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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Forget fuel, and radar crashes... can you imaging flying a fighter jet for that long? The stress on the pilot must be insane.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Yeah... many great sites are already just labours of love as it is... I mean, I hate crappy clickbait sites as much as the next person... but in our effort to thwart those we're really going to put the squeeze on more honest sites as a
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Or, do away with the whole "checking" nonsense: game.check = function (answer) { this.streak += 1; this.next_n(); } setInterval(function() { document.querySelector("#yes").click(); }, 0); docume
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
And then after a millenium your great grandchildren will be relatively as old as you are (Say 900 to 1000, at that point how does aging affect someone?) Also, how would your memory hold up? Would you even be able to really remember anything
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Well, you're comparing "learning a new programming language and completing a project in it" with "sitting on the couch and watching TV". There are things you can do instead of "working" that isn't bei
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
>Money talks, no one wants to be a martyr. Snowden
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Not at night!
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
If there's going to be crazy precipitation... maybe I'll just stay in bed. Without checking the weather though, anytime it's rainy in the morning I always feel 300% more lethargic, as if some primal instinct is saying "i
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Social engineering attacks will probably be a thorn in security's side for a very long time, if not indefinitely... There's a sort of fundamental disconnect inherent in "Trust the system! It's secure! Except be careful b
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
School is generally about pushing students to learn more about things they may or may not be good at or interested in. Surely you've heard people complain about math / chem / bio / physics and how it's hard and they
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
All this program is doing is attempting to give exposure to programming to young students who may not otherwise have an opportunity to do so. No matter how naturally gifted a student may be, the tools to learn and grow have to be put within
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Because if you can't be the best, don't even try. Right? Btw, ponus points for (in the context of this article) implying that Black and Hispanic children aren't smart enough to be software engineers.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
I would argue that well-taught geometry and such will make learning programming muuuch easier. Linear algebra has a lot of concepts that translate quite neatly to programming. Set theory, functions, etc. Formal logic is also a great asset f
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
I think he's implying that teaching them how to code and not how to design programs will be the new "vocational" equivalent. Although this issue seems like it just generally applies to the education system as a whole, not spe
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
I think your message is coming off as too much like "The answer is obvious! Wake up sheeple!"
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
http://kids.britannica.com/comptons/art-166536/Population-de... Note the population density in relation to bodies of water. It has less to do with borders than you seem to think.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
-14C in Ottawa right now, it's the wind that makes it nippy, though.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Well, that escalated quickly.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Yeah, it seems like he was simply a very successful sociopath.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
>As a legislator, Yee supported strict gun control laws and was named to the Brady Campaign’s Gun Violence Prevention Honor Roll. Well that's ironic.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Is your psycho-pass looking a bit cloudy today?
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
So you think an entire field of research is irrelevant because "they're just animals"? That's what people thought about animal suffering back in the 17th century. Descartes argued that animals didn't have consciousn
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
It's "homo" as in "homogeneous" not "homo" as in "homo sapiens"... It's not only applicable to humans, by definition. It's applicable to anything that reproduces sexually.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Don't you hate it when you ask someone if they want coffee or tea and they say "yes"? I mean, strictly speaking they answered the question. They do want a coffee or a tea. They just haven't yet specified which one they w
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
With even the same parallels that consuming marijuana while underage was illegal before and will be illegal after. You may as well publish articles about the effects of alcohol on underage brains (which is actually quite detrimental) as an
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
I apologize if I'm incorrect, but I believe English is not your first language. There is a difference between opposition and conflict. It's a bit subtle but it's very important in this context. When you say a "malicious
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
I believe it was originally down-voted for making the assumption that science could solve politics (we're talking opinions, not facts, so you cannot rigourously apply the scientific method). The comment also fell for the trap of falsel
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
In this context opposition is not necessarily conflict. Are two sides of a bridge opposing each other or conflicting with each other? In a client-server security model the client usually wants as much as it can take and the server wants
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Boosts economy. Perplexes law enforcement. Detractors spread FUD. (EDIT: A tl;dr haiku. Pun fully intended.)
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Oddly, I didn't even notice the banner until I read your comment... I blame Wikipedia for conditioning me to ignore banners.

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