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I 100% agree that IFLS should be crediting the artists who make great work and direct traffic to IFLS's page. What I am having trouble understanding is why the general thrust of co…

In my Portuguese class we were given this ambiguous phrase as a riddle: "Maria toma banho porque sua mãe disse ela traga a toalha." We had to make those words make sense only by ad…

Sounds to me like they provide an API for "5-minute SIS Integration for Educational Applications" (from their home page) and that an SIS is an "information system [that] capture[s]…

The creator of this website, rgarcia, specifically said (when he posted it a couple of days ago) that it was a 24-hour project: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3222253 Cut him …

Good point--I should have said that the Sikhs would go to the courts when the police chief (almost undoubtedly) said no. Still, the point is the same: under this author's conceptio…

I said "in these cases"--turning down medicine and practicing that form of ritualized circumcision. Perhaps "often" is an overstatement, but there have been many cases of children …

I think the turban example is perfectly consistent with what the author said. You ask "how would rules such as the uniform rule for the police ever evolve?" The answer is: in much …

The government certainly /can/ tell you "how to care for a member of your tribe" if that member is a minor. The ritual circumcision Hitchens references led to a small but deadly ou…

Agreed. Even ignoring the vitriol, the format makes this page very unpleasant to read. I liked how Florida Citizens for Science did it: they held a contest in which entrants were e…

I might be misunderstanding this complaint-- The way Finder is designed, you often can't simply drag some files from one location to another (e.g. moving to the subdirectory of ano…

I always used to send hand-written thank-you notes, but when I started doing on-campus recruiting I realized that sometimes snail mail isn't feasible. The places I was interviewing…