wvoq

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by wvoq 15y ago
I don't mean to distract with the examples of corn subsidies and malaria. I don't think it's terribly difficult to find a plethora of examples in which a state's concern for rather trivial internal affairs dwarfs its concern with globally
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by wvoq 15y ago
Thanks for your reply, if you can even read this. While it's unclear to me whether it's ever off-topic to point out problematic slurs (would you think similarly if the OP had written "they got rid of a faggot..."?), I guess this exchange si
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by wvoq 15y ago
The analogy holds precisely for the reason that San Jose does not consider itself beleaguered by the influx of immigrants who want to live there. The fact that you could entertain thought experiments in which the net consequences of immigr
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by wvoq 15y ago
The fact that the OP is confusing a positive claim: "states often exhibit little or no regard for the people outside their boundaries" with a normative claim "states _ought_ to act that way" is plainly evident. That counties and countries a
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by wvoq 15y ago
Where's the sexism in my comment? I'm not assuming that straight women are doing all the cock-sucking, nor am I neglecting the existence of gay men, lesbians, bisexual folks of all stripes, asexual people or other people who just plain don
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by wvoq 15y ago
Half of the world sucks cock. What's your problem with it?
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by wvoq 15y ago
I fear you are confusing positive with normative claims, even if your highly doubtful positive claim is true. How do you make the citizens of a given state better off on average by preventing them from engaging in mutually voluntary associ
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by wvoq 15y ago
> [P]eople born in this country have more rights to the money being created here than foreigners. Asian countries feel the same way about foreigners. Asian countries are, typically, a lot less open to foreign worker immigrants than is t
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by wvoq 15y ago
> unfamiliar sounds Kiswahili has implosive stops, which are pretty weird for English speakers, but it's certainly possible to make yourself understood if you treat implosive consonants like their closest English counterparts. As a Bant
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by wvoq 15y ago
Even so, the rubric only shows that Michigan is willing to overlook academic shortcomings in their efforts to recruit athletic talent. Academic and athletic talent still might be correlated in the general population, while sampling bias fr
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by wvoq 15y ago
Could you say a little bit to justify your use of the term eigenvector in that sentence?
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by wvoq 15y ago
I care about scheme.
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by wvoq 15y ago
This fun article by Andrew Gelman and Deborah Nolan shows that it's practically impossible to create a coin that will demonstrate a bias when flipped, unless the coin is allowed to bounce: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/publ
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by wvoq 15y ago
Yes, says Daniel Davies: ( http://crookedtimber.org/2007/05/10/in-praise-of-budweiser-c... ) Budweiser has rice in it. So what? So do Asahi and Kirin of Japan, Bintang of Indonesia and Efes of Turkey, and nobody has such a hate on about th
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by wvoq 15y ago
> You make it sound like Anwar al-Awlaki had a beer with al Qaeda so we decided to whack him. Well, that's practically all that we know-- he was killed for propagandizing on behalf of some terrible ideas. But it isn't illegal to propag
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by wvoq 15y ago
And then, if your assistant gets anywhere with the date, file a lawsuit to prevent them from ever mentioning it in public.
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by wvoq 15y ago
You're there in the lab to see them make these mistakes, but you can't tell them to man nano?
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by wvoq 15y ago
Perhaps a better example here is the work of the empirical psychologists Fechner, Weber, Helmholtz, Wundt &c., respectively influenced by and reacting to Mach and Kant.
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by wvoq 15y ago
converse Negation. There are plenty of true conditional statements whose converses are also true.
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by wvoq 15y ago
Hey Tito, congrats on shipping! This is Patrick from Baltimore-- we talked for a bit at iGEM and the FBI DIY-BIO thing last year. In the dry lab, I'm really more of a regular PCR consumer than a regular PCR user , but yeah, my attitude
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by wvoq 15y ago
there are free web tools that can help you design unique primers. True, but if you are going to your own PCR, you might as well do your own primer design. It's practically the "hello, world!" of bioinformatics, not to mention that
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by wvoq 15y ago
I fully acknowledge that there are domains where C is the best/only tool for the job. I was specifically taking issue with the claim that C is lucid, and neither scary nor evil.
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by wvoq 15y ago
Well, QED.
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by wvoq 15y ago
I don't intend to argue so much as to offer a data point: I suspect that most folks on this site learned C or something C-like early on, and have internalized its modus operandi. I have been learning C recently from a background of functio
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by wvoq 15y ago
I'm not sure, really. In Saeed Dehnadi's article "The camel has two humps", it's mentioned that there are three great filters in programming pedagogy: * assignment/sequence * recursion * concurrency. Most students never master the first, a
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by wvoq 15y ago
Hi. Most of the advice in the comments already posted is sound, but none of them seemed to address HPC. Working on a cluster invites an entirely different bundle of conceptual and practical hurdles (e.g. parallelism, working remotely, ind
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by wvoq 15y ago
Thanks.
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by wvoq 15y ago
"Daddy issues" is a sexualized pop-Freudian phrase applied only to women. Lots of men, myself included, had rocky relationships with their fathers that caused some emotional harm and affected their later relationships, but you'll never hea
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by wvoq 15y ago
Computational biology. I had studied math and philosophy as an undergrad (after I finally got my stuff together) and had become interested in mathematical approaches to biological problems.
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by wvoq 15y ago
Hi. I'd like to see if I can offer you some personal insight about the plausibility of extrapolating evidence from the scenarios you describe into broader policy judgments. Currently I'm in a Ph.D. program in a field I find extremely inter

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