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by gambling8nt 17y ago
13; personal tutor for another student at $20/hour.
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
I'd recommend giving a quick overview of the Kyu/Dan ranking system and then asking people in line to estimate their rank if they don't know it.
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_liability_(criminal) For most minor and petty crimes (such as my examples in another comment; parking violations, drunk driving, etc.), mens rea is unneeded (in the US, at any rate). The question of wh
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
Assuming that a defendant must be caught and informed of the loss of their first two strikes (as versus being caught once for a least three instances of the crime, and losing them all at once), such a solution--if enforced effectively enoug
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
Not every crime requires intent; criminal action can occur purely through negligence--you don't have to have or prove criminal intent to get a ticket for running a stop sign or in order to get a parking ticket.
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
The trick behind a fair and effective penalty for a crime is that there both has to be a realistic expectation of actual enforcement (there's no way a person can afford to pay $80k for a song unless their last name rhymes with Mates or Muff
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
The biggest problem with the 6% figure is that it ignores inflationary pressure. If you're stuck with extremely low risk investments (as you are once retired), you should really be looking at levels around 1 to 2% over inflation. At 2% ov
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
I expect they are more afraid of a single individual (or a concerted group of individuals, possibly going by the name "anonymous") downloading N copies for large values of N.
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
Most of these pro-rated tuition policies are very, very new; until very recently, even students at top schools were expected to take out loans to cover some medium-sized fraction of the tuition costs. By comparison, going to a rather good
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
I wouldn't say I've felt inferior. I've occasionally felt significant regret over my collegiate decision. But then I remember that most such people wind up paying $200k more than I did to go to college. Going to an MIT or Harvard might h
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
I'm not sure how this is superior (or how anything along this line would ever make it superior) to getting the information via classical search...particularly since it is readily available, more complete, and more organized via wiki ( http:
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
This doesn't seem to be consistent in the way it is trying to help me; for example, a search for "tympanuchus cupido" (the genus and species name of the greater prairie chicken) returns only phasianidae, the family to which prairie chicken
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
To solve the problem for an object with thickness, imagine shifting the wall on the inside of the turn in by a distance equal to the width of a box (with the corner expanding out to a semicircle), and then consider moving a line segment thr
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
7 grams a serving is plenty of protein, as you've suggested. Recommended daily protein intake depends upon a person's height and gender, as well as a few other factors that tend to have small effects. For most adults, the theoretically ide
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
The key with preparing fish is that, unlike meat, it doesn't change color when it is done. Instead, you want the fish to flake (this verb will make sense if you try it) when you run a fork along it "across the grain". If you aren't confid
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
There are three primary aspects of a balanced diet to consider: (1) starches: in my experience, rice is the cheapest per calorie, when purchased in bulk. Other good choices in this category include pasta and barley. (2) vegetables: getting
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
Jokes add noise, preventing the signal of regular discussion. The limited tolerance of jokes here isn't random, it's an effort to protect the importance and screen real estate of substantive discussion.
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains_tax_in_the_United_States and, more generally en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains_tax Briefly, in the US cap gains are taxed at a special rate separate from regular income; if you hold the associated asset
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
Part of what makes this sort of thing a touchy subject for so many people is that, in the event of this sort of process being practiced (1) men who aren't selected feel angry about the nature of the process instead of feeling that they need
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
In addition to typically not commenting without reading the article, comments on HN overwhelmingly take the form of (1) expanding an argument (rare), (2) asking a question (less rare), or (3) expressing reasoned disagreement. Thus, the pre
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
Because PG has finite time, there are two fundamental possibilities at work here: (1) PG can find more "great groups" that he would want to fund than he has the time to work with. This, I expect, is almost certainly the case; PG then has t
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
Simultaneous optimization of multiple functions is impossible in the general case. But if there is one function being optimized, then there is some trade-off being made, so that--to some extent--one parameter is being selected for instead
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
How do you propose we measure "power"?
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
As a theist I have to disagree with your final point. The presence of order in our universe is very clearly necessary in order for us to be able to question the existence of order. That the weak anthropic principle is and always will be a
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
I also think in this way; I typically describe it to technically inclined people as being kind of like thinking with a command line interface instead of a GUI, although the metaphor is rather imperfect. More strangely (to most people with w
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
The real takeaway from this data is not just that the below average half tends to significantly overestimate its abilities (although that is supported), or that the extremely effective tend to underestimate their abilities (also supported),
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
I think the problem is with the varying interpretations of "rapidly"; going from little or no background to an expert in a field might be "rapidly" done in 10 years if most people take 20. The problem (which I agree exists) arrives when peo
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
You're not considering that they also need to grow the endowment to keep up with inflation; their estimate seems to indicate an expected return of 2% over inflation--a more reasonable projection for long term conservative investment.
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
Continuing your musical analogy, a "discussion" without disagreement would be like a musical piece in which every instrument played precisely the same notes and every singer sang precisely the same words at the same time. In such a circums
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
Coherent discussion IS a sequence of block and attack--thesis and antithesis--ideally (although rarely in practice) ending in some kind of resolution (synthesis). Comprehension without disagreement does not necessitate discussion or furthe

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