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by contubernio 1mo ago
ODB understood this dynamic years ago - "Wu Tang is for the children"
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by contubernio 1mo ago
Instrumental education is less effective at producing innovation and utility than is basic education. Forgetting this is (and has been) destructive to universities.
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by contubernio 1mo ago
One imagines they are far more worried about person X fraudulently claiming to be person Y than they are about occasionally causing problems for identical twins. Obviously the solution is to accompany facial recognition with DNA tests.
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by contubernio 1mo ago
People on the street, so to speak, don't know better even in advanced nations with strong educational systems. Look how much rejection of vaccination there is in spite of "knowing better". In many African nations there is ver
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by contubernio 1mo ago
Overrated and tendentious book. There are many better linear algebra texts. His polemic against determinants is poorly motivated, misguided, and distracting. The writing is quite formal and not terribly inspiring. The coverage is adequate b
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by contubernio 1mo ago
Another common misconception is that one is still healthy with high BMI that comes from having lots of muscle. It's not clear that lots of muscle is healthy.
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by contubernio 2mo ago
People with lots of knowledge and (monetary and computing) resources.
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by contubernio 2mo ago
My own bank in Spain calls me constantly cold from landlines.
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by contubernio 2mo ago
In Spain I have recently been getting far more robo scam calls. New several a week.
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by contubernio 2mo ago
My butcher is still bitter because forty years ago he studied very hard and passed latin but the teacher accused him of cheating and failed him in the grounds that a loutish thuggish kid like him couldn't possibly have studied that har
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by contubernio 2mo ago
1. The phenomenon exists, but what is the problem? 2. Surely "municipality" does not mean the same thing in different countries.
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by contubernio 2mo ago
Philanthropy reflects a failure of the state to realize it's most basic functions.
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by contubernio 2mo ago
This is a case where the claim is clearly nonsense, and the interesting question is where is the error.
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by contubernio 2mo ago
There are a number of bad premises in this article. For example, most people in the world (outside the USA in particular) have never mowed a lawn. I live in a city of 3.5 million and essentially no one has a lawn. When you really mow a lawn
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by contubernio 2mo ago
Europe has already pushed shorter PhDs with the excuse of facilitating development in technology/industry. It's been a huge failure in mathematics for various reasons among which are: 1. Students don't have time to develop au
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by contubernio 2mo ago
Without doing any serious thought, it is concerning that the statistic doesn't vary more temporally. It seems too consistent, and raises the suspicion that it reflects regulatory agenda more than anything intrinsic
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by contubernio 2mo ago
In the USA as elsewhere golf courses are incredible wastes of water and false green spaces that would function better as green spaces were they actually parks open to the public they serve the wealthy. What is different is that in the US th
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by contubernio 3mo ago
Sharing costs generates institutional incentives to keep costs down. Individualizing costs generates institutional incentives to charge more. Perverse incentives are the essence of what is wrong with US medical systems.
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by contubernio 3mo ago
It could be attacked easily via an alliance with Mexico or Canada. The premise that such a thing could never happen is not a good one for military planning.
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by contubernio 3mo ago
Does this not violate European privacy laws?
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by contubernio 3mo ago
The anecdote is meant to illustrate not to substitute a full data set. Universities and other similar large institutions usually err systematically in one direction - that which protects the institution.
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by contubernio 3mo ago
No one lives in rooms. Everyone in Madrid lives in apartment. The average salary refers to those who have a job. Most family units have some that don't.
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by contubernio 3mo ago
Alternative approximate translation: while I urinate on you tell me it's raining.
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by contubernio 3mo ago
In Madrid where the average monthly pretax salary is below 1500 a shared room with four strangers costs 400-709 a month and small aprtments in bad neighborhoods cost 3000-4000 a square meter to buy.
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by contubernio 3mo ago
False. I live in Madrid and being near a metro station a. Has no issues (for almost all stations) and b. is considered highly desirable. 10 minute walk is considered a lot (mine is 5, to either of the two nearby stations - at 10-12 minutes
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by contubernio 3mo ago
The very few cases that result in sanctions are generally horrendously flagrant. With another professor I caught a flagrant case in a student thesis and we faced attacks from the university administration because the student had a stellar t
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by contubernio 3mo ago
Rephrasing is worse than literal copying from a procedural point of view because it demonstrates intent and obviates a defense of mere incompetence.
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by contubernio 4mo ago
A time honored practice of dysfunctional institutions when confronted with a problem is to stop paying any attention to it. Problem gone. It's one of the derivatives of quality control.
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by contubernio 4mo ago
Professors suddenly realized everyone was cheating and started paying attention, but the cheating isn't new ... A lot of faculty are happy when their students get good grades because they interpret it as I'm such a good teacher
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by contubernio 4mo ago
Absolutely inaccurate. I am nationalized Spaniard living here 2+ decades. Almost no one over 50 calls on the phone and when they do they almost always send a message first. The large public institution I work in is removing landlines comple

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