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by csa 10mo ago
So much of your comment is wrong: > These extra curricular activities, were the secret game you had to play, to get into prestigious universities. At least, it was just a few years ago. Extracurriculars have been a part of elite school a
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by csa 10mo ago
> You could just as logically say that if the user has spent money to remove advertising, then they now have less money and are less valuable to advertise for. Thank you for the laugh. While this may be true on an individual level, it’s
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by csa 10mo ago
> You could zero out every dollar American insurers make and not materially alter consumer health care economics; their share of the health care pie is almost literally a rounding error. What are you implying with this comment? I general
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by csa 10mo ago
> find my course near the top of Google > Now the same thing happens, but there's 20x less sales per month. You’re a victim of the AI search results. There are lots of those. I recommend something like social media ads where your
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by csa 10mo ago
Were most of your sales coming via your site and/or organic search? It sounds like you have a solid product, but you need to update your marketing channels.
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by csa 10mo ago
> I don’t understand this thing you do in the US of forcing you to do completely unrelated courses. The framework for the current curriculum was developed when maybe 2% of the country went to college. The curriculum was meant to be broad
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by csa 10mo ago
> Which viewpoint did you oppose? It matters. > If it was "Women should be allowed to vote" I can understand the teachers reluctance to engage in debate. I was in a class like this at an elite school 3 decades ago. I was tol
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by csa 10mo ago
> Construction, a few trades… Help me, I've run out of ideas without resorting to "Walmart Greeter". I don’t think you’re trying hard enough. - bookkeeper - billing (esp. medical) - data entry - admin assistant - inventory
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by csa 10mo ago
> Do you know any employers actively avoiding students from Ivy-league colleges? Yes. The Ivy grads are often considered over-qualified (rightly or wrongly). Especially for government positions that don’t normally hire elite school grads
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by csa 11mo ago
> In both suburban neighborhoods I've lived in the past 10 years, there are basically zero middle school or high school kids doing anything except playing video games and messing around on their phones from the comfort of home. Whil
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by csa 11mo ago
> Lemme just question how home schooling is at all possible without one parent (statically more likely to be a woman) staying home to supervise the learning. There are at least two good answers to this: 1. The first is a via a home-schoo
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by csa 11mo ago
> Don't legitimate IQ tests top out at 160 for adults? “Top out” can be interpreted many ways. It depends on how they are used. Modern tests are fairly accurate up to 2sd (70-130). The tests start wavering in accuracy between 2sd an
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by csa 11mo ago
> i could envision a situation where there's a kid that has a bad home-life situation that gets resolved or a stretch of bad mental health that could really turn things around from one year to the next. This happens. Usually they wi
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by csa 11mo ago
> what happens to GPA if a kid is failed/held back a year? For a kid who is held back a year, what good is any GPA? Genuine question. I’m sure that one could construct some sort of edge case or corner case in which a college-bound k
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by csa 11mo ago
> Enough that some colleges have been bullied into eliminating the SAT or ACT requirements entirely, by those who allege they're unfair to that group. So those schools just admit based on the "homework grades" that are inf
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by csa 11mo ago
> Are there any laws… in the US? Laws are irrelevant if they are not enforced. Laws are being very slowly or very selectively enforced these days, while some of the powers that be are flagrantly breaking laws. > Will they get their s
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by csa 11mo ago
> Absolutely no English speaker doesn't read 'PJs' as 'pyjamas'. While I agree that “pajamas” is the most common meaning of PJs, there is a certain socio-economic class in the US in which “PJs” is used far more
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by csa 11mo ago
> A question to everyone unhappy paying for their insurance: would you be happier paying 50% income tax, 20% sales tax and not having to ever worry about paying for healthcare? I hope it’s obvious that this is a false dichotomy. There ar
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by csa 11mo ago
> For me, diet and exercise seem unhelpful in the face of even minor stress. Good point. I probably should have written something like “…diet, exercise, and mental health”.
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by csa 11mo ago
> you won’t sleep though, that ability vanishes at 40 I’m not sure why you say that. If one takes care of themselves in terms of diet and exercise, good sleep should be a thing for most of their life. I’m in my 50s, and I sleep about as
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by csa 1y ago
> Focus on producing speech over everything else That’s a great way to gimp your language learning curve. Receptive skills develop before productive skills. This is just a truism about language. I could buy into dedicating time to speaki
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by csa 1y ago
> And the whole pear in the recipe situation was also hilarious The fact that the pear was in the recipe, or that the AI didn’t handle that situation around the pear well? Asian pears are a common ingredient in beef marinades/sauces
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by csa 1y ago
A buddy of mine is an executive at one of the successful ghost kitchen companies. I asked him about this article. His comments: - They aren’t dying. Most of them are just not run well, and there isn’t a widely-known “playbook” to use to spi
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by csa 1y ago
> I've been to places that add "service charge" by default now to relieve tipping, then still give you the option to tip on top of that, which some people do because they think maybe the service charge isn't going to
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by csa 1y ago
> e.g. 4th grade classrooms out there where most of the kids have phones, seems super popular especially among the Fussellian middle class, I think in part for status reasons, like, "well if my kid doesn't have a phone people w
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by csa 1y ago
> I think it needs to be said that people who choose those careers are probably one of the worst kinds of people. I’m guessing you’ve never met any special operations people, much less folks from the SMUs. I have met many. 100% A+ people
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by csa 1y ago
> I recently found out that my nephew's school had no take-home homework before high school, instead having kids complete assignments during class time. At first, I was flabbergasted that they would deny kids the discipline building
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by csa 1y ago
> Given that that they coded this functionality and expose it in their app, I really don't see how Tesla can be let off by making the statement that you must officially be in front of the wheel all of the time. Just to be clear, Tes
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by csa 1y ago
> By 2035 any language above a first grade reading level will be grounds for AI suspicion. Probably 5th grade, but your comment is directionally correct.
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by csa 1y ago
> But T is not the answer long term. Imho, “T” only has enough gas in the tank to enrich himself and his family by any means necessary while protecting the same group from legal consequences. The real question is whether p2025 is the ans

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