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by bnralt 4y ago
One thing I remember was that discoverability was really difficult in Clubhouse. You could pick as many interests as you like, but it seemed like the feed would still spam you with a lot of stuff disconnected from your interests. When you f
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> Or if not the time mechanic, then needing to take notes? Hollow Knight is maybe the most critically acclaimed indie game of all time and most people play it with a fan wiki open As the other poster said, plenty of people play Hallow Kn
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Harvard is a good example of artificial scarcity. They have an extension school[1], where they advertise that you'll be given a Harvard education, by Harvard faculty, virtual or at the Harvard campus. It has somewhat open-enrollment, a
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Indeed, 300:1 is pretty common in large lecture courses, even ones at relatively high ranked schools in fairly important topics (algorithms, for instance). And that's with the teacher having to give a different lecture to every single
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This is it. To expand on further on why it's so crazy to couple education and credentialing - already know all the material in a class? Too bad, you have to pay for it and spend time taking it anyway. Is it a class that's complete
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> ...input from people who have never worked in the field is of pretty limited value in how to resolve the hard part, and will not do much more than annoy teachers even more. If people within the education system are getting upset that
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> It sounds to me like you only have experience with some of the larger subreddits like r/pics. As I said in my post, I frequent podcast subs, which are usually on the smaller side to things. Sure, you can pin posts, but only two a
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Indeed. And I was just thinking about how sites like Reddit and Hacker News are terrible when it comes to discussing things like podcasts or building a community. An active web forum is what would be really useful. For example, the podcast
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A good example is the Reform Party, the most prominent party in the 90's and more successful than the Green Party or Libertarians in many ways (the Reform Party actually won a Governor's seat, and got more presidential votes than
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As I mentioned in my post, why aren't third parties successful in places where first past the post isn't an issue (seats where one party doesn't contest it, seats where one party isn't legally allowed to hold them, place
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> Many who voted for Lamont in the primary may have switched to Lieberman in the general election to ensure his victory over Republican Alan Schlesinger. That's a really weird way to frame things, and suggests to me the author didn
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The guy also blamed the Anders Breivik atack on Muslims when it first happened, then tried to stealth edit when news about the attacker came out to make it seem like he wasn't saying it was Muslims, then got called out for the stealth
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Someone who ignores the news but spends 20 minutes looking at the Vote411 guide right before they vote is going to be more informed about who they're voting for than 99% of the population. If you've already decided that you aren&#
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Instead of relying on this letter to guess at what Chomsky says, I suggest people actually read what he said. Here's the interview that the letter links to[1]. Chomsky says he wants Ukraine to be able to defend itself, but also wants t
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The thing is, most people had no clue about what the financial system had done in 2007. At the time it seemed like the housing market was going down (as housing markets do), and that there was a large amount of sub-prime foreclosures (which
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I agree, but it's also worth noting that the 2008 crisis took a couple years to go from a problem to a full blown catastrophe. At the end of 2006 it was evident there were problems with the sub-prime mortgage market. 2007 was interesti
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> Just like you'd learn chess, and eventually move on to studying matches, you would do the same with some (PvP) video games, like DotA etc. Sure, but as far as I know there isn't much value (beyond personal interest) in studyi
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> Even within the same game genre that barely translates. People good at Starcraft I struggled with Starcraft II, people great at Warcraft made little headway in Starcraft II (e.g. WCIII players like Grubby or Happy). Even being good at
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In my experience, the vast majority of game play time, even with most complex games, is spent on relatively mindless repetitive behavior. This gets worse the more time is spent with a specific game. As a player improves, they start to know
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It's a pretty common view of what happened (personally, my history classes never reached the Cold War, so I can't say how it's taught). This video[1], which aims to debunk the common interpretation, gives a decent overview at
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This whole thing has made me reevaluate the way the Cuban Missile Crisis is portrayed in the U.S. It's usually held up as an example of great presidential leadership, with almost no push back. But if you look at the history it's f
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Honestly, I can same the same thing for Hacker News, or whatever website you find yourself habitually visiting. If you are sitting at a computer or phone with nothing in particular to do, do you immediately start to go to certain sites? It&
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> easily came to the conclusion that we could have pulled off a Manhattan project of neuroscience with that kind of money. In general I wish people spent more time looking at alternatives when these huge projects are proposed. For insta
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> I really dislike the fan mob that it's starting the hate I looked into responses to the announcement (on YouTube, Reddit, various forums), and didn't find any example of a "fan mob that it's starting the hate."
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One thing I've seen is that people convinced that in-person education is the best will try to focus on making their online classes more like in-person classes, when that might be the wrong direction needed. Particularly since it sounds
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In my experience, in-person educators often do a rather poor job with online education. There's often a lot of effort to emulate in-person learning, instead of an acceptance that online education is its own thing. They also often appro
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I think a lot of people mistakenly believe "multiple personality disorder" (DID) is real because there are people who believe they have it and act accordingly. There's a lot of evidence that cases for it are iatrogenic - that
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> I'd be interested to know if you can link to a single example of someone insisting that they be referred to using a neopronoun (and not accepting e.g. they). Read the HRC FAQ you just linked to in the previous comment. It includes
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> private citizens getting doxxed, slandered, and sometimes fired from their jobs because of a racist tweet or off-putting remark. I think even more concerning for most people is a mob going after and firing people who didn't do the
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> They are the equivalent of remortgaging your home to get cash. It's actually the opposite of remortgaging a home to get cash. Remortgaging a home to get cash is paying a premium to increase the amount of liquid assets available to

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