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by gohrt 11y ago
Is it true that > The government persists with the drug war because Americans have a moral opposition to drug use: or > Americans have a moral opposition to drug use, because the government persists with the drug war ? Impressionable
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by gohrt 11y ago
nitpick but important: it's time to decriminalize , not legalize . The distinction is that we need to maintain a government force to compel the non-use of drugs that cause public harm. We need to make drug-use punishable, on the leve
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by gohrt 11y ago
Is there a website that tracks the rise and fall of headline cliches? This one was been heavily deployed in 2016: https://www.google.com/?#q=Here%E2%80%99s+what+I%E2%80%99ve+...
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by gohrt 11y ago
NYTimes, reposter extraordinaire. See several recent local news articles about the Jungle: https://www.google.com/?#q=seattle+jungle
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by gohrt 11y ago
The common techniques ARE a bag of tricks. Feynman was famous for being really good at integrals, because he had memorized the huge bag of tricks. Today, we have Mathematica for that, you don't need to be Feynman.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Companies can't be completely invisible -- they have customers and employees, they file legal and tax disclosures...
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by gohrt 11y ago
For it to be a mathematical "knot", the edges have to be sewn together into form a knotted sphere. The trivial way to knot a blanket doesn't yield a trivial way to connect all the edges without untying the knot.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Eh, putting a point at infinity (where the ends terminate) is hardly an obstacle to a mathematician. :)
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by gohrt 11y ago
The word "happy" is in the title but has no support in the article.
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by gohrt 11y ago
In other words, random within a non-random subspace of the universe of possibilities. Like hitting random notes on a piano, without having a piano to start with .
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by gohrt 11y ago
"m" is a consonant. What does it mean to assign it a pitch?
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by gohrt 11y ago
You can build an arbitarily large sticky plate in linear time, before using the plate. It doesn't add a log(n) factor.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Note 1: Comparison sorting is O(n log (n)). In domains where the range of values is smaller than the number of elements (so there are duplicate values), sorting can be faster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_sort
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by gohrt 11y ago
The illustration was copied from the corner of the Internet where innumerate wingnuts tried to discredit Common Core but ended up highlighting their own ignorance. Google search link, sorry the URL stinks: https://www.google
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by gohrt 11y ago
You seem to be complaining that your students are able to most-correctly (within the realm of their knowledge) solve the problems posed to them.
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by gohrt 11y ago
The standardized tests have word problems, so your objection doesn't make sense.
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by gohrt 11y ago
The case is very much a about a phone. The case has implications for other phones, but the most direct point is about hacking one specific terrorist's phone.
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by gohrt 11y ago
> There are other ways to hack the Amazon publishing system, like Tim Ferris did when he sent free copies of his book out to people so that they would leave reviews when it went on sale. That's not a hack, that's a value-add.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Pi is mathematically pure, independent of physics. Mathematics is full of pure numbers (obviously). The fine structure constant is physically pure.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Using "Tumblr" as a slur undermines your sensible defense of personal beliefs and religious attitudes.
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by gohrt 11y ago
s/SupremeBeingX/personal beliefs about gender relations/
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by gohrt 11y ago
French law does ban religious attire for public servants. Cultural attitudes vary widely on such matters.
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by gohrt 11y ago
To be fair, it's not really possible for someone to even attempt to arrange gender-separated seating in advance , even if plenty of other passengers are perfectly content to cooperate (perhaps even desirous! there are many cases wh
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by gohrt 11y ago
because Yaron Minksy is super-smart and he likes OCaml. Other companies do well without OCaml.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Your original example was wordplay in literature.
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by gohrt 11y ago
This seems like a rather fluffy way to describe "prototyping and refactoring"
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by gohrt 11y ago
I don't think it's appropriate to lead this story with the "Uber" headline. The only Uber connection to this horrific story is that it pseudo-randomly chose locations for the murderer to move to.
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by gohrt 11y ago
... newspaper/website, rocket ships, ...
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by gohrt 11y ago
Are you joking? In China, non-propaganda is explicitly forbidden by law.
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by gohrt 11y ago
It's called protectionism and had been the cornerstone of economic power growth for centuries

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