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by reedlaw 17y ago
Sorry, should have mentioned it is a ~7MB book. As far as conspiracy goes, can anyone offer up a mainstream explanation as to why public education is such a massive failure? If there is such an explanation, surely it would have led to refor
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by reedlaw 17y ago
Why the down-mod? At least reply with an argument as to why you don't agree with the book.
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by reedlaw 17y ago
For those of you looking for a possible explanation as to why our education system is such a failure, I suggest Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt's book, The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/MomsPDFs/DDDoA.
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Hierarchy of the Successfully Self-Employed(successfromthenest.com)
1 points by reedlaw 17y ago|0 comments
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by reedlaw 17y ago
The "Welcome" pop-up appeared after I had already done a search and chosen ingredients. Then it would not disappear after I clicked "close" or "back to this recipe search". I am using Chrome 3.0.193.1 on Windows 7.
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by reedlaw 17y ago
Because there may be an underlying political interest in maintaining the "official" position. For example, if anthropogenic climate change is "fact", and not just a theory, then legislation such as cap and trade may be easier to pass. Also,
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by reedlaw 17y ago
Whenever there are rational proponents on both sides of a controversial issue I tend to view the "official" position with at least some degree of suspicion, especially when there are politics involved (e.g. global warming, vaccinations).
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by reedlaw 17y ago
What's missing from this piece is an answer to why I should care about getting Stackoverflow reputation? Besides access to the "special moderation tools", is there any benefit to justify the time I would spend to amass more than 10,000 poin
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by reedlaw 17y ago
[F]or hosting providers that do not a) increase their hardware configurations or b) decrease their price on at least a bi-yearly basis, their profit margins are actually increasing over time. Not necessarily. What about inflation? It's re
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by reedlaw 17y ago
It think it's more like the 80/20 rule in most offices. 80% of the employees only work two hours a day and a handful work frantically to get all the real work done.
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by reedlaw 17y ago
What's wrong with PDF? It's an open standard and displays beautifully on screen or in print. I can resize it to any size and it still renders perfectly (except for embedded bitmaps of course). I'd much rather read a book in PDF format on my
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by reedlaw 17y ago
It sounds like they aren't even sure where the amino acid came from. From the article: "With only about 100 billionths of a gram of glycine to study, the researchers were able to measure the relative abundance of its carbon isotopes. It con
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by reedlaw 17y ago
Sorry, typo.
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by reedlaw 17y ago
Here is a picture: http://guangzhou.baixing.com/zanzhushang/t3122465.html It also has wifi and a choice of 2, 4, or 8GB flash drive. Only 800x400 resolution though.
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by reedlaw 17y ago
Central China
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by reedlaw 17y ago
I got into AVR programming before hearing all about the Arduino. I don't really understand the appeal since an AVR development platform is quite simple to put together for a lot less money than an Arduino board. I also prefer Freeduino sinc
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by reedlaw 17y ago
Why is health care so special then? Shouldn't food and water be just as free? Aren't they even more basic necessities?
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by reedlaw 17y ago
Let's take your argument and apply it to other commodities. "How is it that someone can argue in favor of people not having free groceries? Would you also argue that people shouldn't have access to computers unless they pay the computer tax
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by reedlaw 17y ago
My first experience did not work as advertised. I tried to convert an image into the default arrangement of header, sidebar, content, and footer and the HTML preview was mangled in my default browser (Chrome). I'm afraid I don't have time f
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by reedlaw 17y ago
That sounds more like a Goolgewack ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlewhack ) than good SEO. How would a blog benefit from using a keyword no one searches for?
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by reedlaw 17y ago
You want to stop buying Chinese products because local officials in China are corrupt? By the same logic, the rest of the world should not buy US products because cops have wantonly used tasers on civilians.
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by reedlaw 17y ago
Competition is driving down prices. Tariffs and minimum wage laws are just ways of redistributing wealth. If there were no tariffs or minimum wage laws, there would be more healthy competition which would raise the world's standard of livin
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by reedlaw 17y ago
I asked a body-builder friend if Tim Ferriss' workout could actually achieve the results Tim claims. He replied that a person can only gain weight that quickly with steroids. Research has shown that under optimal conditions, less than ten p
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by reedlaw 17y ago
I haven't benchmarked it, but subjectively speaking, the boot time is greatly improved, applications launch faster, and file operations are speedier, with the exception of opening an image in Windows Photo Viewer, which for some reason take
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by reedlaw 17y ago
I am already using Windows 7 RC as my primary OS. It's so much faster than XP and the UI improvements are fabulous. Vista was just a beta version of Windows 7, or another Windows ME. XP lasted me almost 10 years and I figure 7 will do the s
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by reedlaw 17y ago
The latest update: http://www.tinaja.com/glib/morenrgf.pdf
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by reedlaw 17y ago
http://ladyada.net/make/ especially the x0xb0x
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by reedlaw 17y ago
Chrome is my main browser and I even switched back to Windows from Linux just so I could enjoy the incredible speed increase. Web browsing is one of my primary computer activities, so an OS that boots up quickly and uses the fastest browser
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Ask HN: Revision control for non-hackers
4 points by reedlaw 17y ago|2 comments
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by reedlaw 17y ago
Why wouldn't there be a reason to invest under a gold system? Why not the standard reason: a bigger return on investment? In a well devised economic system you would do well if you saved and have the potential to do better if you invest. In

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