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by mhuffman 11y ago
> As one can see, the popular explanation, which fixates on the shape of the wing, may satisfy many but it does not give one the tools to really understand flight. Well, apparently that is it! That also explains why planes don't sla
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by mhuffman 11y ago
So cool! I can't wait until the phone can detect EEG frequencies to guess what I might be thinking so that it can then bombard me with ads about shit I didn't even know I wanted! Bonus points for messaging all my friends on Facebo
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by mhuffman 11y ago
> This is argument from anecdote So? Just because you can play logical fallacy bingo with someone's point of view, does not mean that they can't express it. That was my opinion, not a formal debate argument entry in a PC convin
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by mhuffman 11y ago
Nothing. Very sensitive people get pissed over anything and everything. Sadly those people have time on their hands to write, picket, and generally get attention.
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by mhuffman 11y ago
I understand your point of view, but let's be honest here -- college campuses have become so PC that they have knee-jerk reactions to even Jerry freaking Seinfeld [1]. People have become too sensitive to everything -- everything. When
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by mhuffman 11y ago
> You cannot be denied one. Also, in many jurisdictions, you have to fill out a financial form for them to "determine" if you could afford an attorney on your on. If they decide that you can, regardless of your true finances, t
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by mhuffman 11y ago
I know you are writing this tongue-in-cheek, but imagine if the US postal service made it a felony to send a letter to anyone that had "hate speech" (by their definition) in it. Or that you had to be verified and "white-liste
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by mhuffman 11y ago
Yeah they should just get back to eating witches, like before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korowai_people#Cannibalism
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by mhuffman 11y ago
The colors are not the right combination for current political optics ... so probably a long, long time.
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by mhuffman 11y ago
One of the goals of Common Core was to fix that situation ... but then, you know, teaching to the test kind of defeated it.
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by mhuffman 11y ago
The very highest pupil to teacher ratio seems to be California with under 25. The average seems to be 16. [1] From personal experience, my child goes to a public school and his classroom is about 25 students with a teacher and 2 assistant t
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by mhuffman 11y ago
DOZENS!!
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by mhuffman 11y ago
$20 million is a lot of money. There are 3.1 million teachers in the US [1], so about $7 a piece go toward lobbying per year. David Koch alone in this election cycle, " ... hopes to spend up to $300 million on candidates and another $6
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by mhuffman 11y ago
Maybe there is supposed to be an implied, "... for stockholders", at the end ...
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by mhuffman 11y ago
Out of curiosity was this a traditional debate or these[1][2] kinds of debates. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZeDq90Ar4k [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmO-ziHU_D8
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by mhuffman 11y ago
If you worked for the banking industry, on the other hand, things worked out pretty ok!
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by mhuffman 11y ago
"Do what you love -- the money will come!"
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by mhuffman 11y ago
Here is a chart of the cycles you are referring to, going back over 400,000 years. Look at the green one in the middle. You may have to look a little higher, all the way into the chart above it, in fact. Notice anything peculiar around the
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by mhuffman 11y ago
Except no one dies if you don't get to make your new killer javascript framework.
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by mhuffman 11y ago
I actually get this. If they don't take a hardline on censorship, they would be inundated with "offended" people wanted every site on the Internet removed from their edge caches because someone in the world found them offensi
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by mhuffman 11y ago
Many early illuminated manuscripts have very unrealistic drawings, similar in the style to voynich manuscript.
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by mhuffman 11y ago
> where defleshing was performed as a burial ritual yes ... as a "burial" ritual ...
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by mhuffman 11y ago
The govt. began to care for people that had previously been cared for by family members or religious groups. This includes the very poor, the elderly, the disabled, etc. That makes the bulk of it.
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by mhuffman 11y ago
I am with you, but then I thought "why should I expect to learn something about this advanced topic, when my skills are not at that level?" So, I don't blame the author, this post is meant for people that have some pre-existi
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by mhuffman 11y ago
Well, then how will everyone know I am crazy rich and they should be jealous? Seriously, I wonder if there have been any studies to the "perception" of the material. For example, does a natural, scarce material "seem" to
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by mhuffman 11y ago
What are you trying to encrypt citizen? If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about!
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by mhuffman 11y ago
Maybe not, but it think it is the web service company's responsibility to alert and contact you on suspicious activity ... like a sudden $6,000 jump in service usage of spot instances in regions you have never used before. I mean a qui
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by mhuffman 11y ago
Further, when dealing with psychological or (many) sociological/biological subjects where you can not do a double blind test for moral reasons and all data is anecdotal (ie. self-reported), don't researchers overlook this bit of c
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by mhuffman 11y ago
Not to try to derail the conversation, but I have noticed a very poor understanding of statistics and experimentation in all of the "soft" sciences, in particular, the social sciences. It is not uncommon to see published and &quot
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by mhuffman 11y ago
Same here! all of the buzz around iPython, and there is no succinct explanation of wtf it is or why I would want it. Jupyter seems to be a more generalize version of iPython with pluggable engines, but again, what does that mean? So far, I

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