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You just invented the semantic web. :-)

I really like "Ram"

That article does not dispute the claim that net immigration from Mexico has been negative.

If I knew, I'd be the next Hume :-) I suspect it couldn't be a physics result, because the question is something like "Why does the universe follow natural laws at all" and/or "wha…

> I know that our budgets are already creaking under the load of our spending and entitlement programs Federal budget has been ~ 30-35% of GDP since the '80s, although there was a …

Physics is arguably the most successful branch of science (at least in terms of the accuracy of its predictions), and yet physics hasn't resolved the basic dispute between Hume and…

That's the part I don't understand about their feud. (I haven't read the translation, just reviews of Beam's book.) It seemed clear that Nabokov's translation aims at a different p…

Because the U.S. has evolved a model where childcare is very expensive and people are expected to work > 40 hours per week. We need public pre-K and a 30- to 40-hour workweek.

(3) isn't a completely separate issue. Incarceration sucks up a lot of public funds that could go toward treatment programs.

I still see a lot of people describe introversion as "not wanting to do what extroverts do", as if being an introvert is defined by an absence of something. But for me, time spent …

Bayesian probability. I see a lot of popular reporting that talks very naively about probability and relative risk.

I'm no fan of Kissinger but that really shows the importance of having qualified advisors.

Interesting! Especially the inclusion of a time period field. That's important in time zone information, too.

That's funny, I had the opposite reaction - CGI Tarkin didn't bother me too much but Leia was creepy.

What I take from the names article is to make sure you understand your requirements. A blogging platform will have different requirements than, say, electronic medical records.

But how do you revert a commit if there were subsequent commits that changed the same files? (If I'm reading the original post correctly.)

> Be a good person and a role model This. More and more, I've realized that I want my kid to have empathy, curiosity about the world, and a strong sense of self, and I trust that t…

- Empathy - Imagination - Self-actualization / strong sense of self - Names of dinosaurs

> parents are so awful at it That's a really sweeping statement. In reference to this particular article, there may be a lot of reasons why fewer American children travel to school…

I think it depends a lot where you live, and whether it's urban, suburban, or rural. My kid could definitely bike to school when she gets older. But to get to, say, her gymnastics …

But in many American suburbs, car is the only feasible way to get somewhere. So unless the 12-year-olds are driving, it's got to be the parents.

My daughter's preschool [American] went on several field trips, it's not that weird. And her first "solo day of class" was sooner than a month in. I walked to school by myself in N…

The real inefficiencies stem from daylight savings, and the fact that (in some places) time zones change for political reasons.

This is basically a form of Utopian thinking, that we should adopt a convention because it's "logical" rather than one that meets human needs. > People forget how recent is the dev…

The author seems to be attacking common core ("so many different ways to think about simple addition") but then links it to self-esteem, without actually showing the connection. Ho…