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by zootar 16y ago
Harris wants to do more than fix potholes, if he can. He wants a few smart, rich, and reasonably sincere people like Gates and Buffet to come up with a plan for him to do a lot of good with his money. When he says that repaving roads woul
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I don't think anyone believes that there has never existed a woman who was good at math/science. The questions some people have are about averages and gender roles. Offering specific "counterexamples" always strikes me as an odd thing to
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This long article is mostly true, but it doesn't contain any strong reconciliation of science and religion. The author states, correctly, that there is a huge amount that science can't yet explain, and that effective scientists must not ru
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New to programming, you should probably get a book, start reading it at the beginning, and do some of the exercises. As soon as you think you understand how to do something, try it on your website. Pretty soon, you'll find you know enough
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This reminds me of when people argue that public funding should be reallocated from research in pure science to applied science. Just as it's hard to predict what the applications of any scientific finding will be, it's hard to tell from w
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In addition to the difficulty of rating teachers in a way that can be fairly coupled to pay, the fraction of teachers able to substantially increase their performance might be small. Identifying specific sources of confusion, inventing way
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The ethical reasoning about student plagiarism has become pretty simple-minded. Of course, students must not cheat. But instructors must not create irresistibly tempting opportunities to cheat. If a test becomes available on the internet,
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http://norvig.com/prayer.html
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Kids can start programming a lot earlier if their introductory experience really minimizes frustration and time to gratification. Python is probably a good starting language for teenagers, but for pre-teens, who are much less cognitively m
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by zootar 16y ago
I don't find your answer unhelpful. Before your post, almost all of my ideas were of the form "travel to set of places X and see what you see." Now, I have ideas of the form "follow y while learning z", where y may be a band, a sports team
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Maybe I could rephrase the question: "What would be the most memorable thing YOU could do with $8000?" The things he dreamed about as a child are likely to be petty and unmemorable given his limited exposure to the possibilities.
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Travel does seem obvious. I'm hoping for more specific answers, though. He lives in Ontario, Canada. He's already been to Great Britain and France.
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Ask HN: What's the most memorable thing you can do with $8000?
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Top reasons Switzerland is an innovation hub(theglobeandmail.com)
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Most advocates of saving that I’ve seen in mainstream media are interested foremost in personal finance, not anti-consumerism. To them, the problem isn't that people enjoy spending money. On the contrary, they want to help people spend th
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Psychic numbing and genocide(journal.sjdm.org)
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"The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values" by Sam Harris is a new release which falls into the category of philosophy, remarks on human behavior, and is bound to reference Bertrand Russell. Harris, who has trained both as
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I haven't read Caplan and Dickens' full exchange, but I doubt that the present article adds much to the discussion. The author emphasizes two points: 1. A cheaper and shorter academic program will not attract a lower caliber of student as
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In the case of the Canadian meal, the image isn't really representative of the variety of meals that exist. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_Meal_Pack for the list of entrees in 2005.) Certainly meat features in the majority