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by tkahn6 16y ago
The PBS Newshour You can watch the 1 hour, no commercial, programs online on their site. In my opinion this is the only professional national nightly news program in America. They do not lack journalistic integrity or show 'fluff' stories.
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I've also often wondered if the language one thinks in has any effect on cognition or the "efficiency" of thought (if that even makes sense).
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Finished up a web app/program (PHP and Python cron jobs) that will notify you if a course that you want at Virginia Tech opens up. http://hokienotify.me/
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As a follow up. I went with HostVillage and I'm really happy with it so far.
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Ask HN: Cheap VPS for python script cron/mysql server?
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I agree with everything up to the last statement after the ellipsis. There is economic justification for risking environmental damage. More offshore drilling = cheaper oil; More offshore drilling = more jobs (to name a couple). I don't th
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That's interesting. I can't tell if you're joking or not (I'm pretty sure the ability to loop is a requirement for Turing-completeness). Do you mean like Lisp which favors recursive function (or lambda calculus which uses the Y-combinator :
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This is known as Pascal's Wager. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascals_Wager
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Why don't we have programs like this today? This is awesome. Make sure you keep watching after main show is over.
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Yeah, it's entirely possible I don't understand what they were doing but that first example (the "Sunday" program), just seems like a lot of `if` statements.
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I think you're failing to distinguish between an argument about objective reality and an argument about emotion and belief. The Pope and Al Qaeda want to persuade you that their belief system is the best. Galileo wanted to prove to you that
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According to the graph there are more males than females (percentage wise) with an IQ lower than 95. Males are "overrepresented" in the <95 IQ range.
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I'm still hung up on exactly how this gender bias (in either direction) actually manifests itself in the classroom. The derivative with respect to x of x^2 is 2x regardless of what gender you are. The Americans won the Revolutionary war reg
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Yeah. It would be interesting to know if intelligence distributions remain constant from generation to generation.
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According to the graph in the middle of the article (unless I'm reading it wrong) it would seem that there are more male geniuses. The graph then, would seem to indicate that the sort of tests that determine a child's eligibility for entr
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Uh, that's a pretty simplistic view. Yeah I know. But it seems like we're on the same page about what happened. Where do you see monopolies?
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Well I'll assume by 'user' friendly, you mean 'developer' friendly. PHP is ridiculously easy to get started with. I believe it was the first 'real' language and ecosystem that I really knew well [enough]. There's a huge body of knowledge
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Well first of all, it's not my definition of capitalism. It's Adam Smith's. When people think of 'capitalism' they usually think of anarchy and large mega-corporations that destroy the environment and do whatever the hell they want. There
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I didn't even consider that. I just assumed he meant that the kids that they did hire with superior academic backgrounds didn't outperform the kids who didn't have those backgrounds. He never said kids with good grades never applied for
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At the heart of it all, you want me to prove that Capitalism isn't the best economic model because you fancy this extremely primitive means of sharing resources. That's fine. My god. Are you aware that you are the one with a near-religi
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Others reported that radioactive particles from Starfish Prime descended to earth seasonally and accumulated in terrestrial organisms such as fungi and lichens.[citation needed] Major citation needed there.
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Ahhh What we have now is not the best we can do, but what we have isn't capitalism. So to claim that capitalism is the "beneath us as a society" means nothing because it's never been tried here. EDIT: And, if you've read the comments ab
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Full disclosure, I was denied by every Ivy League school I applied to schools use recent grads and professional bureaucrats whose job is to carry out mandates handed down, not by faculty, but by the trustees, who have a broader, and more w
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by tkahn6 16y ago
You're right. I understand and agree with your point. Thanks
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A car used to be a luxury, now it's a necessity. Do you think owning a car is a legal right?
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All I've stated thus far is that Capitalism is a stepping stone to something better. That is in itself an argument. You are asserting that capitalism is not an ideal system but you are not backing up that assertion. The core idea of the
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Academic Earth has a lot of lectures on computer science. http://www.academicearth.org/subjects/computer-science
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You're looking for me to bring a wealth of academia and research to the table to match your high knowledge of economics. That isn't going to happen. I do not have a high knowledge of economics. I just graduated high school. I'm not askin
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I understand exactly where you're coming from. But you have to define further what you mean by "programming from the ground up". Do you want to learn computer science? Do you want to learn machine/systems architecture? Do you want to lear
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I can see what you are talking about. But I think your opinions on -isms preclude the idea that there truly is an objectively best way to view the world (which optimizes fairness without making exceptions for specific cases). I'm not convin

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