mahdireilly

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by mahdireilly 15y ago
I am genuinely curious what you gleamed from your reading that made you atheist. I made the transition from atheist -> Muslim a few years back, though this was not solely from reading the Quran it certainly played a large role in it.
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by mahdireilly 15y ago
I am game. What area of town would yall wanna meet at? Downtown is popular, but pushing it closer to campus will likely lead to a bigger crowd.
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by mahdireilly 15y ago
I am bipolar and my sleep is very erratic. I sometimes go 4-5 days without sleep and suffer no loss of productivity. Usually I sleep 3-4 hours a night and feel rested and ready to go. If my sleep goes unchecked, it can throw me into a manic
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by mahdireilly 15y ago
Paying attention to well designed ad campaigns can let you gleam a lot of information about a company. When picking stocks I put more weight on their ads than I do the stock quote history. In a sea of shitty advertising where companies recy
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by mahdireilly 15y ago
Not bad, I was working on something similar a while back, but didn't really push through with it since I know pretty much everything that is in my fridge(I am very serious about food and spend a lot of time picking out ingredients). Few poi
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by mahdireilly 15y ago
For little known authors the pay out is well bellow 50k going through traditional publication methods. This is why so many maintain jobs while writing. It is much akin to creating a startup where you do not expect an instant pay out, but ou
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by mahdireilly 15y ago
I am facing the same challenge. I grew up in art museums and libraries, but fell in love with computer science in college. I took literature and art classes when possible, but due to my demanding CS program I did not get to explore nearly w
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Who is paid for working on their passion project and whats it worth?
4 points by mahdireilly 15y ago|2 comments
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by mahdireilly 16y ago
Honestly, that is not a ridiculous idea. If we remove the standardized testing, the community developed textbook would explode. In many of my college classes I spend more time using wikipedia than my textbook. Furthermore, I know many teach
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by mahdireilly 16y ago
Bill Gates did make quite a bit in the education market. Find one school that does not use MS Office. Also, Apple was, and still is, notorious for donating or offering heavily discounted products to teachers and schools. Why? They would get
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by mahdireilly 16y ago
A huge problem that the Khan Academy fails to address is the digital divide. Often the children who attend schools who are the most at risk do not have access to computers/internet at home and community centers are often hard to reach both
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by mahdireilly 16y ago
I suggest you watch "Waiting for Superman" where they address the problems teachers face with being given merit based pay, which they could reinvest in product purchase. A quick solution for this is to create a localized version of craigsli
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by mahdireilly 16y ago
Another quick comment to solving the "selling to public schools" is community involvement. PTA groups often can play a powerful role in determining the agenda of the schools. Too often they stop at bake sales for carnivals, but in some case
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by mahdireilly 16y ago
This incubator states that they are going to target charter schools as test beds. I assume that means they are already creating contacts for interested schools. One of my fears is that since some charter schools have agendas that vary great