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by xlm1717 11y ago
Was going to type up a similar response. This is exactly how I feel. Stoicism looks like it's gaining in popularity because of people reacting to the oversensitivity running rampant in society today. You can hardly teach people today t
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I would hope they use Drive at Google, in which case this would be a major disruption to day-to-day activities at Google and then I imagine the engineers scrambling to bring it back up, sweating bullets.
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Hawking sure is a fan of making apocalyptic predictions these days.
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Part of it is, we can't even imagine a plausible way for all those worlds to be created. That they just pop into existence for every collapse of the wavefunction is an unsatisfactory explanation. The Copenhagen interpretation is more p
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Put it in a robot body and have it patrol high security installations.
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Not necessarily boring. Someone even managed to turn it into a best-selling series of books and major motion pictures: The Hunger Games. The name of the country in The Hunger Games is Panem, meaning, of course, bread! The games themselves a
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by xlm1717 11y ago
They won't write those things in the books on communism, but it's telling that when Stalin and Mao went "off the book", 100 million working class people had to die. And of course, anywhere that descends into anarchy resu
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by xlm1717 11y ago
Not a self-professed communist, but is not generating and applying ideas labor? Labor is not simply putting fingers to the keyboard. How would one reconcile ability to be creative with pure labor valuation, in a manner similar to dollars-fo
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by xlm1717 11y ago
I don't think the intention was to link them together, just to ask for introductions to other alternative ideologies. It's not good to put words into other people's mouth. PlzSnow never said anything about less state control
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Just needs to get more jobs posted for it first. Going back to the original comment: >What would you build in Perl today that you wouldn't build in another language instead? You could turn it around too: what could you build in anot
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by xlm1717 11y ago
Is it so crazy though? With frameworks like Mojolicious and Dancer, you can set up a whole website using syntax familiar to someone coming from Sinatra on Ruby or Express on NodeJS.
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by xlm1717 11y ago
I share the same sentiment. I am so glad to see it finally formally launched. Now, to dig in to Perl 6!
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I would hope when I retire I will have the money to immediately forget anything about programming and instead remember how to say "Where is Gate A?" in 20 different languages.
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by xlm1717 11y ago
I've never heard of Tom Steyer, but mainly because the boogeyman on the right is always George Soros.
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It's telling, though, that in Germany, it had to be an independent website (not funded by the public/government) that had to publish an investigation into government spying (netzpolitik). Not only that, netzpolitik got threatened
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by xlm1717 11y ago
People are extremely sensitive about being judged. If someone had posted something ruinous for someone else's reputation, which also happened to be false, there's always libel lawsuits. Beyond that, to quote Mrs. Feynman's qu
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by xlm1717 11y ago
In the TI-83, the graph does have several shortcuts you can use to fit the graph, one of them giving you a 1:1 aspect ratio and showing perpendicular lines as actually perpendicular.
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by xlm1717 11y ago
I think what is needed is something that works for high school students. If you need to do serious scientific and engineering work, programs like Matlab and gnuplot, which you mentioned, work, and even learning Python will probably give bet
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by xlm1717 11y ago
The market is large, but TI maintains their monopoly because their calculators are entrenched in education. They will fight tooth and nail against the college board approving calculators for any new competitor, Chinese or not.
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Now that is not only a scarecrow, it's a scarehuman.
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This reminds me of a paper I wrote for a sociology class in college. Argue for or against assimilation. Like it or not, there is evidence that immigrants who assimilate better into American culture do better economically. Cultural appropria
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by xlm1717 11y ago
Private prisons are very rare in the US. The majority of them are run by individual states or by the federal government. Where I have read that private prisons are on the rise, however, is in the UK itself, and in New Zealand and (to a less
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by xlm1717 11y ago
Science can explain how a photon traverses the slits. The trick is explaining why it does so, which is still an active area of research.
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We might observe that X causes Y, and A is just an effect of X while B is an effect of Y. When we observe this, we come up with explanations as to how it happened, describe it using mathematics or chemical symbols or whatever is appropriate
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I'm not sure about the no promises and no callbacks part. The similar line they use in their examples doesn't define a separate getJsonAsync function in the "Asynchronous city" section (and, as far as I can tell, there&#
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by xlm1717 11y ago
Sounds like she has the resources to do so, given all the previous jobs she has had. I would imagine when she is ready to get back into the workforce she won't have trouble landing another job.
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I would argue we tolerate it from the insurance industry, particularly health insurance. Medical providers and drug makers blow up their prices to ridiculous levels, and then use insurance to discount the prices for us so at the end we &quo
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Perhaps it will be a different kind of war. With the economies so reliant on each other, one side can tweak their economy to cause negative effects in the other side's economy. There are politicians in the US who consider China to be e
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Yes, this makes sense. For the public sector it would necessarily incur extra salary costs.
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As an American, I'm interested in knowing why it would require Sweden to raise taxes. Since you mentioned a huge public sector, is it a case of needing extra workers to work shifts so that pubic services are run at the usual hours? I i

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