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by imjustsaying 8y ago
>Democracy doesn’t really have easy shortcuts The easy shortcut is IQ and education cannot improve it.
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I always wondered why math notation hasn't been replaced by code. While math notations can be interpreted in different ways, code is going to give an unambiguous result. Why don't mathematicians, especially those writing in machin
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This is almost like the exact opposite of the reality of eastern and western culture. Healthcare for example is full of free clinics where people get free care. I worked at one. Also, the differences in religious institutions in east and we
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>Is it really that different? There are some people who are good and some people who end up being opportunistic in evil ways. The more I learn about differences across cultures, the more I conclude that the differences are always ones of
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>perfect test scores, 4.0 GPA, spending youth striving towards While this generally increases acceptance odds, by no means do medical schools require this. I always recommend fact-checking tidbits of K-12 daycare lore. Once upon a time,
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Agreed, although I'm not sure iPads are cheaper than budget laptops even after whatever subsidy Apple may give schools to do vendor lock-in. This doesn't bode well for the "Are schools daycares or for skill development?"
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I dont understand the iPad thing. Why not laptops? It's a huge burden to do work on a toy instead of a proper machine. They're being conditioned to use inferior tooling.
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Glad you asked, as this article reminded me of that. Outside of Northern China, where Mandarin is original dialect, the answer is no, Mandarin is not understood throughout the country on a level that English is in the US. It's a kind o
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chromebooks would be great if it weren't for the rather large software limitations of their ARM processors. so many packages and libraries just wont work. at that point, chromebooks feel like just another toy similar to your phone.
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>in most SEA cities
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>sidewalk coin Rich man would pick it up, that's $720/hour if it takes 5 seconds. It's things like that that make you rich. Poor guy would probably pick it up too unless he's paranoid people will think he's poor.
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>actually useful drug programs For example?
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how does cannabis affect healthy life span?
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(2010)
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Literally Who: The List got some references as to why they are big hitters for the uninformed such as myself?
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>You can do 90% of something, but the last 10% takes years, or never gets done.
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The point of my post was to let you know how easy it would be to accidentally kill someone due to mismeasuring the dose. Calibrating a scale before and after measuring a dose then verifying with a second method is something dealers aren&#x
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Even a proper scale that's all of a sudden miscalibrated could cause an overdose. -don't blame on malice what can be blamed on folly
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The problem with 2-term limits is that the official has more of an incentive to loot as much as he possibly can as soon as his second term begins because he doesn't have to worry about spinning the looting to voters anymore. However, I
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Older people objectively know more.
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CRISPR continues to cause more off-target mutations than it solves.
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Genetic diversity is not a requirement for a species. Bacteria don't even have sex, and while they can pick up DNA from other bacteria via conjugation, it's not necessary for their reproduction.
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All you have to do is look at the final effect, Z. The stated purpose X may or may not be the intended purpose Y. Even if stated purpose X genuinely = intended purpose Y, the actual effect Z matters the most. You're spot on.
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> A typical figure for a 15 year mission was a 75% chance of it making it the whole way, including launch. It's checked to an extreme degree. I've had people come back and correct an un-dotted 'i' symbol in a handwrit
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>“Cloudwick has never brought resources from India,” Chhabra said. “All the resources are Master’s students that have educated in U.S. and then we hired and trained them.” Is the excavator referring to humans?
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How are you going to contact people who live far from artificial light? Typically that's concomitant with not having electricity needed for internet communications, as that typically prevents powered cell phone internet communication a
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I never understood why people took p-values seriously. They never seemed to mean anything of use. Whenever I brought it up around other academics, no one seemed to want to comment on it. Maybe they were afraid to admit they didn't unde
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I didn't expect this from Reason, a libertarian magazine. Libertarians tend to support free and voluntary association. The college is not stopping these students from voluntarily hiking together. The college is simply saying: we don&#x
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>sarcasm >strawman

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