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by caddemon 5y ago
That is need blind for internationals, which is quite rare. Need blind for domestic students is a long list which you can see here, and includes basically every school that one would call "top": https://en.m.wikipedia.o
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by caddemon 5y ago
Agreed on mass transit, I also think wearing the mask outside during pollen season helped a bit with my allergies, so there's a few use cases where I'll probably still wear them. Especially because I've collected so many diff
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by caddemon 5y ago
This is an interesting point but I do think the causality goes both ways. Yeah Americans are probably more inclined to want to socialize at work, but American companies also are way too obsessed with butts in seats. If you're being for
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by caddemon 5y ago
Again, OP claimed that top US schools directly ask your income in applications, implying this information was used directly in admissions decisions. It is not, and any admissions tests Oxbridge uses certainly have similar issues of correl
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by caddemon 5y ago
I never said that wasn't the case, just as it is obviously the case at Oxbridge. Making misleading comments about US schools using parental income directly in admissions decisions doesn't help fix any of that.
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by caddemon 5y ago
It seems to me this is the first era where the content is practically endless, which I think is a meaningful distinction that can make phone/social media worse than prior technologies. Growing up I spent a lot of time on AIM and then t
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by caddemon 5y ago
Yeah I guess also the sticker price of Oxbridge being lower may make this the better choice. Even though the majority of students don't pay the list price at top US schools it is a really daunting number, and so for low income students
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by caddemon 5y ago
Yes, also the private schools in the US that are comparable to Oxbridge all do need-blind admissions, and have very generous aid. Average cost paid at those schools is much lower than at mid-tier private schools or out of state schools. The
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by caddemon 5y ago
Maybe things were different in 2004, but those forms do not cross paths with admissions decisions whatsoever, for at least the last decade. The financial aid office won't communicate with admissions until offers have been decided. MIT
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by caddemon 5y ago
The same issues exist in a ton of other academic fields though, most of which do not get crazy salaries. IMO academics are more concerned with recognition and other ego-stroking than they are with salary.
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by caddemon 5y ago
I don't think there's necessarily a problem with trying things on a hunch, some of the best results in science have been due to a hunch or even an accident. The problem comes from trying a dozen hunches and only writing up one, or
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by caddemon 5y ago
Yeah that's fair, it's never going to be easy for the general public to stay correctly informed on rapidly evolving technical topics. But once some piece of misinformation got too deeply entrenched on one side the partisanship too
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by caddemon 5y ago
I'm not the one that was originally asking for regulation on the social media companies, I just think there are too many fundamental differences between current social media sites and newspaper editorials for that analogy to work. Pers
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by caddemon 5y ago
I never made a comment one way or the other about whether the cancellation was logical, I was just responding to the claim that there was no funding to begin with.
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by caddemon 5y ago
I mean if a benign intervention doesn't actually work and it causes people to avoid a real intervention that is problematic. There's definitely plenty of alternative medicine misinformation out there that makes similar arguments a
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by caddemon 5y ago
NYT can also be held liable for things like slander though, right? If social media sites try to claim they are not responsible for any content posted, that does feel a bit like trying to have their cake and eat it too.
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by caddemon 5y ago
Yes I agree there was a lot of conflation of man made and lab leak, but I much more frequently saw people dismiss lab leak because of arguments focusing on man made, than people saying they believed the man made hypothesis because it could
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by caddemon 5y ago
Yes they were, NIH grants went to WIV. Here is a government science website saying as much: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/9563/ It went through a non-profit, but trust me there is careful
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by caddemon 5y ago
What incentive would the US government have to lie about this though? They were funding research at that lab, I don't understand why they would want people to think lab leak is correct all of a sudden - if that's what you're
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by caddemon 5y ago
I wouldn't use the word bad faith, but I think for a lot of people it was very likely motivated by political/social pressure more than by trying to find the truth. In a positive light one could interpret some of the dismissal as a
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by caddemon 5y ago
As far as institutional memory is concerned, new is anything that hasn't been seen in a couple generations' lifetimes, certainly not 1000s of years. This is also why I included "recently en vogue" in my prior comment, I&
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by caddemon 5y ago
The part that is new, or at least recently en vogue again, is how this behavior is seen as a positive. It is explicitly encouraged by current social dynamics. It is even encouraged to some extent in academic or "intellectual" circ
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by caddemon 5y ago
Yeah the thing that concerns me most about "cancel culture" (of what I see) is people openly pushing back on the principle of innocent until proven guilty. It seems to be common to argue that there is nothing wrong with the court
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by caddemon 5y ago
Yeah I'm not sure if there is an "ask" style subreddit for 3D printing, but IME the ask subreddits are a good way to get quality content on a broader academic topic. There may also be a sidebar on a given sub with more specif
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by caddemon 5y ago
This is what makes subreddits such a good idea IMO. Theoretically Reddit can be a massive community, while each subreddit can still remain niche. Then people can be connected to others across a number of topics without "polluting"
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by caddemon 5y ago
Just because someone doesn't win literally every event every time doesn't mean they don't have an unfair advantage. The trans women did slash up the recordbooks in the 55m dash, per even that source. Different race types favo
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by caddemon 5y ago
I'm sure there are transphobic people that jump on these discussions, but I don't see any connection between this issue and trying to limit access to puberty blockers? If anything using puberty blockers should help diminish any hy
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by caddemon 5y ago
I've been told to think of trans people as always being their true gender, from birth. Which makes perfect sense to me, but then that contradicts this discussion of athletics. Clearly there will be some points in time when the trans wo
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by caddemon 5y ago
The biggest problem with that is probably that there aren't enough trans people at the high school athletics level to form a local league. For something like running it is maybe realistic, but for any team sports it's definitely n
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by caddemon 5y ago
How many trans people realize early enough in life (and have the parental support) to actually use puberty blockers?

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