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by tropdrop 6y ago
Please cite what you're referencing next time - it was not clear from your comment on a current event if this is something that also happened recently, or in the last century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National
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by tropdrop 6y ago
Thank you for the suggestion!
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by tropdrop 6y ago
Like a couple others in this thread, I have a hand-written correspondence with a small handful of people that I cherish. I used to do the same like you did - email, with similar results - but I discovered there is something cathartic about
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by tropdrop 6y ago
Too few engineers eschew ego - this is Feynman's point. Most people are not Feynman. Most engineers today think they have the capability of being Feynman one day - of course, statistics dictates that most will not be. This is why Fey
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by tropdrop 6y ago
> For one thing, doctors were upset because Semmelweis' hypothesis made it look like they were the ones giving childbed fever to the women. This, I think, is a point that needs amplifying: Doctor hubris causing harm and even death
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by tropdrop 6y ago
The question was only "what" recourse there was (and the answer - some), not whether said recourse fixed the issue entirely, nor even whether it is effective. The difference between "some" recourse and "no" rec
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by tropdrop 6y ago
This was a great read - thanks!
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by tropdrop 6y ago
One can successfully sue Facebook, etc. for violating privacy rights - https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/29/facebook-will-pay-550-mill...
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by tropdrop 6y ago
My own experience: having had a good portion of my childhood (after immigration) in a Rocky Mountain West state, I moved to Chicago for school. The first time I came back to visit for Christmas, I was blown away by how white the area was,
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by tropdrop 6y ago
The lowest bandwidth signals are not enough to secure reproductive success. It would be enough only in the scenario where the lured (with a nice photo) dating app user is immediately kidnapped when meeting the photo fabricator for the first
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by tropdrop 6y ago
> This project was done without Goodwill's assistance or permission. May I ask about this - why no permission? Did you attempt to reach out to Goodwill to explain the kind of project you're embarking on and just didn't r
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by tropdrop 6y ago
I am not sure about "dominant races," but there has been something akin to this move in another aspect of society: gender. Here's an article that outlines the effects of finally having enough men in congress convinced to rati
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by tropdrop 6y ago
In regards to this topic, the "gullible" line of thought misses the forest for the trees, because it still operates in the mode of "it was your personal responsibility [to not be scammed], and if you were, it is because you w
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by tropdrop 6y ago
This article is not talking about the woes of Ma and Pa shops trying to install bullet proof glass. It's talking about exactly the opposite, with mayors of cities like Dayton asking large corporations - Dollar General and Family Dollar
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by tropdrop 6y ago
This article leaves much to be desired. It should be titled "Why are Americans Having an Emotional Reaction to Masks?" - it asks a lot of the same questions going on through our minds about American culture and acceptance/p
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by tropdrop 6y ago
The ones I've watched seem to be higher quality than some of the same films on YouTube - the subtitles are certainly much better quality, which is the reason I was willing to pay and download several films for which I had a harder time
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by tropdrop 6y ago
Partial differential equations are indeed interesting to artists - https://processing.org/
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by tropdrop 6y ago
If you buy a membership for a month you can download (as opposed to stream-only) any movie you like with all the subtitles! My favorite so far has been Wajda's 1977 Man of Marble. An oddly magnetic and fast-paced film that captures
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by tropdrop 6y ago
I'll second your opinion about raising children outside the West, but from Russia - due to relatively great childcare options (a hold over from the Soviet days, when women were tasked en masse to rebuild the country after the massive c
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by tropdrop 6y ago
This is a good time to point out that the US is the only country in the world with no federally mandated parental leave of any kind. [1] 1 - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/27/maternity-le...
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Scientists say Early Dinosaur Eggs were soft, upending conventional wisdom(news.yale.edu)
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by tropdrop 6y ago
Damore worked at Google, i.e. in the Bay Area. The Bay Area has a certain political bent (left), and running counter to it has real consequences. But other places in the country have a different political bent (right). Chick-fil-A's an
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by tropdrop 6y ago
This is a quick sum of the study's basic intuition: > When workers lose their income, due to the shock, they reduce their spending, causing a contraction in demand. The question is whether this mechanism is strong enough to cause a
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by tropdrop 6y ago
The 'z' is important. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillaz
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I don't think the author is arguing for a banishment of certain authors "to qualitative methods." The problem described in the article is one I frequently see in Silicon Valley - ok, a couple of engineers build a thing. Note
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by tropdrop 6y ago
In my impression of Google products (Gmail is a notable example), the company has been more on the "stagnation" side and less on the "innovation" side already.
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And children who don't have parents with resources to "alternative models," deserve poor education? (I'm assuming you mean a stay-at-home parent who chooses to teach home-schooling because all that's necessary for
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by tropdrop 6y ago
Comparing Wyoming and New York is disingenuous. You'd be wise to compare, say, New York Metro and the Bay Area, [1] two areas of the US that are arguably almost equal density. Note how San Francisco declared a state of emergency in F
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29 Genetic Variants Linked to Problematic Drinking(news.yale.edu)
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From the article: > Encouraging analytic thinking may also help. In a 2014 study published in Cognition, Swami and his colleagues recruited 112 people for an experiment. First, they had everyone fill out a questionnaire that evaluated ho

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