shanacarp

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by shanacarp 10y ago
My stupid question. If i changed the language of my fake accounts in response to this, would they perform better because they now no longer work in your filter?
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by shanacarp 10y ago
which would you recommend for a beginner to read. looks interesting
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>Neat. I checked UT Austin and found Dan Bonevac was teaching one session of intro. (Bonevac is the once and future chair of the department and a very good teacher.) I have to know if he is a friend of the philosophy ring bearer out to d
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by shanacarp 10y ago
I'm very confused as to why this is voted down. There is truth to this statement. Nothing wrong with saying that binary systems of logical proofs, based on things like "Self" is important to the history of philosophy in the
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Variations of those arguments exist to this day unresolved in the form of Platonic Realism vs Nominalism. Resolving that argument in some ways is really important to our understanding of physics and certain parts of biology, especially evo
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by shanacarp 10y ago
>Is this to imply there is a more-correct philosophy? I have no formal training in philosophy but I feel that to claim one philosophy is objectively better than another is a bit much. Quality of thought as better. Internal consistency i
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by shanacarp 10y ago
>Yes, there is. Modern philosophy is judged by it's intellectual consistency, the simplicity and intuitiveness of it's underlying principles, and how those underlying principles lead to conclusions that make sense. It is also j
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by shanacarp 10y ago
>Consider two axiomatic systems with different starting axioms. They are both internally consistent but may differ widely. How do we choose which ones to teach? Is diversity and scope important to building an objective perspective? If we
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by shanacarp 10y ago
my understanding is that they are intellectually separated, hence the problem
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by shanacarp 10y ago
I don't think they failed to address it at all. They were pointed about what is taught is what you write about - and in a publish or perish environment, if you only teach western thought, you only publish thoughts based on western thou
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by shanacarp 10y ago
If what you are saying is true, that is shocking about Finland vs Sweden. Both are fairly ethnically homogenous and share similar Nordic sensibilities from what I understand, and tend to be co-compared for where they are different. Wow
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by shanacarp 10y ago
PISA scores https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_St... Considering the cultural and ethnic similarity between Sweden and Finland as Nordic countries, PISA score trajectory based on voucher vs highl
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by shanacarp 10y ago
It creates constitutional issues that end up raising costs. Essentially, a school that is parochial, in order to take the vouchers, have to do crazy things like run as 2 separate corporations under the same roof, with all the headache that
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by shanacarp 10y ago
Last I heard, in India among the top 5% status is necessary to hold a job for those coming into the economy https://www.buzzfeed.com/gayatrijayaraman/broke-hungry-and-o... >Their influences are not difficult to spot
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by shanacarp 10y ago
>Yes, but your (or y'all's) collective decision that you prefer safety to freedom shouldn't infringe upon my choice to prefer freedom to safety. I would also remind you that no classical libertarian(IE: John Locke) would a
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by shanacarp 10y ago
One of my good friends, if he were to go to India and live with his Great Aunts/Uncles, would be Gujarati. His parents immigrated here before he was born. Both of his parents are doctors who went to med school in India, and re-did res
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The biggest mystery in American education, in one chart – Vox(vox.com)
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by shanacarp 10y ago
As someone with the last name of Carp, I agree you shouldn't eat me! :p (I had to make the joke,sorry) I want to agree with you about "dumb bad luck." Unfortunately, your description of why turns the science question gears i
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by shanacarp 10y ago
I 100% am. I hope you don't mind this sir, but I am going to email you why, since I don't want a long explanation of my medical data on hn alongside feelings about my family. I still think it is something you should hear before yo
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by shanacarp 10y ago
Hi Tom! First, it is just Shana. (first a is hard, second a is soft) Carp is my last name. I would love to discuss this further. what is the best way to get in touch with you? The reason I stated what I did is in the previous apartment my
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by shanacarp 10y ago
I'm not sure efficiency is what you are looking for either - very cold word for describing a personal, life changing event. Beyond we're not ready to set a date yet for a bunch of complicated reasons that have nothing to do with y
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by shanacarp 10y ago
I knew very quickly that Feynman Nano was an in for me. I read through the comments, and when they mentioned they could coat grout, it became a definite in. While it is really obvious to coat medical implants, iv leads, ect - I know that p
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by shanacarp 10y ago
I was thinking more along the lines of the Myriad Database http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/filling-i... VUSes that actually could be clinically significant are hoarded, and conversely,
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by shanacarp 10y ago
worse - most are private
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by shanacarp 10y ago
Now imagine being a patient reading those studies and knowing that. Struck a nerve
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by shanacarp 10y ago
thank you. (i actually needed this advice, I experience this)
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by shanacarp 10y ago
Are you getting fully sequenced before you die, so if there are discoveries later, your kids will have a database of you to compare against? Apparently the cost finally dropped below $1kUSD this year
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by shanacarp 10y ago
Which is why I think it would be really interesting to run a set of Robert Mapplethorpe's photos on it to see how they are classified. Some of his photographs are much more explicit while at the same time are much more specifically a
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by shanacarp 10y ago
True story: Then we throw before and afters of Prophylactic Bilateral Mastectomies with various types of nipple reconstructions among previvors who found each other and were part of a semi-private group on facebook, and hell breaks loose. A
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by shanacarp 10y ago
add in female and you get messes - women tend to also get diagnosed later Accepting that I had ADHD was a blessing. I finally stopped walking around with bruises on my legs from not completely clearing my furniture Still, ADHD can cause hy

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