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by kbutler 9y ago
Allergies are not universally classed as a disability - it must be severe enough to significantly impair a common life function.
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by kbutler 9y ago
Your experience may be common, but it is not universal. https://www.aaaai.org/ask-the-expert/dog-anaphylaxis https://www.anaphylaxis.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Al... "In
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by kbutler 9y ago
It's not a settled question whether a taxi can refuse service to a person with a service animal to accommodate a driver's allergies. Some jurisdictions allow it, some do not. It may also depend on the severity of the driver'
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by kbutler 9y ago
Saved by "open link in background tab" - didn't even notice, except the center of the logo faded in before the rest of the logo.
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by kbutler 9y ago
Definition of fascism 1 often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by
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by kbutler 9y ago
> By law, the SEC protects the confidentiality of whistleblowers and does not disclose information that might directly or indirectly reveal a whistleblower’s identity. I wonder if they tell the IRS?
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by kbutler 9y ago
Here I am in the lovely state of JT.
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by kbutler 9y ago
> is-same-object-as I don't expect that's a language I'd enjoy. You may prefer Objective-C over Python. > a is-same-object-as b, for integers could raise an error, as a and b are not objects. That would be a greater inc
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by kbutler 9y ago
You may not realize that the removal of the inconsistency would be so that a = integer, b = same integer a is b is always false. The inconsistency is that the two separate variables reference the same object just because the values
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by kbutler 9y ago
I initially read this as, "Choose Go for..." rather than "Opt for..."
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by kbutler 9y ago
That's one element. This first couple of things I'd check would be: - Double-blind: What if you tell students it is live, but it is actually pre-recorded? - Are the live+archive and archive-only videos the same? - Are th
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by kbutler 9y ago
This Harvard study & Atlantic article by the study authors give the same 5% completion rate you cited, but give a completely opposite interpretation: basically, that the MOOC broadened access, allowing more people to get what they want
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by kbutler 9y ago
How are you measuring the same level of motivation? From my anecdotal experience, the people taking the "live, guided course" have committed to: - synchronous attendance at a particular time, probably at a particular place -
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by kbutler 9y ago
19. Coincidences to get characters into trouble are great; coincidences to get them out of it are cheating. It doesn't mean contrived is great - it just means sometimes bad things happen and you have to deal with it, and we often don&#
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by kbutler 9y ago
Lowering platforms in a loop with the raising platforms makes a net work-against-gravity of zero (loading differences excepted). Thus the continuous force to overcome is just friction.
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by kbutler 9y ago
So, the consistency of the argument is just that, "I spend more for this, therefore it gives a better impression to people who also choose to pay more." Can't argue with that.
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by kbutler 9y ago
How does this hypothetical wider set of people know your diamond is de beers approved? Do you keep the price tag on it? Or do you just talk about how, obviously, you'd never stoop to buying man-made diamonds?
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by kbutler 9y ago
What exactly is that internally consistent argument? They now basically say, "the more pure they are, the more valuable, because they are incredibly rare (because we artificially limit supply) unless they are really, really pure, becau
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by kbutler 9y ago
Photorealism was the ultimate goal of artists, until that became easy.
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by kbutler 9y ago
Aluminum in the 1800s was more expensive than gold, and was used as jewelry, fancy cutlery, the capstone of the Washington monument, etc. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aluminium Inexpensive mass production
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by kbutler 9y ago
Presumably both. Are you seriously questioning potentially biasing factors affecting an internet quiz?
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by kbutler 9y ago
Zoom in. You can see marriages (red dots) in the middle of green clusters. They've just done some graph layout to make it look nice.
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by kbutler 9y ago
I'm 49-51 on that test, but that is not how my friends would describe me (US). I do like to think I approach politics more intellectually than emotionally.
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by kbutler 9y ago
Did you read the paragraph at the bottom of the page? "three different universities...did not observe the same results as in the original study....The effect...may have been due...to unconscious cues...or may simply have been due to ch
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by kbutler 9y ago
Yes, luck is a factor. If you roll once or twice, then say "It's just luck", you're completely right. But if you keep rolling the dice again and again and again, you're eventually going to get a good roll - especial
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by kbutler 9y ago
It's trendy to criticize the monetary cost of higher education, but it's perceived as a near-necessity, with counter-examples being considered noteworthy ("Bill Gates and Steve Jobs dropped out of college!")
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by kbutler 9y ago
Because most people do? Because it's a sacred cow that you cannot criticize? Because most of the elites have elite university credentials (almost by definition)? e.g., see Peter Thiel's criticisms https://techcrunch.co
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by kbutler 9y ago
But the one at the top has a bigger pyramid than anyone below. The early adopters have also cleared the pool of most of the easy catches, so your chance of building the pyramid is reduced.
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by kbutler 9y ago
Fluoride is a thing.
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by kbutler 9y ago
This is the standard recommendation, but does it really help? You do that test on the second subset, and then you discard every theory that doesn't pass both the 1600 set and the 400 set. So you end up with the predictions that pass al

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