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by portpecos 4y ago
I’m also in school. I found desmos.com/scientific to be much easier for my school work, especially for general chemistry. It’s because of the copy/paste function and the history buffer. Long problems require a lot of conversions o
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by portpecos 5y ago
"you're the only one who asked, thank you," While 2 posts above you, “I found New Yorkers are always happy to lend a hand when needed.”
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by portpecos 5y ago
> The lame social media posts from fellow tech workers about how things "should" be regulated gets tiresome. The real solution is to simply not work for them. Just like Twitter can ban Donald Trump for using certain phrases (S
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by portpecos 5y ago
That’s pretty sad. As a CS Professor, he should understand the distinction between a conjunction and disjunction.
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by portpecos 5y ago
Will Latvia pay for it? It’s a cost to US taxpayers to put and maintain soldiers, bases, equipment on foreign soil. If countries would put 2% of their GDP into NATO or some other military defense fund, then that might be fairer than US taxp
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by portpecos 5y ago
I used it for Calc 1 and 2. It helped me check my work for Limits, derivatives, integrals, Reimann Summs, Series, Sequences. I love the part that says "Show Step By Step" because I can figure out which step I made an error. The an
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by portpecos 5y ago
>The moment people blame things on tree huggers https://www.encyclopedia.com/environment/educational-magazin... The late 1960s through 1980s saw a shift in the antinuclear movement toward protesting the development
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by portpecos 5y ago
>It is a common misapprehension that hollow-point ammunition is prohibited by the Geneva Conventions, as the prohibition significantly predates those conventions. There ya go. Easy to find.
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by portpecos 5y ago
I'm taking a first semester physics course right now, and we're learning about Torque and Angular Momentum. I just finished a calculus course last semester. Can someone tell me how I would use τ=r∧F on a physics problem for Torque
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by portpecos 5y ago
The media didn’t say “Vaccines are 95% effective, except for mutations”. The media said “Vaccines are 95% effective.”
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by portpecos 5y ago
"A major cause of low reproducibility is the publication bias and the selection bias..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis#Causes
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by portpecos 5y ago
And yet a simple call to the local Walmart demonstrates that Medicaid and ACA doesn’t cover the HPV Vaccine.
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by portpecos 5y ago
New price update, if you're over 26 with Medicaid or ACA in Blue Wall Michigan: http://www.med.umich.edu/1info/FHP/practiceguides/adult.imms... Then it's $666. $195 per shot + $27 administrative fee
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by portpecos 5y ago
Right, all your programs cover HPV vaccines for the under 26 market. Medicaid and ACA doesn't cover HPV vaccines for people over 26. The over 26 population is 70% of the US population?
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by portpecos 5y ago
Here’s the phone number for Walmart in Lansing Michigan. Tell me if you get a different price. You probably won’t. 517 622 1451. In fact, I’ll do the legwork for you and report to you exactly what they say. I’ll be right back. Update: I was
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by portpecos 5y ago
Sounds like a giant sucking sound of programming jobs departing to lower waged labors. Then higher waged laborers will need to lower their wages to compete. Economists call that a comparative advantage and a net win. If you’re claiming an e
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by portpecos 5y ago
> - teachers are astute at spotting students who memorize blindly, and will intervene to correct that > 100% on memorization OP says it’s not 100% memorization and you say it’s 100% memorization. So which one is it?
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by portpecos 5y ago
I like this. Give me the option to hit yes or no.
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by portpecos 5y ago
And you all claim it's only going to get worse...unless what? Unless Congress is elected back to majority? That's a bold assertion considering the history of corruption and spying under the Congress Dynasty.
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by portpecos 5y ago
I don't consider what-about-ism a fallacy. In fact, it's an important way to identify hypocrisies and double standards.
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by portpecos 5y ago
Rahul Gandhi's grandmother also went on a banning spree of political opposition parties, after she declared emergency powers and went authoritarian. Given the legacy of similar behavior from Congress since the birth of the nation, I ha
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by portpecos 5y ago
Hope their studies are reproducible, I'm getting a little tired of psychnews that make headline, only to learn it was just garbage.
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by portpecos 5y ago
Ignoratio Elenchi: refuting an opponent while actually disproving something not asserted. Your opponent was elaborating on the original claim that "If any American Government official requesting a removal of anything from social media
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by portpecos 5y ago
>I believe it came after the gov't put across barricades and barbed wires to caroll the protesters leading many to believe that the regime was planning a major crackdown. Didn't the US also place barricades for Biden's ina
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by portpecos 5y ago
Perhaps you're confused, but the rest of Europe isn't confused at how Twitter has a lot of power: German Chancellor Angela Merkel objected to the decisions [of banning Trump], saying on Monday that lawmakers should set the rules g
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by portpecos 5y ago
What's the difference between #ModiPlanningFarmerGenocide and #StopTheSteal from a free speech perspective?
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by portpecos 6y ago
Side note: If the Square-Cube law is true, then maybe the American Airlines UFO is definitely not a drone. Some were claiming it was likely a drone.
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by portpecos 6y ago
It’s not pejorative. Naxals are supporters of the militant political organisation that claims the legacy of the Communist Party of India. In fact, Urban youth are specifically targeted to spread the communist teachings of Mao Zedong. They f
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by portpecos 6y ago
By that statement, you can claim TaskRabbit and the like are also rent-seekers.
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by portpecos 6y ago
Didn’t Kathy Griffin re-share her bloody beheaded Trump image a couple of months ago on Twitter?

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