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by poet 16y ago
This scratches the surface of an unmatched essay by Harold Goddard called Atomic Peace. Both pieces seek a virus (or a chain reaction) that could end war, but Adams falls short. Indeed, education is not enough and can actually encourage wa
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by poet 16y ago
They're a ton of work, more so if you're not used to reading technical papers. It's also easy to get behind on the project, which is a very independent activity. Graduate students themselves usually only register for 2 courses a semester
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by poet 16y ago
Brain dump, I make no claims of continuity :) Take classes from people on these lists: http://cte.illinois.edu/teacheval/ices/exc_teach.html . Make sure you go back at least a few years because there are several good teachers who don't te
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by poet 16y ago
What department? In CS I've found there are effectively unlimited opportunities for learning and exploration (if you have the basic knowledge needed to navigate the system, which while unfortunate, is the reality). I've heard General, Matse
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by poet 16y ago
Whoops, I meant to mention that. Creating an engaging learning experience is the most difficult option of all. It needs to be done, but there are steps that should be taken in the mean time in order to a more fair (but admittedly suboptimal
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by poet 16y ago
Thanks :)
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Reasonable audits of this type and scope typically take about a work week to complete?
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by poet 16y ago
Finishing up my undergrad at UIUC. A notable fraction of students in each course do cheat. I see two courses of action: (1) we could take the hard road and seek to catch all dishonest students and punish them or (2) we could make cheating
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by poet 16y ago
Um, the Commerce Clause didn't unilaterally impose ObamaCare on the country. What? I never claimed that it did. It simply (arguably) authorized Congress to pass legislation regulating health care. Yes, key word arguably. What we're arg
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by poet 16y ago
To be honest, the language doesn't really matter. The US government can already do all of the things in the bill under the Commerce Clause in the Constitution. Note how the Commerce Clause is used as the justification for requiring that ci
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by poet 16y ago
What kind of boat do you own? I couldn't find it in your comment history. Given the choice would you still buy that particular boat today or would it be something else?
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by poet 16y ago
The other day I saw the announcement for the new Chrome OS test laptop and decided to sign up on the off-chance that I might be able to snag one.... Surprisingly the laptop arrived this morning and I’ve been having fun putting it through i
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by poet 16y ago
Well said, and furthermore, linking to the Posterous post is explicitly discouraged in HN's guidelines: Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter. http://ycombina
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by poet 16y ago
A direct link to the blog post: http://blogs.worldbank.org/allaboutfinance/the-most-effectiv... . It's a lot more balanced than the repost linked in the submission. For example: "Such gains do not come automatically. The latest Nobel prize
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by poet 16y ago
This was standard practice at a defense contractor I interned at. I'm honestly surprised this wasn't already the military's policy.
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by poet 16y ago
Mallory also had a pretty strained relationship with his wife as a result of his mountaineering. If I remember correctly, he promised her several times he would never go back to Everest but always ended up going. I'm not saying I don't symp
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by poet 16y ago
Jacques your rhetoric on Wikileaks is quite frankly awful. Here are some specific pieces I take issue with: The mere existence of information that more than just a very few people have access to almost guarantees a leak and eventual public
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If the conversation was about anything else, using only the word of Joe Lieberman as proof would be a joke. I'm honestly shocked that you think my standards are exacting.
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Did you even bother to read the post I wrote? The thrust of the argument is that no paper is the best judge. In fact, newspapers are categorically unqualified to make judgments in this case.
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Sorry, but until you show me more proof than the verbal statements of one of the most corrupt US Senators, I'm not convinced it actually even happened.
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by poet 16y ago
If that's the best "proof" you have, it's not even worth discussing. Amazon explicitly denied that they booted Wikileaks because of Lieberman. Lieberman isn't even saying that either. He's claiming that his staffers, were informed by Amazon
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by poet 16y ago
You're attempting to make the argument that newspapers (most of which are not even American) can make accurate judgements about the effects of releasing US intelligence. That's a poor argument. What is it about news agencies that qualifies
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by poet 16y ago
Amazon trying to sell a mission critical service like DNS right after rolling over at the first prod from some politician I think it's pretty clear that Amazon didn't roll over because of Lieberman's remarks. Rather, Amazon did what they
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by poet 16y ago
I'm finding a hard time seeing how this leak is a positive thing. At least leaks related to violations of human rights and international law have legs to stand on.
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by poet 16y ago
Hilarious to see the questions about Mudge in there. The interviewer is a sharp guy.
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by poet 16y ago
I wish Wikileaks would just dump the contents, and leave the analysis to the rest of the world. By doing selective "analysis" and redaction, they're basically doing exactly what they claim to be fighting. Either release all the information
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by poet 16y ago
I'm not sure how you think anyone could take you seriously when you call the systemic suppression of political opponents a "minor issue".
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The People's Action Party has a long history of suing political opponents for defamation and bankrupting them with judgements handed down by the courts. This contradicts your claims that (1) Singapore has a good judicial system and (2) Sing
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Singapore is also a police state, if you care about such things. Some choice quotes from the US Department of State: Singapore has a mandatory death penalty for many narcotics offenses. Singapore police have the authority to compel both
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by poet 16y ago
The funny thing about your line of argument is that she didn't make a "public accusation of a sex crime" because "sexual assault" is not a sex crime that is defined in Ohio. If we're going to try to be pedantic here, let's actually be corr

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