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by zasz 16y ago
Well, I'll counter your anecdotal Chinese mothers with mine. I didn't get to do sleepovers, ever, and my parents drove over to pick me up from school if they thought I was spending too much time on extracurriculars and not working on math h
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by zasz 16y ago
The Last Psychiatrist is a hard-drinking, womanizing man.
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by zasz 16y ago
Asian American women tend to commit suicide at a rate twice as high as the national female average: http://cdc.gov/women/lcod/archive Another link suggesting Asian Americans tend to have worse mental disorders than other ethnicities: htt
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by zasz 16y ago
We will probably never be able to get rid of traffic completely, but we could greatly increase the capacity of a road. If every car was driven by a robot, then the distance between cars could be much smaller than it is right now.
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by zasz 16y ago
Sure, set/costume design is different from directing, but they fall under the same umbrella of having an interest in making movies. James Cameron is not a polymath for the same reason someone who gets a Nobel in physics and chemistry is not
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by zasz 16y ago
I don't think the article would consider any of the people you listed polymaths. One of the article's criterion for being a polymath is that you have interests in diverse fields. A musician who can play several different instruments isn't s
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Doodling in Math Class: Snakes and Graph Theory Doodles(youtube.com)
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Spider webs(janedotx.posterous.com)
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by zasz 16y ago
It's not _all_ like that. Skip it and keep going. The most important stuff is in plain English.
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by zasz 16y ago
My parents gave me a head start in math. I spent hours solving problems instead of socializing or playing outside. I deeply resent them for it. I hope you don't push your son too hard.
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by zasz 16y ago
Hey, Dropbox got away with only having getdropbox.com for a long time.
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by zasz 16y ago
Do you think all the people working your cash registers or mopping your floors can seriously be passionate about their work? How about driving cabs, or being a receptionist, or working at a call center? These are universally shitty jobs but
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by zasz 16y ago
100 years is very recent in human history. And enjoying your work seems to be a very Western idea. My Chinese immigrant father is resigned to finding his career as an electrical engineer boring and meaningless, for example.
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by zasz 16y ago
But then wouldn't you just get any potential STIs in your mouth?
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by zasz 16y ago
> Enjoy this article about how a 37 year old manual laborer who came to the country at 21 just bought a condo in NYC for $1.4 million. They wrote an article about that and published it in a newspaper precisely _because_ it is so vanishi
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A vaccine for stress(wired.com)
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by zasz 16y ago
Possibly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring .
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by zasz 16y ago
Or "melon patch."
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by zasz 16y ago
I'd like to add that it's also never too late to start taking better care of yourself and reaping the benefits thereof. I know a man who decided to become a vegetarian and start riding his bike more frequently at the age of 40. He's 80 now,
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by zasz 16y ago
I read about that quickly if it's fiction, or if the concepts in the text I'm reading aren't that difficult. My theory on how I got to that point is just that I used to read a shit ton of books all the time. One happy summer, I polished off
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by zasz 16y ago
1) It doesn't have to be completely flat, just fairly close to it. A "bee sting" is perhaps too mild a way of describing the problems of a poor person. Is it easier to understand what Karelis is talking about if you imagine a poor person wh
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by zasz 16y ago
Luckydave is doing what the parent commenter said, essentially--working somewhat part-time, and making enough money to do what he really cares about. And he's an excellent team member.
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by zasz 16y ago
I interpreted the letter more as a fleshing-out of the previous letter than a personal attack on the unenthusiastic Boy Scout.
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by zasz 16y ago
It's the World Cup.
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by zasz 16y ago
No, I don't think feminism implies that feminists have to show women are the same as men in every way. It's perfectly feminist to say that women deserve to be judged as individuals on their own merits, as men are. I'm sure there's no femini
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by zasz 16y ago
Your second sentence sounds like you actually agree with the study. The people with heightened levels of blood sugar pursued the impossible task a lot longer than the people with lower levels of blood sugar. Determination in the face of fru
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by zasz 16y ago
No, I think my point was misunderstood about the "families" of the languages. I know English, so picking up French is easier--they have cognates, and considerable overlap in the set of sounds, and they share a lot of grammatical similarity.
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by zasz 16y ago
Criticisms 1-5 are basically identical and have no useful alternative for a linguistically diverse country like China until you finally get everyone speaking the same dialect. Criticism 6--uhh, well, there's also Shakespeare for the English
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by zasz 16y ago
I used to think the writing system was ridiculous too, but think of how many different dialects of Chinese there are! I am Shanghainese and don't understand Mandarin, and I'm sure there's a lot of Cantonese people with similar issues. We ca
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Facebook, The App Store, And The Sound Of Inevitability (techcrunch.com)
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