artpepper

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by artpepper 9y ago
You just invented the semantic web. :-)
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by artpepper 10y ago
I really like "Ram"
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by artpepper 10y ago
That article does not dispute the claim that net immigration from Mexico has been negative.
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by artpepper 10y ago
If I knew, I'd be the next Hume :-) I suspect it couldn't be a physics result, because the question is something like "Why does the universe follow natural laws at all" and/or "what IS a natural law, in metaph
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by artpepper 10y ago
> I know that our budgets are already creaking under the load of our spending and entitlement programs Federal budget has been ~ 30-35% of GDP since the '80s, although there was a spike during the Great Recession for obvious reasons
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by artpepper 10y ago
Physics is arguably the most successful branch of science (at least in terms of the accuracy of its predictions), and yet physics hasn't resolved the basic dispute between Hume and Kant regarding the nature of causality and objective r
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by artpepper 10y ago
That's the part I don't understand about their feud. (I haven't read the translation, just reviews of Beam's book.) It seemed clear that Nabokov's translation aims at a different purpose than more "readable&quo
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by artpepper 10y ago
Because the U.S. has evolved a model where childcare is very expensive and people are expected to work > 40 hours per week. We need public pre-K and a 30- to 40-hour workweek.
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by artpepper 10y ago
(3) isn't a completely separate issue. Incarceration sucks up a lot of public funds that could go toward treatment programs.
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by artpepper 10y ago
I still see a lot of people describe introversion as "not wanting to do what extroverts do", as if being an introvert is defined by an absence of something. But for me, time spent by myself isn't an empty expanse that I'
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by artpepper 10y ago
Bayesian probability. I see a lot of popular reporting that talks very naively about probability and relative risk.
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by artpepper 10y ago
I'm no fan of Kissinger but that really shows the importance of having qualified advisors.
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by artpepper 10y ago
Interesting! Especially the inclusion of a time period field. That's important in time zone information, too.
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by artpepper 10y ago
That's funny, I had the opposite reaction - CGI Tarkin didn't bother me too much but Leia was creepy.
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by artpepper 10y ago
What I take from the names article is to make sure you understand your requirements. A blogging platform will have different requirements than, say, electronic medical records.
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by artpepper 10y ago
But how do you revert a commit if there were subsequent commits that changed the same files? (If I'm reading the original post correctly.)
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by artpepper 10y ago
> Be a good person and a role model This. More and more, I've realized that I want my kid to have empathy, curiosity about the world, and a strong sense of self, and I trust that the rest will fall into place. The specifics of what
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by artpepper 10y ago
- Empathy - Imagination - Self-actualization / strong sense of self - Names of dinosaurs
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by artpepper 10y ago
> parents are so awful at it That's a really sweeping statement. In reference to this particular article, there may be a lot of reasons why fewer American children travel to school by themselves, including geography and transportati
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by artpepper 10y ago
I think it depends a lot where you live, and whether it's urban, suburban, or rural. My kid could definitely bike to school when she gets older. But to get to, say, her gymnastics class, it's 8 miles through heavy traffic with onl
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by artpepper 10y ago
But in many American suburbs, car is the only feasible way to get somewhere. So unless the 12-year-olds are driving, it's got to be the parents.
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by artpepper 10y ago
My daughter's preschool [American] went on several field trips, it's not that weird. And her first "solo day of class" was sooner than a month in. I walked to school by myself in NYC. Now I live in the suburbs, and I see
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by artpepper 10y ago
The real inefficiencies stem from daylight savings, and the fact that (in some places) time zones change for political reasons.
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by artpepper 10y ago
This is basically a form of Utopian thinking, that we should adopt a convention because it's "logical" rather than one that meets human needs. > People forget how recent is the development of our whole ungainly apparatus.
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by artpepper 10y ago
The author seems to be attacking common core ("so many different ways to think about simple addition") but then links it to self-esteem, without actually showing the connection. How does he know the math curriculum was designed to
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by artpepper 10y ago
The "recharge" analogy resonates with me. But solitude (at least for me) isn't just about not being around people, as if people are some kind of negative stimulus, like an allergen. Solitude is more like a basic need for me
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by artpepper 10y ago
But people do restore classic cars, for fun.
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by artpepper 10y ago
I think the case that trips people up is using HttpClient in an ASP.NET MVC controller action. There, it doesn't look like a loop, but if you create/dispose on each request, you can get socket exhaustion under load.
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by artpepper 10y ago
I have found standup works best when it's - Quick, 5 to 10 minutes - Strictly focused on current status and blockers, - Attended only by people who are directly working on the same project. - Has someone designated to run the standup,
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by artpepper 10y ago
I find standup useful exactly because it's synchronous. It's like a checkpoint, and keeps the project running smoothly, with everyone's goals aligned, nobody blocked, etc. (We work in teams of 4-6 and standup is never more th

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