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by bllguo 5y ago
But of course they like large living spaces, most people do. The issue is how costly suburbia is on a societal level. It promotes car usage, fosters social isolation, prevents building walkable and convenient neighborhoods, etc. The worst p
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by bllguo 5y ago
I believed what you said for a long time and still kind of do. But this is how our system has operated for a long time and we see today the effects on our society. Some high performers, but many many people who lack even basic principles of
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by bllguo 5y ago
i mean it in the sense of not being okay with underperforming students year after year such that they drag their peers down. have higher standards for the whole class from the start, otherwise problems compound. This is what we have now, wh
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by bllguo 5y ago
rejecting natural aptitude is ridiculous for sure. It needs to be recognized but it also does not necessarily need to be segregated. People learn from being around smart peers. The important thing imo is to hold _all_ students to a higher b
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by bllguo 5y ago
okay that is true, and I will absolutely die on the "calculus is a crucial part of math education" hill I do think there could be a benefit to reducing "gifted"/"accelerated" classes before high school, th
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by bllguo 5y ago
"data science" is not a field of math. lord knows the term does not need to be watered down further. is "statistics" not adequate (in a high school context)? (I'm not singling you out - they have a "Data Scienc
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by bllguo 5y ago
is that the idea, or is that how it's being framed? It could also be to raise the standards so that low-performing students in the class are held to a higher bar.
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by bllguo 5y ago
are there guarantees that "Small Science" is productive? Regardless of how knowledgeable I am I don't think I can do experimental particle physics in my garage.
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by bllguo 5y ago
What a coincidence, I was actually thinking of honey walnut shrimp! If you conflate quality with authenticity I could see how "fetishizing" authenticity is tantamount to rejecting innovation. But I think they are distinct concepts
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by bllguo 5y ago
Sure, so authenticity is a moving target defined by the current members of a culture. I don't think that is enough justification to ignore it entirely. Regardless of how murky the definition is, surely I can say that a margherita pizza
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by bllguo 5y ago
Information being all around us is precisely why your request is just as wrong. To ask experts to take time to evaluate all the questionable sources out there is unreasonable. And yes, this is a questionable source regardless of the intervi
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by bllguo 5y ago
I think in this case, "something to prove" is the desire to defend their culture
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by bllguo 5y ago
Yes, it doesn't matter for taste, and I am not saying the authentic version of a dish is inherently "better". But of course it makes a difference, it affects how we perceive Japanese culture. There's absolutely nothing w
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by bllguo 5y ago
I agree with most of that (I don't think personal experiences play much of a part; it's more about culture IMO), but I read the comment as suggesting authenticity is meaningless, which is a sentiment I have heard before and very m
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by bllguo 5y ago
What exactly is hilarious about the concept of authenticity? I don't see the argument
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by bllguo 5y ago
I would still rather live in the US, as an American, but I don't think this is how to think about the original statement. It's all relative, right? In absolute terms you can say they're overworked and overcrowded, but they ca
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by bllguo 5y ago
1. selection bias 2. depending on when you went to college, your experience could be out of date surprised you would make such definitive statements on something as hard to measure as happiness, without better sources
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by bllguo 5y ago
the Taiwan ADIZ literally extends into mainland China. Taiwan itself admits "violations" are routine. It's a farce that this is getting serious coverage. Yes, someone does want to stoke fear, but who truly benefits if there&#
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by bllguo 5y ago
this is really not news at all, it's been obvious that force was not on the table. why are people so content to consume only US sources about these issues? It's clearly the US that has been chomping at the bit for an excuse to sta
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by bllguo 5y ago
it's clearly talking about the decline of Western civilization, so it's quite bold to take credit for the successes of the alternatives the West is hellbent on destroying
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by bllguo 5y ago
you'd think "WMDs!!" was enough of a lesson, but I guess not. When China does not start a senseless war over Taiwan in the next few years, I hope at least some of us will do some introspection about all the current hysterics.
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by bllguo 5y ago
Okay, then give me the reasons to believe in imminent Chinese military aggression. And why I should take the word of a nation that has been basically ceaselessly at war for decades, off the heels of yet another senseless conflict in Afghani
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by bllguo 5y ago
Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, coup after coup in South America - you think Tiananmen was more reprehensible than any of these? I'll also remind you Tiananmen was internal, whereas all of our wars are just that - wars. Directed against ot
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by bllguo 5y ago
at least a century?
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by bllguo 5y ago
I think citizens of the most violent nation in recent history should do some introspection before projecting their misdeeds onto others..
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by bllguo 5y ago
haha fine, say they weren't spies then. I don't know 100%. My main point is that Meng was detained for BS reasons. So sure, I'm fine with the story that China detained two Canadians without cause, because that does not detra
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by bllguo 5y ago
> letting foreign countries take your citizens hostage without repercussion can threaten your chances of being reelected. Hence why two Canadian spies were detained. How this episode could possibly be framed as Chinese aggression, I have
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by bllguo 5y ago
It's a fair point that their input on the matter is more important than mine. I like to reiterate that 1-1s are for them, not me. But my feelings are not formed in a vacuum independent of theirs. Plus if it's about the relationshi
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by bllguo 5y ago
7:30 meetings are horrifying to me also, do 1-1s need to be weekly? what about biweekly? i only have a few direct reports and even then i feel weekly is too often
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by bllguo 5y ago
factually they are also the most violent and warmongering, and have caused the most global chaos, both in the past and the present. the benefits of unrestricted freedoms and open elections have also never been as questionable as now, so you

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