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by ellyagg 16y ago
"Montessori education may or may not have advantages. But unless you control for educational background and income of the family, your analysis has a problem." This WAS controlled for. Correct analysis WAS done, peer reviewed, and published
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by ellyagg 16y ago
Where did you get these numbers? In my research, I couldn't find good comparisons at all. I saw some info in various places attributed to Canalys that showed 33 million iOS vs 32.7 Android unit sales in Q4. I also saw Schmidt claim 300k dai
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by ellyagg 16y ago
Ah, these "that's not ad hominem" comments you read in every single thread that points out ad hominem get so tiresome. It most certainly is ad hominem. The premise of Gruber's post is approximately that, based on the latest information we'r
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by ellyagg 16y ago
Although, as with anything I believe, new information could change my mind, I don't currently think "learning styles" exist in any meaningful sense. Some information or concepts are better learned through, e.g., visual aids, but that's the
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by ellyagg 16y ago
It is certainly unfair and has pretty much ruined the competition for me. Watson can instantly detect when he's allowed to ring in. This is no different than a car "racing" a human. In theory, a human contestant can try to time his trigger
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by ellyagg 16y ago
The holier-than-thou attitude by Google here dumbfounds me. Android phones and tablets would not exist in remotely the shape they do today but for the innovations of Apple. They organized with Apple's competitors to provide an offering extr
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by ellyagg 16y ago
Uh, Gabriel made a point by point analysis of the issue, and your response is "fud" and "many of us see right through"? Can you please stick to responding to the issue and not engaging in your own contentless smear?
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by ellyagg 16y ago
Society's track record is pretty good, then. Deaths attributable to asbestos are extremely rare in the scheme of things. Sensational headlines and ambulance chasing lawyers fool our primitive brain's broken probabilistic reasoning circuitry
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by ellyagg 16y ago
Looks like all the "groundless" speculation was dead on. A Verizon iPhone has been predicted for a long time, and we knew that there was an exclusivity contract with ATT whose term had to be met, but the claims of vapor have gone up in a pu
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by ellyagg 16y ago
I'm going to be interested to see how long this article stays on the front page after the far more alarming and longstanding Android SMS bug fell off the front page after only a couple hours.
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by ellyagg 16y ago
> This article seems appallingly Euro-centric... This is a silly criticism. The Dark Ages are by definition about Europe. If you'd like to see more books about what was going on in Islamic empires and China during the European Dark Ages
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by ellyagg 16y ago
I assume you were being downvoted because your comment claims to be specifically rebutting a claim in the parent, but doesn't do that, and instead just sets up a soap box for you to pontificate from. I'm not going to waste the time dissecti
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by ellyagg 16y ago
While there are limits, they're sometimes further than you think. I am a 5'10" white guy, and I really wanted to dunk basketballs, so I "just did it more". I dunked on shorter hoops, read books, experimented with every method of practicing
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by ellyagg 16y ago
While I mostly agree with you, I could really do without the repeated "libertarian crackpot" sideswipes.
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by ellyagg 16y ago
No. They are fully aware that their support is abysmal and they are fully aware of their false positive rate and they are fully aware of the positive consequence to their bottom line. Just because they abstract the stealing process doesn't
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by ellyagg 16y ago
Although I expect this will be downvoted for being insensitive (unless the reverse psychology of saying so prevents it), I'm going to call bs on this person's experiences. In fact, it sounds more like what a woman planning to "transition" o
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by ellyagg 16y ago
I'm not a physicist and I'm baffled. Doesn't entropy imply that all events cannot happen? Wouldn't an event happening infinite times clearly and unambiguously violate the effects of entropy?
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by ellyagg 16y ago
Fellow Washingtonians, let's consider not discouraging profitable business from moving to the state and stop encouraging profitable businesses that are already here, e.g., Boeing, to move more of its operations out of state.
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by ellyagg 16y ago
Well, one reason could be suggesting that government spending is the necessary ingredient for innovation, which is faintly preposterous. The government spends a huge proportion of the economy's earned wealth, so, yes, it's going to be invol
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by ellyagg 16y ago
It may be inappropriate on some level, but calling it sick and scary is a little bit creepy itself. He's only saying out loud what many of us have been thinking. If the suggestion is that you can't freely admire someone (and the praise was
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by ellyagg 16y ago
This is not the first Ars Technica article I've seen that erroneously compares the "controversy" surrounding evolution with the controversy surrounding global warming. Evolution is a binary fact. It's either true or not and, as rational, in
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by ellyagg 16y ago
You've got to be kidding. The iPhone has attracted hoards of new consumers to Apple who were not previously "loyal Apple fans, who love[d] and trust[ed] Apple". Apparently many normal people feel that they saw a major change for the better
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by ellyagg 16y ago
I'm interested in how Zynga blatantly copying competitors is positioned as evil, but when Google promotes a software and hardware ecosphere that at heart requires the blatant copying of the iPhone, it's considered necessary and smart busine
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by ellyagg 16y ago
> Whatever the case, when I see a programmer doing a linear search through a linked list, I think you must agree that I'm justified in saying that I have no reason, based on that observation, to trust in that programmer's competence. In
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by ellyagg 16y ago
Except, you're very likely not going to get the money, so I hope the "don't have the wherewithal to give the company this free loan" is an exaggeration. You should cut your losses. This is a sunk cost for you. Use your creativity to work on
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by ellyagg 16y ago
This is already well known. There's a whole school called High Intensity Training (HIT) that promotes doing one set at very low weight to failure. Periodized powerlifting training starts a cycle off with lower weight and higher reps to buil
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by ellyagg 16y ago
When people in the US talk about liberal media bias, the frame of reference is the average US voter's leanings. By that standard, dominant news sources (the incumbents, the ones considered most credible) are inarguably left biased. Some rid
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by ellyagg 16y ago
This is either wrong or Google will reconsider. Too many of the people Google likes to recruit would consider this evil and Google is made up of too many people who would consider this evil.
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by ellyagg 16y ago
> The dominant opinion was absolutely that Android wouldn't crack the iPhone's dominance. Of course it's all clear now though, and everyone has carefully adopted new positions. This is simply wrong. I don't know how you could have devel
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by ellyagg 16y ago
Oh, come now. Six months ago it was obvious to knowledgeable people that Android would surpass iPhone, and I'm pretty sure that was true a year ago, too, notwithstanding the occasional contrary opinion. It's clear that some people think tha

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