Almost no colleges offer credit for taking AP tests regardless of score so high schoolers have absolutely no reason whatsoever to take those tests.
That's completely false. Here are AP credit policies for a couple top universities. The first two I checked, as a matter of fact. Both give credit for most AP exams, both in terms of class placement, and in credits for graduation.
When you're young, they value your intellect and quick thinking, and try to ask you questions that test that. When you're old, they value the skills you've accumulated, and the questions reflect that too.
If the interview is done correctly, even the "code" questions are less about finding the "right" answer and more about demonstrating how you arrived at whatever answer you reached. It should be obvious that the same is true for the so-called "stupid" questions.
You are not allowed to kill, but it okay for us to kill you.
You are not allowed to kidnap people and hold them captive, but we imprison people. Is that hypocritical too?
I think not. We accept that criminals forfeit some of their normal right to freedom and property. I don't see why the same could not potetially be true of their lives.
Capital punishment is more problematic because it's irreversible and (nowadays) more expensive. But those are not issues of hypocrisy.
Actually, if his appearance had been different, it would have been EASIER to be admitted to CS at MIT.
Schools like MIT have affirmative action to increase the percentage of students from groups that would be underrepresented based on grades and test scores.
More Syrians have been killed by traditional weapons than by chemical weapons. But many more people WOULD be killed by chemical weapons than by traditional weapons, if chemical weapons could be used as freely. If we keep their usage completely unacceptable, we will minimize deaths, even if many will still occur by other means. That seems like a reasonable goal, even if its implementation by Western powers was/is pretty incompetent.
Somehow I envision a Wikipedia of maps, with boundaries and street names changing at random if two groups can't agree. Sure it may not happen in downtown Topeka, but imagine to geo-edit wars that will happen in the Middle East or other disputed territory.
I've one read a very insightful comment: If you look at any depiction of paradise around the world, they have one thing in common: People all were out of work.
According to Genesis, Adam and Eve were put in the Garden of Eden in order to "work and guard" it...
There's already been solid science done that poor diet actually causes a person's cognitive abilities to decrease, and reduces impulse control, aggression, etc. It's because high fat diets damage the neuronal sheath. It's speculative whether this is reversible or not, but it's clear that the poor literally cannot help themselves.
What about all the programmers and tech workers who subsist on pizza and ramen? Do they all quickly lose their cognitive abilities? I don't think so. I can buy bad diet has SOME effect on the mental capacity of the poor, but I'd think pressure, sleep deprivation, general hopelessness, and other factors have a much bigger influence.
1. Israel 4.2% 2. South Korea 3.74% 3. Japan 3.67% 4. Sweden 3.3% 5. Finland 3.1% 6. United States 2.7%... 14. China 1.97%
China's figure is still pretty impressive since it is the only developing country over 1% (you would expect developing countries to have low values, since providing for basic necessities is a more pressing need than in rich countries).
Efficiencies of scale, and specialization, mean that most people prefer to buy products from a competitive marketplace rather than produce their own.
For example: You can grow tomatoes in your backyard, but most people prefer to get them from the store, even in growing season. Despite the fact that home-grown tomatoes are fresher and better tasting!
Twas the Octospiders in Clarkes Rama series - any member that voted for or was involved in the war itself had an immediate sentence of death after the hostilities ended.
Sounds like a strong incentive to continue hostilities indefinitely.
There is no suppression of already-discovered cures, that's pretty obvious. But could it be that possible cures receive less R&D investment than they "deserve" based on their projected future value to patients? That seems more reasonable.
Most people's first experience with Glass won't be as a consumer item, but rather as something they use for work. Think construction workers, or people who work in hospitals or laboratories. Many people will be exposed to these via applications in the work environment. You, as a consumer, may not be very interested in Glass, but there are many businesses who want/need something like this for their workforce.
"once these programs are made visible they become vastly easier to expand under one justification or another,"
If the NSA wanted to expose its programs in order to expand them, it could expose them itself! It wouldn't have to wait until a whistleblower or dissident came along and did it for them.
Norway is unique among developed nations in the huge amount of oil per capita it produces. That's a big incentive for corruption, which has been the downfall of many other oil-producing nations.
If publishing everyone income can serve as a (partial, at least) disincentive to corruption, then it could play a very important national role.
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I haven't been able to believe cows are intelligent ever since reading this comment.
Almost no colleges offer credit for taking AP tests regardless of score so high schoolers have absolutely no reason whatsoever to take those tests.
That's completely false. Here are AP credit policies for a couple top universities. The first two I checked, as a matter of fact. Both give credit for most AP exams, both in terms of class placement, and in credits for graduation.
http://apo.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k73580&pageid=icb.page388448&pageContentId=icb.pagecontent1194786&view=view.do&viewParam_name=asgeninfo.html
http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/counselors/exam-credit/ap-credits/index.html
When you're young, they value your intellect and quick thinking, and try to ask you questions that test that.
