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by britch 4y ago
Taking an art class to meet different people is one thing. You at least have to grapple with the material. You are on equal footing with other students. Showboating, or "offering to help" in something you have already learned thor
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by britch 4y ago
They at least had to attempt to earnestly learn the material. Going into "easy" courses you have already mastered to force interactions with others is different.
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by britch 4y ago
There is an assumption in a class that you are there to learn the curriculum in some way. The seniors in this case are interested only in the other students. The class/coursework is only a prop for them to force interactions with other
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by britch 4y ago
Presumably the employer wants/needs a staff. If they didn't they'd have gone contractor-only a long time ago. The immediate incentive is that the staff they want/need isn't doing the thing. A strike is not a protest
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by britch 4y ago
I agree -- I found the author's definition distracting to the points being made. > The “Pop” in “Pop Culture” stands for “popularity”. If it’s popular then it must be right. No -- popular culture is simply what is currently popular.
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by britch 4y ago
Interesting, my takeaway from the article to be honest in almost all cases. Positive disagreement seemed like a good example of being honest in a pro-social way. Expressing your honest view in a way that doesn't shut anyone down. The a
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by britch 4y ago
Mind elaborating on what you mean by innovation? Is it new/unique curriculum? Something else?
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by britch 4y ago
What does this have to do with Mastodon?
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by britch 4y ago
Is it possible they've never seen it the other way? I'm imagining someone who leaves messy school projects to join a chaotic startup to join a chaotic startup... Do people on the team have experience maintaining things long term o
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by britch 4y ago
Is this really true at car companies? I don't know, legitimately curious My sense at least is that at some point every company becomes "interchangeable people with business degrees and MBAs" I agree that line is fairly low in
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by britch 4y ago
I disagree. The problem with Null in my opinion is that it is the default and can easily be created accidentally. There's nothing inherently wrong with an "absence of value, value" Optional.empty is not null, it's no-val
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by britch 4y ago
What reward lol What, is Twitter going to re-IPO? Is that before or after paying off the billions in debt? As an ordinary employee what is the potential reward?
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by britch 4y ago
Inflation today is largely due to higher energy costs due to the sanctions with Russia, as I understand it. Money is worth less because the cost to make and move things is more. It's not the case that workers have too much cash, which
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by britch 4y ago
If it's not 100% it's wage-theft
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by britch 4y ago
They are a publicly traded company. Their only mission statement that matters is "make money", everything else is PR
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by britch 4y ago
What is your concern here? What does "a more connected world" actually mean?
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by britch 4y ago
Public transit in all the cities you listed places is a joke when compared with the rest of the world, regardless of how heavily they're relied upon. The Boston metro unexpectedly stopped running for a bit earlier this year. I grew up
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by britch 4y ago
I agree there's corruption throughout, but there's some especially wrong about the top elected official being corrupt in this way that's especially bad. Very visible role. Nominally in charge of keeping the city prosperous an
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by britch 4y ago
Forks can scoop but there's nothing a fork can scoop that a spoon cannot. There's plenty that spoons can scoop that forks cannot.
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by britch 4y ago
Part of that is that google has a team (or four) working on that model and responding to new spamming modes. If development stops and the model is fixed bad actors can find the gaps given enough time
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by britch 4y ago
Who's being silenced on a mass scale?
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by britch 4y ago
Absolutely there are limits. But there are limits to GPA gaming and references gaming too I'm not trying to say tests are useless or anything, but they're definitely gameable. Test-taking is a skill that many students learn that&#
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by britch 4y ago
Sure, but you have to know to do it. The game isn't hard but you have to know to play. I don't think it makes tests useless -- almost everything is gameable. But claiming that tests are ungamable objective measures of knowledge&#x
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by britch 4y ago
You can absolutely "game" tests. They're taught as "test techniques." And there's plenty of tutors who teach it. Process of elimination, read the questions then passage, common question structure, are all examp
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by britch 4y ago
I don't know the specifics here, but it seems possible for something to both: A) have received more money than ever before B) not have enough money to function properly
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by britch 4y ago
From my perspective FB/Instagram's algorithm (I'll throw in YouTube too) never really worked. They overemphasized showing me the exact same type of thing until the feed became boring. You liked this post about a chair -- here
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by britch 4y ago
Is this a joke or are you seriously advocating for setting up a concentration camp?
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by britch 4y ago
I've watched a few 5+ minute TikToks about various things (cars, video games, plants, politics) in the past month I don't think these are hugely popular but they reach some audience. A big video will have 500k to Millions of likes
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by britch 4y ago
I think it's framed as a "problem" because it is associated with high rates of depression, substance abuse, and suicide. It doesn't seem like people like how things are going all that much
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by britch 4y ago
It sounds simple, but it's difficult to do Who are the best and brightest? How do you determine that? Do the best&brightest from one community or circumstance always have the same traits as the best&brightest from another commu

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