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by bpt3 8mo ago
> Classes and more importantly practices get watered down to accommodate them. The situation gradually looks less like university of the 1950s and more like highschool. Fair, though the solution there is to just flunk them out. > I do
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by bpt3 8mo ago
You don't like decisions being based on political factors (rather than technical merit I assume, but feel free to correct me) yet you moved to Ubuntu? I don't like it either, but that's not the direction I would go. I haven&#
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by bpt3 8mo ago
A large portion (I think it's the majority, but would be happy to be wrong) of our fellow man is a net loss to society, with some smaller percentage being a significant drain. Giving more and more resources to those people does not mak
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by bpt3 8mo ago
It does seem like we agree for the most part. > I notice that you didn't address my remark about "adult daycare service". The presence of directionless "students" attending only to tick a box has serious negative
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by bpt3 8mo ago
Good lord, most of you are really, really committed to this narrative. Have fun looking for excuses to be mad.
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by bpt3 8mo ago
Then that portion of that building could be counted towards indirect costs for that research, and the university is better off than if they had paid for the building as well as paying for the upkeep and those cost savings can be passed alon
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by bpt3 8mo ago
> You're putting words in my mouth. I merely pointed out that they have a very confused mission thus I think it is not surprising that there is dysfunction. I'm not trying to put words in your mouth, but I don't see what o
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by bpt3 8mo ago
That is their point, and mine is that it's baseless speculation that is almost certainly inaccurate, probably originating from a similarly uninformed and angry internal source to the one that produced the article in question. I'm
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by bpt3 8mo ago
Can you provide a link, rather than extremely vague accusations?
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by bpt3 8mo ago
I (and I believe the person I responded to) were talking about the comment above yours, which was a statement that Hopkins basically sells control of its research outcomes to donors. Your question didn't bother me in the least, but I d
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by bpt3 8mo ago
No, it's much simpler than that: Students have had access to seemingly endless amounts of cash to pay for school thanks to the increased accessibility of student loans and complete mismanagement of the oversight of those funds.
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by bpt3 8mo ago
How is any of this subsidized by NIH/NSF funding? Those grants are only spent on the cost of research, either direct or indirect. Also, a number of the schools we're discussing are older than the US itself; Harvard predates it by
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by bpt3 8mo ago
You want them to go back to being finishing schools for the wealthy, as they were before Hopkins (funnily enough) founded the first institute in the US that would be seen as a form of a modern university today? For people who aren't fi
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by bpt3 8mo ago
I am all for criticizing the Chinese government, but that is not a remotely accurate description of what happened with Pavlou, nor particularly relevant to this article unless you have substantiated claims of that type of behavior at Hopkin
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by bpt3 8mo ago
People, including university administrators, are generally interested in upgrading their surroundings whether or not they have the means to do so. When the means are dropped in their lap, people act on those interests.
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by bpt3 8mo ago
They're interested in a new student union because they're being paid to? What does that mean?
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by bpt3 8mo ago
Are you talking about the rambling tirade of a bitter professor with an immense distrust of his employer that verges on paranoia, or some other article linked elsewhere in one of these threads? In case it wasn't clear, I don't agr
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by bpt3 8mo ago
The GP invented some sort of conspiracy theory that doesn't really seem like it's worth discussing, whether it happens a lot or not in reality. Whether you believe what he said or not, my questions remain.
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by bpt3 8mo ago
Universities are only allowed to include indirect expenses that are related to the research in question, not all expenses incurred by the university (such as a student center, dorm, stadium, etc.).
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by bpt3 8mo ago
Did you go to an elite (or close to it) liberal arts school? I have gone to only R1 schools myself, but my exposure to liberal arts schools would indicate they are a mixed bag, especially in the sciences (not disagreeing with you or saying
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by bpt3 8mo ago
What is the fiscal insanity of taking money from someone and spending it for your benefit (with some strings attached, which are usually minor)?
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by bpt3 8mo ago
Why would they not accept money to do something they are interested in doing? What is the downside to the school of a nicer student union or a public policy/international relations campus in the nation's capital?
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by bpt3 8mo ago
Professors at schools like this do not view these places as about teaching students. Academics, to include performing research in their field and publishing the results, yes, and the students get in the way of that.
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by bpt3 8mo ago
As the article states, the funds came from an external donor. It's not how I would choose to use $250M+ of my money, but it appears to have nothing at all to do with federal funding (nor would it even if the building was financed by th
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by bpt3 8mo ago
No, the bank pays you interest on your deposit to entice you to deposit money there so they can lend it out. There is literally zero risk involved (other than something on the scale of the collapse of the US government, which no one is real
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by bpt3 8mo ago
All this demonstrates is that you don't understand how the US banking system works. Bank failures != taxpayer funded bailouts. Also, I don't know what you have been reading, but a comprehensive list of times that depositors have b
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by bpt3 8mo ago
Yes, I understand all of this. What I don't understand is why the Fed "putting their finger on the scale" (which I don't dispute they are doing, as it's part of their job) is a problem, and I still did not really pi
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by bpt3 8mo ago
So I read the Matt Levine article on this and a couple other pieces, and I'm not getting the impression Levine or other mainstream economists think this is a good idea as it currently stands? I don't necessarily think they are sug
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by bpt3 8mo ago
Yes. What are these repeated bailouts by taxpayers that you mentioned? And you can't think of any way that the federal government providing retail banking services could possibly go wrong?
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by bpt3 8mo ago
Taxpayers don't bail out bank depositors, the FDIC (which is insurance paid for by the banks) does. And banks do a lot more than what you described, which I have to assume you know already.

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