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by khafra 15y ago
It was in parenthesis, so I didn't see it due to Lisp-related emotional trauma. Now that I know you're not in favor of it, though, I'm perversely inclined to wonder if a sufficiently skilled teacher might not introduce young tykes to ZFC; a
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by khafra 15y ago
> military-style rifles are the most effective thing available to civilians for home defense I'd always heard a large, well-trained dog was more effective against many threats, especially if you're not home or asleep.
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by khafra 15y ago
If you're really worried about creating the foundation first, shouldn't you be teaching kids that SS0+SS0=SSSS0?
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by khafra 15y ago
I don't think literacy tests should be required before voting. But I would support a required test in probability theory and cognitive bias recognition.
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by khafra 15y ago
That's a good strategy for as long as you know what you don't know. The OP said he's worried that he's getting to the point where he doesn't know what he doesn't know.
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by khafra 15y ago
Ideally, wouldn't math classes teach students how to solve the parts of problems that computers aren't as good at? I mean, I'm happy that I can use memorized multiplication tables to make my quick estimates of various quantities accurate t
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by khafra 15y ago
"little, if anything" is the English idiom.
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by khafra 15y ago
Judging by the last millenium of history, the inevitability of spontaneous remonetization is greatly exaggerated.
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by khafra 15y ago
The US developed plans to go to war with Canada . It is the perpetual imperative of a department of defense to be consider conflict with everyone, especially those nearest military parity.
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by khafra 15y ago
> Only in the US of A :) More like "only in a steakhouse." We USAians have normal restaurants, too; in those, a steak is 6oz or 8oz. Sometimes 12oz, if they're trying to be ostentatious about their large portion sizes.
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by khafra 15y ago
I'd like to think that the number of HNers who could learn is vanishingly small. I believe the appeal is more along the lines of "Jersey Shore for Internet entrepreneurs."
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by khafra 15y ago
> The fall of 2008 wasn't a free market. In particular, the government was forcing... To the extent that government regulations are less strong than physical laws, isn't the market still free? For instance, methamphetamines are illegal
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by khafra 15y ago
Got a link to some diagrams showing what "isometric training on bars and doorframes" means?
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by khafra 15y ago
Activation energy is a factor. If I'm already playing a video game, it's easy. But I've actually had the experience of not playing video games I'd wanted to try out (Humble Indie Bundle) because it was too much trouble to stop aimlessly rea
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by khafra 15y ago
But, see, the US can't install broadband because the population isn't dense enough; we're too spread out here.
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by khafra 15y ago
Coffee-laundering. Interesting thought.
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by khafra 15y ago
You'd be surprised. JTR does l33tspeak substitutions, one-row-up substitutions, keyboard walks, pretty much all of the common things everyone does because "no hacker would ever think of that."
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by khafra 15y ago
"Perpetually" means "always, continually." US voters are very reliably responsive to political advertising; media campaigns seldom fail to swing opinion in the direction they want to.
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by khafra 15y ago
One year I took a pocket-sized notebook and a slide rule. The next year I took an iPhone and a eee PC. I experienced the same level of hacking both times.
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by khafra 15y ago
The thing about trying to move the market by betting is that if someone calls your bs, you're ruined; and all it takes is one knowledgeable person with moderate resources (since you're putting out big odds and lots of money if you really wa
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by khafra 15y ago
That's not the way I read the original use of "criminal," but that's a legitimate argument to make. The thing to do would have been to say something like "I agree with you denotatively, but disagree with your connotations," and explain why
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by khafra 15y ago
Actually, I'd be happier if I knew of prognosticators who did put their money where their mouth is. Predictions accompanied by bid/ask spreads would be vastly more useful than predictions intended for immediate entertainment (ie, all the on
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by khafra 15y ago
When the folks making the laws are criminals, breaking the law is still criminal. By definition. Whether it's right or wrong is a different and more nuanced question; but it's not the question addressed by the parent. I sympathise with your
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by khafra 15y ago
Peter Norvig.
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by khafra 15y ago
The sole reason I'd like to get leadership in some group with a goal is to implement futarchy and see how it works. That said, there are other frameworks built to improve collaborative decision-making. I also like the Persian method: If an
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by khafra 15y ago
> I intend to look at the data in the strings and see if it looks anything like a SQL command How will you do this? The only certain way I can think of is having an extra copy of the database you're using with a little "dummy" data in
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by khafra 15y ago
It's fun, if you're on a trip and have a lot of time. But as a semi-regular thing: - I have to drive to the car rental place unless I live close enough for a pickup, in which case I have to wait around to be picked up. - I have to arrange
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by khafra 15y ago
Renting a car sucks. I would not want to do that once every month, which is about how often I drive over 100 miles. Services like Zipcar will be strongly complementary goods to electric cars.
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by khafra 15y ago
College level state schools also have many different levels of classes. I think there are other differences at work.
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by khafra 15y ago
If you do research it, I'd appreciate it if you'd write up a guide to finding good local blogs and submit it to HN. I don't know of any in my area, and aside from googling my city name, I can't think of many ways to find them.

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