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by ouid 3y ago
The way math is typically taught at the lowest levels actively hurts mathematical ability. Just taking them out of those classes will help them.
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by ouid 3y ago
Composition of mathematical notation is always terrible. Where do I write the -1 on the square root to indicate that I would like the preimage? Even worse, Where do I write this on a trig function?
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by ouid 3y ago
No, it was not a good game, and it was not particularly well received. The nigh universal hatred for the game was not because the marketers did a bad job. It was because it was a bad game that they lied about being a good game. It was a cas
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by ouid 3y ago
Oh no, academics thinking about things . If we lived without copyright the world would be different because of it . Insisting that a world without copyright look exactly like our own is dishonest
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by ouid 3y ago
"staying out of trouble". Staying out of the middle class more like.
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by ouid 3y ago
if a firearm for children isn't a toy, what the fuck is it?
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by ouid 3y ago
Seize their operations elsewhere?
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by ouid 3y ago
what are you talking about?
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by ouid 3y ago
markets are a construct of peacetime. self-sufficiency is not
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by ouid 3y ago
Maybe to preserbe journalism, we should not enshrine into law the act of funding an institution that informs the people with one that lies to them. You want to save journalism? Make advertising illegal.
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by ouid 3y ago
As soon at the becomes prevalent, people are going to start fucking with it. For instance, I'm personally going to bring a big piece of posterboard with a car printed on it, and hold it out in intersections that I'm about to cross
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by ouid 3y ago
No, the plan is to force poor people into becoming pedestrians, to lower the burden of traffic for the wealthy.
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by ouid 3y ago
That requires a lot more infrastructure than a hole in the ground.
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by ouid 3y ago
The problem with plastic recycling is not that it doesn't work. It doesn't, of course, but that's not the problem with it. The problem with plastic is that it leaks into the environment. The only problem with a landfill sol
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by ouid 3y ago
Textbooks have separate publications called errata, usually findable on the author's website, or your favorite search engine. You should basically never open up a textbook that you are independently studying from without also opening t
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by ouid 3y ago
Why? Are you just saying that because it sounds dramatic?
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by ouid 3y ago
I claimed that it was a task that most people can do, but is really genuinely, intelligent. I actually thought it was everyone, but then you responded with your comment.
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by ouid 3y ago
>ai generated contracts are the future. Man, why do you guys get paid so much? Contracts need semantic correctness, ie the verification of the logical consequences of natural language . This is an AGI determining problem. At the point
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by ouid 3y ago
You just cannot organize a rating system into a company. The more trust you accumulate, the more money there is to be made in selling out.
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by ouid 3y ago
I'm not engaging in whataboutism. I'm engaging in an analogical argument. I'm making certain assumptions about this guys political leanings, but that's strawmanning at worst, and he's free to refute it if he isnt ra
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by ouid 3y ago
800 billion dollars in PPP loan forgiveness seems more palatable to you, maybe?
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by ouid 3y ago
its very good for the first time you make something or if you arent used to the kitchen at a friends place, but efficient home cooking doesnt really resemble efficient restaurant cooking
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by ouid 3y ago
2400-2600?
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by ouid 3y ago
Seems like you just didnt read what I wrote.
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by ouid 3y ago
mise en place is more efficient for restaurant kitchens, where you can get an assembly line rolling, but it is less efficient for home cooking. Its a lot less stressful, but its clearly slower to not optimize your order of operations.
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by ouid 3y ago
I feel like you shouldn't call it coq au vin unless you're using the male of the species.
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by ouid 3y ago
No. Your attempt is now just shards of glass. It's borked. Before it was broken, it didn't work, but now its broken.
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by ouid 3y ago
No. What? Say you're trying to invent a lightbulb. The first one ever, and it explodes when you plug it in. How would you describe its state?
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by ouid 3y ago
No. The additional costs to the healthcare system due to people being overweight probably exceed 12000/person/year, but if not exceed it, they certainly come close. Moreover, it's not unheard of to mandate cheaper drug prices
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by ouid 3y ago
the funniest comment ever posted on HN was something like: "everytime this blog is linked, I end up reading the whole thing"

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