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But to me, what's most baffling and most tragic about this is that it misses the whole point of being human.
So, yeah, the droids are taking our jobs, but focusing on that fact misses the point entirely.
But some species that we killed off totally we could consider bringing back to a world that misses them.
"That misses the point."
You just need to step outside, pay attention to what's so commonplace, so everyday, so mundane that everybody else misses it.
The design of this street is really to maximize the movement of cars moving as quickly as possible from point A to point B, and it misses all the other ways that a street is used.
What is it that he misses?
But in fact, what happens is that if you analyze the pattern of hits and misses statistically, it turns out that it's nearly always at random.
If you toss a coin, a streak of heads or tails is going to come out somewhere in the randomness, and because the brain likes to see patterns where there are none, we look at these streaks and attribute meaning to them and say, "Yeah he's really on form today," whereas actually you would get the same pattern if you were just getting hits and misses at random.
And one thing you might think about doing is punishing people for their misses and seeing if that improves them.
But in science, we have to keep track of the misses, not just the hits.
People remember the hits and forget the misses.
Not because it wasn't beautiful or anything, but because it misses the thing that most students fail to understand about molecular biology, and that is: why is there any probability at all of two complex shapes finding each other just the right way so they combine together and be catalyzed?
But we'll pick some place along the curve here, and maybe it avoids half of accidents that the human driver misses, and that's amazing, right?
But it, in some sense, misses the point: namely, that fingers are a very, very high-resolution input medium.
Your eye would go down the list and it would settle on whatever was the least disruptive, the least troublesome, which of course misses the point entirely.
The crowd holds its breath, and, at the crucial moment, she misses the shot.
I don't know why the machine feels like it misses its pre-Internet brain and it's been tagged here, but it's a very interesting thought.
I think it entirely misses the point.
Well, what this misses is that in the 1970s, when you were just gossiping on the telephone, there wasn't a hundred engineers on the other side of the screen who knew exactly how your psychology worked and orchestrated you into a double bind with each other.
She really misses her dad.
But I think this criticism misses the point because it takes the scenario too literally.
A résumé definitely has some useful pieces in it: what roles people have had, computer skills, what languages they speak, but what it misses is what they have the potential to do that they might not have had the opportunity to do in the past.
This not only leads to dull and repetitive gatherings, it misses a deeper opportunity to actually address our needs.
But I think that this overworry about anthropomorphism misses a fundamental point.
Nobody misses that dog I took a picture of on a Carmel beach a couple of weeks ago.
But that misses the true value of data, which is that it's yours.
This film really misses the mark on most fronts.
My main beef with the movie is that it completely misses the point of the book.
While traveling with a team of misses for the dispute of the Miss Galaxy, the airplane piloted by Maximus Powers (Eric Roberts) and Mike Saunders (Charlie Schlatter) crashes in an isolated, where lays Noah's Ark protected by the Jurassic Pork.
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