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by sprout 16y ago
The fraction of good drug targets in the human genome compared to the total number of genes is probably astronomical, but to think that a single gene is going to give you much information is laughable. The number of proteins involved in any
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by sprout 16y ago
> Everyone has one How does a flat-out falsehood like that get to 9 points? Most people have dumb phones or feature phones. In the smartphone crowd, most people have Blackberries. Not even close to everyone has an iPhone. The fact is, a
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by sprout 16y ago
Asking for zip code, age, gender, and earnings is a little much for an anonymous survey. That is pretty specific.
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by sprout 16y ago
You're too focused on bureaucratic nonsense (unions vs. administration vs. state vs. local vs. federal government.) In fact, it seems like you're just taking it as a given that unions are the problem and everything will be made better if yo
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by sprout 16y ago
>Why not test this stuff? Standardized tests are objective. Sure they are, but to what degree do they really reflect on the teacher? A teacher can be doing a fantastic, patient job with a student, and make zero progress all year with a
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by sprout 16y ago
Well, yes, but possibly it's still better than our present society, which is the key question.
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by sprout 16y ago
>If "teaching to the test" is a bad thing, that just means you have a bad test. Look at it this way: We do not want students to all know the same things. We want to increase the amount of learning, but ideally, only 30-50% of the knowle
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by sprout 16y ago
The problem with this debate is that if you speak to most teachers, they agree wholeheartedly that procedures need to be in place to fire bad teachers. The issue is that they are very hostile to the educational administration establishment
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by sprout 16y ago
People perceive bias in the absence of bias. I remember in 2004 when Bush was re-elected, the local paper ran with the headline "Four More Years" and a smiling picture from Bush's victory party. People wrote in and complained that it was a
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by sprout 16y ago
If anyone at Twitter's paying attention, your mobile redirect breaks the link. But I just typed it in manually.
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by sprout 16y ago
Sorry, is that sarcasm? I honestly can't tell. Yes, people have implemented filesystems other than NTFS for Windows. NTFS is however the only one I personally would trust on a production server, especially for the system partition. Linux, b
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by sprout 16y ago
The biggest thing about Windows (and what I think makes it an unavoidably desktop-class environment) is that there's no kernel-level support for alternate filesystems. The various Unix-likes have a variety of filesystems with a lot of innov
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by sprout 16y ago
Anyone up for a game of Age of Kings?
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by sprout 16y ago
>Apple makes the best trackpads in the industry by a huge margin. Do you have any research to back that up? I don't doubt that Apple trackpads are of high quality, probably even the best. That said, the placebo effect can be very powerf
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by sprout 16y ago
What you describe as 'being HN smart' sounds like what would be described as karma whoring on Slashdot or Reddit. And I think it's looked down on for a reason. The things that will get people to upvote you are not always the things that wil
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Court: breaking DRM for a "fair use" is legal(arstechnica.com)
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by sprout 16y ago
Modern evangelical Christianity is very much a mass-market phenomenon. It doesn't exist without Glenn Beck and his ilk, who are very much artifacts of the Internet echo chamber (though they perhaps owe more to Fox News, cable news being a b
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by sprout 16y ago
http://www.copyright.gov/1201/ Looks like it's more than just education and criticism: > (i) Educational uses by college and university professors and by college and university film and media studies students; > (ii) Documentary
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by sprout 16y ago
Big business draws in billions. My local high school pays millions each year just in payroll. (And that's an underfunded and understaffed high school of 2500 students.)
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by sprout 16y ago
You define reality by some set of unprovable axioms. That is your belief system.
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by sprout 16y ago
Couldn't the same sort of mass-lawsuit strategy recently used by certain copyright holders work here? I mean, if it's really this widespread I could see the FSF getting a court to issue an injunction against these devices being sold, given
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by sprout 16y ago
I can't tell if the author is being serious or tongue-in-cheek. Infiltrating Microsoft in the right way could give you trojans in just about every other company he listed. Even Apple if they use Office anywhere. It's the very first place I'
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by sprout 16y ago
I was in a Bilingual kindergarten class in Texas, which has been a lifelong boon, as a native English speaker. Children pick up language pretty easily. If we're putting the adults through ESL courses, that could be a serious drain. Even mor
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by sprout 16y ago
Go back for a moment to Pareto-efficiency. What that means is that you're looking for a move which benefits yourself without harming anyone else. A Pareto-efficient society is a society in which no such moves exist; we have the optimal weal
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by sprout 16y ago
Just make an automated system that reminds clients that their bills are overdue. Then it makes sense for it to come from accounts@yourcompany.com - it's just a bot. Really, there's nothing dishonest about sending email from accounts@yourcom
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by sprout 16y ago
From what you're saying I take it that belief systems are essentially axioms. It is fundamentally impossible to create a model without some set of axioms that cannot be proven, so clearly you have a belief system that involves some axioms i
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by sprout 16y ago
I don't necessarily see it as a 'wow' language, but I think the real valuable thing about Scheme is that the implementation details are within the grasp of a twelve year old. Python on the other hand requires a lot of high-level CS to prope
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by sprout 16y ago
First real language I learned was Scheme in college. There were a couple weeks where I had to stop myself from putting parens in place of periods)
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by sprout 16y ago
Only eat food at meals. Eat as much as you like at first, just do not eat except at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. You may have to start taking a little more time for breakfast. Within a couple weeks your body will be very acclimated to this
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by sprout 16y ago
What exactly is a model if not a belief system?

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