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by s_baby 10y ago
The whole truth is probably more fluid and multifaceted but these are some of the interesting claims I've seen on there. 1. Al Nusra a branch of Al Qaeda is embedded amongst the moderate rebels and were the main fighting force in Alepp
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by s_baby 10y ago
http://www.salon.com/2016/10/11/leaked-hillary-clinton-email...
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by s_baby 10y ago
A polyglot marketed his method a couple years ago that makes sense to me. >But basically: buy a Lonely Planet phrasebook. Learn full phrases off, use them. Get courses like Assimil, Teach yourself, Colloquial and use that for a little bi
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by s_baby 10y ago
I meant density not total population.
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by s_baby 10y ago
>For example, we have bunch of white only elementary schools and then we have some with black majority ones. Also putting my son through this system convinced me schools like to keep this segregation. Does London not have school district
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by s_baby 10y ago
Atlanta has the 3rd largest LGBT population behind SF/Seattle and is pretty diverse in general. It's the other parts of Georgia that can seem backwards. Same goes for North Carolina. A person from SF would feel at home in Ashev
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by s_baby 10y ago
>Furthermore, there is a rash of jobs that are primarily cost-cutting measures from companies based out of more expensive areas, which puts you at a kind of career positioning disadvantage Does/will the midwest not have this problem
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by s_baby 10y ago
Any reason why midwest and not southeast? The outskirts of Raleigh and Atlanta have the same cost of living benefits while having access to a large talent pool and being close to the coast line/major cities.
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by s_baby 10y ago
Now imagine that B was a 60-80 post-curve and your financial assistance was tied to this number.
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by s_baby 10y ago
The international students have unreasonably high standards for maintaining financial assistance and staying out of academic probation(3.5-3.8 at my university). By design college courses give work just a little beyond what a student can r
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by s_baby 11y ago
Asian women are also statistically over represented. But that doesn't fit that narrative of this post so ignore.
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by s_baby 11y ago
You rather live somewhere where this kind of behavior is common: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdvFfSGxtNI
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by s_baby 11y ago
If you gave every 18th century American a vote there would be an official church in every state along with all the marginalization/oppression that brings along. Not extending the vote was part of the checks and balances negotiated as
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by s_baby 11y ago
>I'm sure you could do it in an afternoon, right? Just like anyone on HN can make a "basic CRUD app" like Facebook in a weekend. Maybe the backend. I couldn't write a Blackberry Java app though which was WhatsApp&#x2
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by s_baby 11y ago
I would still run cat6 as if I was going to use smart devices. You're already inside the walls.
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by s_baby 11y ago
That's true for all stimulants I've tried. They're better for repetitive tasks or ones that rely on motor activity. Better yet don't do stimulants unless you truly need them.
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by s_baby 11y ago
The NYT book list is already a joke.
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by s_baby 11y ago
Richard Dawkins is OK. Sam Harris and Steven Pinker are more relevant.
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by s_baby 11y ago
I don't see how anything like that would become a trend. But I think it makes for an interesting double standard in how we talk about these issues. If a sociologist was to describe a scarcity of sex for men as gender inequality she w
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by s_baby 11y ago
>“For young women the problem in navigating sexuality and relationships is still gender inequality,” says Elizabeth Armstrong, a professor of sociology at the University of Michigan who specializes in sexuality and gender. “Young women c
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by s_baby 11y ago
Allegedly her mother would wake her up in the middle of the night and force her to grapple until she got an arm-bar.
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by s_baby 11y ago
Rise? The original police forces were created and controlled by company towns.
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by s_baby 11y ago
The longest living cat on record was vegetarian. It's true there are certain nutrients a cat needs from animals though.
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by s_baby 11y ago
14.04 broke a previously working build because of this. I spent way more time than needed trying to debug it because of this cryptic bullshit.
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by s_baby 11y ago
I don't see anything artificial about what humans do. Everything we do is moulded by billion(s) of years of evolution.
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by s_baby 11y ago
>To be sure, cooperation can be beneficial to survival, but there is nothing in the laws of physics that insures that the cooperative boundary should be the entirety of one's own species. Nothing in physics but there is a clear tren
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by s_baby 11y ago
You're not making much sense to me.
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by s_baby 11y ago
Maybe, I think change is a very abstract entity to apply properties to though. No I haven't seen it before.
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by s_baby 11y ago
The thing I "want" is sentience. It's the Qualia problem.
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by s_baby 11y ago
>HN-favorite Scott Aaronson resolves to my satisfaction the question of whether a waterfall can be said to be computing the solution to some problem as it cascades over the rocks, because there exists a mapping in which the initial water

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