wake_up_sticky

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by wake_up_sticky 16y ago
Yes, and they are not going to be taking the gifted program entrance exams in the first place...
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by wake_up_sticky 16y ago
This is just not true. Journalism is about finding and exposing the truth, not about being impartial.
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by wake_up_sticky 16y ago
How would filtering out children with IQs below 95 have any effect whatsoever on the demographics of the children who pass eligibility tests for gifted programs?
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by wake_up_sticky 16y ago
I take issue with your use of the phrase "smacks of misogynism" for two reasons: 1) it makes you sound extremely pretentious 2) it's a totally inaccurate characterization of the piece Seriously, I wish people would stop throwing the word "m
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by wake_up_sticky 16y ago
It definitely should not be clear to anyone what category (close friend, friend, coworker, acquaintance, etc) you place them in. Just like, in the real world, you don't automatically know whether I consider you a close friend or just a cowo
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by wake_up_sticky 16y ago
Obviously I worded some things wrong in my original submission. I realize that offering a (much) higher salary won't necessarily (or even probably) prevent a "horde of unqualified candidates" from applying. What I meant was that if a hiring
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by wake_up_sticky 16y ago
Thank you. Sorry about that.
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by wake_up_sticky 16y ago
"Incentives hurt productivity in creative activities." Unadulterated nonsense. On the one hand, I recall a cartoon-drawing presentation about school contests and the like. On the other hand, there are these centuries and centuries of eviden
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Stop complaining and pay programmers more
227 points by wake_up_sticky 16y ago|272 comments
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by wake_up_sticky 16y ago
Totally agree. Talk is cheap.
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by wake_up_sticky 16y ago
Imagining games to have a "skill component" and a "luck component" is the wrong way to conceptualize games which involve randomness. A much better way conceptualize these games is to consider how many "units" (games, matches, hands, tournam
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by wake_up_sticky 16y ago
"A lot of comments on the Second City Cop blog - http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com - have indicated that law enforcement officers in Chicago are becoming extremely hesitant to act because they are worried about how their actions may look
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by wake_up_sticky 16y ago
What a relief! :)
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by wake_up_sticky 16y ago
cliff notes: the author of the article has an IQ of 150 (did anyone think that there was really any other point?)