liber8

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by liber8 14y ago
Can you explain about these "unofficial quotas against Asians"? I'm genuinely curious if this actually exists. Note that less than 5% of Americans are Asian, but: 40% of UC students are asian (and it's higher at Cal, UCLA and UCSD (i.e.
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by liber8 14y ago
Awesome! Also, I'm sure you've thought of this, but each profile should be updated when treatment is complete, and you should have a section where these success stories are published. This would lend tremendous credibility to those who lo
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by liber8 14y ago
I mentioned this before ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4816337 ), but I haven't seen it implemented and think it's worth repeating: I love what you guys are doing and hope you can fund hundreds of these at a time. But, right now the
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by liber8 14y ago
People lose their hair color due (primarily) to a lack of catalase, which normally removes hydrogen peroxide. It is now thought that much of this work is done during sleep. So, assuming this theory is true, a lack of sleep (an effect ever
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by liber8 14y ago
I don't envision this being a problem at all. First, its easy enough to have a checkbox that says "I saw it, here's the feed you want." (In all likelihood, if anybody committed a crime in downtown Manhattan where hundreds of people were a
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by liber8 14y ago
I'm not sure why I haven't seen this addressed yet, but doesn't the widespread use of something like Glass portend the dramatic fall of the prevalence of street crime? Widespread use of CCTV cameras are one thing, but millions of eye-level
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by liber8 14y ago
Suppose you were to draw a Venn diagram of the subset of students who fail to even attend online classes and the subset of students who regularly attend office hours so that they can more deeply understand a concept. How big do you suppose
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by liber8 14y ago
The second point of this editorial highlights what is wrong with higher education in the U.S.: >> Second, courses delivered solely online may be fine for highly skilled, highly motivated people, but they are inappropriate for strugg
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by liber8 14y ago
It's interesting that Cuban takes this position, when he's the owner who likely treats his team like more of a business than any other owner in the NBA. Cuban, unlike Donald Sterling and many other owners, actually tries to deliver a good
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by liber8 14y ago
I enjoyed how her profile danced around Wevorce's raison d'etre, without actually coming out and saying it: acrimonious divorces are fueled (or created entirely) by lawyers. As a lawyer with many colleagues practicing family law, I don't th
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by liber8 14y ago
The premise of the article is faulty, and the problem overstated. First, the author has to sleight-of-hand his way into his argument. He's worried that the "elite" will use their money to ensure that their children get such a leg-up on the
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by liber8 14y ago
It’s interesting that people refuse to believe this, even though they’ve almost certainly experienced it on a smaller scale. For example, when you’re a poor student, you undoubtedly covet the nice gear in whatever field you’re into. If you
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by liber8 14y ago
No. If the degree is in high demand, there’s no need to subsidize it. Either banks will lend based on the student’s projected ability to repay the loan or employers (who need people with the skill the student will be learning) will subsid
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by liber8 14y ago
This is not a simple solution. This is yet another government solution to a government-created problem. The "solution" breeds more problems of its own, which will in turn require more "simple" government solutions. If you need an example
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by liber8 14y ago
I find it interesting that this is the only post out of 190 or so that mentions what the actual debate is about. There are very few authorities who flatly deny the planet has warmed a degree or so over the last 100 years. There are ver
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by liber8 14y ago
>>the unwillingness to let government play a role (through taxation, grants, etc)<< This is not meant as a personal attack, but your claim that government doesn't play a role in American education is false. The U.S. governm
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by liber8 14y ago
You don't see this as a problem? I find that akin to saying "The Soviet Union had a perfectly functioning economy. The problem was just that half its citizens were starving." One of the best aspects of buses, aside from the cost, are they
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by liber8 14y ago
There are many ways to do this, but the simplest explanation is: you enter an agreement to borrow an asset and agree to give that asset back at a certain date in the future. You then immediately sell the asset. Then, on the date certain,
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by liber8 14y ago
Part of the problem is San Francisco's (and Phoenix/Tampa/etc/etc) fascination with rail. They spend billions and billions of dollars to construct and maintain rail systems that simply don't attract that many riders. And of course since t
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by liber8 14y ago
It's not that a special somebody wouldn't have listened. This wasn't as big an information problem as most people make it out to be. As this, and many other articles explain, bankers and underwriters knew bank fraud was widespread. The
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by liber8 14y ago
No, but in practice, pretty much. There's new technology that automates this and the incident of rib-breakage is, as I understand, drastically minimized. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoPulse ) As an anecdote, my 70+ year old dentist (i
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by liber8 14y ago
Of course people can change their lifestyle. I have no doubt that MMM and the extreme early retirement guy, and some of the devotees of those blogs, have done exactly that. That doesn't mean extreme frugality is the first thing people shou
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by liber8 14y ago
MMM has a philosophy that is mathematically sound, and might even work for some people. Unfortunately, it's proven to fail for just about everyone (the spend less, save more advice has been around since the industrial revolution, and it is
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by liber8 14y ago
You do realize you've disproved your own point, right? >>This is vitally important because it means it's impossible for a significant percentage of people to retire early unless the remaining workforce becomes correspondingly more p
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by liber8 14y ago
In keeping with agwa's, and others', analysis that the system itself is broken, Aaron's thoughtful analysis of The Dark Knight is very interesting. Aaron concludes that, of the various desperate attempts to change Gotham's corrupt systems,
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by liber8 14y ago
This could help to read faster, but as is, it does not. By leaving the last page visible, it makes the screen cluttered, and actually harder to read. If, upon starting to scroll, the previous page were either whited-out entirely, or the co
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by liber8 14y ago
The reason the NRA has been so effective is because they understand the old truism "give them an inch and they'll take a mile." When anybody brings up otherwise reasonable limits (no heavy weaponry, no automatic assault weapons for civilia
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by liber8 14y ago
The problem with this article, and nearly all others pushing for adoption of wind power, is that it ignores reality. >>When there is not enough renewable energy direct from source, and the stored energy reserves are insufficient to
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by liber8 14y ago
You're missing his point (which wasn't hard since the point wasn't very clear...) In inflation adjusted dollars, your parents paid roughly $500,000 for their house. You said they sold it for $1.5MM. Even if we ignore interest payments, pr
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by liber8 14y ago
I didn't downvote him, but even if Brubeck's career was benefited "MASSIVELY from being white", this has absolutely nothing to do with whether he was a good human being or took a stand against racism.

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