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ttttannebaum

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About ttttannebaum

There is only one universal truth.

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    Comment #5316295

    Great post! Reconciliatory, yet pointed

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    Comment #5308696

    Wow, how disappointing. Just another lesson demonstrating that if you hear about a law being passed and it sounds good (or bad), it's really just motivated by the interests of thos…

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    Comment #4574558

    May just be me but the drag-dropping method no longer works.

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    Comment #4557440

    My question is, should we really have "programs" to "integrate women into engineering disciplines"?

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    Comment #4555889

    All of those things are fantastic but extremely isolated. Some of those things make the news every time they happen. Agendered thinking is pretty marginal.

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    Comment #4554445

    What gender neutrality motions are taking place? Specifically at the level of childhood environments and teachings?

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    Comment #4552329

    Why not call it "GoldieBlox: The Cute Engineering Toy"? Why enforce gender roles? Isn't the title kind of saying "Girls like cute stuff, boys don't ever like cute stuff, and the on…

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    Comment #4535682

    so, if I'm understanding correctly, this is what's going on? http://i.imgur.com/iSxTQ.jpg

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    Comment #4006363

    "Another result that derives from Gödel's ideas is the demonstration that no program that does not alter a computer's operating system can detect all programs that do. In other wor…

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    Comment #3990783

    Where here does it say Turkey is "killing school books"? Even if they were replacing all schoolbooks with tablets, I find that idea kind of bad seeing as it makes it difficult to f…

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    Comment #3965718

    notepad.cc absolutely belongs here

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    Comment #3831601

    Just to make sure Sweden wasn't actually trying to banish gender, I kept reading: "The idea is that names should not be at all tied to gender, so it would be acceptable for parents…

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    Comment #3831588

    >Sweden’s New Gender-Neutral Pronoun: Hen >A country tries to banish gender. And then I stopped reading. At least with printed news media you have the weight of the fact that what …

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    Comment #3780788

    Try: Volgograd Pogradec Randazzo Paceco Balfour, Mpumalanga, South Africa (zoom out) Makasa, Northern, Zambia (zoom out) Goch Mallow, Ireland Just found them by searching around. N…

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    Comment #3605419

    You don't seem to be getting the point; you do not, in fact, have it straight. The Point: people are usually good at things because they enjoy doing them. People succeed at "career…

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    Comment #3448660

    Do you have it straight? From the article: "Instead of the raise they requested, these workers were given the following ultimatum: quit with compensation, or keep their jobs with n…

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    Comment #3349586

    In fact: max(wordlist, key=(lambda w: intersect(w, charlist)) should replace a good portion of the create_mnemonic function. But now I'm just showing off. Just letting you know tha…

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    Comment #3349556

    Looking at your Python script. Might want to learn about the built-in set() functionality. For exmaple: def uniqueletters(s): return set(c for c in s) def intersect(word, charlist)…

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    Comment #2859405

    Anyone who didn't want weeds and actually cared ;( (sly little plug to my time-based animal crossing wild world bug/fish checklist because this is the best place to plug it that I …

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    Comment #2859374

    Edit: "The exploit is to do with the clock used on devices running the two mobile operating systems, and just as importantly how games use it to aid in gameplay progression. Many o…

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    Comment #2853299

    A little documentation: This works with both expressions and actual code. For example, if "5 % 3" is in your clipboard, you get: 2 and if "print 5 % 3" is in your clipboard, you al…

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    Comment #2799824

    Because, you know, Google+ is completely mandatory and there are no alternatives and you're not allowed to create or even think about an alternative or you'll be arrested or killed…