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by sukilot 6y ago
Not sure that a civil war for independence counts as "visiting foreigners".
662.
by sukilot 6y ago
Start small and work your way up and around. No way to know the optimal path, so don't stress about finding it.
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by sukilot 6y ago
You don't know the entirety of what Mano wrote.
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by sukilot 6y ago
In one of Feynman's books he talks about being dispirited and in a rut in his career, and breaking out of it by working on a toy problem inspired by something like plates in a cafeteria.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Even if Koicho Mano didn't need the letter, the world is lucky Feynman wrote it.
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by sukilot 6y ago
> Most of the problems he worked on have little to no impact on society or people's daily lives Only because he solved so many problems that his side work is more substantial than most successful people's careers. "Physic
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by sukilot 6y ago
Feynman's beginning was very early. Before he joined the Manhattan Project he had already published work that appears in textbooks today. What you call who I call a healthy disrespect for bad rules that impede people trying to get real
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by sukilot 6y ago
Some people can't escape "crab bucket" mentality, and have to tear down people who've worked hard to do great things. Perhaps it's unsurprising that those people post in online forums to take cheap shots at dead peo
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by sukilot 6y ago
> J.K. Rowling’s reply, in character as Albus Dumbledore, to a Professor of Colloid and Polymer Science who applied to become Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor at Hogwarts
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by sukilot 6y ago
Regulations exist because you can't get a fraud conviction when the defendant says "I understand the meaning of the word "hamburger" differently from the plaintiff"
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by sukilot 6y ago
How can a company that violates law in 13 countries just choose which country gets to enforce?
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by sukilot 6y ago
You want companies to pick and choose which laws to follow based on how those laws might change in the future? You think that social media and Google haven't been helpful to the protestors?
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by sukilot 6y ago
Of course libertarians are for open borders.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Tuition is a consensual transaction. Students can withdraw if they don't like what the school is offering. How is it unjust to sell something people want? Remember, tuition is for the diploma. The education is already available online
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by sukilot 6y ago
Unemployment payments are temporary, not 4 years.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Nothing is stopping students from living in their own apartments for online school.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Classes are the smallest part of college.
678.
by sukilot 6y ago
Why would someone lose a scholarship for attending their online-only school?
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by sukilot 6y ago
International Graduate students, even in STEM, are mostly Masters candidates paying extremely high fees. https://cgsnet.org/master%E2%80%99s-or-doctorate-internation...
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by sukilot 6y ago
That's very rare on low priced tickets. Are low priced tickets a national security threat?
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by sukilot 6y ago
Does that mean that students on invalidated visas will get a free government flight home, or that they won't be deported?
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by sukilot 6y ago
Those people can stay at the US for their non-online only education, as long as the study groups are sanctioned by the school.
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by sukilot 6y ago
That's the same thing parent said, so "Absolutely yes".
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by sukilot 6y ago
Jews exist outside of Israel. Saying that an organization with majority non Jews probably has no Jews working on it is bizarrely innumerate.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Logic. The visa is for people with a genuine need to be in the USA for education. Obviously online school is no such reason. Regardless of how you feel about immigration, the education visa is not the way to permit non-educational immig
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by sukilot 6y ago
MBP:s don't dissipate heat either. They can't hit their CPU performance ceiling for more than a few seconds.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Flagged for petty bickering. I don't understand why people post and upvote chatter they would be downvoted to oblivion if it were posted as comments on HN. We can do better.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Are we "dependent" on China, or merely taking their bribes (in the form of investment money and low-wage labor)? In this case, the change is due to a dependency on Workday, which has a dependency on the ISO standard, which is depe
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by sukilot 6y ago
You got it precisely backwards. using "black" to mean both "African" and "evil", instead of using a separate word for the idea of evil, is a perfect example of Newspeak. The design of Newspeak is to force unint
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by sukilot 6y ago
"Black" people aren't black. "White" people aren't white. Having white skin is a rare disease (albinism). So why did pink people invent the term "negro"/"black" to describe Africans? An

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