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by panglott 11y ago
She's not talking about humanities majors. She's talking about liberal arts educations. You can get an engineering degree at a liberal arts college, they just make you take some philosophy/arts/&c. courses also. Ther
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NixOS has soemthing similar https://nixos.org/wiki/NixOS:Containers
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I use Nix on Mac OS X, but would probably use Guix on Linux since it uses Scheme. I suspect they're complementary.
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Moving their child to an environment where they develop a healthy, positive attitude toward learning and outgrow a crippingly low self-esteem is "terribly selfish"?
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Also child rearing? The largest single factor on a student's educational outcomes is not any in-school factor, but the educational background and socioeconomic status of their parents.
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Went camping at a popular local park on 4th of July weekend. As it turns out, a hundred or so charcoal cooking fires will blanket a whole region with a thick haze even if they are all outside to begin with =/
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Reminds me of RFK's 1968 trip to Appalachia while the Apollo program was underway.
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Maybe it would be a good idea to try building a working electrical grid that can deliver power to rural areas before trying your hand at a nuclear power plant?
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by panglott 11y ago
This comment made me think of the Japanese kamado or the traditional Russian stove, but see this discussion of the Lorena adobe stove https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_stove#Lorena_adobe_stove One problem is that cera
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by panglott 11y ago
"the more complex stoves that run on electricity or burn liquid fuels typically cost more and require access to a steady and cheap supply of fuel, which often isn’t available in rural villages."
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Treknomics Panel at New York Comic Con(fold.cm)
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"While the death rate for African Americans is still greater than the rate for whites, the turnaround among whites is shocking because of the advantages they enjoy, said David Weir..." Is this just reversion to the mean? That is,
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Libertarians have a lot of cognitive dissonance about things like externalities and information costs, it's true. They have to have considered arguments about externalities because externalities are quite inconvenient for lots of liber
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I think I needed a irony indicator ;)
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I always search for "go weiqi" when looking for the game, although "go baduk" is probably better.
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Maybe that's what should be done with all the fifty-year-old software developers complaining about ageism. Just train them to be web developers.
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Libertarians have the intellectual tools to deal with the negative externalities of air pollution and the positive externalities of environmental services. Although they frequently want to pretend externalities are minimal to nonexistant.
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To be fair, pretty much everything on the Internet in 2005 was a doomed experiment. Plenty of them have beat the odds.
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So this is like True Dungeon gone mainstream?
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Huh, I'm surprised it was notable enough to have a Wikipedia page. I would have Googled, but figured the answer was in some walled garden or cryptic forum posts.
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by panglott 11y ago
Much of this is the weight of copyright restrictions. There is a ton of material published between say 1940 and 1980, that is still under copyright but hopelessly out of print. As physical objects, they're getting old enough that soon
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by panglott 11y ago
The article title is poorly written: the cars were at fault in none of these accidents. Most of these accidents were cases where the self-driving car was rear-ended.
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https://www.vox.com/technology/2015/10/30/9640230/self-drivi... "Most of the accidents happened because another vehicle rear-ended the self-driving car. Self-driving cars have not been involved
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by panglott 11y ago
https://www.vox.com/2015/10/19/9567289/driverless-truck-rio-...
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by panglott 11y ago
Facebook as a public accomodation? That's an interesting idea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_accommodations Public accomodations in the US are in many states prohibited from discriminating on the basis of
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by panglott 11y ago
It's not that leaving would restrict your social life so much as that FB enables a much looser social network to coordinate. I'd stay in contact with my friends, but I'd see a lot less of what my friends-of-friends and acquai
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by panglott 11y ago
Exactly. There is really profound computer illiteracy in this country (the US), and this kind of mundane, practical scripting is both the most common sort of programming that people should do, and also the biggest hole in computer education
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Rather, reducing poverty is a highly effective way of reducing the birth rate.
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What has America done to the squirrels?
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by panglott 11y ago
A law that bans licit behavior alongside illicit behavior to give law enforcement broad powers and discretion to target the illicit behavior is unjust. It gives the power to decide what is licit and illicit directly to law enforcement, rath

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