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by argumentum 6y ago
Interesting, if one of humanity's failures (climate change) mitigates another (lack of pandemic preparedness)
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by argumentum 10y ago
Some great quotes: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3624652/The-30-best-... To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the USA won the medal of gold. The Gr
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by argumentum 10y ago
Rumble young man, rumble. Rumble in peace now ..
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by argumentum 10y ago
I suppose at some level how good of a Googler you are affects how well of whatever you want to be good at .. So you might say being a good Googler is part of being a good developer.
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by argumentum 11y ago
One of the greatest (and nicest) guys around. Best of luck Garry!
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by argumentum 11y ago
"The idea is credited to a Greek citizen , Marcel Mitzakis, who devised the system for the de Thoren Syndicate in the 1930s; they were advised by J F C Fuller." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes#Heat_r
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by argumentum 11y ago
Whether you view a new fangled technology as "magic" depends on if you understand how it works. Scientists in the 1800s knew much about electricity, combustion, etc well before a "19th century rube": Our 19th Century ru
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by argumentum 11y ago
If it's any consolation, they were "normal people" before they became insanely wealthy. If anything, that's the point of YC .. to give "normal people" with intellect, determination and good ideas the chance t
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by argumentum 11y ago
You say "over-react", but in many ways the reaction is quite rational. When an airplane crashes, hundreds of people die. We are reacting not just to our fear of dying in a crash, but out of sorry of the lives lost and empathy for
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by argumentum 11y ago
I generally agree w/you .. I was referring to the professor who was interviewed, not HN users. I would say that the drug war component of mass-incarceration seems separable, and easier to solve than the violent crime component. It seem
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by argumentum 11y ago
The problem with the article is that the professor doesn't just argue the points you made, but suggests we shouldn't advocate for ending the drug war or reducing sentencing: But according to John Pfaff, a professor at Fordham L
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by argumentum 11y ago
I disagree w/your latter assertion: the interviewee basically claimed that ending the war on drugs would, at most , reduce the prison population by 17%. When you have a truly complex problem, the way to solve it is to pick it apart in
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by argumentum 11y ago
There seem to be many flaws, but rather than go through them now, I'll assume that only 20% of incarceration is drug-war based. Great , that means if we end the drug war, we'd get 20% reduction in our world-record incarcerated
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by argumentum 11y ago
Well you could add in alumni then. All I'm saying is that measuring performance is not that hard a thing to do.
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by argumentum 11y ago
Trump's position paper on immigration is by and large an appeal to the worst nativist sentiments lurking across the political spectrum [1]. Read on balance it is a call to end the very idea of America as a land of opportunity for aspir
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by argumentum 11y ago
They all count, as do test scores .
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by argumentum 11y ago
You can factor in the opinions of parents, students, fellow teachers, admin, as well as test score improvements, college admissions etc. I think you underestimate the ability of students & parents to judge teaching ability separately fr
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by argumentum 11y ago
I don't think the money issue is a tough sell, if you can demonstrate high returns on the investment. As it is, the US spends more per student than everyone else, but gets mediocre results, so people are not confident that even more sp
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by argumentum 11y ago
"From everything I can tell, we would do well to give teachers massive salary increases, then make it hard to become a teacher and easy to fire bad ones. Then give the teachers huge freedom to do what they want. And yes, this will cost
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by argumentum 11y ago
Imagine if Hitler's worldview focused cultural rather than racial superiority .. we might all be speaking German.
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by argumentum 11y ago
Is it still at Coupa? I would love to try it.
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by argumentum 11y ago
Chill out .. there is nothing made by man that has a "zero-carbon footprint". Even if you don't burn fossil fuels, merely by breathing you release co2. This is a techcrunch PR launch, and you know what they meant.
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by argumentum 11y ago
"It is widely considered a war crime" Evidence? Whether allied strategic bombing of Germany/Japan was a "war crime" is partly a legal / technical question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War
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by argumentum 11y ago
What do you consider "real" physics? Dark matter is not some voodoo word, it's part of the standard model of cosmology. While we know it exists, we don't know how it works, and theorizing & experimenting about it i
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by argumentum 11y ago
Which two are you referring to? The first separatist movement of course was the demand for Pakistan prior to independence. Then there was the demand for Bangladesh in East Pakistan. Both of these were successful. Within today's India,
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by argumentum 11y ago
This article converted me to classical liberalism when I first read it a decade ago.
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by argumentum 11y ago
There's no "natural" reason why the subcontinent should be united or divided, rather the governing states that exist at any point in time are a function of history. Like Europe, India has at times been divided and other times
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by argumentum 11y ago
A a fellow atheist, I agree that evil is a real thing, but I still don't see the need to call it "supernatural". Evil is the opposite of good, so if we agree that actions to promote life, liberty and happiness are good, then
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by argumentum 11y ago
Singapore's GDP per capita in 1960 was much lower than Bangladesh is today, and with similar if not worse land distribution.
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by argumentum 11y ago
"Did your servants get comfortable room+board and some time off, besides their wages .. cultural or legal norms around lifelong employment of staff " Sounds uncomfortably close to slavery.

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