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by hugh3 15y ago
That's a helluva crashblossom. I can't parse the headline at all.
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by hugh3 15y ago
You'd be amazed by how many entrepreneurs have PhDs.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I originally wrote "merman", I should have stuck with that. Yes, if you want to look at boobies then learning swimming from a mermaid is a good idea, but if you want to learn to swim it's non-ideal. "OK, now thrash your tail" "I don't have
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by hugh3 15y ago
Honestly, I didn't read the whole thing, I only vaguely skimmed it. Can you summarize his argument? It seemed to boil down to "This is the right thing to do, because we're right, and the other guys are wrong"
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by hugh3 15y ago
I wonder what a better equivalent to such traditional means of the public showing disapproval would be online? Easy. Write something. Put forward a rational, logical and coherent argument about why you disapprove of X , and publish it so
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by hugh3 15y ago
Thankyou, sir, for misspelling Rupert Murdoch's name, and treating us all to this delicious dose of irony.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Nonetheless, there are two separate and completely orthogonal questions here. 1. Is it good policy to allow software to be patentable, and 2. Does existing law allow for software to be patentable? I am fairly agnostic on question one, and a
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by hugh3 15y ago
But this is exactly what you shouldn't be doing -- determining the legitimacy of tactics by assuming they're being used by someone whose cause you like. There's always the temptation to think that the end justifies the means, when you're
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by hugh3 15y ago
The thing about political protest is that you actually have to show up to show that you care. If your protest march has blocked the street you might be inconveniencing others, but at least you're inconveniencing yourself more. You think i
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by hugh3 15y ago
The closest equivalent to a voluntary, publicized DDoS is a sit-in. While those do lead to arrests, they don't lead to wholesale confiscation of (expensive!) property And DDoSes don't result in you being dragged across the floor by your a
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by hugh3 15y ago
OK, this guy sounds very impressive, but his educational experiences were so very atypical that I'm concerned whether he'd have any real grasp of how normal people learn. I get the feeling that going to his classes would be like getting s
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by hugh3 15y ago
Commercializing research is really hard. If Professor Smith discovers something potentially commercializable, then that's great for him. But Professor Smith isn't necessarily interested in doing that, or else he might want to but doesn't
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by hugh3 15y ago
Indeed. It also overlooks the fact that the price of fuel is only the second most important factor in determining electric car adoption, with the most important being electric car technology. Electric cars are getting better rapidly, and I'
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by hugh3 15y ago
Which itself achieves a positive outcome, by communicating to the next gullible 13-year-old who might be thinking about doing something stupid to someone else's computer that there might be real-world consequences to it.
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by hugh3 15y ago
The real topiary is not going to reappear if they've arrested the wrong guy He might. Why? For the lulz, of course.
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by hugh3 15y ago
It is nice that we can have magnet schools in urban areas. What about deeply surban or rural areas? Well, in a small-to-medium-sized town that can only support one school, you can nonetheless segregate students by ability. A town of eight
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by hugh3 15y ago
But the question "What's the best way to teach children?" is very relevant, so I'm inclined to allow it even if it does meander into political questions on occasion.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Maybe, but the material needed for multiple bachelors' degrees is vast . I suppose if you took (essentially) the same courses at four different universities simultaneously, you could get four for the "price" of one. And I mean only the int
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by hugh3 15y ago
Heh. I live within walking distance of an Avis and a Hertz, so perhaps my perspective is different. Most rental places will let you drop the car off after hours, though, for what that's worth.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Because the standards are minimum standards, and the private schools will endeavour to teach it better . Let me explain how schools work where I come from. The final year of high school is spent largely doing a series of examinations stand
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by hugh3 15y ago
I wonder what it was about the culture they came from that encouraged that. Unfortunately I think that the weakness in Western culture here is the same as its fundamental strength -- anti-authoritarianism. For white students (and to an ev
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by hugh3 15y ago
you can make the same argument that diverting corn to feed cattle raises food prices As far as I can figure out, diverting corn to feed cattle raises corn prices and lowers beef prices. Since beef eats up a much larger fraction of my groc
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'm sorry, but how the hell do you recieve three BS degrees at the age of sixteen (unless you mean BS degrees, which I'd imagine they'd really have to be...)
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by hugh3 15y ago
Clearly students need to be placed into classes based on their ability. There is no goddamn reason why student A and student B should be in the same class, or even at the same school.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I think your worry about someone starting a school that is actually a sham are very much out of proportion. The only concern I'd have would be with religious schools which might teach BS instead of real stuff. But an appropriate level of
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by hugh3 15y ago
Here's a simple thought experiment. Look at all the education systems around the world, and ask if the ones with the best results are private or public. That's not a simple thought experiment, it's a massive data-collecting exercise. I'm
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by hugh3 15y ago
If I buy a $30 bottle of pills that are supposed to make me lose weight, well I lost $30 and I learned my lesson. If I send my kid to a fucked up school it might take years for me to realize it was fucked up, and the stakes are much higher
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by hugh3 15y ago
I think the present emphasis on prisons as solely a form of rehabilitation is misguided. Prisons should be primarily about punishment. What do I mean by that? Well, the urge to get revenge is an extremely strong part of the human psyche. We
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by hugh3 15y ago
I do not think that would prevent this from being blown away (maybe even to pieces) on almost any day of the year Maybe, but make 'em cheap enough and at least you've forced the enemy to waste time and bullets shooting at birds. Battery l
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by hugh3 15y ago
Kudos to the journalist here, it's hard to write a story on the subject "Thing, once thought to be completely fucking impossible, turns out to be completely fucking impossible".

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