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by drunkpotato 17y ago
I also don't agree with the tone of the reply; however, I sympathize with his irritation. I share it. I agree with you that the reply should be re-thought: one shouldn't post on HN with anger, but with a contribution to the conversation tha
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by drunkpotato 17y ago
Some of the things you point out are largely true, in your 20's, if your only concerns are "getting a job" and making money. However, a good liberal arts degree confers a number of benefits in many areas of knowledge, and provides a foundat
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by drunkpotato 17y ago
Horsehockey. You can learn about a viewpoint and then reject it. Being interested in everything doesn't mean you have to give every idea equal weight. "I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another and I know there are people in t
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by drunkpotato 17y ago
Powerpoint is how the information is presented. Her post is all about how using a chalkboard leads to a better presentation of the material and increased focus. I like to teach using the chalkboard or whiteboard, and prefer learning that
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by drunkpotato 17y ago
Thank you for the clarification.
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These are the people who vote on decisions about property taxes, state legislators, mayors, and other political offices in which your vote counts more than at the national level, and which affects how your tax money is spent. These are the
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by drunkpotato 17y ago
If they become wealthy through taking of taxes, wealth redistribution, or outright theft, then the end will be predictably horrible. There is trouble in rhetoric like this. You have asserted an equivalence class of taxes, wealth redistrib
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by drunkpotato 17y ago
I'm surprised to see such a high number of points for this canned mad-libs response unworthy of the thoughtfulness of the original article. You fail to acknowledge issues raised in the article and narrowly argue the solution in the most tri
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by drunkpotato 17y ago
You should re-calibrate your sense of "in other words". You had an interesting question until you lumped a broad category of people, including many minors, into the loaded word "pedophile". Your last question is not a re-statement of the pr
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Why is that unfortunate?
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by drunkpotato 17y ago
Funny, I went to a talk today on statistical methods for opinion analysis, and in the annotated corpus presented, the only opinion word that was used more often in a subjective frame than an objective frame is the word "fact".
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by drunkpotato 17y ago
The smileys are distracting. I am not against them in principle, I think they can add a layer of emotion above that conveyed purely by the words (I think of it as an internet form of prosody); however, in this case they are over-used and di
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by drunkpotato 17y ago
Keep in mind that Wired writes only slightly above normal tech journalist standards, which is to say, not very high. Combine a journalist who either has never been exposed to the halting problem or only vaguely remembers it from an algorith
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I like physics, but as a layman I have no idea what they are demonstrating. (Something to do with relativity, got that...) A little background information would be appreciated!
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One shouldn't fault Google... Why not?
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by drunkpotato 17y ago
No, no it doesn't.
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I was not aware that one could only upvote a position one agrees with. I upvoted because it is an interesting argument cogently made, not because I agree with the premises or conclusion.
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by drunkpotato 17y ago
This is something that really irritates me. Clearly what they mean is that if you are going to run a commercial server (with the attendant increase in outgoing traffic), you should buy a business account. But that is not what is stated in
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This is very true on the technical end of things. Where we (and by we, I mean the human race) are lacking is on the political end. I have come to the sad conclusion that there are not enough hackers in the political system. By a politica