Put another way, while computers have made us more productive, the internet has made it much easier to not do our jobs while at work. I don&#x2
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by drdec 5y ago
> For example I really want a feature to make playlists with albums, you can create playlists with all the songs of many albums, but is not possible to see it as a list of albums with the cover arts, like the Library. For example make a
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by drdec 5y ago
I've seen some delis list prices per half pound instead of per pound
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The demons are just trying to satisfy the marketplace. They provide whatever will sell.
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by drdec 5y ago
We should start using the birthday paradox number (BPN) to express these things. That is, the smallest group of people such that the probability that at least one of them will exhibit the criteria is greater than 50%. In this case, the BPN
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by drdec 5y ago
That appears to be the biggest reason BitCoin marketplaces exist
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Thanks for your clarification, I understand your reasoning now
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>This is a personal opinion, but I'm actually really glad Apple are dragging their feet on this. >I have my browser set up to wholesale reject all push notifications I am struggling to understand the reasoning here. You don&#x27
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by drdec 5y ago
IMHO you are letting the perfect be the enemy of the good by pointing out situations the 10% (now 6% apparently) rule doesn't cover. Second, you are not offering an alternative solution that would be preferable. Also, you are not recog
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by drdec 5y ago
A desktop environment with no telemetry.
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by drdec 5y ago
This story needs a nerd-snipe warning
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by drdec 5y ago
The definition I usually use (speaking loosely for the moment) is that prime numbers are natural numbers greater than one whose divisors are only one and itself. Speaking more formally, a natural number p is a prime if and only if: a) p &gt
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by drdec 5y ago
The unique prime factorization of 15 is 3⋅5. Let's call a number an Igelau prime if it is the number 1 or a prime number. Then an Igelau prime factorization of 15 is 3⋅5. Another Igelau prime factorization of 15 is 1⋅3⋅5. Another Ige
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by drdec 5y ago
That breaks the uniqueness of the prime factorization. Mathematicians love uniqueness, almost as much as existence.
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by drdec 5y ago
There are always people predicting the end of society just as there are always people predicting a stock market crash. I suspect they have similar levels of success.
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by drdec 5y ago
One is not a prime number. If you allow one to be a prime number, then you can no longer say that each natural number has a unique prime factorization. This makes the concept of prime numbers much more useful when one is excluded.

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