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by caddemon 5y ago
A lot of basic research is also done in animals, it's a pretty important part of the process that led to many drugs being tested in the first place. But it's true an understanding of the animal is usually treated as an unimportant
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by caddemon 5y ago
2 people sharing a 1 bedroom is a pretty low bar, I think minimum wage should afford someone their own bedroom. However I do often see people claiming no one should have to have any sort of roommates, even if they are a single minimum wage
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by caddemon 5y ago
It's probably a negligible portion of drunk driving incidents, but there definitely are people like that. In the past year there have been multiple drunk driving incidents with well-paid NFL players in nice cars, and these are just the
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by caddemon 5y ago
Yes drunk driver is not the right bar, but I think he still has a point. If the accident rate is less than overall human accident rate we should want to use the self driving cars, but the accident rate might still be high enough that a car
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by caddemon 5y ago
The proposal will only change the winter though, we are already only on standard time for 4 months of the year.
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by caddemon 5y ago
The sun sets where I am at ~430pm during the winter in standard time. I don't really see how having the sun set at 530pm instead would have a substantial effect on bedtime. There is so little sunlight in the winter that work/socia
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by caddemon 5y ago
Is it more popular than Arsenal though? I think the problem here is that following a league versus following a team are different actions. I am well aware of the Dallas Cowboys and watch quite a few of their games, but I would never follow
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by caddemon 5y ago
It'd be difficult to directly measure "well known because of sports team", which I agree is a completely different question, but I think there are a few proxies you could use to try to address the question. If you normalize w
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by caddemon 5y ago
Yeah but that wasn't the original statement, the argument was that a Chinese person would be more likely to recognize the LA Lakers than a London pro soccer team. So popularity of the NBA specifically is quite relevant. Also, you see p
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by caddemon 5y ago
I feel like a lot of development happens between 14 and 18, so I don't understand why freshmen and senior years of high school are so similar from an academic philosophy perspective. Even in a private school where the teachers have a b
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by caddemon 5y ago
Ironically, measures like discussed in this article can actually make classes much harder for students with ADHD. Keeping on top of busy work, maintaining a tight schedule, etc. is not easy with executive functioning issues, and could lead
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by caddemon 5y ago
I see where you are coming from in that there is only so much burden on the teacher that would be reasonable accommodation. However I think it comes across as harsh because many of these students could successfully complete a degree if they
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by caddemon 5y ago
I also think there's always going to be a question of which students you are optimizing for. I had a professor that didn't have an attendance policy, but at the start of every year he would show a scatter plot of class attendance
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by caddemon 5y ago
Many, many TAs are only doing it because it is required for their PhD program (either explicitly or in order to receive funding). Some of them still take the teaching duty seriously, but not all. Having a bad TA is not a good excuse for fai
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by caddemon 5y ago
It also depends on what kind of challenges the team faces in the first place. If there are a lot of issues stemming from faceless corporate policies or bugs in external tools or something then venting about these things for a few minutes ev
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by caddemon 5y ago
I agree with this to some extent, but I think when I get to the point of externally venting I've already pretty strongly internalized the thought. My larger concern with venting is that it seems to encourage bad next step coping strate
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by caddemon 5y ago
Agreed, also the way my high school taught it made proofs seem like a boring subset of Geometry. The unit was poorly connected to other units and the problems I found by far the easiest in the course as we got very formulaic ones. It's
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by caddemon 5y ago
I think a layperson's outlook on these topics in high school could be very interesting though. Use this outlook to help motivate learning calculus and linear algebra. With a mix of engineering survey and math survey there are plenty of
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by caddemon 5y ago
I think the problem is that students don't know these fields exist unless they took an especially strong liking to the standard school math curriculum. Going into college I couldn't have told you what most of the fields mentioned
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by caddemon 5y ago
I fully agree with your general point, but in the US I've found calculus to be much more dominant than linear algebra. I went to an "elite" high school that still does not offer any course in linear algebra, despite having en
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by caddemon 5y ago
The intention of this journal (Nature Scientific Reports) was to peer review only for technical correctness and not judge "interesting-ness". I don't think it's really panned out that way but nevertheless this journal ha
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by caddemon 5y ago
Anything downloaded from the Switch e-shop will continue to work locally on that Switch, and all the mainstream games can be bought as a cartridge if desired. It's not fundamentally different than dragging out my old N64 to play my old
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by caddemon 5y ago
Yeah I'm past this point in my life but there was nearly a decade post-college where I would have really enjoyed continuing to live in dorm-style housing with other people at a similar stage of life. Saving money on top of it would&#x2
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by caddemon 5y ago
I could maybe see their point if it was just a really hard exam and only 10% happen to be able to pass it. But artificially restricting to 10% of the class is ridiculous. The goal should be to pass students that have the requisite knowledge
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by caddemon 5y ago
I agree, I enjoyed the movie for what it was but I found the story pretty lacking compared to some of the other recent Disney (and Pixar) animated features. It kind of felt like the powers were chosen for the sake of pretty animation and&#x
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by caddemon 5y ago
I had a few former scientists (left the field after PhD) teach me in high school and holy shit it was amazing, leagues above anything my friends were learning in the local public school. There are pros and cons, but the point I was at in hi
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by caddemon 5y ago
Not only that but a career public school teacher in many places can retire with a nice pension, private school teachers don't. Even if you look at some of the best private high schools in the country the teacher salary just isn't
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by caddemon 5y ago
Also an account can only downvote once it has amassed a certain level of upvotes. It sounds like the Twitter downvote will be open to everyone when it is fully released, which would make it a lot easier to abuse.
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by caddemon 5y ago
Eh I think there is a huge middle ground between "network consisting of work friends" and "LinkedIn network". Maybe it's different in academia but I know plenty of people that have a strictly professional network bu
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by caddemon 5y ago
TIL Wordle has settings. Interesting, thanks!

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