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by obelos 7y ago
STAR voting has the added benefit of simplicity and being possible on paper ballots. This quadratic system has neither and would be rife with errors, confusion, and likely fraud when used among people who don't vote for a living.
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by obelos 8y ago
The analogy used in this article is too ill-fitting to find compelling. It does prompt me to wonder to what extent a person's digital traces left upon the world could be construed as a creative output that they own as a form of intelle
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by obelos 8y ago
Though I suppose I've gotten accustomed to using double quotes to specify mandatory search terms, perhaps we can get back the `+foo` search syntax that was so unceremoniously taken from us and reappropriated for Google+?
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by obelos 8y ago
I've bought houses using an agent and not, and the latter was in every way more pleasant and predictable. The agent (and their supervising broker) overlooked fundamental items in the contract which ought to have been obvious, like ensu
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by obelos 8y ago
It would be interesting to see how age factors into this spread. During this study's timeframe at least, older people have had more opportunity to accrue wealth and have children (who have also had more time to go to college). In my an
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by obelos 8y ago
Charter schools are first and foremost a tactic for weakening unions. There's nothing stopping experimental “sub-schools,” using public school teachers from developing within an existing public school. That's in fact how my kids&#
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by obelos 8y ago
One factor that gets buried in the abstract debate around school choice is the practical consideration of transportation. If you want to give families real choice in choosing among schools for their children, you have to remove transportati
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by obelos 8y ago
I find virtually every taxonomical system insufficient, whether it's a folder hierarchy, tag cloud, etc. Because of English's profusion of synonyms (on top of necessarily murky category definitions for the world, generally), findi
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by obelos 8y ago
“Why don't I just toss all that stuff in a big box (so roughly sorted by time) and go through it in the rare event that I need something someday?” This is basically what I do with nearly all my paper records. It's a sort of JIT fi
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Forged by Craft: The Last Axes Made by Eye and Muscle(aeon.co)
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by obelos 8y ago
Your description of that Chomsky book reminds me of my experience reading Foucault and his exegesis of power.
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by obelos 8y ago
Dawkins is amazingly lucid when he sticks to topics he knows very well. “The Selfish Gene” and “The Extended Phenotype” were world altering for me. Like integral calculus, I rarely have cause to apply the concept in the domain in which it w
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by obelos 8y ago
Given the budgetary/bidding process that funds and contracts government and especially DoD projects, how is an iterative approach even possible? How would the CO know and be comfortable signing off on saying yes, the terms of this cont
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by obelos 8y ago
Who ever thought a registrar would be more awful than circa-1999 NetSol?
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by obelos 8y ago
Indeed. Sexual selection is the principal topic of Darwin's “Descent of Man.”
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by obelos 8y ago
Regarding #2, I have a harder time switching between touch screen vs. touch pad than I do between text editor key bindings. I seamlessly shift between vi and emacs throughout the day depending on what I'm editing, but put my laptop and
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by obelos 8y ago
I'm mostly annoyed by the change because the new GMail site takes up twice as much RAM as the already RAM-hungry Inbox site. It's enormous.
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by obelos 8y ago
It's a historical storyboard for a “Quest for Fire 2”, sequel to one of the greatest romance films ever!
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by obelos 8y ago
That's the inverse of how I understand those terms and how loaded they are. “Prayer” is a nearly universal religious practice even in ones that are not especially theistic, whereas “grace” is a distinctly Christian notion.
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by obelos 8y ago
Privacy is such an ubiquitous concern for librarians that most ILS software offers automated, time-based purging. Set it up once and it just happens without any staff intervention. n.b. My company creates and manages library software.
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by obelos 8y ago
The flip side of that is the state then has to raise tax on investment properties in order to keep revenues stable. This in turn raises rents on rental properties as landlords absorb the greater tax load. This ends up being a very regressiv
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by obelos 8y ago
When I asked in India about all the buildings with unfinished tops I was told it was for tax purposes, though I didn't hear the specifics.
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by obelos 8y ago
There's a difference between trying to influence how your kids turn out (for some value of “turn out”), and approaching your parenting in a way that facilitates the ease of your ongoing personal relationship with them. Your choices and
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by obelos 9y ago
Yes, this has a “proof of concept” feel to it.
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by obelos 9y ago
Yeah, the descriptions they offer remind me of the few times I've “heard” meteorites plunging through the atmosphere: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2003/oct/23/research.h...
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by obelos 9y ago
Hard to believe, but it happens. Australian Aboriginal story telling, for example, conveys historical events from 10k+ years ago: http://theconversation.com/ancient-aboriginal-stories-preser...
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by obelos 10y ago
Pretty sure I was denied clearance because I had made pro-Snowden remarks in public.
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by obelos 10y ago
What's the likelihood your rent in, say, five years will still be less than your mortgage would be now? Your mortgage payments won't appreciably increase. In high demand areas, though, rents will.
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by obelos 11y ago
I suspect it's more a matter of ejecting poorly implanted zygotes—implanted enough to get some nutrients, but not enough to overtake the mother's hormonal balance. A poor implant could grow for a period of time before ultimately f
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by obelos 12y ago
FAA doesn't have any jurisdiction over YouTube.

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