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by arkades 5y ago
Surveys of the dyslexic population suggest that the crowd favorite is Dyslexie. Even a. Lot of dyslexics hate opendyslexic.
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by arkades 5y ago
You’re applying it over-liberally. That school of thought is to apply accessibility features that maximize accessibility for /everyone/ - eg, automatic door openers. Features that improve accessibility for a subpopulation while de
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by arkades 5y ago
How many centuries-to-millennia do Jews have to live in Europe before theyre viewed as having the same rights as all other Europeans, rather than being immigrants in need of assimilation? If this is the baseline level of Othering involved i
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by arkades 5y ago
It expands on the various forms of advertising (eg, Expedia, TripAdvisor) and goes on to state that these sites are the majority places of advertising one’s airbnb.
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by arkades 5y ago
The Bering strait and associated waterways are already a source of tension between Canada, the US, and Russia as global climate change is anticipated to massively increase their commercial value. And China would love to launch a boondoggle
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by arkades 5y ago
I’m not a climber. Can you please expand on what these pads are, and why they need to be promptly removed?
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by arkades 5y ago
No, my argument isn’t that black kids aren’t smart. And it’s distant enough from what I did write that I hesitate to even call it a straw man.
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by arkades 5y ago
Having come out of the gifted and talented programs in question in NYC: The privileged go to private school. Our programs are dominated by first generation immigrants, mostly SE Asian. Even the white component tends to be poor immigrant fam
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by arkades 5y ago
Education research is more heavily plagued by poor methodology than even psychology - the only reason it lacks a replication crisis is because it doesn’t have the academic integrity to bother trying to replicate anything. It is the epitome
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by arkades 5y ago
This has already happened in NY. What the NYT article omits is that the elimination of advanced classes has been preceded by a couple of decades of highly restricted availability. 15 years ago (shit I’ve gotten old), when I lived in nyc_bor
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by arkades 5y ago
I think in real life it goes “you are under arrest for kidnapping and impersonating a dead man.” The police choosing not to get involved is probably the least likely outcome, ordinarily.
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by arkades 5y ago
I got an ad overlay from the top of my screen, a growing banner from the bottom, and a fade-in pop-up over that. Within five seconds of loading the page, precisely 0% of it remained unobscured.
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by arkades 5y ago
Just so we are clear: this paper does not show that mouth guards have similar efficacy to cpap. It shows that mouth guards have a significant, non-zero efficacy that is worth pursuing for patients that don’t tolerate cpap . It’s still way
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by arkades 5y ago
It’s not forced, in the sense that if someone doesn’t want to play in that setting and receive that money, they don’t have to. There’s no job where you get to skip the part that actually generates revenue for the business because you don’t
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by arkades 5y ago
I’ve been listening to a lot of audiobooks recently and very much had the related thought: text written for reading is distinct from that written for reading aloud, and a LOT of books are a miserable slog when they’re stuck in the wrong cat
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by arkades 5y ago
I found grief is like a stormy ocean. When it’s fresh, the waves keep hitting, and all you can do is try to keep from drowning. That’s okay - it’s okay to focus on just not drowning. You don’t owe it to anyone to pretend you’re on a peacefu
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by arkades 5y ago
I guess less reasonable in the context of “they’re very unreliable, which is why I always keep auto high beams off.” It’s not an irrelevant bit of context.
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by arkades 5y ago
Earlier this week there was a post regarding Google and its utilization of private health information. A number of Googlers came forward to describe how very seriously Google takes user privacy and keeping inappropriate data from being shar
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by arkades 6y ago
> If everyone was like OP in condeming these corporations maybe their expectations would eventually become real. No, they wouldn't, because the selection pressure on the organization is for the minimum amount of signaling required t
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by arkades 6y ago
I live in a country where political affiliation has become so central to personal identity, and so bound up in our perception of "good" vs. "bad" morality, that you can't take a dissenting position on anything - not
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by arkades 6y ago
The world, for better or worse, will be built by the people in their private capacity, whether individually or acting in concert through government. Complaining about for-profit institutions pursuing profit is, at best, a category error, an
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by arkades 6y ago
As a Russian, seeing how Russians perceive things, which I imagine is something of an analogue: They don't believe our internal propaganda. That's why Russia and the like spend so much time hyping up where we don't live up to
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by arkades 6y ago
Did you at some point think that the corporate leadership of a massive for-profit organization was going to make a public statement that was anything other than the bare minimum lip service they were required to pay in order to weather th
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by arkades 6y ago
> I think key in my post was "and reformed." Is there good reason to expect that they reformed? Is it as or more reasonable to expect they've simply learnt to hold their more objectionable views close to the vest? If the
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by arkades 6y ago
I found this series of blog posts to be one of the most insightful explorations of our current trends towards identity politics - across the entirety of the political spectrum - that I've seen in a long while.
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On Social States(samzdat.com)
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by arkades 6y ago
Free Speech - of the general variety - has long been considered an American value. Idiomatically it has been broader than protection from government censorship. If your rebuttal to someone is to ignore widely-known idiom to focus on a parti
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by arkades 6y ago
I didn't have to go through the posted link for long to find people reacting as though this was more than a slippery slope issue: > But instead to react professionally and contritely you made it worse to stamp on the shards to make
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by arkades 6y ago
I said that they state it as a headline, and then walk it back in their actual paper . Yes, that's relevant - they literally did it so that pro-circumcision folks could tout the very headline you're touting, and they'd still
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by arkades 6y ago
Their statement for "third party payment" is industry jargon for "don't ban it," because Americans equate "uninsured service" with "unavailable service." Outside the headline, their strongest pos

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