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by afafsd 12y ago
If you want to define the debate in that way then sure, memory plus considered analytical skills is better than memory without analytical skills, but I don't think anyone was questioning that. People are more likely to question the i
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by afafsd 12y ago
And you still need to have memorised things like what America is or who Hitler was. Maybe you knew those things already before you started the class, which is nice, but no doubt there's a lot of other facts out there which you could ha
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by afafsd 12y ago
One maths class we were only warned that we had to use Euclidean paper. I did great in exams with cheat sheets, but poorly in the few truly "open book" exams, because I didn't know how to properly prepare for an open book exa
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by afafsd 12y ago
Why should they?
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by afafsd 12y ago
I doubt it. Look at pearls or diamonds. The sort of people who will pay extra for brand new ivory aren't going to bought off with fake ivory.
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by afafsd 12y ago
>I stated that if one has less money than someone else, they are much more likely to have to deal with things like being assaulted or killed or going without enough to eat etc. So just to clarify, there's a lot of Harvard and Dartmo
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by afafsd 12y ago
I bet if I had a treadmill in my shower I'd have twice as many good ideas.
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by afafsd 12y ago
It's sad that so much of the internet consists of people trying to tell others what to do with their own time and money. Go be generous with your own money, dude, and quit trying to be generous with other people's.
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by afafsd 12y ago
Thanks for saving me the trouble of reading it. I'd also suggest that one of the reasons people perceive the study of human behaviour as unscientific is that it so frequently is . Studies of human behaviour are inextricably bound up i
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by afafsd 12y ago
This gives me another idea: how about we fit criminals with body cameras?
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by afafsd 12y ago
Don't be mad that some other people's brains are bent on stuff of no particular benefit to you. Their brains, their choice. Just be glad that some people's brains are bent on stuff of benefit to you, and concentrate, if you
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by afafsd 12y ago
"Sexiest job in tech" is a bit like "tallest midget".
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by afafsd 12y ago
In the form of time travel being talked about, the answers are: a) Yes, you disappear from the time you were in. b) Yes, you're in two places at once for the duration between your arrival and your departure c) Forwards travel in time d
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by afafsd 12y ago
Actually the only vaguely plausible-ish (though by no means convincing) designs I've heard of for physically realisable time machines work like this. You do some horrendous things with spacetime curvature and you get something that can
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by afafsd 12y ago
The touchiness of certain varieties of nerds with bizarre hobbies occasionally just makes them look worse. If you have a weird hobby, people are going to make fun of it. Heck, if you have a mainstream hobby then there's someone out the
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by afafsd 12y ago
Before people get too worked up about this they should consider it from the other point of view. If you're going to get strict about getting paid for every hour you work, you'd better believe I, as your employer, am going to start
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by afafsd 12y ago
Untrained thieves can also shoplift, which is a far easier and less risky way for thieves to steal goods.
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by afafsd 12y ago
Yeah, I know how they feel. I worked in the US for several years and something like a tenth of my salary was stolen by something called "Social Security". Do I ever see any of that money again? Nope! Only if I work in the US for t
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by afafsd 12y ago
Sure. Bread. It's so convenient and easy, and it shows up in 90% of the things that you might be able to get for breakfast and lunch at the average food joint.
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by afafsd 12y ago
100 calories of nuts or broccoli costs a whole lot more than 100 calories of bread or rice, and this is reflective of the greater agricultural demands of pretty much everything else versus bread and rice.
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by afafsd 12y ago
Pretty much. You could probably come up with a diet that says you're not allowed to eat anything starting with a letter in the first half of the alphabet, and anyone who stuck to it would lose weight, because all of a sudden they'
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by afafsd 12y ago
I'm using Firefox 3.5, and a helluva lot of stuff doesn't work properly any more. For instance, I notice that reddit broke a few weeks ago and I can no longer vote or comment. Why? I have no idea. "Why don't you just get
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by afafsd 12y ago
People love writing articles about how everything that happens in other countries is inevitably the west's fault. Just go up the causal chain far enough 'til you find a westerner doing something and bam , it's the west'
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by afafsd 12y ago
Sure, it's possible, but good luck getting funding. Doing research for profit is very tricky, which is why it almost inevitably winds up being done at a loss. The world is full of entities (such as universities and government labs) whi
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by afafsd 12y ago
Or how about remote Aboriginal communities in Australia? If you want to see what giving people just enough money to live on looks like, check out our remote Aboriginal communities where the government hands out enough money to live (medio
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by afafsd 12y ago
Obviously that would be part of the solution. But remember we're talking Baltimore here, not Buttfuck, Mississippi. Compulsory abortion is a contentious issue, but at the very least I think it should be compulsory for anyone getting pr
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by afafsd 12y ago
This kind of shit is why I'm pro-abortion but anti-choice. It's clear that the lower classes are doing a terrible job of raising their own children, despite the best efforts of the rest of society to educate them, they can't
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by afafsd 12y ago
The biggest problem here is the "let's". Who is the "us"? The problems of San Francisco's status as overcrowded tech hub could all be solved if only everyone could decide where the second Silicon Valley was goi
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by afafsd 12y ago
>nature intends to replace the parents with their offspring, using rules crafted by natural selection, not the parents' tastes. In fairness, sex was invented at least 1.2 billion years before parents could have possibly had "ta
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by afafsd 12y ago
So? The world of GATTACA seemed pretty awesome. Everyone was smart and fit and healthy and good-looking. In fact, life was so perfect that the writers had to postulate the existence of non-genetically-engineered people in order to have any

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