When you're old, they value the skills you've accumulated, and the questions reflect that too.
If the interview is done correctly, even the "code" questions are less about finding the "right" answer and more about demonstrating how you arrived at whatever answer you reached. It should be obvious that the same is true for the so-called "stupid" questions.
You are not allowed to kill, but it okay for us to kill you.
You are not allowed to kidnap people and hold them captive, but we imprison people. Is that hypocritical too?
I think not. We accept that criminals forfeit some of their normal right to freedom and property. I don't see why the same could not potetially be true of their lives.
Capital punishment is more problematic because it's irreversible and (nowadays) more expensive. But those are not issues of hypocrisy.
Everyone wants to bitch about our units of measurement, but nobody seems to have any trouble accepting our units of currency.
The currency that has "metric" units (dollars and cents)?
I wonder why.
96,000 lbs is the weight of 300 Americans. Seems pretty intuitive.
Actually, if his appearance had been different, it would have been EASIER to be admitted to CS at MIT.
Schools like MIT have affirmative action to increase the percentage of students from groups that would be underrepresented based on grades and test scores.
More Syrians have been killed by traditional weapons than by chemical weapons. But many more people WOULD be killed by chemical weapons than by traditional weapons, if chemical weapons could be used as freely. If we keep their usage completely unacceptable, we will minimize deaths, even if many will still occur by other means. That seems like a reasonable goal, even if its implementation by Western powers was/is pretty incompetent.
Somehow I envision a Wikipedia of maps, with boundaries and street names changing at random if two groups can't agree. Sure it may not happen in downtown Topeka, but imagine to geo-edit wars that will happen in the Middle East or other disputed territory.
It's happened on rare occasions before.
But relative to the total amount of mapping going on, the amount of edit-warring is truly insignificant.
I've one read a very insightful comment: If you look at any depiction of paradise around the world, they have one thing in common: People all were out of work.
According to Genesis, Adam and Eve were put in the Garden of Eden in order to "work and guard" it...
There's already been solid science done that poor diet actually causes a person's cognitive abilities to decrease, and reduces impulse control, aggression, etc. It's because high fat diets damage the neuronal sheath. It's speculative whether this is reversible or not, but it's clear that the poor literally cannot help themselves.
What about all the programmers and tech workers who subsist on pizza and ramen? Do they all quickly lose their cognitive abilities? I don't think so. I can buy bad diet has SOME effect on the mental capacity of the poor, but I'd think pressure, sleep deprivation, general hopelessness, and other factors have a much bigger influence.
Percentages relative to GDP are available too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_research_and_development_spending
The list goes as follows:
1. Israel 4.2% ...
2. South Korea 3.74%
3. Japan 3.67%
4. Sweden 3.3%
5. Finland 3.1%
6. United States 2.7%
14. China 1.97%
China's figure is still pretty impressive since it is the only developing country over 1% (you would expect developing countries to have low values, since providing for basic necessities is a more pressing need than in rich countries).
Efficiencies of scale, and specialization, mean that most people prefer to buy products from a competitive marketplace rather than produce their own.
For example: You can grow tomatoes in your backyard, but most people prefer to get them from the store, even in growing season. Despite the fact that home-grown tomatoes are fresher and better tasting!
The same would be true of marijuana.
Twas the Octospiders in Clarkes Rama series - any member that voted for or was involved in the war itself had an immediate sentence of death after the hostilities ended.
Sounds like a strong incentive to continue hostilities indefinitely.
There is no suppression of already-discovered cures, that's pretty obvious. But could it be that possible cures receive less R&D investment than they "deserve" based on their projected future value to patients? That seems more reasonable.
You seem to be knowledgeable about history, but I hope you never teach English.
That should be "their" obviously. I should proofread...
So many millions of people have posted information to the internet. Is there algorithm so good it did not have a single false positive?
Yes, like the Burger-G fast food chain.
"poor southern white men did essentially nothing to help black men"
Poor southern white men were (and are) the worst oppressors of black men, who they saw as potential competitors for jobs.
On the other hand, the list includes Hitler in 1938, Stalin in 1939, Khomeini in 1979. I'm not sure any of those were more palatable than Bin Laden...
"once these programs are made visible they become vastly easier to expand under one justification or another,"
If the NSA wanted to expose its programs in order to expand them, it could expose them itself! It wouldn't have to wait until a whistleblower or dissident came along and did it for them.
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Norway is unique among developed nations in the huge amount of oil per capita it produces. That's a big incentive for corruption, which has been the downfall of many other oil-producing nations.
If publishing everyone income can serve as a (partial, at least) disincentive to corruption, then it could play a very important national role.
"A republic, if you can keep it." -Benjamin Franklin
"Remember, I didn’t want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself." -Edward Snowden.