camelite

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by camelite 8y ago
The resiliance of any fake news detection heuristic is impossible to prove until it is consequential enough to incentivise subversion.
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by camelite 8y ago
Ken Robinson is the problem, not the solution [0]. [0] https://edtechnow.net/guest-posts/ken-robinson-rebuttal/
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by camelite 8y ago
> People are hiring more women because it improves performance and productivity > those in the top quartile for ethnic and racial diversity in management were 35% more likely to have financial returns above their industry mean, and th
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by camelite 8y ago
A cultural issue perhaps, and one mediated by biology at that. I very much doubt that you go around telling the women in your life that the time they spend outside the office, and lack of vocational ambition, are a social problem that need
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by camelite 8y ago
> the senior person should not date the junior person What if the junior person realllllly wants to date the senior person. And the senior person kinda wouldn't mind giving it a go. Should the junior be reprimanded for their outrag
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by camelite 8y ago
The guy who used it was discussing the difficulty of ascertaining whether or not power-imbalances between people in a relationship implies coercion. Women's general preference towards dating up is obviously a factor, so to ascribe a di
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by camelite 8y ago
> it seems to me that the teacher is in a bind because of the assumption that it is necessary that all students learn the same things. That's not the starting point. The starting point is that there is one teacher and many students.
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by camelite 8y ago
Jobs was 49 when iPhone development began.
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by camelite 8y ago
I meant something more than that. Maximally guided instruction doesn't rule out checking for understanding every 10 seconds for instance. It doesn't rule out choral responses. IMO the main benefit of explicit instruction is that i
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by camelite 8y ago
Guided instruction doesn't have to mean students don't participate.
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by camelite 8y ago
> Sexism kept women out of medicine and law for centuries. Have you noticed how this is inconsistent with your prestige argument?
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by camelite 8y ago
This is great. Not wanting to get too fanboyish, but neverthless, do you have a blog or somesuch?
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by camelite 8y ago
brilliant! I don't have experience in big companies, but for sheer comedic value, I have to commend you!
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by camelite 8y ago
> As long as the speech and expression does not contravene any laws the ACLU will defend it – it's irrelevant to them what values the speech and expression they are defending promotes or espouses. Not anymore: http://onli
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by camelite 8y ago
Thank you for that. > You suggested I was missing your point, but to be candid I wasn't sure what that was -- do you mean your criticism of the project because you didn't know if it was sustainable? More or less, yes.
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by camelite 8y ago
Are you having us all on? The only citation for the claim you are highlighting comes from a mcclatchley article titled "Private sector loans, not Fannie or Freddie, triggered crisis" ( https://www.mcclatchydc.com/ne
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by camelite 8y ago
You, along with very many other people, are assuming the banks were convinced by the government to do something they didn't want to do. You mustn't forget that giving loans to people you know won't be able to pay them back, a
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by camelite 8y ago
What law did the government pass that forced the banks to ignore their risk assessment processes? Particularly, supposing you can point to some law or intervention, why do you suppose the banks are so childish and naive that when a law forc
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by camelite 8y ago
What laws did the government pass which "screwed up" the market?
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by camelite 8y ago
What government interventions caused the doubling of subprime lending from 2004 to 2006?
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by camelite 8y ago
> Did you watch the video? Yes, and I still don't know much about the topic. Hence, the questions. > Why do you assume this is inevitable? Was there something in the video that made you think these will go dry? Dude, I don't
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by camelite 8y ago
It's a lot easier than many people believe: you give them a good script, and a year or two of training in how to deliver it.
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by camelite 8y ago
Can you comment on what will happen to that community when the hand pumped wells go dry? (assuming this is inevitable?) The best argument I've seen against what you are doing is that you are moving farming from sustainable areas to uns
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by camelite 8y ago
> As such, the big sentence isn't actually one anyone wants to give unless the defendant basically gives the middle finger to the system. 2 years for the crime, 18 for pissising off your friend. Does your friend think he is a God of
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by camelite 8y ago
Bussing is actually a classic example of a well intentioned policy most supported for its symbolism which ended up damaging its supposed beneficieries because it ignored the necessity of matching peoples' abilities with the expectation
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by camelite 8y ago
That's unfortunate[1]. https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/08/ricardos-vice-vir...
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by camelite 9y ago
If we could solve the gender pay gap for working mothers, computer programmers, machine-shop workers, and other jobs where men still earn more, we might finally be able to celebrate equality between the sexes.
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by camelite 9y ago
That's the second time in two days I've seen that cited in response to the claim no Banker went to jail. But as far as I can make out it's about Tarp fraud, which came at the crisis. Wheres it coming from, first Google result
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by camelite 9y ago
This article [1] states that the nature of the offense doesn't necessarily distinguish civil from criminal fraud, but rather the party pursuing the legal action: > A single act of fraud can be prosecuted as a criminal fraud by prose
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by camelite 9y ago
As far as I can make out from that article all the executives were jailed for tarp-related crimes. Since tarp post dates the crisis, it's not really accurate to cure it in response to a claim about bankers responsible for the crisis. T

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