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by raleec 14y ago
Quite the pessimist! So you're going w/ B) A subtle entreaty to focus the brunt of America's educational efforts on specific ethnic subgroups so that the entire nation can have better results. The upside is that it's possible that whatever
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by raleec 14y ago
That's the point. Americans don't usually call Spaniards and Portuguese "Hispanic" any more then they call a Blond haired, blue eyed person born in America, but who's parents were born in South Africa "African American", which is to say rar
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by raleec 14y ago
Oddly enough, there aren't that many (statistically significant) African Americans anywhere outside of America either... :)
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by raleec 14y ago
Just out of curiosity, what is the relevance of this observation? Are you saying that nations are irrelevant, and ethnicity is what really matters? Is this a subtle entreaty to focus the brunt of America's educational efforts on specific e
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by raleec 14y ago
It does, just not by default. I went to options and at the bottom, there is a checkbox to force https.
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by raleec 14y ago
I'd posit that the fear of death is really the fear of change. You don't truly want to live forever, and lose everyone you know and will ever know. If everyone lives forever, then children will never grow. Once you truly accept that chang
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by raleec 14y ago
I always wanted to have a lcd plate cover that would blank out alternate sides at a high enough frame rate that the naked eye would see nothing, but a camera would never catch all of the numbers... then I realized that it's a lot easier to
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by raleec 14y ago
In Washington DC, they give the owner the option of specifying who the driver was, and they forward the ticket.
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by raleec 14y ago
<conspiracyTheoryMode> Which, of course, is why they are promoted as protection! <conspiracyTheoryMode> That's what they want you to think! </conspiracyTheoryMode> </conspiracyTheoryMode>
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by raleec 14y ago
Is this a pun?
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by raleec 14y ago
The fact that you (and probably she) are presuming that a stone is required in the first place means that DeBeers has won the larger victory.
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by raleec 14y ago
It was "complementary" with an "e"...
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by raleec 14y ago
I think the downvotes are because you're missing the critical point of the argument. The question isn't _whether_ students have any skin in the game, it's _why_ does an education cost X in the first place.
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by raleec 14y ago
Or, if you're being really precise, you'd say 24/7/52... </pedantry>
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by raleec 14y ago
http://wtop.com/64/3025740/Speed-cam-shooter-Dont-do-what-I-...
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by raleec 14y ago
What if the poster had an option to restrict the ability to comment on a submission to members with a certain threshold of karma or account age, not to exceed the poster's own level?
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Unlock Your Inner Rain Man by Electrically Zapping Your Brain(wired.com)
64 points by raleec 14y ago|29 comments
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by raleec 14y ago
From the study: On the other hand, LTNF is effective against the venoms of all species of snakes. Therefore, LTNF can become a universal treatment for snakebites. Furthermore, LTNF is effective against scorpion and bee venoms, plant-derived
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Opposum protein protects mice from poisons and toxins(scielo.br)
1 points by raleec 14y ago|1 comments
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Looking for a few good women and men to code and kick-ass for America(federalnewsradio.com)
1 points by raleec 14y ago|1 comments
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by raleec 14y ago
He denormalized the data.
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by raleec 15y ago
That has been disabled in their build. As have various other things such as incognito window, autofill, sign in, extensions...
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by raleec 15y ago
Hear hear. I had to work around this insidious creation http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/8205 It creates a memory leak (it hit my getJSON calls) that slowly strangled one of my apps until it crashed the browser. I list a lot of hours on that
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by raleec 15y ago
"A Single Death is a Tragedy; a Million Deaths is a Statistic"
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by raleec 15y ago
Hey! I went the exact same route, except I put it in front of a treadmill. About half the time I don't even turn it on, but when I do, I find that .7mph (the lowest setting) is just enough to keep me moving without having to think about it.
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by raleec 15y ago
This seems in direct competition with their investment in Clear, but with a much better use case. It will also cut into my mobile bill, because if this can operate on batteries for ~2hrs, how often do I really need to use my cell phone?
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Sprint enters the landline business(newsroom.sprint.com)
1 points by raleec 15y ago|2 comments
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by raleec 15y ago
This. I'm usually pretty pedantic about this sort of thing, but don't submit very often, and wasn't aware of the 80 char limit. Forced to pare a more descriptive headline and get back to work, I made a mistake. It looks as though it's been
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by raleec 15y ago
My first thought is how many people were abandoned because of a reliance on the incomplete picture that the old tech bundle provided.
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When Not To Quit: Man Revived After 96 Minutes(m.npr.org)
276 points by raleec 15y ago|61 comments

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