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by rquantz 11y ago
Or worse, they start running the law on a computer. Instead of human interpreters, they'll just run their models and say, oh, the computer says you're guilty.
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by rquantz 11y ago
To all the valid criticisms of the actual advice in the article, I'd like to add that pg's gratuitous poke at gender studies, of all things, was unnecessary. He could have made his same (wrong) point about academia without includi
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by rquantz 11y ago
There is absolutely such a thing as talker's block. It's called stuttering and it's a huge problem for some people. Edit: I am not being facetious.
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You're misunderstanding "if possible" here. It means "if it can be done while conveying all that you need to convey, and saying all that you mean." "Cut" doesn't do that.
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Yes it is ignorance. The mentally I'll are not violent at a greater rate than the general populace.
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Lended is also an Americanism.
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It's even been used at least once by a classical composer: Matt Marks' Kamikaze Karaoke, a setting of texts written by kamikaze pilots before their missions, for flute, violin, cello, percussion (the incomparable Cadillac Moon Ens
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by rquantz 11y ago
This is a fallacious line of thinking. Nature does not have agency and was not "trying" anything.
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So dogs and wolves are the same species? I know that different species usually cannot interbreed, but I don't think that's the sole criterion.
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No no, for the longest time it was 30 years.
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From the article: “We believe that loss of the apical PLEKHA7-microprocessor complex is an early and somewhat universal event in cancer,” he adds. “In the vast majority of human tumor samples we examined, this apical structure is absent&qu
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by rquantz 11y ago
To paraphrase Mark Rippetoe, when you say these foreign athletes are better because they take PEDs, what you're saying is that they are stronger than American weightlifters. One of the problems with American weightlifting training, as
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by rquantz 11y ago
Well, at this point everyone is expecting them to raise rates, so not raising would, in effect, be doing something.
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The point is this leak exposes the "good" cheaters, the "bad" cheaters, and the... gray? cheaters alike. It also probably exposes a ton of people who never cheated, but in some dark moment went on the site to gawk or fan
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Public television is explicitly and intentionally set apart from competition with for-profit television. The original intention was that public programming should not have to be a commercial success in order to continue to be funded. Insert
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by rquantz 11y ago
You apparently are only able to think in terms of commerce? Not every undertaking that is large and complex is industry.
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Public television is not about competition
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I think it's interesting that you and others are using the term "industry" here. Sesame Street is made by the non-profit Children's Television Workshop and it has always aired on Public Television. It was founded specifi
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No, Manhattan is becoming Mall of America East.
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I think of technique in very different terms. Technique is the ability to execute very precisely what's in your head on your instrument. That ability is meaningless without all the things you list, especially, I'd say, imagination
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It's a book review. Is that not a valid form of writing to you?
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by rquantz 11y ago
I missed this mea culpa when I wrote my response. Sorry about that.
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This comment was clearly made by someone who has never practiced art or music at a high level. You are trying to compare your experience as a musician with someone who has worked toward and dreamed of being one of the best there ever was si
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by rquantz 11y ago
A year of maternity or paternity leave would be pretty reasonable, I think. Taking the full year would not be abuse, it would be following the letter of the policy.
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Yes, exactly. Thank you.
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You're welcome to criticize it. But comparisons to The Lord of the Rings, of all things, were tone deaf. This is not some epic fantasy for your amusement.
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I agree that maybe a more objective angle would have conveyed the information a little better. However, your comment is in poor taste. This is a real person they're talking about, someone who suffered and died. Not a character in a mov
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Well, I guess this is inevitable, and it will be good for renters. It will be bad for people who have long used brokerage to support themselves while they do other activities that are important to them. Women who are the primary caregiver o
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We have bans on chemical and biological weapons. You don't say "but everything is made of chemicals. What are we even banning?" The law will create a legal definition and courts will interpret it. It's not the hard.
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This also is probably more focused on degrees in the humanities, where it is more common practice to have to a read a few books a week for a course, rather than a few chapters a week from a text book.

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