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by yyrrll 6mo ago
Right, everyone who disagrees with you is a murderer, that’s going to work out great.
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by yyrrll 6mo ago
> In essence, he has threatened to kill millions of people. “In essence” is doing enormous work here, and it will be basically impossible to have any kind of discussion if that work is considered acceptable. This kind of word-twisting ca
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by yyrrll 8y ago
And: seatbelts have negligible downsides, and are very hard to use for any purpose other than accident restraint. The analogy to hiding the URL would be something like a seatbelt that only unlatched at the car's stop only in neighborho
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by yyrrll 8y ago
Technology problems are also people problems, so I am curious about your opinion of the report's comments on the lack of a quartermaster chief petty officer and a "dysfunctional chief's mess." And, how could the fleet co
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by yyrrll 8y ago
Hey Nineteen That's 'Retha Franklin
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by yyrrll 8y ago
I think anyone reading the book with a determination to drop their intuitions in favor of the book's concepts will find it much easier going, and tremendously worthwhile. I get why readers don't do that. There is very little writ
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by yyrrll 8y ago
link broken, gets 404
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by yyrrll 8y ago
I do not understand the "domain knowledge" complaints. So far I have found that the Wizard Book always provides the required algorithm, or enough discussion to work it out.
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by yyrrll 8y ago
Yes. And, having taught SQL to Excel power users, I can tell you it is a very effective learning model. The "filtered cross-join" model allows students who have learned SELECT and WHERE to think of a JOIN as an extension of those
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by yyrrll 8y ago
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by yyrrll 8y ago
If the article misrepresents the actual work, please, by all means, show that.
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by yyrrll 8y ago
Still worse, ignoring that philosophy has _always_ proceeded as a statement of theories to be questioned and improved upon. The scholarship is just bad. The whole argument is full of mis-statements of critiqued positions. Anyone interested
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by yyrrll 8y ago
Thank you for an interesting article. > Professor Salaries will have an increasing Gini coefficient I think your own model says this is too noticeable. Better strategy would be harder-to-notice changes, like smaller teaching loads, more
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by yyrrll 8y ago
> I’m skeptical both that: Lower tuition would make taxing endowments more likely Yes, if the tuition were reduced by increased endowment subsidy, the political cover for the endowment would not be much affected. But that strategy would