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The purpose of Harvard is not to educate people(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
4 points by stillsut 11y ago|1 comments
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by stillsut 11y ago
> You can't possibly know that. It's funny, dang. You don't seem to ask all the haters to justify their opinions regarding the NSA. Even though by definition, no commenter could "possibly know" the extent of a su
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by stillsut 11y ago
What's the real story behind the following: The short haired sheriff who called in Theresa's licence plate + Make/Model two days before it was discovered... + The licence plates were discovered separately hidden from the ca
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by stillsut 11y ago
I've been interested in this for awhile. Could you post some of examples or open source examples?
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But it's not "Other People's Problems". No idealistic 22 year old is trying to solve the deflationary environment in Japan. The problems that are [potentially] open to solution are where post-scarcity economies don'
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The troops were so in , in 2013 iirc. The entire political spectrum from Jon Stewart to the NFL was banging the drum to employ. those. veterans. The entrepreneurial scene was of course quick to get it on the action and as OP mentions, addi
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by stillsut 11y ago
If I could summarize PG's thesis (and his critics misunderstanding) in one sentence here it is: Beware any promises to cure social ills that make an appeal to economic inequality, just as you'd be cautious of a surgeon tryin
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by stillsut 11y ago
Nixon orders one little intelligence gathering operation and everybody goes crazy #NotACrook
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Is this true, though? Does a judge's salary depend on him not understanding the fourth amendment? Does a policeman's salary depend on him not understanding appropriate search warrant tactics? I understand most people disagree with
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by stillsut 11y ago
So I investigated [1] at your suggestion. Literally on the same page as the Karen story is examples of far right hate groups including anti-islam and abortion clinic attacks. All ideologies can produce extremist according this document, w
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How Saddam gave us ISIS(nytimes.com)
3 points by stillsut 11y ago|2 comments
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"majority of entry level jobs didn’t hire people who looked like the people I worked with. At McDonalds there were people with disabilities, overweight people, people who weren’t conventionally attractive, people that couldn’t speak mu
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Agreed. Also this: "So expect Python 4 to not do anything more drastic than to remove maybe deprecated modules from the standard library." But why break all the existing libraries that use those modules, even if there's now
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The big difference today is how ruthless the competition is to position yourself for a rewarding career in science. Even at a young age, you need to be setting yourself apart with accomplishments not just curiosity. If you were to read th
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by stillsut 11y ago
If you had to build a windows GUI from assembly code, almost all software projects would be too expensive. Instead we reuse high level languages and frameworks to start with the basics a program needs. To extend the metaphor to milk, what i
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"I know that people wouldn't usually rap this But I got the facts to back this Just last year, Chicago had over 600 caskets" For the criminals creating urban chaos, they don't expect to live to 25 years old. However the
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Drug maker challenges tribal court’s right to hear lawsuit(statnews.com)
1 points by stillsut 11y ago|0 comments
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by stillsut 11y ago
I've wondered if this can go the other way as well: e.g. "If Golbach's conjecture is true, then FTL signalling is possible. Since physics says FTL is impossible, then GC must be false" [If you could reduce GC to a scheme
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I like this example and might steal it. But I'd offer you a [bayesian] counter-argument: Say an HIV test is 99% accurate and responds positive on a randomly selected person. What's the chance they actually have HIV? About 5%! [0].
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by stillsut 11y ago
Just remember next time you talk about the 'War on the middle class' who's trying to give it ALL away in Paris this week.
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One Side Project per Year Challenge(medium.com)
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At issue here is _not_ whether this one instance (Zuck) is a tax coward or a much needed 21st century philanthropist. Instead this is about whether our tax-code can raise tax rates on business-owning millionaires and billionaires to arbitra
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In fact, it would be declasse to be seen on a mega yacht except if it was for a charity gala. Yacht is of course owned by charity, which is owned by... well you know who. But you gotta spend money to give money!
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What I learned working at McDonalds for 4 years(medium.com)
44 points by stillsut 11y ago|15 comments
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Tales of a Warmer Planet(nytimes.com)
1 points by stillsut 11y ago|0 comments
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WOAH, You just saw someone just changed their mind based on new evidence. Didn't realize that happend IRL. But why are such important details left out of every media account? For the clockmaker sympathizers: What educational value is
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Dudes, I don't think this Google Search here. Say you're one of the 75 people they hired this quarter. Do you know what fields are mandatory on the 179c form in Maryland? No. Does one of those people around the table know it? Hope
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Climate Scientists refuse subpoena from Congress(washingtonpost.com)
55 points by stillsut 11y ago|69 comments
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It's also been said the best way to build 100M company is to start with 1B company and run it on intuition. MC Hammer, 50cent (?), so many multi-millionaire athletes are bankrupt. The fact that the basic institutions we require to exis
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by stillsut 11y ago
But isn't divorce down (or at least flat) since 1980? However % of out-of-wedlock births have continued to rise. Anecdotally and statistically, it seems like 'Family Court' findings are the major cause for a precarious-to-str

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