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by whyenot 12y ago
> Why isn't anyone pushing to have more men go into K-12 education, nursing, etc.? Did you bother to look, or did you just assume this was the case? http://www.edutopia.org/male-teacher-shortage http://aa
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by whyenot 12y ago
Yes, it could be a spandrel. see the classic (and controversial) paper by Gould and Lewontin: Gould, SJ and Lewontin RC. 1979. The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme. Proc. R. Soc.
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by whyenot 12y ago
Aha, but here's the problem: if you live on the east coast (or just east of the Rockies) in the USA, you probably are referring to Asclepias syriaca , but "common milkweed" on the west coast could be a different species, per
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by whyenot 12y ago
This is profoundly untrue, at least for milkweed sensu lato Most Asclepias species contain cardiac glycosides and can be highly poisonous. Milkweed extracts were spread on arrow tips by some Native American groups to more quickly bring
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by whyenot 12y ago
"For the record" ? Do you have a citation from a more neutral ideally peer reviewed source? I don't trust The Partnership For a New American Economy. They are attempting to advance a particular political agenda on immigration
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by whyenot 12y ago
That doesn't help the victim. I expect a significant number of people would characterize what the police did as bending the rules a little to catch a rapist on the loose. Many -- including me! aren't going to agree with that, but
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by whyenot 12y ago
> Whether the perps were murderers, pot smokers or speeders (or innocents...) does not matter. You might not agree if you were the victim or the victim's friends/family. The evidence might have been illegally gathered, but it w
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by whyenot 12y ago
Not really. Maybe if you use a very soft lead, in which case you may want it to smear.
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Amazon’s Power Play(nytimes.com)
1 points by whyenot 12y ago|0 comments
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A Star-Gazing Palace’s Hazy Future(nytimes.com)
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Universities can’t fulfil the myth, but can’t become vocational schools either(arstechnica.com)
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by whyenot 12y ago
They are archival. Writing doesn't fade and doesn't react with the paper you write on. Very important if you are writing something that may need to be read 100 years from now. Writing is erasable. By gently using an art gum eraser
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Urban Renewal, No Bulldozer: San Francisco Repurposes the Old for the Future(nytimes.com)
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by whyenot 12y ago
>I know some design students who don't buy a lot of textbooks but have a hole in their pocket from Creative Suite. An educational license for Adobe Creative Cloud, which covers virtually all of Adobe's products, is $300 a year.
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Thank You for Being Expendable(nytimes.com)
51 points by whyenot 12y ago|52 comments
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by whyenot 12y ago
I wonder how Mozilla would have handled this if they still were dependent on donations from users for funding instead of Google.
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Parrot launches drone with 14MP camera and 180-degree fisheye lens(connect.dpreview.com)
6 points by whyenot 12y ago|1 comments
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by whyenot 12y ago
> I find it laughable that any article about de-throning FORTRAN barely even makes a passing reference to Python Python is just glue. It's not possible to do any numerical heavy lifting in python. Numpy and Scipy are not written i
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by whyenot 13y ago
I've been going to Martin's Beach since before I could walk (or swim). It's a location that has been pseudo public access for generations. That part of San Mateo County has been extremely effective when it comes to preventing
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by whyenot 13y ago
The funny thing is those ASICs more often than not are hooked up to a RaspberryPi running cgminer or equivalent.
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by whyenot 13y ago
1977. 2nd grade at Lucille M. Nixon Elementary School in Palo Alto. We had a class where we learned how to program in BASIC on the school district's HP2000 mainframe. I loved it. Within a few months I knew more about programming than t
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by whyenot 13y ago
Proposition 8 took away my right to marry. It's a pretty shitty thing to find out that the majority of voters in your home state believe it's OK to treat you as a second class citizen. When Brendan Eich sent in that check for $1,0
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by whyenot 13y ago
> In my eyes, this shows that there are certainly different viewpoints on the matter and makes it as political as anything else. We had the right to marry in California. Proposition 8 took away that right. We gained the same freedom ev
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by whyenot 13y ago
The real advantage of the 1/2 hour lunch is that then you can have a nice (mostly) guilt free afternoon nap :)
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by whyenot 13y ago
It depends. R has many, many more packages and those packages tend to be more extensively peer-reviewed. If the sort of analysis you are doing wanders out of the mainstream, you are less likely having to code something up from scratch than
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by whyenot 13y ago
Kind of difficult to design a truck that does not have this problem. The Ford F-series truck is the #1 selling automobile in the US (Chevy Silverado and Dodge Ram, also trucks, are #2 and #3).
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by whyenot 13y ago
I donated both money and time to Mozilla in the pre-Google days when they were really struggling. I'm also gay and a resident of California. When proposition 8 passed it really hurt. Finding out that an organization I've supported
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by whyenot 13y ago
The point is to make a statement and educate users. Not cut off your nose to spite your face.
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by whyenot 13y ago
Well, then they should get a pay raise. It's about time anyways. You can easily make $150k a year as a private contractor.
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by whyenot 13y ago
As I write this,the market cap for all crytocurrencies is $7.22bn. $5.6bn of that is Bitcoin, $900m is Ripple, $340m is Litecoin, and the remaining ~$400m is the remaining 205 currencies with enough of a presence to be traded on exchanges.

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