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jibiki
17y ago
That's a really funny reply. I suggest Mark try "^__^ fuck you ^__^"
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> Most people in the world don't have central heating, almost one billion is starving (a global food crisis was there before the financial crisis and still goes on), only a few nations guarantee health care, capitalist nations like the
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17y ago
It's not really a small sample, is it? You're sampling (allegedly) 100% of the stranger abductions in the United States, so your sample is perfectly representative of stranger abductions in the United States. But yeah, I would expect the n
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17y ago
Surprising. I always thought that people found their own gender to be more childlike. (Children are open books, but the other gender is always mysterious.)
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I think those concepts are best understood by example.
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17y ago
As far as I can tell, he's saying that there's not a lot of casual software (like games and such) developed in Perl(?) Anyways, Perl is a fantastic programming language for non-developers (e.g., people writing small programs for personal us
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17y ago
Yes, but the discussion was about whether Mississippi pays higher social costs than Europe. This has nothing to do with how much C02 Mississippi itself releases.
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Yes, there are many factors to consider. For instance, the average European probably enjoys much better weather than the average Mississippian.
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If the government funded Wikipedia, nobody would trust its neutrality.
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Okay, I took some time to find a better link. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/chance_news/recent_news/cha... "In one 1932 study of children living in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, the I.Q.s of 6-year-olds were "not much below the nati
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17y ago
Yes, it's been studied, and the opposite is true: http://books.google.com/books?id=hbJB6z5dZswC&pg=PA70...
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I think this is the paper, unfortunately, it's behind a pay wall. http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=search.displayRecord&...
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17y ago
A hilarious comment: "Real estate people don't think like you and me. About 10 years ago I ran a small manufacturing company in the Midwest. We leased an office/warehouse suite in a complex of 7 other units. At the time there was a vast ove
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17y ago
> Google is letting Bing buy adwords ? Perhaps they are worried about some sort of anti-trust suit...?
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17y ago
> Modeling a stranger's mind is the key to this kind of deception. I think there are two schools of thought on that question. For instance, you might think that pick up artists are very confident people, but this is not always true: h
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Amendment_44_(2006) "Existing Colorado law classifies possession of one ounce or less of marijuana as a Class 2 petty offense punishable by a fine of $100." I'm confused, is the article a joke?
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No, my wording was what I meant. As the other reply points out, it is the usual case for a set of consecutive integers to have one member coprime to all the others. E.g., {2,3} has 2 coprime to 3. {12,13,14,15} has 13 coprime to 12,
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17y ago
Reminds me of this problem: Given a set of consecutive natural numbers, must one be coprime to all the others?
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17y ago
If you had been able to make yourself work on chess problems, even if you didn't like them, you would have been better at chess.
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> Think about that famous painting of the scarily-dressed, hook-nosed man and the pregnant woman. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnolfini_Portrait ?
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17y ago
I suggest changing your password to something you won't remember.
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http://senseis.xmp.net/?Heavy The meaning isn't exactly "important", more like "unwieldy". (Although I can't see how unimportant stones could ever be labeled heavy.)
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There's a specific genre, "fat-dumb-slob-married-to-woman-who-always-knows-best", which Family Guy is the pinnacle of (it's an old genre of course, related to the theme of women marrying beneath their status, which has been a major literary
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> Today, they're the butt of every joke. I think this trend probably peaked a few years ago (Family Guy is a good example.) You can actually see it reversing if you watch King of the Hill: the earliest episodes generally show Hank as a
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Chronology_(Fomenko)
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Imagine that you are living in 15th century England. Christianity is followed by a large group of experts and scientists (and everyone else as well.) Do you then conclude that atheism is just random lunacy? (If you happen to be Christian
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> force them to adopt trade policies that prevent industrialization, and domestic policies that prevent them from educating their people. I feel rather naive, as I have no idea what you're talking about. The only thing I can think of i
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In this particular case, the appeal to emotion leads to incorrect conclusions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett%27s_law
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The second link is very interesting. What crimes against "public order" are people committing? Wikipedia suggests that prostitution, statutory rape, and DUI are all in the category. (I would guess that DUI comprises the bulk of their pub
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