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by lopmotr 7y ago
Even in America, education isn't like that, is it?. I've done a college entrance exam from there and it was full of questions that required problem solving, understanding, and intelligence, not naming concepts. I even remember bei
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Mao certainly had a thirst for power no matter whether he thought he was doing good or not. But at some point, you have to wonder if refusing to bathe because you clean yourself on the bodies of teenage virgins, as Mao did, is really done i
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Imagine if cheating rates for each university were somehow measured and published independently so that a cheat rank was as well known as the usual rankings. Then, to avoid a poor ranking, universities would have to pay their staff to actua
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by lopmotr 7y ago
The ultimate proof is actual data that's steadily being collected as time moves forward. That surely culls off bad models as they're proven wrong. But I think it would only be helpful at reducing bias if we just look at the surviv
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by lopmotr 7y ago
iNaturalist.org does this for finding plants and animals but to be honest, I don't know how they deal with bad data. They even have schoolkids submitting data during class. So, kind of adversarial data collectors!
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by lopmotr 7y ago
If they're already so frustrated, some powerful force must be preventing them running red lights. That force is obviously very strong so it probably works on double-frustration pushiness too.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
This is a really popular opinion among programmers. I used to have that too. I've met people with that. But I don't think it's true. Somehow the people who believe it all happen to also have jobs and not enough time for hobbi
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by lopmotr 7y ago
This problem is already solved with humans, some of whom are also very intelligent and goal oriented. It's done by noticing when those rare individuals do things we don't want and formalizing our preference in law. So many people
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by lopmotr 7y ago
If you have that ventilator, can you still die? How? Can the "respiratory distress" get worse without limit?
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I think you're a bit off the mark. Healthcare is cheap in China, but people are even poorer. Only rich people can afford the important stuff. It's common for young people from poor families to work or forgo their education to pay
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Her work was a translation of Newton's Principia into French? That's good and all, but it's not scientific discovery. It's understandable that she's not widely recognized if she didn't make any important discov
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Your examples are really wanting greater freedom to copy rather than about the distinction between data and creative work. Copyright is supposed to encourage people to make creative work, not encourage people to record existing facts. I thi
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by lopmotr 7y ago
The court document says "... refrain from putting in place any legal or technical measures with the effect of blocking hiQ's access to public profiles." on page 11. I wonder if they mean targeted measures specifically blockin
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by lopmotr 7y ago
An important part of the value of signatures is ceremonial. The act of signing something reminds you that you're making a serious agreement and not just having a casual conversation or carelessly clicking an OK button. As long as nobod
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Tell that to LibreOffice Writer which calls its files "text documents". The .ODT extension stands for "OpenDocument Text". Just because it's not plain text, doesn't mean it's not text.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I dare you to try doing a withdrawl while overseas. You may have to prove you're not where you are before they'll reinstate your account.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I'm a complete dinosaur using Paypal. It emails me when there's a payment and I manually respond to the customer. They have to wait until I check my email since I don't even get notifications. Sorry customers. Paypal is a nig
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Why were they fighting if they were good parents? My parents were poor but didn't fight. They just didn't buy much and they both accepted that and tried hard to improve things.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
That doesn't correct the problems caused by making the worse choice of having children with that unsuitable parent in the first place.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
That's probably the idea. That extra cost would be passed on to consumers and discourage oil and gas use. Of course, it'll be too small to measure the effect, but it's the principle of doing their bit.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I've seen a crawling robot trained with a string which would pull it back to the starting position after each episode so it could automatically try over and over again. I'd love to see someone doing that with a biped and just lift
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Why would you need any special case? If 1 means there is 1 item then you can still use 0 to mean there are 0 items. The 1-based counting would be to index or label them like item 1, item 2, item 3, ... which is quite natural to humans. If y
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by lopmotr 7y ago
They can simply outlaw possession of the equipment for connecting to it. Kind of like how guns don't make it incredibly difficult for oppressive regimes because they simply don't allow everyone have them.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
To be honest, that sounds like the reasonable and fair thing to do when a foreign company is violating your laws on the internet. First tell them to stop, then block them. Not every country has this "safe harbor" concept that the
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Do you mind explaining a bit more why this story is a problem? I assumed rightsholders would sign a contract with Pandora and it's their business what rate they negotiate. If they think it's too low, they can just not sign, can&#x
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by lopmotr 7y ago
People figured out how to make phone calls with numbers too, even area codes and special 0's in front. But it was an ugly mess necessitated by the technology. This isn't necessary. Even if you know what it means, it's still n
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by lopmotr 7y ago
If URLs are read by humans, they need to be human readable. If you use a prominently displayed name to contain crap like "?id=22107823" which is meaningless to most users, then get off a search engine. Nobody needs to see that. Gi
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Wait, what? It all ends up dispersed the same way, doesn't it?
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Travelling is vital for bringing poor people out of generational poverty. Without it, they'll be stuck in their economically depressed places of birth and the whole rest of the world will also be disadvantaged by not having their labor
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Several studies have linked lack of exposure to sunlight to short sightedness. One specifically identified UVB radiation as important in preventing it. It's probably lack of going outside on a clear day that's causing it rather th

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