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Comment #13812760
This is the problem Richard MacDuff was wrestling with at the beginning of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. I love it when sci-fi from my childhood becomes reality.
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Comment #13770003
> it costs $180-$600 to close-caption that video It's a public university. They could pay a grateful student a federally-subsidized wage to transcribe 5 hours of video per week, an…
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Comment #13442374
I have a standard rubric for questions like these, and would have scored the response above 1/5 for an attempt being made with an incorrect or unclear argument. My expectations are…
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Comment #13324035
> People who like modern UIs Even more people like stable UIs.
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Comment #9704363
> The thing I don't want is to think the kid is okay and then find out they've been holding it all back. Great insight. Kids at that age are looking for parental/adult approval and…
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Comment #9043158
I think this is their source: "We estimate that 30.0 million or 12.7% of Americans ≥ 12 years had bilateral hearing loss from 2001–2008, and this estimate increases to 48.1 million…
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Comment #8944216
He didn't "choose" to hand them to security agents, he was asked to empty his pockets, which contained the flash cards.
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Comment #8922961
If the author cleared them, then it explains the cover price.
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Comment #8861348
The tests the teacher is criticizing are standardized summative assessments used to rank, reward and punish students, teachers or both. These usually fail to provide any detailed f…
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Comment #8822369
The only difference between your definition and that of the parent is that you explicitly deny the existence of state terrorism, and I don't think that is an improvement. I think w…
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Comment #8561184
This is a function of how gifted kids learn social skills. Before adolescence, children primarily seek approval from parents and teachers. Gifted kids get this in abundance, and le…