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If you were just complaining that a $4 billion dollar trip to space "could have fed the poor" but you're silent about the $126 billion dollar train to nowhere, it's time to stop pretending your politics have anything to do with feeding poor people

@DennisPrattFree I guess it's some kind of -ism to say they shouldn't vote either. (You can decide whether that means the under-27s or the NH Democrats.)

If young adults "lack reasoning ability" (as NH Democrats allege) "until age 27", and therefore should not be allowed to be armed to protect themselves, how can NH justify permitting them to mortgage their future with hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans for fake college degrees? Either they are adult enough to put themselves into hock for the rest of their lives, -- AND may own a gun to protect themselves -- OR they should not be allowed either.

@MorlockP Do you have the whole story mapped out in your mind, and are just writing it down once a day? Working from an outline? Winging it?

@MorlockP Knowing Travis, I would expect he wrote it himself. @SamuelSThorp @sneedkuanyew

@Zerbious @Math_files A) Stupid B) Both answers are equivalent because they both show multiplication as related to addition. C) 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1 would have been an advanced answer, showing a grasp of set theory. Would the teacher have known that?

@Math_files 100% Below is an example our daughter had: "5x3+3=18; write a sting of numbers whose sum =18 without multiplying". She wrote 5+5+5+3=18 & it was marked incorrect. I spoke to the teacher & they said "they were looking for 3+3+3+3+3+3=18", <c>

Why kids hate Math

@rebeccajkey @Math_files But it's the teacher that applied the penalty.

@Math_files Even math teachers hate these questions. The direction doesn’t tell the student to estimate, just explain. The student did that. If they wanted estimation, they should have specifically asked the student to use that to answer the question.

@scottlindsay88 @Math_files Estimation is indeed a valuable skill. When the exact answer is too difficult / time consuming / not worthwhile to calculate. When the exact answer is just as easy (or even easier), estimation is not the way to go.

Engineer here: it turns out that estimating is a very powerful tool. Somehow I got into the habit of "guessing" based on very very rounded numbers what ball park am I looking at. Math in my head. This is where the number Pi=3, the modulus of steel is 30 million, strain is one mill per inch per 30,000 psi for (steel), the area of a circle is 78% of the square etc. I was often surprised how close this estimating was, and it always showed when I made a mistake in my rigorous calculations.

@travis4nh Based on no data, I'm guessing the nays thought "I can't let the voters^H^H^H^H^H^H contributors think I'm a racist. Or that I might derail their money train."

The NH Senate has killed HB1706 to shut down the NH Office of Refugee Resettlement ...but there are still tactics open to use during the reconciliation process to bring it back to life. We MUST shut down this office. "Refugees" are bleeding us dry.

@DoctorLemma Isn't that a female lion?

Until 1976, you could walk into a shop in London, England called Harrods and buy a lion, a camel, or an elephant. In 1969, two young Australians named John Rendall and Ace Bourke walked in and bought a three-month-old lion cub. They named him Christian. He lived with them above a furniture shop, played in local gardens, and rode around the city in the back of a convertible. When he outgrew London, they flew him to Kenya, where a conservationist named George Adamson released him into the wild in the Kora National Reserve. A year later, the two men flew back to find him. Adamson warned them Christian was now fully wild and might not remember them. Despite being the head of a wild pride, Christian recognised them immediately and ran to greet them. The reunion was filmed, and the footage has since been viewed over 100 million times. Christian was last seen in early 1973, heading north. He was never seen again.

@Adriksh That would be a very straightforward C compiler; I don't know if you can even get one to be so transparent, maybe with 3000 options on the command line. Or maybe Linus wrote one just to do that.

Linus Torvalds chooses C not out of nostalgia, but control. When you build an OS, you don’t guess what the compiler does you know how every line turns into assembly. That’s power.

@jeremykauffman Anyone old enough to remember when insurance companies could offer different coverages and customers could choose what they wanted?

Pre-exposure prophylactic HIV drugs (PREP) typically cost about $20,000/year Obamacare mandates they be included, for free, in every American health care plan

@davec_NH Wow, what was special about Dartmouth college? And why wasn't the "in New Hampshire" requirement for student ID moved to the other requirements?

NH changed the voting rules. Student ID is no longer accepted as ID to vote. Durham NH may actually have an honest election this November.

@clearticulation In the computer room, someone has to pedal.

Please explain why the banks don’t process payments over Easter, weekends, public holidays? Banking is all computerised 24/7 and robots don’t take holidays so WTF?

@GhostSatoshis Do ittt!

@goddek It's to inform the (literate) ants that there's pizza inside.

Why would they write something so obvious like this on pizza boxes in the United States?

@TheDesertLynx I remember; my first (not last) reason for appreciating you.

Fun fact: many years ago I organized jury nullification outreach in New Hampshire. We covered 10/11 courthouses for every jury selection for a time, all organized on crypto donations.

@deaflibertarian I've seen Optimus fold a shirt ... in only two minutes!

I don't need a robot vacuum. I need one that folds the laundry.

@MorlockP What? He's saying he's every level of autistic at the same time?

"I reject the concepts of 'short', 'normal', and 'tall'" ok

@akevittnvg No, it's slang for vulva. (As is pussy, and others.)

アメリカではビーバーがマ◯コの隠語って聞いたがマジか

@Sigloland @GovNuclear That's exactly what it isn't.

@GovNuclear Nuclear energy is a simple chemical reaction. Been there many decades, no specific breakthrough.

In 5 words or less: What makes nuclear energy so great?