Making
a point about the difficulty of turning the proverbial battleship once it's set on course, I said that «institutional change requires funerals,» a phrase my colleague loved.
Lindsay makes excellent
points about the difficulty in relating real life to blogs and accounts that feature picture perfect worlds.
Although the author raised some interesting
points about the difficulties in proving matters in closure order applications — and by implication applications for anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs) and other remedies — he failed to appreciate that the purpose of the legislation is not to punish but to protect.
Not exact matches
The situation got Taggar thinking
about the
difficulties of that market, which eventually led him to exploring pain
points of the people on the other side — the landlords.
In a recent conversation
about the
difficulties that black women face in the professional sphere, Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped From The Beginning, The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America,
pointed to the ugly mix of race and misogyny that affects the way black women are often perceived.
Up until that
point, talking
about the value and
difficulty of healthy eating, people were responding well — but the sales message was a flop!
These differences
point to the
difficulty of making fine judgments
about the level of real interest rates at a given
point in time.
He finds in contrast that the remaining alternatives get into logical
difficulties at one
point or another, usually because they are ill equipped to handle some of the positive elements that have been a part of man's thinking
about God.
It is because Niebuhr sees the
difficulty here and is able to
point out with such profound insight all the ways in which we deceive ourselves
about our unselfishness that his work is of such inestimable value.
Is this any more than a rather romantic way of
pointing to the traditional
difficulty of speaking
about the holy God in human terms?
There will be plenty of reasonable suggestions put forward as to why this might be — from subtle
points about counter-pressing and team shape and the
difficulty of translating club systems over to the international game, to snarky ones
about Theo Walcott being no Erik Lamela — but ultimately everybody will realise, even if they don't vocalise, that the England shirt is a cursed object that destroys every beautiful thing that it touches.
There will always be people with differing opinions
about everything, but we don't blame other people's
points of view for our own mental health
difficulties.
It came up at christmas dinner; at one
point, the topic of breastfeeding came up, and my spouse's uncle started to say «I know breastfeeding reduces the risk of allergies later» and, expecting him to move on to obesity and IQ and whatever else he was
about to say, I just said «No, that's not true», and started trying to explain the difference between correlation and causation, and the
difficulties with prospective studies and confounding factors, etc..
«Mothers feel pressured to nurse their babies — to the
point that many suffer guilt, anxiety, and even depression
about any
difficulties,» says parenting psychologist Heather Wittenberg, Psy.D., who blogs at BabyShrink.com and nurses her 5 - month - old daughter.
It isn't saying anything
about the merits of any issue to
point to the
difficulty is that both blogs and think - tanks lack capacity to respond to all breaking stories, and don't add much value if we try to.
The article makes the appropriate
points about social networking sites» potential for reaching new supporters, YouTube's ability to make your gaffes last forever (hello, macaca) and the
difficulty of maintaining message control when supporters are creating content.
People
point to the worrying figures
about the numbers of journalists that have been laid off (with net newsroom employment down by more than 10,000 since 2007), the
difficulties facing city and state newspapers, and to the dramatic decline of ad revenues.
Paladino also echoed some of the talking
points Astorino and his supporters have deployed when asked
about the
difficulties Republicans have winning statewide.
It's
about the same degree of
difficulty as getting a pencil to stand on its
point by throwing it across the room.
While the system works well, and some of the early skills are somewhat useful, just like cash you will largely forget
about spending your skill
points because of the game's low
difficulty.
You can
point to Some Like it Hot as an exception, but I would respond that that film is
about a notorious gangland massacre, repressed homosexuality, rape (kind of), chiselling, and the
difficulties embedded in gender expectation and objectification.
Todd: I would suggest this movie struck a chord because fashion is less the
point (though I think looking at the film through the lens of food and fashion yields plenty of rewards) than it is the vehicle to talk
about something Hollywood loves: the
difficulty of being in a relationship with a demanding person.
Accordingly, there is much research
about how such survey data can be gamed and manipulated by instructors (e.g., via the use of external incentives / disincentives), can be biased by respondent or student background variables (e.g., charisma, attractiveness, gender and race as compared to the gender and race of the teacher or instructor, grade expected or earned in the class, overall grade
point average, perceived course
difficulty or the lack thereof), and the like.
And if you ever wonder why writers can seem so crazed
about the
difficulty of their primary task (that would be writing, Yuvi Zalkow will remind us a bit later), consider that all the
points on these slides are meant to go into a marvelous Page One so that the reader does what?
The
difficulty that I'm having in finding an appropriate bitcoin investment vehicle as an «alternative investment» for a retirement account proves that investing in bitcoins, regardless of what you may believe
about them, is a risky business at this
point.
A second deeper
point related to the psychological
difficulty of value investing has little to do with value investing and a lot to do
about investment discipline.
Popular misconceptions
about dogs & cats (including their nutrition & health, house training tips &
difficulties, birth to death, digging & chewing, sexual behavior, aggression, pet selection, pets & children, among many other topics) are discussed in easy to read & to the
point responses.
