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by cjmb 6y ago
:) welcome to the great divide between spoken British-English & spoken American-English
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by cjmb 6y ago
Strongly agree. When the rules are bad, don't conform to them. I always use Quote-punc in my own writing if there is any possibility of ambiguity.
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by cjmb 7y ago
Looks pretty cool. The friction of scheduling and joining remote calls is underrated. I wonder what size teams this product works best for? Presumably seeing 45 faces on the sidebar would get a bit much...
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by cjmb 7y ago
Yup, exactly this. I had a few emails recently asking if my site had an RSS feed. I have never used RSS and had no idea. Went into Squarespace settings, messed around for 2 mins, it gave me a button and set it all up for me. Honestly I thou
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by cjmb 7y ago
Good article and a nice read :) You can apply the same analysis to the study of how "entire societies / nations generate Wealth" and get an interesting picture of the international econo-political metagame throughout history.
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by cjmb 8y ago
Thanks for the words of encouragement. I'm not focused enough right now to put a book together -- although I agree that there is more to be said on and around this specific topic. Some good nuggets are in this comment section -- as is
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by cjmb 8y ago
"...the endowment eventually grows to fund 100% of tuition. At that point, the question "why do they need more?" becomes obvious and unanswerable." This is a very good articulation of my points, thanks for laying it out
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by cjmb 8y ago
Good points, and thanks for reading! You're definitely right that "educating undergrads" is not the "primary purpose" of these institutions. I definitely did not & do not believe that. If that came through in th
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by cjmb 8y ago
This is absolutely spot on, and I just wanted to comment to say thank you for articulating my point more succinctly than I did. The comparison to artificially-constrained SF housing is very apt (as a current SF resident, I know it well).
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by cjmb 8y ago
For sure, you’re totally right that non-profits don’t generally need to give away their money. I tried to touch on this idea in the “Case for Charity: A Charity Case” section, but my approach is to view it idealistically / as things sh
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by cjmb 8y ago
Author here. Another long read -- apologies! The TL;DR of this essay might perhaps be: - College degrees are more valuable than ever in post-industrial economies, so applicants to top-tier schools are up 240% over the last 25 years - Meanwh
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The Uncharity of College: The Big Business Nobody Understands(conradbastable.com)
292 points by cjmb 8y ago|140 comments
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by cjmb 8y ago
(Hey, OP here, thanks for reading I really appreciate it!) Look, on the one hand this can get a bit too cynical, to the extent that you start looking for a "grim cabal" (quoting myself, not you) to blame. There are no lizard peopl
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by cjmb 8y ago
Hey, OP here. Thanks for reading. For sure, this was a bit intentionally glib. My own understanding of macroeconomics is relatively light, so I linked to two different perspectives on this event and glossed by it a bit. The point I was tryi
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by cjmb 8y ago
Hi, OP of the actual article here! Thanks for summarizing this here. This is spot on. And of course I'm being a bit hyperbolic -- like I said, the median American still gets to build wealth. Just not as much as their parents. Or their
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by cjmb 8y ago
Hey, OP of the article here, didn't realize someone submitted it here too! Yeah, this is exactly a rephrasing of the point I was trying to get across.
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by cjmb 9y ago
Google-owned YouTube is the main reason I use uBlock, though. I don't care how "good" the ad is really. 15 seconds is an eternity in this age...
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by cjmb 10y ago
If you're drop shipping from US-based retailers, how are you able to make margins on Amazon & eBay? Aren't those retailers also listing on Amazon - with better branding than you - and getting all the sales? (Just spent a few h
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by cjmb 10y ago
Would you mind sharing what has been your most effective method of generating inbound interest to your site? This was actually fascinating to me and I've spent the last 3 hours reading stuff from your links. Just trying to wrap my head
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by cjmb 10y ago
It might be helpful to compile a list of those citations online (your own website, perhaps?). This is the sort of essay that might get shared around a whole bunch....it would be a shame for its impact to be lessened because of the inevitabl
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by cjmb 11y ago
To be bold and attempt to summarize the difference in one sentence: Liberals hold equality as their guiding principle, conservatives, liberty. I'm sure that will irk both sides to some degree. But regardless of the stated motives, I&#x
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by cjmb 12y ago
On Sam's part -- am I the only one who got the "heard this before" feeling? Obviously he attributed everything pretty appropriately, but I thought I could've placed 50-75% of his sentences in the "Summary" sect
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by cjmb 13y ago
If the OP's premise is extended to all others in his peer group, I read this as the implied "long-run" outcome. Whether that's true or not is another argument...
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by cjmb 14y ago
This is a ridiculously hard issue to discuss, especially with anyone who identifies with a group they feel has been victimized. Which can stretch to almost anyone these days. The only thing I wanted to add here is that the article & sub