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by wololo 14y ago
if anyone else is curious: "It's a common typo by French (because in French, there is a white space before a question/exclamation mark)" "in most Indian schools, English grammar is taught from a book that was originally authored by two Engl
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by wololo 14y ago
will respond off-thread
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by wololo 14y ago
hey kenton, any public thoughts on russ smith's similar project several years back?
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by wololo 14y ago
> A competent mechanical engineer graduate attending college in the past 5 to 10 years has more CS experience and coding ability than most CS graduates what fractions of ME and CS graduates would you say are competent, out of curiosity?
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by wololo 14y ago
"My hypothesis is that most children are emotionally damaged by this upbringing. But a small percentage, whose brain chemistry and wiring is set for resilience ..." This relentlessness, stress immunity, etc. -- these are "positive" charact
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by wololo 14y ago
> 3. Grow up with a family that is as steady and secure as possible. "I was having lunch with a friend who is a retired venture capitalist and we drifted into a discussion of the startups she funded. We agreed that all her founding CEOs
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by wololo 14y ago
speaking of probability, doesn't having a drink dramatically raise the probability of having a drink again soon? isn't human behavior the least reliable piece of the metaphor, not the spotty scientific research?
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by wololo 14y ago
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?order=... (with nice description of what it includes and excludes) > It's a lot more useful to compare defense spending to the budget, not GDP Different types of government will le
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by wololo 14y ago
> the degree that defense spending props up the US economy US defense spending was 4.7% of GDP in 2011. What do you call the other 95.3%? (context: Russia 3.9%, China 2.0%, World 2.5%) --SIPRI
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by wololo 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%27s_role_in_the_Syrian_c...
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by wololo 14y ago
It's ad hominem because (a) bringing up creationism make the US look bad and (b) has nothing to do with conspiracy theories about the US having orchestrated the Arab Spring and plotting to overthrow the PRC. Are you saying I'm a creationis
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by wololo 14y ago
> Or that all theories are not worth our time, since they are just that, "just a theory" (implying there is no proof?), like creationists (of which, America is filled with) like to say. congratulations on the beautiful ad hominem
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by wololo 14y ago
Occam's Razor says some office working for the Chinese government is looking for who snitched on Wen Jiabao's problematic enormous wealth. > Perhaps then you believe it is only Americans that never conspire. seriously? Just look at the
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by wololo 14y ago
> It's not obvious that they are wrong in that assessment. Any entity with the reach of the United States is naturally going to have connections with all kinds of actors. While the idea of Americans/Zionists/Illuminati/Nibiru pulling t
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by wololo 14y ago
context: Eric Schmidt is not the CEO, but is a commercial pilot (source: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2... )
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by wololo 14y ago
And the FAA seems pretty conservative? "Finally, the FAA changes so slowly that if this were even all possible, the adoption and certification would all take at least 50 years." --Eric Schmidt, http://longbets.org/4/
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by wololo 14y ago
it's a common question on r/linguistics and r/askhistorians: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k8t7s/when_did_am... http://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/l1z1b/did_the_f... http://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/v
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Hacking the election(centerforpolitics.org)
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by wololo 14y ago
I don't understand. Why license it out? Isn't this like the iPhone?
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by wololo 14y ago
Non sequiturs: 1. > One of Chomsky's transformative insights was that most sentences that are reasonably long are completely unique in human history ... as with a sufficient amount of information in every error-tolerant format. Every
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by wololo 14y ago
His route takes him through hundreds of miles of Arctic tundra. As someone who has spent time in the far north: Walking on tundra is like walking on a head of cabbage that is sitting on a four-inch sponge that is floating in four inches o
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by wololo 14y ago
Is the decline of Voo Doo related to that? I remember them complaining, but everybody knows the good old days were always better, everywhere.
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by wololo 14y ago
What changed?
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by wololo 14y ago
the replies are interesting (image enhancement, dropping orbit, low angles, synthetic aperture, deformable mirrors, etc.)
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by wololo 14y ago
bankruptcy tourism is a thing
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by wololo 14y ago
question for you: how does Kurzweil's role in Google compare to Regina Dugan's?
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by wololo 14y ago
http://reddit.com/r/askhistorians is very good, btw (although I don't think they would like people taking normative positions)
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by wololo 14y ago
Any other problems?
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by wololo 14y ago
> 198. In the United Kingdom, it is a criminal offence under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 to refuse to hand over an encryption key when required. Care must be taken, however, to ensure that suspects do not seek to ev
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by wololo 14y ago
> The whole of the EU has such laws. I think most people within the EU would regard this as just a part of living in the civilised west. The US is not all that different. You'd get a court order for the record to be expunged. Althou

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