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by gruseom 13y ago
Not just Muslim, but a brown urban policy geek! It's a point of local pride that we got him while Toronto got Rob Ford; imagine what a fiasco the reverse would have been.
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So basically a political troll. That does explain it. But why the WSJ? Maybe it's a better way to troll Canadians to get an article like this in the US press?
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Even conservative politics in Canada are liberal (maybe even far liberal) by U.S. standards. The Senate would become a leftist bastion overnight!
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Indeed.
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This is rather fun because Francis' arguments are so silly. "Grim existential challenges"? She had to invent some for the occasion. (Boo! the Chinese!) Canada is already under the U.S. security umbrella in every way that matt
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Oh, I see now. That at least makes some sense. But surely you could construct some formula to mitigate that effect, if not eliminate it? I fear that many arguments about incentive and disincentive are just morality tales anyway, based on be
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by gruseom 13y ago
Most of these objections (e.g. the reciprocity thing) seem absurdly made-up; you could just as easily make up something opposite. But a couple of points are substantive if not substantiated. For example: But if you means-test it to control
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This sentence took me a long time to read because it so contradicts reality: In a worst-case scenario for the high-tech industry, if the Supreme Court upholds the ruling it could invalidate many existing software patents or at least make t
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Commonalities between the Flynn effect and IQ gains via retesting [pdf](elijahlarmstrong.files.wordpress.com)
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The cost of having a team member hand-hold a new person through the code is almost certainly greater than any value the newcomer would add in a day, so if the OP's argument had any merit, he should have been the one paying them.
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Wirth had (has?) a famous heuristic where he would reject any optimization of the compiler that didn't make it faster to compile itself. Since optimizations add code and thus cost something to compile, this is a clever way of testing c
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Thanks!
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This appears to be an updated edition of a masterpiece. But not the complete text?
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Limiting myself to one each: Short stories – Flannery O'Connor Poems – Edward Thomas Essays – George Orwell
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Some Damn Foolish Thing(lrb.co.uk)
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A Strong Song Tows Us: The Life of Basil Bunting by Richard Burton(theguardian.com)
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War should not be one soldier’s private burden(paulvallely.com)
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Two of your beliefs about English are demonstrably wrong, in a good way. First, singular "they" isn't a recent construct: it goes back at least to Chaucer and never fell out of use. Second, it has never been "an establis
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by gruseom 13y ago
I wonder what randomwalker, who has done serious research on textual deanonymization, thinks about this.
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It's a little grey bell with an ugly and nonstandard menu attached to it. It showed up the other day on my machine and I had exactly the same rage reaction as the OP. I ended up learning that you can go to chrome://flags and
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That's well put, and I'm with you, but let's also note that the language norm is in the process of shifting, so it isn't necessarily obvious.
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Yup. This page has a host of endlessly fascinating examples: http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/sgtheirl.html , plus Jane Austen has so many that they had to refactor her into her own page: http://www.c
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it's needlessly ambiguous in an environment where it can easily be construed to mean what it commonly and currently not in Shakespeare's time means It's not ambiguous. When used with a plural it means a plural ("the us
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by gruseom 13y ago
Right, and so is the bit about the network surviving a nuclear attack.
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T.S. Eliot Rejects George Orwell’s “Trotskyite” Novel Animal Farm (1944)(openculture.com)
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That triggers my skepticism. Math and data don't prompt one to say pejorative things. Emotion and ideology do.
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I recall nearly the same story about Jerry Weinberg: Engineers: Oh your system can only do a thousand cards a minute? Ours can do ten thousand. Weinberg: Yeah but your system doesn't work! If mine doesn't have to work I can do a m
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by gruseom 13y ago
Comments like this make it seem like you have a personal agenda behind all that math.
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Alas yes—except for some of the very best, like this one: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/
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Quote Investigator has tackled this one: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/07/14/luck/ The upshot is that its origin is unknown, but goes back at least to a Walter Winchell column from 1949. Gary Player

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