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by glenra 12y ago
Airport security makes flying much more expensive (both in time and in money) and inconvenient and generally unpleasant than it would otherwise be. So many people who otherwise would take a plane on a short trip choose to drive instead. Som
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I do suggest we scrap it all and go back to the 1950s. Let people walk right out to the gate to meet arrivals. Let people run through the airport right to the gate without having to stand in a line at all. Even the level of security we had
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by glenra 12y ago
Roy aligned the trends to match at the very beginning of the satellite record to make it more obvious how the trends tend to diverge over time. Aligning with the MIDDLE of the record somewhat obscures the fact that his chart was meant to sh
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by glenra 12y ago
Here's the trend for the last ten years - it's flat: http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/last:120/plot/ha... The trend has been flat enough for long enough to falsify all the model pred
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by glenra 12y ago
This process INCREASES bias in jury selection. Suppose you're accused of, say, marijuana possession. Far more than 1 in 12 people think marijuana should be legal, so an actually RANDOM jury would almost never convict - that jury pool w
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intelligent, thoughtful and serious people don't stand much of a chance of making it onto a jury - I think that was the point of the NYT quiz.
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What we do now bears little relationship to "a representative random sample of the population". We deliberately rule out everybody who has any relevant knowledge or preexisting opinions about anything related to the case or the le
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> Specifically the undeveloped part of the brain, is believed to be the part that evaluates risk. Meaning that 16 year olds are less likely to account accurately for the consequences of their behavior. Again, you seem to be assuming that
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> Kids of above average intelligence with the right parents can do well with unschooling, but then they also do well with regular schooling. That is not true, and is kind of what this whole discussion is about. My impression is that th
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> In order to read you need to be exposed to books and also somebody to read with you until you can do it on your own. That's what parents do. You don't need teachers for that. You found reading "boring to start with"
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by glenra 12y ago
> In addition, the human brain doesn't fully develop until around 25, so your judgment at 16 is fundamentally flawed. Even if the premise is true, that seems an unreasonable conclusion. On what possible basis could one describe the
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by glenra 12y ago
One develops reading comprehension by reading , including texts, blogs, and videogame chat - and time spent sitting at a desk being talked at takes away from the time you could be using to do that. Realizing you want to do something that r
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by glenra 12y ago
Have you read The Seven Lesson Schoolteacher? I recommend it to you and would be curious what you think of it. Here's a Cliffs Notes abbreviated version, just listing what the seven lessons are: http://www.athenstalks.com&#x
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by glenra 12y ago
Video games and cartoons can be valuable learning experiences. We learn a lot through play. If you got into minecraft you'd be doing engineering. If you got into Wildstar or WoW or some other guild-based combat system you'd be lea
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by glenra 12y ago
> Effectively banned from the site The TED organization decides which talks are worth "featuring". The two "banned" talks are actually far MORE prominent than all the talks they decide to simply not feature at all. TE
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by glenra 12y ago
The talk didn't get "banned", it was merely disavowed by the TED organization, which interprets their mandate "ideas worth spreading" as excluding blatant pseudoscience such as the idea of "morphic resonance&qu
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by glenra 12y ago
> Do you think that women are intellectually flawed? [...] If no, what is your best guess why they are underrepresented? My best guess is that relevant male math-type skills have a higher variance than female math-type skills. That m
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by glenra 12y ago
She does indeed seem to assert that, supporting the point with an anecdote I found less than convincing. But suppose we grant her that point. Let us suppose that "master brain debugger" is indeed the crucial skill that makes for
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by glenra 12y ago
The article is an excerpt from a book called "Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (And How to Teach It to Everyone)", but it feels like an introduction; it doesn't say anything useful or even give much of a hint as
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by glenra 12y ago
The article doesn't actually say anything useful, so it would be hard to write one.
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No, it's saying that people who claim to be able to identify which wines are "better" than others (and how they differ) can't reliably do that. Wine recommended to you by trusted experts is not better than just blindly
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by glenra 12y ago
That an individual vote changes nothing in the real world almost goes without saying - you can trivially compare the hypothetical world in which that person does vote to the one in which she doesn't. If and only if the outcome changes,
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by glenra 12y ago
I agree with the arguments of Henry David Thoreau and of Lysander Spooner to the effect that voting is fundamentally an immoral act. To vote, above all else, is to broadcast your own acceptance of the outcome and willingness to abide by it.
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At a national level, the chance of your vote changing the outcome is less than your chance of being struck by lightning or killed by a plane falling on you. Most votes aren't even close at all - you knew what candidate your state would
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by glenra 12y ago
What "lasting effect" does it have, given that the vote changes nothing? Are you just referring to the effect it has on the voter , which is that it makes him or her a bit less rational ?
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by glenra 12y ago
By way of a friend-of-a-friend being one of the TNG writers, I was given a pretty cool explanation for what happened with Wesley. Upshot: It was the writers' strike. What happened was this: The TNG team had regular meetings where the w
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by glenra 12y ago
I bought a house once, lived there for seven years, then sold it. I currently no longer own any land (I rent an apartment). So are you saying that I "was guilty" during those seven years and stopped being "guilty" when I
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by glenra 12y ago
You don't actually need to force payment for fire. Fire protection is provided by private voluntary for-profit companies in many areas and it's a valuable enough service that when you borrow money for a mortgage the insurance comp
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by glenra 12y ago
I believe it is still the case that most fire departments in the US are either for-profit or volunteer. Tax-funded departments tend to be a LOT more expensive and less innovative than private or other voluntarily-funded ones. The best new i
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by glenra 12y ago
Have you got a time machine handy? If not, then neither the specific people who stole NOR the specific people who were stolen FROM are still alive today, so there's nobody to "give back" to unless you believe in some sort of

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