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by jeromec 17y ago
> Telling that to kids can only have good effects. I disagree. I think the mistake you are making is the focus around what is or is not "error". It's not about that. My friend from Argentina constantly strives to improve his American
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by jeromec 17y ago
> Why should dictionaries and grammar books be any more authoritative than the way people actually speak? Simple, because of perception. Whether you like it or not perception matters. If I perceive your car as worth your selling price
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by jeromec 17y ago
Regardless of the school board debating the potential validity of AAVE, I think it's misguided to experiment with asserting such "correctness" to teach kids that will grow up in a world that doesn't regard it as such. Save such philosophy f
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by jeromec 17y ago
You might include a link to a popup of the two lines as well. "...all with just <link>two lines of code.</link>"
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by jeromec 17y ago
I like this. I would use visual stars as well, which will bring reviews to life better than numbers only. Also, I think the PlusPanda branding could work well, and although the current logo is okay, I might shoot for something cuter/happier
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by jeromec 17y ago
Who said GM is going to disappear? Part of the govt. assistance was a restructuring of the company to be a viable business. Regarding executive compensation, GM CEO Rich Wagoner (who was ousted by the way) earned 1.5M in 2007, and will rece
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by jeromec 17y ago
Those types of jobs were included in the 700 billion dollar Economic Stimulus Bill.
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by jeromec 17y ago
You're saying the govt. should directly pay the thousands of affected people, at various income levels, directly? They can sit and watch tv and still make their salary? That won't fly with many fellow citizens. Remember, the "stupid executi
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by jeromec 17y ago
Government aid of GM was not a one-to-one benefit, as it may have appeared on the surface. If GM failed the effects would not have been limited directly to their workers. Unfortunately, thousands of dealerships rely on the viability of Gene
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by jeromec 17y ago
> Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are creations of regulation as was the dependence of financial institutions on them, which caused said financial institutions to fail when Fannie/Freddie went down Huh? Am I missing something? Regulation i
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by jeromec 17y ago
> Regulating a business because we think they're doing it wrong is just as bad as doing all sorts of other proactive measures to help them stay in business. I totally disagree. That statement is too general and each application depend
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by jeromec 17y ago
Would this affect Google News? I don't think I'd miss search results without certain news publications, but it would water down my primary input for news.
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by jeromec 17y ago
Wave function collapse wouldn't be so much erroneous as an illusion; [grin] I don't have time to respond to this adequately. Furthermore, reasoning from a purely mathematical perspective is generally better, in this case. Our intuitions
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by jeromec 17y ago
many-worlds is roughly what you'd have if you got rid of wave function collapse and naively applied the rest of quantum mechanics Okay, but that suggests wave function collapse is erroneous whereas many-worlds is more likely. Based on tha
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by jeromec 17y ago
What I meant by variations only specific to you would be like The Truman Show, where everything is staged for the main character. This would mean that you only think everything else exists, but it's really only you that exists, and with man
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by jeromec 17y ago
It depends. The problem with the many worlds theory (which I don't subscribe to) is there are many variations. One would be that there are variations of reality only specific to you. Another is that variations of reality exist but continue
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by jeromec 17y ago
This only means the LHC can't kill you; it doesn't make you immortal. The LHC will continue to fail, but you're free to leap from the Empire State Building and have several people observe you die in that particular reality.
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by jeromec 17y ago
As long as anyone else can observe you dead, you will be dead.
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by jeromec 17y ago
Yes, I know it was rescinded (after Lincoln's assassination) before it could be extended to the rest of the subset of freed slaves. I was pointing out the "imbalance of the maze" was apparent even back then.
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by jeromec 17y ago
This country has tried to right many (atrocious) wrongs and things have improved largely, but no, all things are not yet equal. Imagine a large maze of (forgive the analogy) rats, some gray, some brown. The maze has bits of food and even ma
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by jeromec 17y ago
I think there are certainly times when things may go a bit far, but that's to be expected with such a volume of people - largely independent thinkers. A few might even be overtly negative or bellicose. I try to call it like I see it whether
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by jeromec 17y ago
It's still a useful number as long as it's measured consistently. It may not be a verbatim reflection of worker to full employment, for example, since it doesn't count "under employed" or the people that want to work more hours, but can't.
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by jeromec 17y ago
I've always admired writing for the same reason I like programming - having such wide limits on what can be created. However, I envy book writers because I feel they are even less constrained.
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by jeromec 17y ago
That's still heavier than cash when you look at the purpose of owning physical gold - as a store of value. People usually want to store increments of 10K, 50K or more, and that gets heavy/bulky enough even as paper 100s - so with your gold
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by jeromec 17y ago
I meant if a line was crossed. I don't think we've crossed any line. We've come close, but the people still hold power.
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by jeromec 17y ago
It's true that we can represent commodities with paper and digital bits (in fact some say silver prices are misrepresented by paper and would explode if the SHTF, and physical delivery was demanded), but that doesn't change the meaning of m
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by jeromec 17y ago
What happened to land of the free, home of the brave? Are you sure you're American?
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by jeromec 17y ago
Happy Birthday!
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by jeromec 17y ago
The IMF had slated the sell off of some gold for about a year now, although I can't remember the reason. Gold is getting a bunch of attention right now because it's a commodity, a hedge against inflation, and these are historic economic tim
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by jeromec 17y ago
You really think intellectuals would be content holed up in their McMansions while a struggle for liberty was raging in this country? And our family and friends which make up the military wouldn't know which side to stand on? I'm not talkin

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