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by omegaham 12y ago
I deal with CrossFit a lot, as a lot of my coworkers do it and my unit's PT seems to be going in that direction. 1. As said by other posters, CrossFit is huge . And it's not like McDonald's - there's a large amount of v
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by omegaham 12y ago
I agree. My dad loves solo violin, and I personally don't care for the sound. I definitely prefer a cello or someone playing a woodwind. Alto sax is my personal favorite solo instrument.
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by omegaham 12y ago
Military here (POG, so there's no personal experience. I just know a little more than the average civilian). Snatch-and-grab in other countries is one of the most hazardous operations that SF does. In fact, it's one of the few ope
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by omegaham 12y ago
I thought this was weird until I went to the grocery store and found out that it was a dollar a pound. Yes please.
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by omegaham 12y ago
Immediately of the box? No. A single driver installation? Yes, for both HP and Brother. Canon's stuff is a little weirder, but it's not terrible.
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by omegaham 12y ago
Someone with more legal experience can weigh in, but I wasn't under the impression that people applying for investment were given the same protections as people applying for employment. Disclaimer: I have no legal experience and am tal
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by omegaham 12y ago
I remember reading (with horror) the methods for factoring cubics and quartics and thinking, "Well, I guess that's what they did before they had Newton's method and computers." Ewwwww.
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by omegaham 12y ago
It ends up being on its own. You get introduced to it during geometry, but I don't think that it really gets taught until college. I took BC calculus as a junior, so we got left with about a month between the seniors' leaving and
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by omegaham 12y ago
> If you calibrate everything perfectly, some number of students will get a highly optimal (for them) education where everything was timed perfectly, using the easiest-to-understand lessons. For everyone else, for the slow and learning d
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by omegaham 12y ago
As I said, the problem is that when a kid is having trouble, it's very difficult to figure out where he's going wrong if he isn't showing his work. To take a simple example, let's try factoring a quadratic. The kid doesn
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by omegaham 12y ago
My girlfriend's brother has this same problem - he definitely knows the material, but he gets really frustrated because it's so tedious to write out something when you can just write the answer down and go onto the next problem. W
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by omegaham 12y ago
The thing is, I can't think of another way to teach the curriculum. Math is abstraction on top of abstraction. You start off with counting. Once you get counting down, you abstract it with addition (You've counted 5 things, and yo
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by omegaham 12y ago
Gibes regarding racism aside, some people seem more articulate due to the fact that they carry themselves differently during interviews. Of course, many musicians will keep a persona going during interviews as well, so it's still not a
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by omegaham 13y ago
All of the different forms of "to be" come from different words in old languages. We get "am" and "is" from Latin, but I am not sure about the other tenses. Google says that all of the others are a collection o
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by omegaham 13y ago
That sounds about right. We abbreviate whatever we can if ideas become awkward. For example, in the US military, there are a lot of concepts that are clumsy to say - for example, it's pretty silly to refer to the Naval Air Training and
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by omegaham 13y ago
In that case, a merchant would have to offer a discount in order to make Bitcoin worth pursuing.
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by omegaham 13y ago
I think that's what a lot of these alternate cryptocurrencies are doing. People get in early and hope that there are enough fools who get in late to sell their massive holdings to them. Then these same people try to do the same to othe
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by omegaham 13y ago
If you'll permit me to put words into your mouth, I think that you're expressing your disdain for this mindset. Currency needs to be stable in order to have long-term prospects. The dollar is stable because everyone believes that
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by omegaham 13y ago
> The current system is giving a monopoly on printing money without any backing store of value besides the confidence in the printer to a select few easily exploitable and corruptible appointed heads of central banks with no mechanism fo
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by omegaham 13y ago
Legacy systems, unfortunately, are here to stay. Not everyone gets to update their browsers whenever they want to. And while I don't have to deal with IE 1.5, I definitely have to deal with IE 6 in my workplace. IT is a bunch of idiots
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by omegaham 13y ago
For now, things are going to be pretty silly, as everyone is paying attention to it and probably just endorsing for the hell of it. My guess is that PG started with the threshold being really low, meaning that a single endorsement will ac
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by omegaham 13y ago
This is an excellent observation. It takes effort to downvote someone; it takes zero effort to ignore a pending post that doesn't meet whatever your standard is for endorsement. Basically, it turns the system on its head; it's no
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by omegaham 13y ago
And then the exact same activists who cry about renters being evicted then wonder why there's such a bad housing shortage.
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by omegaham 13y ago
I was going to say something about how companies will sell lockpick sets to anyone and that's perfectly legal even though it facilitates burglary, but I thought of another example that might be more revealing. Say I'm an asshole a
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by omegaham 13y ago
It's shorthand for "optimal." Assuming an omniscient god, he would be able to always solve a Rubik's Cube in the minimum (optimal) number of moves. You're reading too much into it, I think.
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by omegaham 13y ago
One problem that I think is salient about Bitcoin is that it's just not that useful . It's supposed to be a currency, but no one's actually using it for currency. They're just gambling on it, hoping to take advantage of
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by omegaham 13y ago
Oh god yes. I'm currently a relatively junior flunky in the Marine Corps, and the GS civilians who work here are hilarious. "We need to cut the fat!" We work at a minor airbase in the middle of nowhere... oh. Oops. Whatever w
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by omegaham 13y ago
Depending on whether the prisoners are able to determine the passage of time, this can either take relatively little time or a lot of time. Easy: If the warden grabs a prisoner once a night, then the prisoners set up a system according to t
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by omegaham 13y ago
I don't really have a problem with the idea of making a code monastery; it's intended to be entertaining, and I find it humorous to imagine a rustic monastery that is focused on modern technology. The weird part, to me, is the use
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by omegaham 13y ago
One problem is that diamonds are surprisingly brittle. If you tap a diamond along a cleavage point, it will break. Diamond cutters take advantage of this; you can break a diamond with a wooden dowel if you hit it in the right place. I'

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