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by bubblewrap 7y ago
There seem to be some extreme cases where the algorithm fails. That doesn't imply in general it doesn't work well. Sounds again like hyperbole from the NYT. I find it more interesting to consider what would actually be a good outc
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
I know people were not just allowed to go to university. A friend of mine crossed into West Germany in 1989. He wouldn't have been allowed to study in East Germany. He then studied Mathematics in West Germany. A friend from Poland told
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
I'm sure many people have, but less sure that it works.
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
It may be as you said, it just isn't reflected in the article you linked to. That's all I said. I would also be careful because there seems to be a lot of finger pointing and many people being eager to blame other people to distra
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
"there are quite a few things people in Eastern Europe miss from the Soviet days." The people who were lucky not to end up in jail, Gulags, banned from good jobs or made to work in the coal mines, you mean. Who were lucky to be al
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
Your claim was "Afaik quality of life and income collapsed during the 90s far faster than it ever had during the Soviet Union." - so you are making a claim about the time before the 1990ies, which I refuted with the example of Ukr
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
"Fear not my friends! I don't work for MS and this isn't a real proposal." Bummer :-( Is there a free JavaScript library that does that, by any chance? I miss clippy.
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
That doesn't sound very convincing - after all people didn't starve before Russia had modern farming equipment. Something else must have changed. The invention of modern farming equipment is unlikely to have caused existing farmin
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
What about the 3 Million Ukranians starving to death when the communists implemented their plans? https://allthatsinteresting.com/holodomor-ukranian-famine That sounds like a pretty harsh reduction of quality of life to me.
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
Venezuela is also still around, even though the people are starving.
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
That doesn't sound like looting, though, unless the new shareholders were all US citizens? And was it their plan all along to make the factory workers sell their shares to oligarchs? It is still a very popular theory here in Germany th
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
That article starts with "Under supervision of Harvard mafia Russian economy has all but collapsed" - sorry, whatever bad things Harvard people did, I think the Russian economy was already collapsed or collapsing. That is alleged
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
Can you explain how the US looted the former Soviet Union? Never heard that one before.
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
As you say, real world economics don't work like physics. People are not atoms. Therefore your demand that economics textbooks should be like physics textbooks doesn't really make sense. I think Geology and Biology do have a lot o
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
"They were teaching their students big ideas. But they were ideas about what causes what — not about supply and demand." Because supply and demand doesn't cause things? I think there are some citations needed for that claim.
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
I have a general issue with school forcing kids into sub-optimal learning environments. It's not OK if a few ill-mannered kids make it difficult for everybody else. I don't think it is an inevitable outcome of having boys in the c
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
Dependence on good income: if you are not dependent on a good income, you have more jobs to choose from. For example you can study literature, or work with children. Another option only women have is becoming a mother, staying at home or wo
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
First of all women are doing lots of STEM - they are the majority of medicine students, for example. It seems to be mostly engineering they shun. In my opinion, the main reason for that is that they have lots of other interests, too, and th
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
According to the article, the women actually were along on the trip, they just were not in the initial group photo.
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
I don't think winning in a game has to involve "feeling superior". Many games of chance are also fun. In other cases, somebody might actually be superior (the better player). Then what - nobody should be better than anybody e
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
Sure, yes, I feel threatened - because it is visible in many educational institutions that the only focus is on somehow getting girls into STEM. The boys are on their own, it is assumed that they will be interested in STEM anyway. Which isn
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
In what way are they better off, would you say? Btw Rudolf Steiner (of Waldorf School fame) would also outlaw ball games, at least soccer. After all, the ball could be mistaken for a head and it could train kids to kick heads.
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
Get your daughter a different toy, then, and let the boys enjoy their battles.
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
That drone wars are becoming a reality seems like a good reason to start learning how to program drones early, actually.
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
Educational about what? What about Lego, is it educational? Because you learn to stick bricks together. So I guess it teaches you to become a brick mason, I suppose? To each their own, I suppose...
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
The kids would presumably spend a lot more time constructing than destructing. I also doubt the robots get actually destroyed in the competition. Do you also forbid water blasters in the hot summer? As you say, those playful fights are a na
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
times could change - more smartphone users, people less willing to deal with desktop software.
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
In Jared Diamond's "guns, germs and steel" an explanation given is that in China, some monarchs simply decided to abandon ocean faring ships, and so China didn't have them for a long time. The same couldn't happen i
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
If the value becomes smaller, wouldn't it automatically result in fewer people going to university?
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
I don't completely understand the logic. After all, if they shut down, the VCs won't get anything, either. So why not keep it running and reap at least little rewards.

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