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by Balgair 1y ago
Yeah, I was gonna say that I think that most of the assigned books are chosen by the state, right? Obviously it varies a lot, but I can't recall any teacher actually wanting to teach a book, let alone having the freedom to choose just
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by Balgair 1y ago
My bad about not being more clear here. I was looking for the perspectives of others, not to conclusively answer the question. I thought it would be polite to offer my own first.
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by Balgair 1y ago
I think a more humane (and likely more successful) way out of this is to not try to convince the childless to have children at all, but to try to convince those with children to have more. So, I'll pose this question to HN and see wh
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by Balgair 1y ago
Yeah, I agree with both your replies here. The certainty that I had when I was starting out in life that I could walk into pretty much any auto shop and have a job in a week, I dunno, I think I took that for granted. In that, I never really
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by Balgair 1y ago
Oh, I very much have a lot of these jobs at the house. It's just that I tend to call a specialist [0] as the handy men around me tend to, well, not really exist anymore. Besides, most of the smaller things that don't require the r
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by Balgair 1y ago
Yeah, my grammar was bad there. Thanks for catching that. The wikipedia link goes into better detail about what I was trying to relate.
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by Balgair 1y ago
I mean, not a lot of handymen are able to eat 20%; that a pretty big cost.
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by Balgair 1y ago
For my family it really wan't a trade off. This jobs was the only one we could do to make end meet. My family is the 'petite bourgeois'(owners that labor alongside their workers[0]) that Marx said were the only people that ac
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by Balgair 1y ago
Those are vanishingly small jobs these days in the US at least. Most companies and guys will specialize in electrical or drywall or something as they become faster at it and time is money in the trades. These skilled jobs typically require
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by Balgair 1y ago
Oh yeah, I nearly forgot, my hearing is shot too. My spouse is always having to say things louder and slower to me. Not a lot of fun for them to do. I also can't smell certain smells; I suppose this is due to the aforementioned brake c
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by Balgair 1y ago
I grew up in a trade. My folks ran a small auto repair business, and as such, I'm more than competent in a lot of automotive related things and a barely competent in a lot of the trades (carpentry, electrical, tile, accounting, taxes,
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by Balgair 1y ago
You just know that about 5000 old white Chicago guys are gonna try this line when they get to the Vatican this summer. God bless 'em.
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by Balgair 1y ago
Now the real question: Is he a Cubs or Sox fan?
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by Balgair 1y ago
One good one I heard is that before you get a tattoo, go to the local water park. You'll have ample time waiting in line to look at what your hypothetical tattoo, or a close enough one, will look like on all sorts of bodies and skins.
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by Balgair 1y ago
Echoing others here: Yeah, don't be hard on yourself right now. When they get a bit older, you'll get healthier again. It's okay to slide back. The phrase 'relapse is part of recovery' comes to mind. Just focus on t
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by Balgair 1y ago
Well yes, but the question is: Why is that school an elite school to begin with? Like, country clubs exist; it's not just about being drunk around other rich people. The profiled dude in the article only sees the elite nature and not t
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by Balgair 1y ago
> When I asked him why he had gone through so much trouble to get to an Ivy League university only to off-load all of the learning to a robot, he said, “It’s the best place to meet your co-founder and your wife.” Like, dude, I wonder why
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by Balgair 1y ago
The longer portion from the Dwarkesh interview isn't as flashy as the article makes out. Mark is essentially saying in that interview that people need more friends, have room for them in their lives, and they struggle to keep them. Usi
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by Balgair 1y ago
Unfortunately, I'd say this is a reflection on the other teachers that the students have had. Kids aren't going to email profs like this out of the blue (mostly). This tactic has worked for them in the past. Still, good on you! Ho
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by Balgair 1y ago
Nit pick: He's not a professor, just a grad student at the same place he got his undergrad, and he's mostly gone to university during covid. At least per his page here: https://claytonwramsey.com/about/ Its n
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by Balgair 1y ago
I think we have to hold off a bit on the whole thing here. Look, we have no idea what the feedback is like that this grad student gives, what the class sizes are like, what the cadence is, what the grade percentages are, etc. All we know is
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by Balgair 1y ago
Yeah, these bowmen weighed about 1.3X this draw weight. Imagine holding a one handed pull up, with 3 fingers, for a full minute.
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by Balgair 1y ago
HN's bubble/biases are pretty obvious here and we should expect them. But, as someone that uses code but is not a coder, I'll confirm this. Nearly none of my coworkers were hired as coders. Yet we all code in some small way o
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by Balgair 1y ago
Yeah, I was a little credulous about what Zuck said there too. Like, if AI is so good, then it'll just eat away at those jobs and get asymptotically close to 100% of the calls. If it's not that good, then you've got to loop i
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by Balgair 1y ago
Dwarkesh had a good interview with Zuck the other week. And in it, Zuck had an interesting example (that I'm going to butcher): FB has long wanted to have a call center for its ~3.5B users. But that call center would automatically be t
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by Balgair 1y ago
I'll assume you've run into Mortimer J. Adler's Great Works of the Western World and are familiar with the selection. For those not in the know, the 60 volume set was done by a somewhat sparse group that included many peopl
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by Balgair 1y ago
You can download them all for free here: https://www.myharvardclassics.com/categories/20120212 The Reading Guide at the bottom of the page is the best way to get into them, I think. It's a daily ~15/20 minute
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by Balgair 1y ago
Ahh, no. We'll be doing more research on the data once we have it. Things like ranking and averages and distributions on the data will come later, but first we just need it to begin with.
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by Balgair 1y ago
I'm sorry I was unclear. No, I do not have the data yet and I need to get it.
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I think we have very different definitions of the word 'research' then. I'd say that what you're saying is 'synthesis'. The 'Intro/Discussion' sections of a journal article. For me, 'researc

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