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by qrendel 10y ago
Clickbait headline is clickbaity. TFA pretty clearly indicates that they're recommending kids be forced to design their own activities to overcome boredom, not have their summer pre-planned by their parents with "chess camp, art s
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> Statistical mechanical entropy and information theoretical entropy ('complexity in bits') are not the same quantities! This assertion (whether thermodynamic entropy and information theoretic entropy are equivalent) is an on
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by qrendel 10y ago
Selection bias? There are some studies indicating left-handed children tend to score lower ( on average ) on IQ, verbal scores, etc: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16643966 (Edit: Seems the IQ difference varies bet
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by qrendel 10y ago
I tried that. It learns what you're doing pretty quickly. I was doing better by just trying to continually break whatever pattern I had fallen into, and occasionally throwing in some long predictable patterns (i.e. all the same key) to
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by qrendel 10y ago
"Successfully integrate" = "live peacefully in this country under a single government and set of laws," not force them to abandon their culture. Stuff about making immigrants abandon their religion, outlawing their tradi
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by qrendel 10y ago
Yes, but al-Qaeda existed for years as just a decentralized terrorist network, whereas the legitimacy and appeal of ISIS partially depends on their establishing a caliphate (i.e. formal government and controlling territory). Otherwise they
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by qrendel 10y ago
> Wouldn't it be better to spend those billions of dollars and take on some inevitable loss of life and annihilate them forever. From where did we all start believing in the defeatist mentality that world cannot take on ISIS? You&
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by qrendel 10y ago
It's extremely unlikely most of the top people involved didn't know. See: https://theintercept.com/2016/02/18/trump-is-right-bush-lied... There's also a link in there to a section of Bob Woodwa
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by qrendel 10y ago
And let's not forget James Clapper.
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by qrendel 10y ago
The GOP criticizes Obama like he's the anti-christ for literally everything. They've opposed their own bills that they sponsored just because Obama later made public remarks about them being good bills. If you're referring
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by qrendel 10y ago
Clinton is easily one of the most pro-war (meaning an aggressive and militaristic foreign policy) candidates since the end of Vietnam. Many sources on that but I'll link just two.[1][2] Her focus is primarily on Russia, as she openly s
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by qrendel 10y ago
I'm not an expert on the history of Russian foreign policy, but there are a lot of credible voices outside of the MSM that tell a different story than the U.S. administration does. For example: 1. http://johnpilger.com/
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by qrendel 10y ago
I'll second the "mandatory reading" suggestion. The SCC post has considerably better analysis of these tribal disagreements than most anything else I've read on the subject, particularly the NYT column. The article is al
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by qrendel 10y ago
Here it is on pastebin: http://pastebin.com/j490asvt
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by qrendel 10y ago
I'm sure they can get more ad revenue if the contestants are forced to compete above shark-infested waters, too!
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by qrendel 10y ago
Not sure why you were downvoted for this. One of my bigger criticisms of Thiel would be that he seems to have a very hypocritical sort of "libertarianism" - e.g. founding Palantir, basically another spy agency for the US gov. But
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by qrendel 10y ago
> If you're not part of a fraterntiy/sorority that archives coursework/tests of previous students or part of an international student in-group then you can easily fall through the cracks from this grade deflation effect.
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by qrendel 10y ago
Social media is vastly overrated as a "recent invention," imo. Facebook is basically a copy of MySpace and livejournal which are copies of AOL (instant messaging, profiles, and all). Blogs and microblogs (e.g. twitter) are a nice
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by qrendel 10y ago
The public option was specifically killed off by insurance industry lobbying by Karen Ignagni, as were reductions in Medicare drug prices by the equivalent guy for the pharmaceutical industry. As I understand it, Obama wanted a public optio
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by qrendel 10y ago
> are eligible for medicaid Depends on your state. Where I live, you can't get medicaid, regardless of income, unless you're elderly or disabled (not sure if low-income parents qualify). Thanks, Republicans.
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by qrendel 10y ago
> ... nevertheless his endorsement is worth discussing. It's obvious that trump is more aligned with his world view of a more risk taking, long-term planning and less people-pleasing leadership. Given some of Thiel's views and
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by qrendel 10y ago
That is a great lecture, and worth linking to (hence this reply), even more so for its lessons about how changes in abstract thinking lead to changes in moral standards and behavior: http://www.ted.com/talks/james_flynn
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by qrendel 10y ago
The realignments in the US are complicated, but the movement to the right goes way beyond just reaction to globalization and technology. At least three things have happened (imo): 1) both the public and the government have become far more p
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by qrendel 10y ago
Same. Just canceled my preorder, though this was less of a factor than Facebook's invasive privacy policy and the shipping delays that favored retailers over day-one (even hour-one) preorder customers. Straw that finally broke the came
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by qrendel 10y ago
> now you only have must-read articles that surface in other companies' platforms As it should be, imo. There never really were must-read publications so much as publications frequently containing must-read articles, and the amount
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by qrendel 10y ago
So are greeting cards but those are huge, for many people receiving one is a requirement for every Hallmark holiday.
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by qrendel 10y ago
Most political views for most people are used as a signal of tribal identification, rather than as an actual opinion on what the best policy option would be. See: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tol
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by qrendel 10y ago
This reminds me of my own version of a certain Churchill quote: "Capitalism is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have ever been tried." Seriously though, as others have pointed out, what we have in the
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by qrendel 10y ago
Odd coincidence that I literally just finished reading The Atrocity Archives about ten minutes ago. Great book, loved it. Thought the series might have been the inspiration for the movie Cabin in the Woods , but seems not.
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The problem is that's a small and selective school that only accepts a few hundred people. It's hardly a solution for the entire country, much less world. While it lists an 89% acceptance rate, that's out of only 199 applican

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