chmod600

60 ms·

661.
by chmod600 5y ago
Sometimes I wonder if we generally have too high of expectations about how quickly good government can be established. Technology and media move very quickly, and it's easy to think "just git clone the laws and deploy" and yo
662.
by chmod600 5y ago
If schools have become as much political institutions as educational institutions -- and there's little doubt about that -- why do they get public money at all? The real conflict of interest here is politicians spending your money for
663.
by chmod600 5y ago
"The problem is, what is 'reasonable and commonly-held belief'?" If it is held by lots of well-meaning people who are open to hearing reasonable arguments and potentially changing their mind over time. If an opinion real
664.
by chmod600 5y ago
What happened to olivine? https://www.projectvesta.org/
665.
by chmod600 5y ago
I haven't done enough research to really add to this discussion, other than I feel any reasonable or commonly-held belief is better discussed than cancelled. I'm glad that the author shares her perspective. The first step to being
666.
by chmod600 5y ago
Where can I find I good test for scientific and statistical reasoning? Something a layperson could easily take, like a bunch of word problems that aren't numbers-heavy?
667.
by chmod600 5y ago
We celebrate "science", but we skip the scientific method. Observational studies, unreprodcible experiments, and non-falsifiable models have taken over. Not just taken over in pop science, but actual scientific fields. So can we r
668.
by chmod600 5y ago
And we believe that dogs are noble beyond any doubt. But maybe the dog just wants the handler to smile, take her home, and give her a steak?
669.
by chmod600 5y ago
I don't know what the other post had in mind, but does seem like smaller effect sizes have a way of evaporating under scrutiny. One third is pretty big when looking at it from a group perspective, but not really that big from a persona
670.
by chmod600 5y ago
I listen to music in the same way as comedy. It's often not clear whether it's criticizing an idea, reinforcing it, mocking it, glorifying it, or something else, or a combination. Good lyrics or jokes make you think. They don&#x27
671.
by chmod600 5y ago
Greatness can't be arbitrarily taken away post facto. It must fade at its own pace.
672.
by chmod600 5y ago
"It recognizes that the end and aim of education ... is to lift every voice." What does that mean and who agreed that it is the "end and aim" of education?
673.
by chmod600 5y ago
This would be more useful if happiness factored in somehow. For instance, are software devs happy with other software devs? I could imagine getting a bit tired of knowing the other person too well and blending work and home life too much. L
674.
by chmod600 5y ago
"It's pretty much impossible for a billionaire to "consume" their fortune" So what? If someone uses some tax loopholes and then buys a few exotic cars, I can work up a little outrage about that. Maybe get mad about
675.
by chmod600 5y ago
I'm not concerned about wealth. I'm concerned with consumption . If you have a billion in stock but live a humble life, what's the point in taxing it? You'll live the same way, and sell some stock. But selling stock to
676.
by chmod600 5y ago
"shows up on the doorstep" It seems a stretch to tie romcom plotlines involving weird gestures to heinous crimes.
677.
by chmod600 5y ago
I wonder if "nice guys" are more likely to let bad behavior go on around them? I doubt they are more likely to initiate bad behavior, but perhaps not be assertive enough to stop it.
678.
by chmod600 5y ago
I said specifically our fear of people, and I said "somewhat" tuned to reality (not perfectly). General risk perceptions are all over the map because we have no instinct to process risks like flying in an airplane. But people have
679.
by chmod600 5y ago
If we are talking about who to be afraid of, numbers would be a better guide. Can superficially nice, patient, respectable people do horrible things with no warning? Sure. But how often does that happen? Is it enough to be afraid? Or is it
680.
by chmod600 5y ago
If there were consensus on something so simple, it would already be done. I think what you mean is that there's consensus on "Everyone else stop burning fossil fuels, and I'll get around to it as soon as it's convenient
681.
by chmod600 5y ago
Is there consensus on what to do about it?
682.
by chmod600 5y ago
I wonder whether attitudes about luxury cars might be changing. I've owned a luxury car before, but I just don't care about those details so much any more. Sure, that stuff is nice. But you quickly adapt after a couple weeks and p
683.
by chmod600 5y ago
You mean labor hours? Time in the factory from beginning to end?
684.
by chmod600 5y ago
Thank you for providing numbers. But it takes a bit more effort to combine this number with what the article offers into a coherent point. If the top 10% has a lot of older workers-and-savers in it, then it's not very outragous. Your n
685.
by chmod600 5y ago
You're right that the "ebb and flow" on wealth is much less of a factor than on income, and that I conflated those two. But not controlling for age is still a major omission. A lot of middle class people are in the top 10% as
686.
by chmod600 5y ago
What hypothesis? The article here doesn't control for some very important factors. I refuse to be outraged until I see numbers corrected for non-outragous factors, like mobility.
687.
by chmod600 5y ago
The Forbes article study is a bit too creative to apply to this discussion: "Rather than using the more traditional metric of income, this study uses educational attainment as the basis for defining upward mobility." The Atlantic
688.
by chmod600 5y ago
People fall in and out of the categories all the time due to job loss or raises or selling a bunch of stock to make the down payment on a house. Some people are stuck in the lower quintiles, and some people "stuck" in the higher o
689.
by chmod600 5y ago
Then perhaps you should be writing the article, not Robert Frank. As written, the article is worthless except as a way to generate uninformed outrage. If you have information to share, I have an open mind. I suspect it will be less outragou
690.
by chmod600 5y ago
The top 10% is not a static category. People move in and out all the time as a result of ordinary life changes (rising income as you enter prime working years, selling assets to buy a house, selling a house, job loss, etc.). It doesn't

More ›