curi

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by curi 19y ago
dear downmodders, please spare yters. take me instead.
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by curi 19y ago
your comment is far too long to post on twitter.
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by curi 19y ago
http://notexactlyrocketscience.wordpress.com/2007/12/19/shor... still wish you were a pygmie?
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by curi 19y ago
no it's worse. i can paste longer text in AIM
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by curi 19y ago
not until bookmarks are easy to search through. which their might be a plugin for but that's not easy enough.
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by curi 19y ago
the text field is a little too hard to notice in safari given the pre-entered text. i suggest adding a thicker border and using javascript to select it on pageload.
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by curi 19y ago
The original headline editorialized.
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by curi 19y ago
yeah. you might also be interested to look at my thread history to see some of the other stuff i get downmodded for. a few are: a question about what dates someone meant, a comment that lotto odds are public knowledge (questioning the point
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by curi 19y ago
i've read the guidelines. edit: heh, the thing i was replying to was removed by an edit
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by curi 19y ago
....
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by curi 19y ago
thanks. replies like this one make me glad i posted this.
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by curi 19y ago
In what range of years do you think most of the imagining was done?
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by curi 19y ago
umm the odds are public knowledge?
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by curi 19y ago
they are easy to make. just make one when you have an idea you want to post. post again next time you have an idea you want to post. the drawback of not doing this is deleting those potential posts for no reason.
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by curi 19y ago
+1 informative
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Ask YC: YC Editors Too Active?
1 points by curi 19y ago|1 comments
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Extroversion Makes People Happy Say Psychologists(time.com)
2 points by curi 19y ago|2 comments
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by curi 19y ago
The original headline is disagreeable to me. Most of the content of the article is disagreeable to me. It is not a neutral article. There is no simple neutral way to post it.
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by curi 19y ago
It is not a bad headline, it is an opinionated headline (based on text from the article). I understand that you disagree with my point of view. Please understand that I disagree with yours, too. The "tangential direction" you are complainin
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by curi 19y ago
+1 for info about actual usage of tests like this
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by curi 19y ago
So for example I rarely concentrated very hard in class, but enjoyed to for 12 hour days at chess tournaments. I knew plenty of similar people, some of whom were diagnosed with things like ADHD. I'm not saying all children are good at conce
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by curi 19y ago
They wanted kids to stand still when told to. That's not concentration they are looking for.
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by curi 19y ago
The part I put in the headline is what I thought was most interesting. Most of the rest seemed to consist of saying that lack of obedience in modern children indicates something is wrong with them. And finding things to blame this on, like
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Standing Still Predicts School Success Better Than IQ(npr.org)
75 points by curi 19y ago|38 comments
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by curi 19y ago
First a note about ignorance, because I've sometimes had conversations with a somewhat opposite claim. People say things like, "We agree children have great ignorance. This sometimes causes disagreements when they don't know the answer to s
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by curi 19y ago
The Fabric of Reality - David Deutsch Godel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hoftstadter Karl Popper's books (too many to list) The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
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by curi 19y ago
the method for 7 works because: you want to know if 8765 is divisible by 7. take the one's digit and multiply by 21. this gets a number that is divisible by 7 so you can subtract it. this will clear the last digit because we're subtracting
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by curi 19y ago
Want to give a couple edifying examples? PS Have you read any Edmund Burke? Got an opinion of him?
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by curi 19y ago
Well don't encourage that ;p
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by curi 19y ago
Epistemology from The Fabric of Reality (to start)

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