TheLarch

I don't disagree in general, but today I believe there is cause to worry. Consider that there is positive correlation between campus outrage and tuition at the college. The richer the students, the more they are outraged. Consider rape in this context. Private colleges are generally relatively safe for women and girls, yet students at these universities regularly protest the "rape culture" they perceive themselves to be enduring. This reflects an embarrassing lack of self-awareness and compassion for women in rural meth centers and decaying urban areas.

Anti-semitism is rising as well. Students at these elite institutions are eager to condemn Israel and her supporters, as if the struggle in the occupied territories were morally black and white. If only the Jews would quit being mean the problem would go away.

What about the young woman at Yale who cursed at her dormitory head for his unwillingness to police Halloween costumes?

Are you sure you're OK with this? I thought the comparison between Islamism and campus authoritarianism in the article was apt.

"Firearms are just one tool out of many that would be in play if an actual armed revolution broke out."

I reject your premise. How will militias assemble before these conflicts can take place? Facebook? I'm not being facetious. A ruthless government could, in a state of emergency, cut off the internet in a locality, or lean of Facebook to turn over names, or etc. The internet IS the battleground. Physical control of land with guns is a small, receding target. Guns aren't protecting us from the government, the EFF is.

With the advancement of technology it's harder and harder to sympathize with the idea that firearms in the US could effectively combat governmental tyranny. Situations such as Ruby Ridge and Waco could be handled by drones now. It's hard to believe that there is a principle at play here deeper than a simple love of guns.

Uncommonly good distillation there. Thank you.

Work in the industry at the moment. The US sells lots of coal to China, where it is burned with far less regulation than it would be in the US. The coal plants I work on are secretive to the point where they do not want their name even in technical publications. Instead we say e.g. "a large coal-fired plant in the Midwest..."

It is sewn into the corner of the towel itself, not the label.

That was my first thought!

Trump is easily halfway between, say, Eisenhower and President Comacho.

The local Gold's Gym has a theft prevention style detector around the front door which will complain if you try and leave with a towel. The towels themselves have an obvious bump in one corner, about the size of a jellybean.

I hope this item met your expectations :-)

Does anyone want a shrinkwrapped, but slightly mushed copy of Bob? All it will cost you is a SASE...

I spent countless hours on this with a pencil and calculator in the 90's, laboriously back-fitting equations via recursion. This is the fulfilment of a dream!

Also: 4x² + 570x + 20233 is 100% smooth (in the given range).

You could quote Epictetus instead. He talks quite a bit about that http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html

My coordination improved when I quit drinking. I was a fairly heavy drinker, but not nearly to that extent. It used to be that when I dropped something, I would seldom catch it on the way down. Now I often or usually do. I didn't notice a commensurate improvement in code output or quality though, but it could have happened without me noticing.

The best nootropic for me is bicycling into work.

Also, after years of experimenting with caffeine I'm convinced that for me, one cup in the morning is close to ideal. Caffeine stays in the body for many hours, so it's all too easy to fall into the trap where you're tired, so you drink more, &etc.

"I had not smoked for three full months and no words can adequately describe the smoke appetite that was consuming me. I had been a smoker from my ninth year--a private one during my my first two years but a public one after that--that is to say, after my father's death. I was smoking and utterly happy before I was thirty steps from the lodge door. I do not now know what the brand of the cigar was. It was probably not choice, or the previous smoker would not have thrown it away so soon. But I realized that it was the best cigar that was ever made. The previous smoker would have thought the same if he had been without a smoke from three months. I smoked that stub without shame. I could not do it now without shame, because now I am more refined than I was then. But I would smoke it just the same. I know myself and I know the human race well enough to know that."

He smoked the stub without shame.

That is exactly why I've never tried it. I'm afraid it will work, and then I'll want or need to use it all the time. Then who knows what will happen years from when I begin.

Whether or not it sounded sincere, it was. I honestly find it an interesting question. I wonder why you are so sure in whatever answer you believe.

But women are capable in ways that men are not. They communicate better. I think they are better judges of character, and have superior discernment. They are far less likely to win Darwin awards. Find 100 painfully stupid stunts on Youtube, and at least 85 of them will be men.

"Women are en masse working quietly in writing, music, painting, knitting." None of these involve numbers.

Sincere question: why do you think women are less involved in engineering and more involved in teaching and social work?

Exactly.

It is frustrating to see girls taught that the reason women are under-represented in certain fields is always sexism. In athletics the reasons are patently obvious, but often left unsaid nevertheless.

Sure it is true sometimes. There are definitely more hurdles in front of girls to become programmers, for instance. At the same time, women as a group, in general, simply are not as interested in working quietly with numbers as men are. They tend to be more adept verbally, OTOH, and usually prefer careers that are more social. By far the majority of school teachers and social workers in the US are women.

Perceiving oneself as a victim is extraordinarily limiting. It is the last thing I wish for girls to be taught.

My impression is that psychology is bankrupt as an academic pursuit. They have no axioms. Neuroscience is getting results and appears poised to eclipse psychology completely.

I took the username from a Monty Python skit.

Well this is awkward.

That's an interesting assertion. I can't readily find estimates about the number of lines of code in different languages. Nor could I find an estimate as to the number of programmers in the world over time, from which I hoped to make an extrapolation. Somebody could write and interesting report about this. Maybe my research wasn't deep enough. Anyway, how do you figure there's more FORTRAN and COBOL?

"One cannot eat one's cake and have it too"

This reverse version of the common idiom (to have one's cake and eat it too) is what got the Unabomber caught. Ted Kacynzski had a habit of saying it that way, and his brother saw it in his manifesto.

Whoops broken linky:

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Kempin is of dubious character:

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