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by VLM 6y ago
My kids are getting to college age and its worth considering that MIT has 11376 students whereas google claims there are 19.6 million college students in the USA at this time. So if distributed purely randomly, in the "everyone MUST g
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by VLM 6y ago
If you insist on a pyramidical social structure, 99% of the population will never meet or network with the top people in their field anyway, and as such a school that prevents them from doing what's impossible anyway yet saves money is
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by VLM 6y ago
Its also a regulation issue. Medical doctors carefully regulate the number of new doctors to keep wages high. Its difficult to get into med school but when you graduate you'll likely get a medical doctor job. Public school teachers do
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by VLM 6y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you, but I'd embrace and extend your remarks with two other illegal or semi-illegal reasons: One is employees who are deeply in debt can be more easily abused than, for example, wealthy skilled tradesmen.
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by VLM 6y ago
> Why does a classics degree cost the same as a CS degree Under a Marx labor theory of value, the professorial labor to produce a classics degree holder is almost certainly more expensive than the labor to produce a (edited: CS) degree.
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by VLM 6y ago
The Kafka solution to this will be our terms of service prohibit single spacing after periods and you are in violation. Therefore we can terminate your account at any time of our choosing. Alternately we could prohibit posting in any langu
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by VLM 6y ago
Functioning democracies don't mysteriously have one party obtain 95%+ of the votes in every election. Single party rule is naturally ineffective. So when Americans try it in Flint MI and as a result of stellar leadership the water is u
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by VLM 6y ago
That population growth doesn't seem to exist. Certainly not in NYC graphs. San Francisco was exponential growth until 1940, then flatlined since 1950. Detroit and Baltimore were those destination cities until 1970 or so. Huge populati
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by VLM 6y ago
The problems is revolutions are people-based. No matter how many decades you keep American tanks in various middle eastern countries, if the people don't want to change, they won't. Consider if China makes a better offer for the
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by VLM 6y ago
An excellent analogy would be the metric system vs imperial measurement system, at least in the USA. A productive and profitable country of feet and pounds and inches, but significant progress is usually made in labs full of meters and lite
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by VLM 6y ago
The point of the article is to normalize that "americans" is synonymous with "urban new yorkers" and the rest of the population doesn't count. Clearly, rural mining ghost towns are familiar with the concept of slowl
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by VLM 6y ago
wordstar released in '78 and was insanely popular until the 90s when ms-word mostly took over.
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by VLM 6y ago
WRT fatalities its not apples to apples comparison as USA highways are incredibly expensive with concrete barriers between oncoming traffic and in Ireland the highways between cities are literally two lanes no barriers much like USA farm ro
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by VLM 6y ago
In my state they roll a lot of safety inspection type stuff into the test. There are no standards for "how to engage the hazard blinkers" across manufacturers so the testing process verifies that at least one time in their driving
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by VLM 6y ago
Hybrids often use gearboxes. My wife's Prius was essentially an extremely heavy 70 HP equivalent EV. 0 to 10 it was a very fastest car although the acceleration curve flattened out fast and it was between hard and impossible to have e
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by VLM 6y ago
You're probably thinking of polonium record cleaning brushes sold by staticmaster. Its an interesting case study in planned obsolescence, the radioactive half life being only a hundred days the anti-static effectiveness of the brush wo
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by VLM 6y ago
Cruise missile delivered mine is something to think about... Plenty of close in guns and missiles to prevent direct attack, yet you could very rapidly area-denial an area with cruise missile delivered mines. If a naval patrol covers more th
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by VLM 6y ago
Before the era of identity politics that was virtuous, not so much in an identity politics era.
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by VLM 6y ago
"The Mythical Man Month" first edition is 45 years old as a retrospective on a decade old development project 55 years ago. The strongest indication programming is not engineering is forgetting and reinventing the past. Also revo
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by VLM 6y ago
I thought it kind of odd the author asked randos off the street to define "engineering" Back in '47, the ECPD, which later more or less turned into the ABET, used the definition: "The creative application of scientific p
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by VLM 6y ago
FBI is highly politicized.
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by VLM 6y ago
How a "shift" interacts with identity politics is interesting to consider. One cannot "shift" demographic group merely by attending classes and many groups are highly polarized by demographic group often in excess of 3 t
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by VLM 6y ago
Possibly the cause and effect are flipped and education is merely a recreation expense item for the masses.
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by VLM 6y ago
Beancounters have always been complaining about beans, but for the first time in aviation history (well, maybe a couple weeks around 9/11) operations is not driving maintenance insane with demands to keep em in the air. There is a vali
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by VLM 6y ago
What an odd time to do it, unless for some crazy reason the lat/lon location mattered. I'm just saying it takes less than a second to hit a ditch or another plane or commo tower while taxi-ing on the ground. Or suddenly do almost
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by VLM 6y ago
One missed in the list is the seller / marketer always hyperinflates the equivalent bits strength of a biometric under the most ideal conditions etc. In real world practice the equivalent number of bits of something like a real world i
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by VLM 6y ago
Two other apps for fluidics from the old days were nuclear reactors which are full of hyper-purified water and implantables in the body like maybe your internal insulin pump in the year 2050 would have an insulin dosing program written in f
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by VLM 6y ago
The web 20 years ago was "how can I laugh at this" The web now suffers from extreme chilling effects along the lines of "how can I bully people by virtue signaling against this"
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by VLM 6y ago
I raised some kids and a unquantified "lot of" time is spent teaching them to gradually be independent adults by occasionally making sure they're safe while they do their own thing. An excellent analogy is I spent some time i
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by VLM 6y ago
Its unmodulated and nobody in the article or comments is willing to consider non-communications situations for both earth and alien sources. Its entirely possible someone out there (us, or ... them) has a nice magnetron (or more exotic tech

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