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by cauch 3y ago
But this argument works identically with freedom of movement, access to health, ... For example, it is the people in power how decide and enforce border control and restricted area delimitation. And it is people in power who decide how the
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by cauch 3y ago
Something I don't really understand with people putting free speech as the bedrock of an open society is the contradiction in some arguments during the debate. In one hand, they are explaining that free speech is the most (or one of th
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by cauch 3y ago
Thanks for the info about Finkelstein. > If these things don't constitute cancellation, nothing does. I think that is exactly my point: what you describe constitute the usual social interactions that always existed, and for which we
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by cauch 3y ago
The popular conception of cancellation is that cancellation is an unfair imposition of an ideology on people who don't deserve to be judged, and that it is destroying their life. But on this discussion you've provided a list, and
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by cauch 3y ago
Your definition of "cancelled" seems to be pretty different than the current usage, in particular people who are against "cancel-culture" as a threat to legitimate freedom and/or as a dangerous unfair ideology. (in
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by cauch 3y ago
Maybe it is happening in America, which is very puritanical, but my feeling is that when people highlight elements that would not be accepted today in historical people, the goal is not to paint them as the devil, but to understand that not
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by cauch 3y ago
Was he canceled? From what I understand, Stallman had several role at FSF. One of them was spokesperson, which is basically Public Relationship. Then, he made several actions showing that he does not understand the basis or does not have th
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by cauch 3y ago
It is easy to check one reference. It is not easy to check all the reference, and read the whole article, and check each paragraph, and check that there is no flaw in the logic, and check that there is no hypothesis missed, and check that .
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by cauch 3y ago
I agree with checking the references, but again, my point is that as a general rule it's really not that easy. You can think it's easy because you have had the work done for you for this particular article and that it is obvious i
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by cauch 3y ago
I doubt it is so naively simple as "querying a database". For example, before the publication of this article, the majority of the "databases" were simply saying "the inventor is Cort", which is one example of
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by cauch 3y ago
But how could the reviewers have found the errors in this article? The article can tell "Cort was informed about the new techniques from a family member back from Jamaica". How do you verify that? The only way is to redo the all w
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by cauch 3y ago
But your solutions imply things that you would probably not accept to do if you were the one having to do the work for these solutions. You are saying that people will be blamed for taking too much time to an example saying it would took 10
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by cauch 3y ago
Are you seriously thinking that someone is incapable to drive a car if they are not incorrectly convinced that an incorrect math computation is correct? The large majority of things in life is "impossible to statistically prove".
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by cauch 3y ago
Again, you miss my point. "hundreds of reactor in operation for decades" is NOTHING. These plants have a large number of differences, and are located and operated often very differently. At the end, you have something like "1
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by cauch 3y ago
That's not at all the point. Imagine the following game: you throw three dices. If the three dices are not ending on 1, you win 1 dollar. If they are ending on three 1, you lose 100'000 dollars. If you throw the dice ten times, yo
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by cauch 3y ago
The number of nuclear plants is so small that any example is statistically anecdotical. Yes, Fukushima did not kill much. Is it because the nuclear is in itself super safe, or is it because we were lucky? We would need ~100 Fukushima before
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by cauch 3y ago
You are reaching conclusions that are not implied by what I've said. You are somehow inventing that being grateful to someone means that the other person is not being grateful to you. Nothing in my text implies anything on how the pers
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by cauch 3y ago
You can see it in another way: science is directly improving your life. Your tax money is not a "gift" that you make, or even a "salary" that you pay, it's you buying the right to profit from it. Why should the resu
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by cauch 3y ago
> But other people very much do not want this option taken away from them and step one to talking about this is at least admitting that, yes, algebra is being replaced. Of course algebra is being replaced, where do I say anything differe
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> No, people are not asking to do this, lol. The complaint is about the education report that opposed students being allowed to study algebra in advanced classes. Obviously, nobody is just coming and saying "lol, I hate children, I
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> It's your responsibility, not mine, to prove that what was normal before is now "advanced" by the standards of the country, and that slow is now "normal" I've answered that already: the demonstration is in
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by cauch 3y ago
> They are blocking middle schoolers from taking Algebra. By replacing it by another challenging mathematical content. How is that "dumbing down". It's like saying "they are making students less musical because they a
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by cauch 3y ago
> it's actually not that complicated, just look at what other schools in the country do, or what these did before the change Except that you have not done that. Where are your data? Did you make sure that the group you compared are
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by cauch 3y ago
Apparently, the measure was not to "cancel advanced classes", but to replace advanced algebra by something more challenging, more engaging and developing more the scientific brain of student (in this case, advanced data science).
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I would love that (more money for education), and I'm pretty sure the people who proposed this measure would drop it immediately in exchange for more money for education. But you are obviously not the first one coming up with this idea
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And replace "slow" by "terribly fast" and "normal" by "advanced" and, magic, now everyone gets advanced classes. Estimating if the pace is "fast" or "normal" is very very complicat
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> Canceling advanced classes quite literally prevents people from taking those classes. 1) You've cut my sentence, which says "cancel more advanced classes IF ...", which means that not all advanced classes are cancelled.
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> This is a ridiculously privileged view that hurts the people it claims to help. I'm not saying it is what it will happen, I'm saying that some says "this measure is stupid, smart students will get private lessons anyway&
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by cauch 3y ago
Thank you for bringing my attention to that. Looking closer, I'm even more confused: it was never question to drop "advanced math", but to replace "advanced algebra" by "advanced data science mathematics".
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> The problem is not allowing people to take more advanced classes, if they so choose. The article itself says that students who want to go ahead will get private lessons. The idea is not stopping people to get more advanced classes, the

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