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by sidek 10y ago
Every government says that they will do something about the wait times. Which makes me wonder: why haven't they? Is wait times really do intractable?
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by sidek 10y ago
You mean, personal hatred of 10% of the population.
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by sidek 10y ago
Philosophers? Using precise definitions? Maybe some philosophers do... But not most.
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by sidek 10y ago
Also, HK has a lot of teeny, teeny, bookstores, squeezed into the fourth floor of a building.
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by sidek 10y ago
I don't know the specifics of e.g. North Carolina, but note that higher average student funding != higher median student funding. This is because often low-income schools have very high amounts of students with disabilities. Students w
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by sidek 10y ago
In my early 20s. But my experience was that kids balanced "outsideness" and "insideness". Maybe one day you'd sit around on the PlayStation for six hours. The next you would bike out to the woods. I think most kids
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by sidek 10y ago
Worse, at least according to Google Maps, it is only a 17 minute drive or 28 minute bus ride between Statistics Denmark and the Serum Institute. At such a small distance, if such large amounts of confidential information must be delivered,
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by sidek 10y ago
Anecdotally: it isn't just proximity to mainland China. It's proximity to China and the West. Depending on what social groups you run in, you're more likely to use both facebook/tumblr/etc and/or Chinese social
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by sidek 10y ago
Most professors in the Harvard Physics department still have secretaries.
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by sidek 10y ago
Really? Lived in HK for a long time, had lots of friends who grew up there/were very local.. never saw this happen. Is it regional?
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by sidek 10y ago
Sounds like the residents/town didn't do enough to dissuade bears. I've been to Jasper, Canada, which is in the Rockies surrounded by forest, and the countermeasures they take to stop bears from coming to town are crazy. All
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by sidek 10y ago
Most of those countries did come under, and were maintained under, British rule because of violence. But I don't think it's accurate to say that lots of them had to be violent to get their independence. The British largely gave th
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by sidek 10y ago
Yes, this is true. But I feel his statement stands. Like you say, Tromsø has really nice weather despite its northern location. Many Canadian and Russian cities reach ~-40C often enough. If the batteries have half the range in Tromsø, how a
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by sidek 10y ago
So, how many bits are you giving the deep learning machine? If you give it enough bits, you aren't predicting anything -- you're just feeding it experimental data which it more or less spits back out. For an elegant solution, one
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by sidek 10y ago
I will meet your challenge head-on and say that that UBI is a worthwhile task, even presented worse than in your imagination. Humans have the right to dignity, food and shelter, and I think even those who are lazy, angry, worthless, deserve
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by sidek 10y ago
It is, in Hong Kong, and massively so. The MTR there had to reduce fares temporarily... to avoid too big a profit. The real MTR strategy, though, is that they get to choose where stations go. That allows them to buy up land in the area, bef
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by sidek 10y ago
It's precisely how strongly we conform to grammar, without having been taught it, which shows that it's key to our internal representations/to how we learn language. Here is the undeniable proof that syntactic structure exist
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by sidek 10y ago
Disclaimer: this very article was used by a linguistics professor of mine to show why not to trust the popular news reporting and look at the study. It's a very good study, but does NOT prove `UG' once and for all.
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by sidek 11y ago
So, your claim to being undisputedly the best is just wrong. The United States has immensely hateful, mainstream discourse about immigrants. Case in point : Donald Trump. That's one big strike against success claims. Furthermore, it&#x
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by sidek 11y ago
As a student in my last year at an `elite' high school, I can confirm anecdotally that many kids are near breaking point because they feel it is `Ivy or bust'. I think this is an inherent problem with the American university syste
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by sidek 12y ago
People's reactions to the cold always astonish me. I spend a lot of time in Canada and Hong Kong. In Canada, it can be 12 C (~53F) and lots of people will be wearing t-shirts and jeans, and it isn't too uncommon to see the odd per
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by sidek 15y ago
Be careful when comparing population density between Montana and Canada. Out of all the Canadian provinces and territories, only Ontario, Nova Scotia, PEI and New Brunswick have higher density than Montana. Alberta /is/ next highest on the
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by sidek 15y ago
No, I never used a book or any equations. People would give me questions with no context, and I would take a second to think through it and then help them. Things like solving systems of equations are easy - you just need to truly understan
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by sidek 15y ago
Perhaps I'm the exception, but in Grade 10 I didn't take math (long story) and had never seen most of the math concepts but still was the go-to math helper. High school math is fairly trivial- easy enough to figure out with just some intui
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by sidek 15y ago
I'm on Fido with the 6GB plan. I've never gone above before, but might this month; on the 7th of November I received a notice saying I had used 75% of my data for the month. My circumstances are pretty odd, though. I'm moving and sold my p
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by sidek 15y ago
Perhaps we're working on different definitions here, but here's an anecdote of what merit-based education can do for everyone. My friend was diagnosed with multiple learning disabilities as a child, and attended a school for people like him
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by sidek 15y ago
Yes. In Edmonton, although schools have "attendance areas", there's always spots for students outside attendance areas. If a school fills up there's a lottery to determine who gets in from outside the attendance area, but only one high scho
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by sidek 15y ago
Yes, the Maritimes do get good service. I've also had luck in the plains as well; Telus claims that they have caps, but they are not enforced. Shaw has caps on some plans, but not on all of them. I do find it curious that the most densely p
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by sidek 15y ago
Similarly, my father was a fix-anything type, but also knew how to manage and do public relations. He got much more money than my mother, with masters in education and psychology.
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by sidek 15y ago
I have never had one fail on me either, but that is probably because I'm scared of hard drive failure and move old ones into very-low-use machines .

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