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What does graft mean in this context? Is there a process where you graft diamonds, like plants? Does it refer to the diamond seed crystals mentioned in the article?

However they are somewhat good at business as they've convinced thousands of people to pay $17.00 per month for something that can be found for free at Lichess.org.

They do pay a ton of money to streamers to use their site exclusively, which is good for chess since it allows more chess players to make a living.

Or is it more likely that the lab, which had numerous coronavirus samples, did gain of function research and had a history of accidental leaks, was not involved at all?

I don't quite know how to categorize complaining about pseudoscience based on a "vibe".

It's not quite irony... maybe it's just humorous. As a member of the post Alanis Morissette generation I guess I can no longer recognize irony.

It is/was also possible for a player at the first seat of the table to see a sloppy dealer's hole card when checking for blackjack. This is called "first basing" while using a teammate is generally called spooking.

Great book btw, hope I'm remembering it correctly.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/05/29/fears-about-a...

Who wants to be associated with that?

Just think about it a little bit, man evolved over hundreds of thousands of years eating meat, there's no way that it's bad for you.

I'd be more impressed if you had the sons of Johnnie Cochran and Jackie Chiles. This idea, "Let's make money on internet gambling" isn't novel, it's just been a legal nightmare in the USA. And while it's no longer clearly illegal on a federal scope every state will have their own ideas.

Washington state, for example, made online poker a felony long before the federal government got around to closing all the sites. Even now the Native Americans have introduced a bill making sports books illegal in Washington, except on tribal lands, of course.

I'd rather bet on Professional Wrastling than harness racing.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/seattle-ho...

It's been going on for decades, and it's both silly and counterproductive.

You start off complaining about fad diets and now you link to your diet which is the very epitome of a fad diet. Is there any medical research behind this diet?

Project based learning won't work, traditional learning won't work, only my class will work. In fact the source he quotes (himself) claims he can give you a year's worth of experience in an hour.

But why doesn't project based learning fail? Well, in his example Bob, who wants to learn network programming, pairs with Alice, who somehow mysteriously takes over the entire project and does all the networking code so Bob learns nothing. That's sort of like arguing that you can't learn guitar from a teacher because a velociraptor might stroll by and eat the teacher.

I don't know what type of learning is best, but I know you need a little more evidence then that for a post titled "Why project-based learning fails".

That same generation of Italians embraced fascism, followed Mussolini, allied with Hitler and got their ass kicked in World War II.

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/weather/why-so-much...

Ironically parks, which would be an ideal place to fly, are often no-fly zones. For example all national parks in America ban drones as do many state parks.

You don't learn to play chess by memorization. That's like saying that you have to memorize the C language specification to be a C programmer.

Back when I was playing chess I was around 2100 (uscf). I knew almost nothing about chess. However I did have the ability to analyse and a good eye for tactics. That was enough to be almost a Master.

The key to chess is to analyse better than your opponent, not to memorize better than your opponent.

That's the big problem Microsoft has with their hardware that Apple doesn't.