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by cltby 5y ago
I think a better analogy would be the resistance to teaching intelligent design. Why make space in the curriculum for faith-based, clumsy, ad-hoc ideas?
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by cltby 5y ago
> The big reason for homeschooling is that you can push your own politics or religion on school more As a descriptive claim, this might be true (wouldn't shock me if the bulk of parents choose to homeschool for religious reasons). B
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by cltby 5y ago
> like teaching kids that the US founders were slaveholders and that owning slaves is a bad thing That stuff has been taught forever, and nobody objects to it. The objectionable stuff is teaching myths like "systemic racism" an
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by cltby 5y ago
The biggest problem with public schooling is less political indoctrination and more the lack of actual schooling. When educators themselves claim “there is no such thing as learning loss," we should take them at their word. School has
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by cltby 5y ago
Simple and easy and, given the miniscule risks to all but the unvaccinated, completely unreasonable to impose on others.
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by cltby 5y ago
The disease is significantly (primarily?) spread via aerosol. Against which officially sanctioned masks are a pretty marginal intervention. https://uwaterloo.ca/news/media/study-supports-widespread-us...
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by cltby 5y ago
At this point, the burden of the disease falls almost exclusively on unvaccinated adults. For everyone else, the risk is same order-of-magnitude as the flu. It's pathological and innumerate to obsess over COVID when we unthinkingly acc
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by cltby 5y ago
It's called an apprenticeship. It already exists; it's widely used; and it's wildly better for most kids than every other extant alternative.
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by cltby 5y ago
She earned her half only in a narrow legal sense. No one would seriously assign more than \epsilon "real" credit for her contributions.
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by cltby 5y ago
> avoid paying for the infrastructure and management of the country The premise here is dead wrong. The top 1% pay ~40% of taxes; the top 5% pay ~60%. So not only do these people create the wonderful consumer goods that enrich your life;
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by cltby 5y ago
> how little this society cares about those that need the most compassion. Two college professors are walking along and chatting when they come across a man who has just been brutally beaten. He is bloody and groaning with pain. The prof
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by cltby 5y ago
Public safety. Commission of violent crimes is a strong signal of underlying violent tendencies. These are largely congenital, and there is no known social intervention to fix them. The rest of us benefit when such individuals are warehouse
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by cltby 5y ago
In light of the AP's new policy on minor crime reporting, I was curious how they would treat this story. Unfortunately, their website has no coverage. However, they did report today on another (alleged) insider trading case, and they u
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by cltby 5y ago
Sad news, if not unexpected. Yet another municipality prioritizes ginned-up grievance over the actually existing harms of unchecked criminality.
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by cltby 5y ago
The governor isn't the bad guy here. It's the supposed experts whose "neutral" opinions are politically contingent. Parents: open the schools. Experts: no, it's unsafe. Progressive politician: open the schools. Expe
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by cltby 5y ago
The data didn't evolve, though. The only thing that ever changed was the political winds. Throughout this whole pandemic, experts have bent over backwards to defend and justify political decisions--and most humiliatingly, decisions tha
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by cltby 5y ago
> Is this an education problem? A number of reporters have gone out and talked to vaccine skeptics, e.g. [1]. They don't appear to be suffering from a deficit of knowledge or "false consciousness" or whatever. Their belief
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by cltby 6y ago
Better than sending them to grievance peddlers and commie sympathizers!
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by cltby 6y ago
> For a global exchange to not risk blowing up means to gain affirmative proof of a user's legal identity, jurisdiction, tax residence Financial stability is totally orthogonal to KYC. Exchanges that allow leveraged trading protect
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by cltby 6y ago
Take a serious drawing class, specifically in the classical academic tradition [1]. As a beginner, you need: a.) theory to simplify and organize the visual information in front of you b.) immediate and rigorous feedback on your mistakes. Th
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by cltby 6y ago
When First Doses First was being debated, many insisted that there was “no evidence” a single dose would work. Well, this paper is a post-hoc analysis of data already submitted to the FDA. In other words, the evidence was there for anyone w
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Bioethics: Tuskegee vs. Covid(econlib.org)
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by cltby 6y ago
The structure itself does depreciate (ask any landlord!). It's the land value that's surging.
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by cltby 6y ago
I wonder if any of these documents will shed further light on MLK’s alleged participation in a violent rape [1]. [1] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/martin-luther-king-f...
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by cltby 6y ago
> This article is the very definition of a straw man. Absolutely no one subscribes to the position it critiques. The article critiques a position that consists of multiple beliefs. While it is true that ~nobody subscribes to all of the
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by cltby 6y ago
It should be noted that nearly the entirety of the increase in murders happened after the BLM protests began in May [1]. Before that, 2020 was on track to be an unremarkably violent year. Given that this is exactly what happened in Ferguson
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by cltby 6y ago
Any rational definition of terrorism (lives lost, property damage, etc) would implicate BLM/Antifa orders of magnitude more than the Capitol rioters.
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by cltby 6y ago
> I'd be totally for splitting society into those who respect science and experts, and those who don't Science not as a search for knowledge, but as a search for daddy figures to respect and obey. Nothing is as harmful to pro
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by cltby 6y ago
Many argue that the experts ultimately got it right (and are thus redeemed). I strongly disagree. Even when the public health types corrected course, their behavior left a bad taste in my mouth. There was no acknowledgement of having been w
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by cltby 6y ago
The BLM protests themselves killed 20-30 people. The murder spree that immediately followed killed thousands more. The Gun Violence Archive has the whole story, but this chart for Philadelphia is indicative[1]. Note the structural break i

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