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by pitt1980 10y ago
why is China so large in the voter turnout map? I realize I actually know very little about the political process in China are there regular elections there? what are they voting on? I perceive that you're not voting for any politici
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by pitt1980 10y ago
hmm, I wonder if that doesn't explain the lack of a new GoTs book that GRRM doesn't really like his options from where he is in the story
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This one is a real blooper and I cannot let it pass by(marginalrevolution.com)
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by pitt1980 10y ago
I don't really know, it might be a function of them having better confidence in the screening of people on watch lists in other countries or it might truly be security theater or maybe it is economically motivated the people who make t
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by pitt1980 10y ago
fwiw http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35521646 a laptop bomb blew a hole in a Somali plane last year
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by pitt1980 10y ago
I've noticed that younger kids seems to take events extremely seriously One thing that helped me keep this in perspective, is that every event makes up a significantly larger fraction of their existence than that event makes up of my e
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by pitt1980 10y ago
is that true? or do we merely wish it were true? certainly talented people will have lots of different options as to where to apply their talent but lets not pretend that all the places to apply talent are inherently equal, or that that th
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by pitt1980 10y ago
is that true? how much effectiveness are you gaining with the thinner atmosphere?
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by pitt1980 10y ago
that's every market you purchase anything in
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by pitt1980 10y ago
"people have a visceral negative reaction to arbitrageurs" I think you're right that people have a visceral reaction to people they perceive as arbitrageurs ------------------- like arbitrageurs in nearly every domain where
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by pitt1980 10y ago
I remember reading this story last summer and finding it really fascinating the part I really liked was the part that talked about the spread of coaches: "Fine. But how have they done it? For once there is a fairly easy answer. This is
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by pitt1980 10y ago
Elite schools could expand their student bodies considerably and have the average student be just as qualified as the average student was 30 years ago
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by pitt1980 10y ago
Not that it matters, but I'm sort of confused as to what lower tier schools you applied to At every state school whose scholarship packages I'm familiar with (granted sample size of 3, plus antedotally maybe 5 or so more), an appl
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by pitt1980 10y ago
it probably has scores on the high side for state schools, sure
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by pitt1980 10y ago
I should probably have left out the last point as it was a distraction from the overall point whether what's dissuading them from going to ivy league schools are myths or not, the larger point, is that big state schools tend to have pr
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by pitt1980 10y ago
Columbia has 8,410 undergraduates University of Illinois has 32,878 undergraduates the 75% SAT score for the college of engineering at University of Illinois was 1530 (no writing, so out of 1600) https://admissions.illinois.edu&#
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by pitt1980 10y ago
are there any tools that help you do QA on MT data entry in a Bayesian way? seems like the situation is ripe for such a tool --------- start with a subset of questions you have a predetermined answer to, only keep feed questions if the pers
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by pitt1980 10y ago
the rational is that the ban is for places where its hard to do background checks so its places where there are currently insurgent wars going on or places that are considered state sponsors of terrorism ------ both situations complicate th
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by pitt1980 10y ago
for better or worse, we'll never know what negative/unpopular/bad things a President Clinton would have done an election is a choice between 2 alternates though didn't like X (maybe 'thought X would do bad things&#x
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Designs for working (2000)(gladwell.com)
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by pitt1980 10y ago
is it actually the education that's not cheap these days, or merely the credentialing? seems like cheapening the credentialing might be a better way to attack this problem
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by pitt1980 10y ago
Right now I have a 3 and 5 year old while they are not complete blank slates at this point, their range of future possibilities have not been significantly narrowed at this point I've tried to put some thought into how to direct them s
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by pitt1980 10y ago
Tosh.0 (#10) has an interesting map seem not especially urban, but with a pretty sharp drop off right at the Mason Dixon line seems like maybe it perceived as too much making fun of southern culture? I haven't watched a ton of Ridicul
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by pitt1980 10y ago
if you upvote it, it stays in you upvoted stories list in your profile, I learned the hard way here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11253648 lol, you live, you learn
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by pitt1980 10y ago
"we have more surface area for innovation today as well a society that offers the 'resources' (i say this broadly) for individuals to pursue explorations and discovery" yeah, it's not obvious that the thesis here is
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by pitt1980 10y ago
https://www.wired.com/2008/04/ff-wozniak/ pretty sure that's the article you're referencing
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by pitt1980 10y ago
I'll just throw this here I've tried to make a point of commenting more and more on news articles and discussion boards not because the world really needs to hear my thoughts but it seems like a useful way of capturing my still fa
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by pitt1980 10y ago
There are many types of diversity. Diversity of occupation, diversity of musical taste, diversity of outlook, diversity of residence, and of course varying kinds of racial and ethnic diversity. You could list thousands of kinds of diversi
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by pitt1980 10y ago
"So happy as little children" seems to be a recurring line in nearly ever episode of Intervention I've ever seen I usually assume that the parents are pretty poor historians Or that people aren't very good at figuring ou
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by pitt1980 10y ago
Hollywood Studios in Disney World had a park map where the entrance to the park wasn't at the bottom, I found it really disorienting, I think due to the effect you mentioned, I naturally want to walk 'up' to 'go forward&

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