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by qntty 10y ago
Note that the housing is open to everyone. Here's a more charitable explanation: That’s one reason another institution, the University of Connecticut, earlier this year announced a living community specifically for black men. Erik Hin
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by qntty 10y ago
You're mistaken...
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by qntty 10y ago
It's meant to be ironic. They are also aware of how ridiculous it sounds.
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by qntty 10y ago
it's not meant to be taken so seriously
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by qntty 10y ago
$100 for a weird two-week initial period. Reads like: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by qntty 10y ago
I used this book in my digital image processing class (a class for EE majors). A lot of the book is applications of classic signal processing techniques.
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by qntty 10y ago
and similar projects for cs and math papers http://thatsmathematics.com/mathgen/ https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/
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by qntty 10y ago
GP meant private-sector company
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by qntty 10y ago
thanks for the Polya recommendation
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by qntty 10y ago
Yes, in the Buddhist view, you accumulate karma no matter what you're doing (even if you're procrastinating something), so long as you have an idea of self. So the only way to "really do nothing" is to free yourself from
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by qntty 10y ago
>First, the author conflates procrastination, idleness and perfectionism, as if they were interchangeable But he distinguishes them later: The drama of procrastination comes from its split nature. Just like the architect from Shiraz, th
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by qntty 10y ago
Oscar Wilde thought that “to do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world”
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The Mother Behind the Entrepreneur(theatlantic.com)
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by qntty 10y ago
This is what it looks like when you send someone an allo message and they don't have allo. I was surprised that it would send something like this without asking permission. I assumed it would fall back to SMS transparently. http:&#x2F
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by qntty 10y ago
I wish we could all get along like we could when we were young school kids. Kids fight but at least they know how to empathize with each other when they try.
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by qntty 10y ago
"Don't want to work in tech" isn't an atomic desire. There are lots of things that go into a persons decision of what kind of work to do. The tech world could no doubt win over some of the people (men and women) who are
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by qntty 10y ago
well my wind-up watch is rusty these days
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by qntty 10y ago
I like dogs but I wouldn't want to work in an office with dogs running around. I would definitely ask for a dog free zone (at the very least) if it were me. You're definitely not wrong to be weirded out by it. Working outside on a
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by qntty 10y ago
A smaller number of companies is still easier to regulate than a larger number. (note that my reply was detached from a deleted comment where someone asked what the possible use of this information could be)
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It says that change is easier than it might seem.
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
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by qntty 10y ago
If we coddle people in wheelchairs, they'll never learn to wheel themselves up stairs. In the real world, there are stairs everywhere and they need to get used to that. I sprained my ankle one time in college and I crutched my way up t
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by qntty 10y ago
Silliman refers to a residential college (dorms etc.), not the entire university.
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Well yeah, but if a book can never get published because of obscenity laws, it will never be discussed in a classroom. The law doesn't even need to be actually enforced very often to have an effect. The fact that authors know that thei
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by qntty 10y ago
Well the US has had obscenity laws in place until recently. It's just that the people who decided what was "upsetting" were politicians rather than students and had the power to get rid of it completely.
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by qntty 10y ago
Never heard of that concept of "safe space" before. Do you have any examples of it?
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You guess and invite people to correct you if you're wrong? How is anything that requires judgement decided? Eventually there will be an accepted norm but at the beginning there never is.
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How do I buy one? I don't see an "add to cart" button anywhere.
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What do you do?
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by qntty 10y ago
Well I guess the opposite of doing day trading is not doing day trading... it works!

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