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by skh 8y ago
In an ideal world this would be feasible. Few people have the pricing power for their labor to do this. I'd classify what you call a failed business transaction as a failure of government to enact necessary labor laws.
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by skh 8y ago
I’ve noticed that when I’m on my deck the XS WiFi signal is below 1 mbps while my iPad Pro is at 80 mbps. When I’m closer to the router both devices get roughly the same download speeds.
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by skh 8y ago
What you write is true but one can never know for sure if you are in a nice company. Even if you are in a nice company today you don’t it will remain nice. You don’t know what economic factors will occur that may turn the company culture
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by skh 8y ago
Is there a meaningful difference when the latter buys it from the former? Or when the latter can easily force it from the former?
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by skh 8y ago
It goes beyond these things. You get a quality of life enhancement by being in a more community centric environment. Less pressure overall. No one wonders if there is something wrong with you when you take 3 weeks off in a row. Being ab
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by skh 8y ago
I'm a mathematician and I have done programming professionally but it just doesn’t interest me. My training in pure math got me focused on showing something can be done or that a solution exists. When I think of a software project I
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by skh 8y ago
I don't know the answer to this. In Berlin I had no car and walked everywhere near my flat. Just strolling around I would end up finding shops, cafes, whatnot. When I used public transportation I had a destination in mind. So it was
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by skh 8y ago
I lived for a while in Berlin. Coming back to the U.S. the first thing I noticed were too many billboards and ugly parking lots. Each store has its own parking lot. Largely underused. No nice paths to traverse the bleak endless parking
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by skh 8y ago
A sphere has surface area and volume. I didn’t claim or imply that I thought area meant volume. It does not have area and the formula for the surface area of a sphere is not pi r^2. I mentioned this in my original post. Then there is th
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by skh 8y ago
Makes sense. That’s what I would have thought if not for the area of a sphere in three dimensions remark.
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by skh 8y ago
Sphere's have surface area and volume. Neither of those quantities is given by the formula for the area of a circle. I’m not a physicist and can’t speak to the merits of the rest of your post but this error of yours makes me doubt yo
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by skh 8y ago
I grew up in the Canal Zone. I'm an American and was one of the colonists. This quote from the article brought back memories: Theodore Roosevelt wrote to a friend at the British Foreign Office that just as British rule in Egypt and
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by skh 8y ago
The line you quote from Wikipedia is not the definition of a nonlinear system. EDIT: The definition depends on the area of math you are working in. The definition of a nonlinear system of differential equations is different than the defin
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by skh 8y ago
That is not the meaning of the term. However, if you are to describe what the big deal is about finding ways to analyze nonlinear systems to lay people then what better description is there?
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by skh 8y ago
By definition, all axioms are not derivable within the axiom system they define. We can talk about sand but that does not mean our minds are sand or sand machines. We can talk about infinity within a set theory that contains that concept.
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by skh 8y ago
Do you have the ability prove all assertions that you think are true? Do you have the ability to cite three peer reviewed studies to back up all claims you believe to be true? Like everyone else my opinions are formed by a combination of e
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by skh 8y ago
Your complaint appears to be about the rate of your taxation and the return on benefits from taxation but not on the concept of taxation. This is related to but not the same thing as a fear of taxation. A number of people in the U.S. have
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by skh 8y ago
Race, abortion, and an irrational fear of taxation are enough to keep people voting against their self interests. These are important factors to consider when trying to understand voting patterns in the U.S.
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by skh 8y ago
Excellent write up. I’ll add to your remarks that at times the official policy of the United States has been a one China policy.
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by skh 8y ago
I live in Minnesota which is a cold weather state. We get lots of snow and winters last a long time. I’m not from Minnesota but have lived here for 18 years. I have never changed tires on my car. I will never bike in the winter time. T
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by skh 8y ago
Yes, but at the end of WW2 some 15 million people were able to benefit from it. In terms of percent of the population this was vastly more people than those who benefit today.
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by skh 8y ago
Yes, I know this is the reason. My experience with the people from that generation is that there was nothing special as such with them. They ended up having the greatest opportunities due to GI Bill and other programs. My dad didn't
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by skh 8y ago
The war was detrimental to my dad. He was fucked up by it. Became and alcoholic and was part of a generation that never could talk about emotional things. He saw combat, unlike the vast majority of servicemen. You look at his warbook (so
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by skh 8y ago
There was talk of making community college free but that never passed. It would likely have been tied to success rate as defined by the Department of Education. One pernicious stat is that we are judged by graduation rate. This means a s
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by skh 8y ago
I teach at a community college. Our funding per student has been declining for 15 years. We raise tuition as a result. We have become more like a business. We need students to pay the bills. Our focus is on passing students and retaini
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by skh 8y ago
My dad and his two older brothers fought in World War 2 for the U.S. They grew up poor during the Depression. After the war all three of them went to college for free as part of the GI benefits. The three of them went on to have good car
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by skh 8y ago
Your response only makes sense if the there are no constitutionally enforced limits on the powers of the federal government vs. state governments. The Medicare portion of the ACA being struck down by the Supreme Court is a notable countere
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by skh 8y ago
Thank you for the links and reply. The materials for calculus are very good. They look professional. You guys did a great job.
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by skh 8y ago
Thanks for the response and info. I looked at the README and it seems like you all use Javascript for this. I was thinking maybe Maple or Mathematica was used. I'm impressed with the calculus notes/exercises I saw. It looks pr
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by skh 8y ago
I really like the interactive exercises. I teach math at a community college and would like to create interactive exercise sheets for some of my classes. I’m not familiar with Github and poked around a bit but I could not figure out how t

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