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by skwirl 12y ago
The article and the person you are replying to are specifically talking about disadvantages faced by Asian Americans, and they have an SAT penalty of 50 points, according to the article and the paper it references: http://www.pri
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Why not just read books then?
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Is this referring to free MOOCs on Coursera/edX/etc and free published course videos? Or online courses that enrolled students are paying for? Or both?
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I don't think this line was important to the central points of the article, so it's kind of sad that this reddit-style "zinger" is the top comment in this discussion. I expect better here.
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New Hampshire has one state representative per 3,291 citizens, which means each representative is being elected by an extremely small electorate. This is the smallest in the country. The US average is one state representative per 60,000,
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by skwirl 12y ago
Why is it that so many people who say "society needs to do so-and-so" feel that they are exempt from doing anything themselves? It blows my mind that you see this as irrelevant. It's always somebody else that needs to do it
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by skwirl 12y ago
And what are you doing to keep people alive, fed, free, and healthy?
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I don't understand why as someone in the technology world you would arbitrarily draw the line here. We've all been working on stuff that the world could do without. Why wouldn't you have drawn the line years ago when personal
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by skwirl 12y ago
Quarterbacks like their footballs to be broken in a bit, and they all have their own preference for doing it. They lobbied the NFL years back to let them break in the game footballs and the NFL said OK. They have to use official NFL footb
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by skwirl 12y ago
Fumbling players being treated harshly by their coaches is true of every team as far as I know. That said, I still think it's more likely that the Patriots have some unique practice/drilling regimen that results in less fumbles t
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by skwirl 12y ago
Given that these requests are using HTTPS (not that a non-secure POST is any better than a non-secure GET in that regard), could you give some other issues aside from the browser history issue?
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This is something I worry about regardless of the specific storage media type. I have all my photos on my hard drive backed up onto a two drive mirrored NAS device and uploaded to a third party cloud based backup service. Many of them also
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by skwirl 12y ago
The new towers aren't where the old towers were, so I don't buy the "graveyard" argument. But I would not feel comfortable working there mostly because the old WTC was targeted for attack multiple times, and the new one
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by skwirl 12y ago
One reason is probably because residential leases are generally one year while commercial leases are multiple years, and it takes a lot of time and effort to move an office compared to an apartment. Companies are somewhat more locked into
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by skwirl 12y ago
And that is a meaningless comment that tries to draw a distinction without a difference and entirely dodges the core of the issue. So - What factors went into the decisions before, and why were they better than the new factors?
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Who decided what the old standards were, and why should we trust them any better?
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That's not the experience I had in Barcelona. My friend wasn't feeling well and we tried to take a cab back to the hotel which was roughly a mile away, which apparently is too short for cab drivers to make much money. The guy at
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by skwirl 12y ago
What law did Google break that caused gmail to be shut down? According to the article the Chinese government denies doing anything. I also don't think you understand HN very well. What is supported is not supported on grounds of legal
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You think Sony leaked their employees' SSNs and salaries as part of a publicity stunt?
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by skwirl 12y ago
CS department websites in general seem to be so, so very bad. Does anyone have an example of one that is good?
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by skwirl 12y ago
Here's an article that's not behind a paywall: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30077122
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by skwirl 12y ago
Ron Paul was "popular" on almost every website on the internet because his fanatical supporters flooded the web with an endless barrage of Ron Paul support. Reddit, newspaper comments, other discussion boards, polls, you name it,
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by skwirl 12y ago
That's great, but we're talking about a very small fraction of engineers who write DB systems. I have used some of AWS's DB offerings, and I didn't have to write complex algorithms to do it.
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> Those people complaining about Google caring so much about their engineers being able to deal with basic algorithmic, instead, should wonder why every Google service is so fast. I imagine it has little to do with algorithms and everyth
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by skwirl 12y ago
Lower prices are good for consumers. If you manufacture commodities then ideally you will have no profit margin in a free market. If you did, someone could come in and undercut you and take your market share, without losing money doing so
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by skwirl 12y ago
The "right to be forgotten" is a doublespeak - it is really a concept for revoking others' right to free speech. I have no idea how the EU justice system works but I hope they have the means to correct this serious error.
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by skwirl 12y ago
In my experience, colors just look better on glossy displays. Since glossy screens are ubiquitous on phones and tablets, I would figure most people are used to the reflection issue by now. Personally, I don't notice reflections unles
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Celebrities Victimized in Naked Photo Hack Want to Sue Google for $100M(businessinsider.com)
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They rated Boston a 5 (worst). Boston is a pretty compact city, and you definitely don't need a car.
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It lets you type notes without having to waste a huge portion of the device with a keyboard. Also, the matte surface of the Kindle does not really show grease or smudges.

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