qrendel

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by qrendel 10y ago
Just take comfort in knowing that female attractiveness usually drops off a cliff far earlier than male attractiveness does. The same girl writing that essay will one day be 40+ and begging for any of those "genetic superiors" to
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by qrendel 10y ago
> I wonder, for instance, how much sooner we'd have discovered the Juniper backdoor --- possibly the most catastrophic backdoor in the history of the Internet --- if a larger collection of experts was somehow allowed to review the
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by qrendel 10y ago
I was a bit shocked, though I probably shouldn't have been, to notice recently that police in the local airport all carry assault rifles now. Assault rifles. I'm not that knowledgeable about guns, so I'm not sure what kind ex
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by qrendel 10y ago
That's kind of my point - they could have tested me easily by giving me some problems from a previous final, or anything else, or even talking to me for five minutes, but instead they chose the path of petty legalism by assuming since
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by qrendel 10y ago
Eh, if you're just auditing the class, maybe. When I was in college they made me retake ridiculous prereqs for the most trivial of reasons every time I transferred, allowed no exceptions to these, and personal requests to professors to
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by qrendel 10y ago
I read a lot and don't have a ton of money. It's a tradeoff I'm willing to accept, and if I'm concerned about the author, I'd honestly rather donate to them directly than see it siphoned off by whatever deal they ma
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by qrendel 10y ago
When I said "cheap," I meant in price. I'm averse to low-quality books, and would rather pay a few dollars more or hold out longer for a copy with clean pages and little wear. Especially highlighting is usually an immediate d
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by qrendel 10y ago
My personal experience, from having been an e-book aficionado who eventually went back to almost entirely paper (cheap used hardcover when I can find it): Ebook advantages: - Cheap, no commitment, try before you buy - Easy to transport, tak
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by qrendel 10y ago
You (along with the immediate parent) actually do have a good point here. If any pollsters ask, I'd probably say I support Johnson for this reason, though overall I'd personally prefer Green policies over Libertarian ones. There&#
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by qrendel 10y ago
This is already the first election in which millenials and gen-Xers (terrible name, btw) outnumber them as far as eligible voters. The problem is eligibility isn't enough - old people vote far, far more reliably than young people, so t
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by qrendel 10y ago
If what matters to you is actual electoral support, there's no reason to be voting third party anyway. Both Stein and Johnson got less than 1% of the vote in 2012, and even combined only about 1.2%. The most successful third-party&#x2F
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by qrendel 10y ago
Regarding size, the official memberships from 2014 were ~411,000 (Libs) vs ~248,000 (Greens). You could look at that as either the Libertarians being 66% larger, or them being practically the same as far as order of magnitude and portion of
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by qrendel 10y ago
Green Party is also an option if you want to protest vote. A problem, for some, with supporting libertarian candidates is that they (voters) may not be as fond of the low-hanging fruit policies most likely to get implemented (e.g. defunding
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by qrendel 10y ago
In general, it allows a better approximation of the solution function for far less hidden neurons. Sure, you could get arbitrarily close using a single hidden layer, but that hidden layer might need to be unfathomably large. Same idea for
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by qrendel 10y ago
Which r/askhistorians thread are you referring to? A quick search and only found one, not exactly a fisking of his work: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2w7ur9/is_sa...
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by qrendel 10y ago
It's not a bad book, but imo it starts off very strong and then quickly goes downhill throughout. This was the general (and unsolicited) criticism from most everyone I've shared it with. The stuff from prehistory, up to the agricu
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by qrendel 10y ago
> What we really need therefore (IMHO) is to teach ethics to people that work with data Studies seem to indicate that studying and teaching ethics does not make you more inclined towards ethical behavior.[1] On top of that, from person
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by qrendel 10y ago
> Ant genomics declare 'checkmate' to red king theory Interesting stuff, but they've only shown mutualism increased the rate of evolution (compared to non-mutualists) in a few species of ants. It's not unreasonable
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Documents Confirm CIA Censorship of Guantanamo Trials(theintercept.com)
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by qrendel 10y ago
I was under the impression that the bigger danger was the expected eventual earthquake of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, potentially leading to tens of thousands killed or injured and millions more displaced.[1][2] [1] http://www.
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by qrendel 10y ago
> The few people in the Democratic party who believe in homeopathy and UFOs are considered nut cases and marginalized -- it's not official dogma promoted by the leaders of the party Um... well... actually... https://psm
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by qrendel 10y ago
"Will" in this case, though, is basically a euphemism for "cost of (retro)fitting trucks and loading docks with guardrails" vs "cost of lives lost by failing to do so." I'm not sure how those two numbers w
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by qrendel 10y ago
This. BJJ is probably the most useful for self-defense (personal opinion), but it's also the most complicated to learn. It covers ground fighting better than wrestling or judo, which is where many situations will eventually end up. If
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by qrendel 10y ago
The techniques aren't fake, they're just unreliable outside of training. It's one thing to pull it off against a training partner who is using a known subset of attacks and when you know they're coming. Different when yo
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by qrendel 10y ago
Specifically, Vonnegut was present at and survived the bombing of Dresden, which became part of (the main?) the inspiration for Slaughterhouse-Five: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut#World_War_II The book mak
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by qrendel 10y ago
There are also allegedly numerous people who voted leave just to troll the system and now regret it: http://www.vox.com/2016/6/24/12024634/brexit-supporters-regr...
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by qrendel 10y ago
Game Maker's Toolkit had a really good video on DOOM and enemy types not long ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuOObGjCA7Q The entire channel is golden, especially for those interested in game design or criticism.
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by qrendel 10y ago
I think it's more that the intent of games has been diverging for a long time, to the point where they are really several different art forms all getting lumped together under the category "games." The most obvious that come
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by qrendel 10y ago
> not try to promote one candidate over another, set-up more people to applause for a particulate candidate in the debates The GOP already did this to Trump at one of their debates[1], and no one threw a big fit about it then. Not a Tr
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by qrendel 10y ago
Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem, also seems to qualify. (The novel, not the movies.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(novel)

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