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by raisspen 9y ago
I envy China for their willingness to invest lots of effort in moving forward and innovating. I would never live there because I don't feel that throwing away all notions of privacy is worth it. The totalitarian aspect of the Chinese g
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by raisspen 9y ago
It works well for courses which are based on critical reasoning such as physics and mathematics. Going both with and without textbooks for many courses I can say that the textbook doesn't make much difference if the notes from the cour
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by raisspen 9y ago
A lot of governments want to do away with physical currency as it is simply much more difficult to track than electronic transactions. I believe it is one of the reasons China put a lot of effort in developing their mobile payment systems.
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by raisspen 9y ago
That is just a further step in the training that could be undertaken. Many of the advances in machine vision come piecemeal for instance. One team advances one idea that does some thing(s) very well, but has some drawback(s) which another t
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by raisspen 9y ago
Or you could take the route which others have taken, and show them why their ideas are wrong through your actions. There are plenty of examples of extremists being converted through friendship.
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by raisspen 9y ago
Classic case of whataboutism. I didn't see anything discussing the quality of the US mental health system. It's a Canadian website discussing a Canadian case. It failed here and the author of the article is trying to point out whe
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by raisspen 9y ago
Agreed, it looks like the dividers that a lot of public buses will use.
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by raisspen 9y ago
It is most likely in the "I need to make up something outrageous" part of the country. I have used Greyhound to go out of downtown LA and SF which are both situated in some of the worst places of their respective cities which are
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by raisspen 10y ago
It is the same for almost anybody studying in a foreign country. It takes a fairly high level of self-confidence to really put yourself out there and cultural/linguistic differences can be confusing to navigate. I myself have studied i
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by raisspen 10y ago
If you are looking for mathematics & statistics: Python(numpy/scipy) & R are perfect for starting (and open source!).
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by raisspen 10y ago
I have to agree that it isn't the quintessential book to understanding the right. It starts off with good intentions, but she misses a few things, most likely as a result of not being able to escape her bias. I found the following rev