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There were even times I completely forgot
about the skill tree, only to check and see I had a ton of
points stockpiled, and this is while playing on the «Hard»
difficulty.
While steep has mostly been
about open world exploration up to this
point, you can expect a brand new series of challenges regimented
difficulty in these competitions.
- the eight protagonists won't have similar stories to each other because the team wants players to enjoy different experiences - the other six protagonists will have jobs different from Orberic (Swordsman) and Primrose (Dancer)- Orberic and Primrose were chosen for the demo because their starting
points are closer to other party members - each protagonist will have different starting
points, so there may be a gap in the progress
difficulty - the team is trying to even things out, but they don't want every character to have the same
difficulty, as that would be boring - the demo has surpassed 1 million downloads worldwide - a demo was released because they thought simply publishing screenshots and trailers wouldn't convey this game's fun factor - more than 80 % of the overseas player base found the game interesting - there was one player who won against a high - leveled NPC in a Duel, and another who defeated all bar customers - the team had expected the former, they didn't expect the latter - the music was received very well, which comes from composer Yasunori Nishiki - overseas players complained of hard - to - read text, because the UI was based on the Japanese version, which will be adjusted - the biggest complaints were
about slow map movement, and the lack of fast - travel - both of these features have been implemented, with faster movement and fast - travel between cities - players also found the screen too dark, so devs are adding waypoints for paths and also bigger roads - there will be an Event Skip feature, as well as the ability to freely watch events that have been already seen.
Analysing how they do these things is still worthy (the
difficulty of desk space in Papers, Please, for instance) but simply
pointing out that The Stanley Parable is
about choice just seems... boring and easy.
That's an excellent
point about meritocracy, @theraven, but it gets at how the
difficulty settings are structured.
The story is the mundane, with the same type of mission and the collectables within the game seem to be in the most obvious of places and the main story has hardly any replay ability unless you missed a collectable and wanted to get all the achievements, the implementation of higher
difficulties adds to the replay ability if this appeals to you, but heads up the
difficulty doesn't really make a difference if you are remarkably good at hack «n slash games, this also brings me to the
point that there is no tutorial into the game, so its in my eyes aimed more towards pro gamers who know most
about games like this.
Prey & Immersive Sim Design (Ricardo Bare & Raphael Colantonio)(Noclip / YouTube — VIDEO) «Back in March we sat down with Ricardo Bare & Raphael Colantonio (who has since left Arkane)
about the
difficulty in designing immersive sims, and the long journey both they and the Prey IP took to get to this
point.»
The games have a beautiful (and identical)
difficulty curve up until
about 4 / 5ths of the way through (say, after collecting 6 or 7 badges), and at that
point I find that the same sorts of shit always starts to happen.
At this
point in time, the «news» stories citing Davies» accusations have been done so many times, you'd actually have
difficulty counting up his accusations (full text for that screencapture wipeout here)
about the Koch brothers, «dark money», Exxon, or whatever other «enemy du jour» which happened to be popular at the time who supposedly funded lies from skeptic scientists.
,
point out some of the
difficulties inherent in this question and with defining religion, and explain why Sheryl does not know what she is writing
about.
Taleb gets into discussion of statistics,
pointing out some common misconceptions
about the bell curve and randomness in real life as well as
difficulties in parameterization in models.
My
point about the standard error is simple and I am astonished that you have
difficulty seeing it.
The Magliozzis first
point out the
difficulty of calculating the cost of producing the fuel; they agree that the energy to plant the corn and processing it into starch should be in the equation, but what
about the energy needed for things like the production of the tractor used to process it?
In the case of Wills, this is simply a matter of long standing tradition with the force of law, and there is no real solid substantive reason that it should be treated otherwise, other than the
difficulty of proving which Will was real and which was the last one when the author is dead and can't clear up that
point, and lots of people have large economic incentives to lie
about the question.
Saying that we want lawyers to act ethically is
about as useful as saying that we want governments to act constitutionally; both are self - evidently true, but they reveal nothing
about where the
points of
difficulty, challenge and contention arise in accomplishing those goals.
Forshee notes that speakers typically rate the
difficulty of the experience at
about an eight on a ten -
point scale and Homann suggests that in addition to practice, participants should focus on their transitions to get comfortable telling a story in equal segments.
As we
pointed out in the NPRM,
difficulties arise because, even after removing obvious identifiers (e.g., name, social security number, address), there is always some probability or risk that any information
about an individual can be attributed to that individual.
But if they can get past the
difficulty of writing up their best
points, then they can sometimes become more at ease talking
about their successes.
It can even turn into some bonus
points for you in an interview, especially if you can turn it into a positive by talking
about it as an area for self - improvement or showing how you overcame something you had
difficulties with.
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Follow - up studies of adolescent depression and conduct disorder have
pointed to homotypic continuity, but less information exists
about outcomes beyond mental disorders and
about the extent to which adolescents with different disorders experience different versus similar
difficulties during the transition to adulthood.