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by pflats 14y ago
I agree, although having Season 1 on DVD, I'd say they managed to do a decent amount of math in almost every episode of it (even if it doesn't always solve the crime). Then my wife and I bought Season 2 and were quite disappointed. That sai
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by pflats 14y ago
"When The Big Bang Theory first aired there weren’t many nerds on mainstream TV, at least besides the character with the glasses and braces in the background on a teen drama. Before TBBT, nerds were the characters the protagonists avoided,
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by pflats 14y ago
I always thought that Namco's GunCon controllers were the most interesting; rather than passively figure out the cathode ray timing, they tapped the video signal to actively read it. They're still the most accurate "light gun" controllers I
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by pflats 14y ago
Let's look, amorally, at why China has a serious interest in not having child labor. 1. It cheapens their labor, and trades an adult's job for a child. Most of the money for the jobs with potential child labor is coming from out of the coun
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by pflats 14y ago
Fourth paragraph of the article: >>As a result, Apple terminated its relationship with PZ and reported the labor agency (Shemzen Quanshun Human Resources) to the provincial governments of Shenzen and Henan. "The agency had its busin
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by pflats 14y ago
In case anyone gets confused between the two like I sometimes do, Alan Cox (Linux Kernel hacker) is not Russ Cox (Go language & Plan 9 from User Space hacker).
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by pflats 14y ago
Don't confuse the government-mandated standardized tests with the SATs. They're not really out there to measure individual students. These tests are to ensure individual schools, districts, and states are giving the proper instruction to th
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by pflats 14y ago
They haven't figured out a damn thing regarding what makes a good teacher. At best, they've figured out how to find which teachers are good. That's not nearly as helpful. It's barely helpful. What happens when you find the bad teachers? Fir
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by pflats 14y ago
What about a business model based on encouraging other, more desperate developers to annoy and abuse their users? I imagine that's quite viable.
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by pflats 14y ago
I read the first 10 pages of the pdf. I'm not sure who you think your target audience is, but this book doesn't seem to serve any of them. You gloss over huge sections of algebra, and in doing so, ignore incredibly common mistakes that stud
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by pflats 14y ago
I agree, it doesn't make any sense. But it happened. This was back in '07 or so, so before Google did live turn-by-turn. I had a printout of Google's directions from online. It led me on a street that's never existed, and that would have ha
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by pflats 14y ago
Google Maps directed me down a trap street once on the way to a new tutoring gig. I got lost, was late, and had to sheepishly call the family to ask for directions. Just glad I had a printout of the directions to show them. Never used it fo
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by pflats 14y ago
Yes, it is within the rules of the event. There are lots of ways to play within the rules and still be a jerk. Everyone who bought the cards for under $3 was faced with a decision: do I want these badly enough to literally cost the people w
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by pflats 14y ago
You're comparing apples and oranges. People know who Babe Ruth and Michael Jordan are, the same way they know the Empire State Building and Beethoven. Besides, I'd be shocked if fewer people know who played the Monday Night Football game th
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by pflats 14y ago
If someone wanted, they could argue that "absolutely nothing whatsoever" hinges on music or architecture either, and then apply your counter-arguments back to sports. edit: and look, cobrausn has while I was typing this. Some people like
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by pflats 14y ago
Yes, and nfg and I are trying to point out the downsides of using the term "Hispanic" when you mean "Latin American". The terms aren't interchangeable, even though people might try to treat them as such. It might be an academic distinction
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by pflats 14y ago
Hispanic refers to Hispania, the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula. Thus, Spain and Portugal are the two original Hispanic cultures. Any culture that has Hispanic roots (i.e. most countries south of the US) is also Hispanic. Anecdotally,
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by pflats 14y ago
Speaking as a teacher, while your 5-points are very good, there's a happy medium here you can hit between free and paid. Individual teachers have minuscule discretionary budgets (either $0 flat or up to a few hundred for everything). Depart
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by pflats 14y ago
Glibly, all of it. Immigrants make up 98.9% of the United States population as of the latest census.
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by pflats 14y ago
How on earth can you define life success? SATs correlate positively with family income and negatively with incarceration rates. That seems like a start to me.
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by pflats 14y ago
Curriculum shouldn't be an issue for much longer. The vast majority of the states ( http://www.corestandards.org/in-the-states ) have adopted the Common Core. The holdout is publishers: currently, textbook companies have nominal "core stand
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by pflats 14y ago
I saw a lot of confusion on the distiction between parody (generally okay, relatively easier defense) and satire (sometimes okay, relatively harder defense) in the Psy and Copyright discussion thread. I've found this document from an Americ
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Satire/Parody Distinction—Can Satire Ever Be Fair Use? (2006) [pdf](apps.americanbar.org)
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>"Mitt Romney Style" would certainly be considered a fair use parody and since the video was also parody, the need to license was avoided. This is far from a certainty. In fact, the court could very well rule against College Humor et.
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Staffer axed by Republican group over retracted copyright reform memo(arstechnica.com)
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"You are using Internet Explorer, an unsupported browser :( You should download Google Chrome so you can get started!" Just a warning from a high-school teacher: this is a non-starter in a lot of schools. High-school IT departments have a
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by pflats 14y ago
"The app and its website both play the mystery card. No mention of who made it and where it came from, but I found this Mashable piece that provides a bit more background." This seemed bizarre to me, so I went looking. There's like half a d
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by pflats 14y ago
It's common everywhere except in ivory towers. Mathematical journals (english ones, at least) and the like use log to mean the natural log, because there's no need to use log_10 in any advanced/abstract system. (This is because 10 stops bei
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by pflats 14y ago
I found an easier way to do this. For example, let's try Arrow. 1. Click the following link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/arrow-season-1/id56243... 2. Click "Buy Season Pass". 3. All the episodes will download automatically as so
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by pflats 14y ago
He said as much in an interview. I'm pretty sure it was when he was on the Daily Show, but I could be misremembering. http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-november-7-2012/nate-s...

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