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by gohrt 10y ago
Atlantic/CityLab followed an earlier article by 99pi: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/hard-to-love-a-brute/
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by gohrt 10y ago
High school is not the same as college. Also, The Atlantic is not a reliable source. It prints garbage like this: "Football at Premont cost about $1,300 a player. Math, by contrast, cost just $618 a student." even though everyone
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by gohrt 10y ago
You think that football game attendees (and T-shirt buyers, and...) would write checks to math researchers if football got cancelled?
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by gohrt 10y ago
While you are here, would you care to offer any other diagnoses of people you've never met or who don't actually exist?
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by gohrt 10y ago
Wolfram invented v1 of Mathematica, and founded a company to sell it to technical users. It takes minimal people skills to hire people and to sell a technically good product.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Is it common for licensed lawyers to publicly post legally suspect, grammatically incorrect advice? Does that not fall squarely under malpractice, the sort of thing that lawyers usually disclaim with "IANYL"?
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by gohrt 10y ago
A copy of a fake is still a fake.
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by gohrt 10y ago
That happens when your IP spams Google with too many queries too quickly.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Where are you imputing surprise?
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by gohrt 10y ago
racism is in the eye of the beholder. You've injected a lot of non-standard meaning into those emoji. http://emojipedia.org/customs/
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by gohrt 10y ago
> Theranos and, by extension, Jessica Livingstone [sic] What's the connection between those two?? You don't think all women look alike, do you?
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by gohrt 10y ago
Which is it: selfishness is "learned", or selfishness is the product of thinking. Could the same article have the headline below?: "Sharing Is Stupid: We tend to be cooperative when we think too little"
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by gohrt 10y ago
So, Moller claims to have a flying car, but can't afford to get it tested? Or that they could make a flying car, if they had enough money and time to build and test it? No technical challenges? Uh-huh.
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by gohrt 10y ago
15 minute flight, 15 minute back to depot, 5 minute battery swap, charge batteries at the depot.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Heisenberg's greatest contribution to humanity may be his (accidental or intentional) scuttling of the Nazi nuclear program.
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by gohrt 10y ago
One pillar of the traditional Republican support for Israel is the Christian effort to usher in the apocalyptic war that will bring forth the second coming of Jesus Christ.
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by gohrt 10y ago
The politically-correct sympathetic "single mom" is referring to widows and abandoned women, not a pregnant single woman.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Linux Isn't No UniX either.
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by gohrt 10y ago
The article headline is an obscene lie. "OHP Uses New Device To Seize Money Used During The Commission Of A Crime" The article is a balanced analysis that speaks truth to power, but the headline is statist propaganda.
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by gohrt 10y ago
How many chickens? In city of Seattle, 4 chickens per house are allowed. (No roosters)
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by gohrt 10y ago
> no judge on appeal ever seems to rule that the lower court judge was acting in an obviously corrupt manner. There are a few reasons for this: 1. Judges are not legislators. Judges apply the law, and if they don't like the law, or
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by gohrt 10y ago
Separate houses and grass don't provide any meaningful sound protection. They may get you down from "100 offensive sounds per day" to 10, but that's far less effective than just building proper insulation.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Thanks for a balanced perspective. The fact that someone made a website mobprogramming.org is perhaps the biggest factor that indicts this idea as a silly fad.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Are you claiming this story is true? Was this story ever documented? It has all the looks of an "urban legend"
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by gohrt 10y ago
India is populous but USA is populous as well, and Japan is dense as well. The problem isn't too many people, it's insufficient per-capita wealth/opportunity. A billion people for a thousand seats is the same problem as a mil
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by gohrt 10y ago
Half the story is missing -- who is paying for those pills? Insurance coverage? Individuals paying cash (and suspected of reselling, or fueling personal addictions?) Are individual patients' prescriptions for two many pills? Or too man
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by gohrt 10y ago
That always seemed to have a large dose of pseudoscientific moralizing, where the researcher/authors tried to "scientifically" determine what was wrong with people they didn't like. Expect to see some convenient armchair
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by gohrt 10y ago
Until 2006?
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by gohrt 10y ago
Tangent: Hitler's activities sent many German-speaking Jews to the USA, where they spoke German and Yiddish.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Farther back in time, Minnesota wooed Swedish immigrants as well: https://www.google.com/#q=%22Minnesota+Immigration+Board%22

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