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by gohrt 10y ago
Why do private lenders lend to ITT students?
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by gohrt 10y ago
Companies need very few PhDs in math, science and engineering -- bachelors and masters do fine.
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Some of these are poorly worded: * Kleptopia is ambiguous about what gets stolen, and what toplogy the boxes/padlocks must have for the solution. * The "clever" solution to Unwanted Expansion isn't a complete proof, unle
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by gohrt 10y ago
Greek? He says he is Armenian.
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How is it ableist?
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by gohrt 10y ago
The world has darkness, and seeing some of it helps a child understand the world they live in.
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The letter from My Wilder is so beautiful. The man had genuine class and artistic wisdom: "I've just received the costume sketches. I'll tell you everything I think, without censoring, and you take from my opinion what you li
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Reading between the lines a bet, (first wave) "macaroni" is what certain hipsters called themselves, until people they didn't like started dressing like them, at which point the hipsters mocked their mainstream followers. Thi
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It's the same as the stock market, but with the guarantee that the Bata is always negative.
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There's no "muscle" to "collect" if you pay your fee in advance.
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> Are you this upset over drone strikes in Afghanistan? why would you assume they are not? are you? if not, why not? Caring for elephant life is great, but disregarding human life is not.
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dairy cows still suffer the loss of their young, and veal calves suffer the loss of their mother.
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> It would - if you'd combine verifiable, legally obtainable source with harsh punishment for poachers. If that worked, we could skip the "obtainable source" and just do harsh punishment for poachers, for an even better re
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"reasonable expectation" constantly changes in response to technology. The police and courts are fond of reminding citizens that they have no reasonable expectation of privacy when they store documents in cloud storage, for exampl
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Holy cow, Governor Christie's staff masterminded an actual terrorist attack on the NY/NJ, and it was an inside job, and 1 person may have died as a reult.
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Manhattan has millions of people in a small area. Attacking random public building is capable of mass casualties.
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This is the first time I've heard someone advise calling the police to protect one's right to photograph a public building.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Is the Y-combinator any more or less dependent on TCO than regular recursion? The Y combinator is useless in languages that already have builtin support for recursive functions.
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The Numerphile video has been debunked by everyone else in the math-popularization community: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/does-123-... (and also see discussion of that article on HN The "-1&
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What is your favorite number? Take comfort, I believe you exist.
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eh, raise the terms as an exponent and subtraction becomes division. :)
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by gohrt 10y ago
Why not both? Maybe Sognza's playlists were a caching solution.
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Any employee can take home a copy and publish it, no?
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PP was saying that "money laundering being a crime" is not a travesty, not that civil forfeiture is not a travesty.
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That dollar is still worth a dollar after it it seized from the criminal who stole it. Same as any stolen property.
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Kids are good at making excuses regardless. Logic only slows them down a little bit. "Yes, it's difficult. The important things are difficult. It's not too difficult for you to do. You can do better each time you try again.&q
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The problem is the "A", not the "A for effort". "A for results" just highlights an arbitrary bar that is likely too low or too high.
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Sure, lying is unhelpful. The point is to praise the positive qualities that are under the recipient's control, such has effort, persistence, decisions. Generally, praise them for what they DO, not who they ARE.
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Looks boring, won't click Fun fact: https://medium.com/i-data/29-reasons-youre-reading-this-arti... "29 reasons you’re reading this article or why odd-length BuzzFeed listicles perform better than even ones&q
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Maybe? The questions are translated into many languages, and many many non-Americans (especially well-educated non-Americans) learn technically capable English.

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