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by veridies 6y ago
It is a problem of grammar and language! As others here have said, no one is claiming that the notion of math itself is racist, but that math education can be. The 'agenda' seems to be to make sure that marginalized groups are bet
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by veridies 6y ago
That exact page specifies that while mathematical problems have right and wrong answers, word problems often have embedded assumptions, and that teachers should encourage students to identify those assumptions and pursue other possible answ
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by veridies 6y ago
For anyone who's interested, I used the samples to make a playable soundfont (sfz format) in about fifteen minutes: https://musical-artifacts.com/artifacts/1471
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by veridies 6y ago
The flip side of this is that if have excess capacity for medical treatment, that can be incredibly helpful in the case of a rare event such as a terrorist attack or a pandemic.
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by veridies 6y ago
Cameras are used for multiple professional purposes, including videography and commercial photography. SD cards are also used in devices such as Zoom audio recorders, which I often use for recording music. Especially right now, I'll lo
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by veridies 6y ago
It's worth noting that this study focuses on two Danish parties. It's honestly not clear that the magnitude of these shifts is consistent — see, for example, https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments&#x2
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by veridies 6y ago
I definitely agree. From a different perspective, I have a few free albums on Bandcamp under a Creative Commons BY-SA, just as a side project. Getting $5 or $20 here or there is really nice — it makes me feel like someone found my music wor
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by veridies 6y ago
I'd never heard of this fight before, so I just looked it up. My interpretation is that he made that claim, Gebru responded by claiming that that was an overly reductionist view of things (given, presumably, the fact that biased assump
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by veridies 6y ago
Related to this: I've tried to figure out what the oldest surviving organization in the world is (specifically something with some form of rules or decision-making process that has been formally kept and amended over time instead of be
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by veridies 6y ago
Right. It's fine for me since I use free software as much as possible anyway. The only applications I've sideloaded are WeChat, Teams, Discord, Target, Instagram, and WhatsApp, all of which work fine. Edit: and Google Maps. The bu
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by veridies 6y ago
I have been using it for I think over a year now as my only phone, on a Samsung Galaxy S9+. It's honestly not much different from Android (although a little out of date), and the only real issue I have is that installing software is a
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by veridies 6y ago
There are about 40 different barre chords you would commonly play, not including minors and thinking only of the two most common hand shapes. On the piano, there would be roughly 80, and you wouldn't be able to get some guidance based
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by veridies 6y ago
In that case, there is another benefit: more ambitious compositions. And while you may be right, there are still numerous older compositions to play.
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by veridies 6y ago
Macron is trying to incorporate French Islam into French society. His tactics may be good or bad, I'm not qualified to say, but he certainly is not trying to eradicate a population or its culture, and he is not rounding up religious mi
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by veridies 6y ago
Note: this opinion is independent of the current president, and I'm not stating any opinion on President Trump's conduct. This seems like a really bad standard to apply to the president. I'd argue that morally there are two
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by veridies 6y ago
(Understandable) naïvité, and a lack of awareness of the downsides. Articles like this on Hacker News help other people who might be thinking of making a similar mistake.
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by veridies 6y ago
I mean, nursing home residents are typically older, meaning that they and everyone around them are more susceptible to the disease (meaning it's likely to spread faster and be more deadly). Black and brown people disproportionately wor
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by veridies 6y ago
It seems like there's room for compromise. You could simply assign a lower weight to reviews for a different size/format. Or you could split ratings entirely if (and only if) the review averages are significantly different.
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by veridies 6y ago
> IANALC (I am not a literary critic) Yeah, and neither am I, although I do have a BA in literature from a third-tier college, which probably doesn't give me much credibility here. Your opinion is pretty close to my own. The only th
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by veridies 6y ago
I've read a few translations, and while I appreciate Wilson's clarity, I honestly found it pretty boring. My wife and I read it aloud and, compared to Fagles (which is my favorite), the words she chose often seemed to lend no emot
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by veridies 6y ago
That's part of the story, but I know a LOT of middle and upper class addicts.
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by veridies 6y ago
> In case of taxing A and C, C's freedom as a group would be compromised. True. That's why targeted taxes (eg carbon taxing) are often a good idea. However, if we as a society vote to do things that seriously harm a subset of s
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by veridies 6y ago
I realize the practical difficulties here, but the actual concept (identifying who's going to be impacted, and offering targeted solutions) sounds like a pretty good idea in theory. Calling it 'identity politics 2.0' is an ea
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by veridies 6y ago
I had the cheap FirefoxOS phone, which I thought was going to be a miserable dev phone experience. But it turns out it was actually a very solid phone that did everything I wanted. I'm still upset that that OS was discontinued.
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by veridies 6y ago
Question (I'm not an expert): can unconfirmed transactions be withdrawn? If so, what's the timeline?
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by veridies 6y ago
I think the anti-religious bias in a lot of technology and leftist spaces is a real problem, and I absolutely take your point on that. > I've seen articles written to the effect of "if you are against rent control, you must hat
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by veridies 6y ago
> I think this is something that most people believe I think it's about 50/50. The one good, recent poll I found on the issue seems to suggest that (I mentioned it at more length in the other subthread here). So I definitely do
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by veridies 6y ago
I have read that article. She argues obliquely that trans women are not women[1], and she suggests that trans women are often dangerous predators[2]. Her statement that "trans rights are human rights" is an intentional dismissal o
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by veridies 6y ago
That's an interesting example, but I think to some extent it contradicts the idea of orthodox privilege. When you offered that alternative, it doesn't seem like you were chastised or marginalized; instead, you were thanked for off
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by veridies 6y ago
I'm sure I am! Look, there are not a lot of great polls about people's opinion on whether sex and gender are different. PRRI has a poll on general support for trans people ( https://www.prri.org/research/americ

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