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Right, everyone who disagrees with you is a murderer, that’s going to work out great.

> In essence, he has threatened to kill millions of people. “In essence” is doing enormous work here, and it will be basically impossible to have any kind of discussion if that wor…

And: seatbelts have negligible downsides, and are very hard to use for any purpose other than accident restraint. The analogy to hiding the URL would be something like a seatbelt t…

Technology problems are also people problems, so I am curious about your opinion of the report's comments on the lack of a quartermaster chief petty officer and a "dysfunctional ch…

Hey Nineteen That's 'Retha Franklin

I think anyone reading the book with a determination to drop their intuitions in favor of the book's concepts will find it much easier going, and tremendously worthwhile. I get why…

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I do not understand the "domain knowledge" complaints. So far I have found that the Wizard Book always provides the required algorithm, or enough discussion to work it out.

Yes. And, having taught SQL to Excel power users, I can tell you it is a very effective learning model. The "filtered cross-join" model allows students who have learned SELECT and …

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If the article misrepresents the actual work, please, by all means, show that.

Still worse, ignoring that philosophy has _always_ proceeded as a statement of theories to be questioned and improved upon. The scholarship is just bad. The whole argument is full …

Thank you for an interesting article. > Professor Salaries will have an increasing Gini coefficient I think your own model says this is too noticeable. Better strategy would be har…

> I’m skeptical both that: Lower tuition would make taxing endowments more likely Yes, if the tuition were reduced by increased endowment subsidy, the political cover for the endow…