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> There was (and in many cases still is) a heavy cultural bias built into standardized IQ testing. Traditionally, most tests were developed and tested against middle-income, white children. "It has been suggested that various aspects of
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> That's because in the past, the IQ tests were not fair, objective and colour-blind, but were set up in such a way as to bias against poorer people (which will be mostly black in the USA). This isn't true at all. They haven't been show
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He said "there’d be less of it", not "there'd be none of it".
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> What? I was under the impression that they rely mostly on advertising to recoup costs, their advertising budgets are generally much larger than their R&D budgets. It's completely irrelevant what the size of their advertising budge
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> your ATM will still work even if you sever its network connection Do they?
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Brian Hayes had an interesting column last year on what could happen if these became common, or even universal.[1] One advantage he pointed out was that you wouldn't have to waste time looking for a parking place. The car could drop you off
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In many cities there's a distinction between medallion taxis—which you can hail off the street—and livery service—which you need to call for. Since you generally have to take whatever you get get when you hail a cab, the prices are regulate
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There is a defense against patent infringement called "laches", but it's not very broad. It only applies to specific cases where the patent holder knew of the alleged infringement and did nothing for a long time. It doesn't lead to a genera
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> Apple paid for a license to use that technology with stock which, if held to present, is worth Billions of dollars. In return for the tour of Xerox PARC, Jobs gave Xerox the opportunity to buy Apple stock (100,000 shares for $1 mill
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The ruling does not cover cell phone data or GPS devices that deliver data to a third party. Cell phone records are not the papers or effects of the person being investigated, they belong to the cell phone company. The Supreme Court "consis
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The word "piracy" has been used for "unauthorized reproduction or use of an invention or work of another" since the 1650s, according to the OED.
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> For instance, there is no real trace of this species of professional ventriloquist in any century but the 20th There's nothing new about speechwriting. Antiphon of Rhamnus(480–411 BC) was a professional speechwriter. Calling them vent
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When a speechwriter writes a speech for a particular person, at that person's direction, it is normally a work-for-hire or employee situation, at the speechwriter does not retain the copyright. The speaker has moral and legal responsibility
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In another interview, Coulouris said: > By the way, 'em' stands for 'editor for mortals' - I christened it that after Ken Thompson visited our lab at QMC while I was developing it and said something like: "yeah, I've seen editors like t
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> I think they should simply partners with such sites and figure a way to make money with them. Oh, is that all? Simply...
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I emailed the blogger and asked. I asked my wife to try the math test (since it's way too easy for me). She hasn't taken a math class since her junior year of high school, almost 30 years ago--she took symbolic logic in college to satisfy h
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This is the test that the school board member with multiple degrees failed.(fcat.fldoe.org)
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The money was loaned, not "given away". All of the emergency lending programs were announced in advance and the Fed regularly reported the total balance of the programs. The only secret was who was getting each loan. The Fed did not want to
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The original main purpose of the Federal Reserve System was to lend money to banks in a crisis.
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> The banking cartel gave itself more than half of the annual output of the world's largest economy. The word "gave" is not really correct. The 7.77 trillion dollar figure is the total amount of loan guarantees and credit authorizations
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights
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ICO = Information Commissioner's Office, apparently. http://www.ico.gov.uk/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Commissioner%27s_Of...
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I think that most database applications cannot be seen as a monotonically-growing collection of facts, but as a sequence of operations, and those operations don't necessarily commute. Most of the operations do commute, or almost commute--t
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If I only have one antique pocket watch and, during a partition, Alan buys the pocket watch while communicating with partition A and Bob buys the pocket watch while communicating with partition B, how do we get back to a consistent state wi
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> Amazon Prime streaming is more than enough for children, and most families already have it. The estimates I saw from February were 4-5 million Amazon Prime customers. That's much smaller than Netflix, much less "most families".
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> Those internal documents are property of PDVSA; it even say so in each of those internal documents, that the information is confidential and property of PDVSA I have no idea about Venezuelan law, but in the U.S., that's more of a stat
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In the US, "Price $2,295.00 – $2,495.00"
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> I'll take your bet, but you might want to look at this chart before you hand me your money. Yes, there was a serious recession in 2009. In 2010, world GDP increased by 3.9%, according to preliminary World Bank figures.
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> The New Yorker is basically philanthropy. According to the comments of more then a few journalists, the guy who owns the new Yorker doesn't care if it makes money, or even if it looses some money because he just wants to be the guy th
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See http://www.wikitrust.net/ I just tried it on the Paul Revere page and it said "There is no trust coloring information currently available for the revision you requested. Please try again in about a minute, when the coloring should be

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