mattchew

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by mattchew 12y ago
I've traded with people who I barely shared a language with. I could probably go buy weed today if I wanted to. I've watched thousands of dollars of business transacted in situations where enforcement of the deal was in practice i
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by mattchew 12y ago
That understanding doesn't come from the people with guns. Else the US would not need to spend $billions on guns to fight the drug trade. I don't say the folks with guns can't do constructive things to improve trade. They can
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by mattchew 12y ago
You're doing something that you believe is unfair and unjust, but you're not ashamed of it? Something doesn't quite add up here.
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by mattchew 12y ago
I don't think Amazon is a monopoly in the sense of controlling the market. They're certainly the dominant player, but it's easy enough to buy an ebook from somewhere else. I do not see how Amazon starts squeezing authors hard
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by mattchew 13y ago
Thanks for the reply. I did note this: Brain imaging is not ready for use as a diagnostic tool in ADHD, Shaw said."It is still too early to use neuroanatomical scans for diagnosis," he said. "We had to scan hundreds of childr
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by mattchew 13y ago
I'd like to read more about the structural brain differences, if you've got links.
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by mattchew 13y ago
Funny you should say this. Just the other day I was telling a friend of mine that I really should have been born in the 19th century. Much of what people believed then makes more sense to me than what people think today.
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by mattchew 13y ago
I was talking about you, and the credibility of your views. There's lots of yelling on the internet, but most of it you shouldn't take seriously. I do apologize to HN for helping hijack the thread.
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by mattchew 13y ago
> And yes, there are some parents who do a great job homeschooling; I'm sure of it. I've just never met them, and I was extensively involved in local homeschooling programs back in my home town, so I interacted with dozens of h
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by mattchew 13y ago
Medical bills can go into the millions, but this is very rare. I quite doubt hundreds of thousands is something that could reasonably be described as typical. I had surgery with anesthesia (kidney stones) for less than $10K. I might be wron
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by mattchew 13y ago
If you find out you have cancer or kidney failure or whatever, you may not be able to enroll immediately depending on "open enrollment periods". (If you can move to another state that might count as a "qualifying event"
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by mattchew 13y ago
> If school systems are so inherently broken, how come all the economically successful countries have public school systems that go on for years? Long compulsory schooling was not a leading indicator of the success of the U.S. We were a
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by mattchew 13y ago
> Does PyCharm support Javascript? Yes, to the point where I have edited in PyCharm even when I wasn't doing anything with Python, just for the JS features.
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by mattchew 13y ago
> Citation please. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World
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by mattchew 13y ago
> whether it's more like a continuous spectrum rather than a binary on/off switch. This seems like a reasonable starting assumption when talking about a personality trait, doesn't it? Especially one that is sometimes but n
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by mattchew 13y ago
A brilliant programmer can get noticed across all of the internet. Paying attention to the smartest and most accomplished people on the internet and matching yourself against them is likely to be hard on your ego. I recommend not doing this
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by mattchew 13y ago
> I agree that society and technology could evolve us through a much more desirable path. But the more time we can buy for that to happen, the better. I would inflect this differently. An open and free society is much more likely to figu
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by mattchew 13y ago
> A large subset of the American population believe that government can do no good . . . This is why we can't have nice things. Yup, suspicion of government is the root of all evil, and TSA only act the way they do because some peo
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by mattchew 13y ago
You did some sloganeering that was at best tangentially related to the article in question. The resulting discussion? Just what you'd expect. Par for the HN course these days, but no need to pat yourself on the back over it.
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by mattchew 13y ago
I remarked on this above also. I have early morning waking also (not sure if it's insomnia or just my getting older). I use melatonin when I know I'm stressed and would normally have trouble falling asleep. I try not to use it mor
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by mattchew 13y ago
I tried melatonin thanks to this article (thanks gwern!). It does help me get to sleep. I've used it about 10 times now and only once did I still have trouble falling asleep, and even then I did within an hour or so. Unfortunately, it
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by mattchew 13y ago
We homeschool. My son spells words fairly well and my daughter spells like a cat. We've worked with both of them on spelling, in about the same way. I wouldn't really call this a cause, but my daughter doesn't really believe
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by mattchew 13y ago
You seem to be saying that people who believe in evolution mostly got there by careful evaluation of the evidence and critical thinking. I think you're wrong about that. Most people's opinions, on most things, are not particularly
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by mattchew 13y ago
I know a number of homeschoolers who are creationists. Most of them are perfectly capable, not-stupid people, doing a good job raising their kids and educating them. You wouldn't call them stupid, or think their kids were stupid, if yo
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by mattchew 13y ago
Ooh, ooh, does it also start with "what is the point . . . "?
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by mattchew 13y ago
David Brin is pleased.
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by mattchew 13y ago
Sure, I mean helpers for the template/view that make it easier (syntax, data binding, validations) to render a HTML form widget. Instead of defining your form as a unit in app code, you manage the form fields in the view/template.
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by mattchew 13y ago
I don't like Forms/ModelForms. It doesn't seem to be a common complaint, but I always end up fighting with Forms when I try to use them. Too complicated, too confining, and too unique-to-Django. I wish Django had gone with fi
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by mattchew 13y ago
If you know SQL, they're often frustrating. You know what you want to do, but there's some ridiculous arcane approach to get those results via the ORM. If you can do it at all. ORMs make it easy to do things like run queries inside a loop w
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by mattchew 13y ago
Nope. Give me one long page or page links. I hate the perpetual pausing, I hate being unable to go directly to the end of what I'm reading. I like to feel in control over what I'm looking at, and infinite scroll ain't that. I hope it is a f

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