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by dalbasal 4y ago
"Citation needed" is not a nice quip. You're responding to a forum comment, not reviewing a paper. It's fine to be dubious of a claim, and it's fine to ask politely for sources or rationales. Just be nice.
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by dalbasal 4y ago
>> They are held ... because the funding model is driven by test scores, so the curriculum needs to follow the testing There are many, many educational metastructures large and small around the world. Public, private, religious, regio
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by dalbasal 4y ago
I meant disappointed by the content of the website.
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by dalbasal 4y ago
They're not fundamentally different, but I don't think fundamentals matter here. The mobile internet of 2022 is not very different, in principle, to the 2000 internet. But it is much more available and accessible to many more pe
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by dalbasal 4y ago
This is interesting, but I was somewhat disappointed by the website. They call it a "lab school." I was hoping that meant developing a model which other schools can follow. No shade to Sal, obviously. He does plenty, and does it
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by dalbasal 4y ago
I don't think you can usefully define what teaching fundamentally is. Learning is the anchor, not teaching. Teaching is defined relative to learning. Anything that enables, delivers, structures or otherwise makes learning happen. Fo
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Online learning resources are amazing. Compared to pre-internet, the depth, quality and accessibility is amazing. It really does open an opportunity route for a lot of people. However... Institutional learning, whether it's K-12, colle
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Net neutrality really highlights the ratchet effect that arises wherever a conflict of interest between the general public and special interests exists. They never stop. Legislative lobbying. Massive Legal efforts. Attempts at influencing
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by dalbasal 5y ago
> To a degree you're right, but it's a somewhat navel-gazing point. With respect, nonsense. My point is not ""free speech is complicated, there are exceptions".* This is not about shouting fire in a theatre. It&
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Yes, broadly. People think in stories and characters. It's easier and more natural like this. So, we personify things (war, politics, free speech) into people like Putin, Musk, Hisham. They can play out the stories for us. Also, the ou
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Like many liberty principles, free speech is a lot more complicated to implement as a ruleset than most proponents like to admit. Think of democracy. The people rule, right? In practice, it's an endless field of possibilities. You can&
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Perhaps, though insider trading rules are pretty hard to enforce inside relatively confined and regulated realms. One solution is to go a step up the meta. Ban trading for certain groups or classes, like banning parliamentarians and governm
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Im not sure I was using the term correctly. What I mean is arguing or discussing matters of public discourse... politics and whatnot.
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Addressing opposing arguments directly is not really a feature of arguing. That kind of good faith debate is more of a special case debate. It's just not what public debate is. You see rookie politicians do it, but it's generally
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by dalbasal 5y ago
So... This is exactly the kind of weird, first principles legal "theory" I was talking about. Look at actual example/precedents of fiduciary duty vuilatuons. The real ones. Not the pseudo-legal theory.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
We see coloured smoke come out of the chimney. What the cardinals said is all speculation... even if they later leak something. To my ear, the most simple reading is (1) the board seat came with conditions (2) Elon didn't accept them.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
At least in online forums, people seem to think "fiduciary duties" are much stricter than they actually are. It's as if CEOs are dragged into a fiduciary court and forced to justify raising salaries, lowering prices or whatno
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Mmt's core doesn't have anything to enforce. It's a description, not a prescription. I agree that it's tangential to a lot of half baked ideas. So now, with inflation... Mmt explains why it is happening now, but didn&#x2
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I didn't mean that, quite. I meant, there isn't a current ideological rationale for trade/development/etc. There isn't a vision for where it leads. Etc. I mentioned 90s neliberalism-ish policies. Well... those wer
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I would recommend going direct instead. Mmt is very simple, but needs to be explained with a bank ledger. Metaphors aren't helpful, imo.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I mean that when Greece says "I will put €x in your bank account", they can. They don't need to get those euros from somewhere else. They can just make them appear in your bank. That's why they can run deficits without r
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by dalbasal 5y ago
It's certainly got some animated detractors. Notice though, that a lot of "orthodox" economsists tend to accuse mmt of being both crackpot and trivial. The trivial shot implies that it's trivially derrivate of Keynes. I&
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I agree. That said, I think this type of quasi-conspiratorial narrative building (like parent) tends to exist because there is no credible good guy theory currently. Flawed as it was the 90s neoliberalish, globalish ideology was... at least
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by dalbasal 5y ago
The connection is undeniable, in a journalistic sense. Ie, you can't describe why the US and others are making certain choices without referencing it. Of course, "related to" and "justifies" are not synonyms.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
So... Re:mmt. Modern monetary theory seems to enjoy spooking people. Not sure that's a good thing. However... You can and should separate between "how X works" and "what should we do." Mmt has the best description o
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Imo, a useful next step from here is to read up o nmodern monetary theory's theory/description of central banking. Imo, we tend to start with a description of fractional banking for historic reasons, gold backed money and later do
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by dalbasal 5y ago
For a non-american with no union experience. What's the what with these teamsters, UE & such? What does it mean that they choose to unionize with one of them?
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Evolution can't be tested like this, imo. You can't reason about what where it will lead and assume that this is where it's leading.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
That may be true, but is tangential to parent's point. The point was that smart people existed, not that the median or average intelligence was higher. It's about how their geniuses compared to ours, not how our average Joe compar
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Perhaps, but personaly I found it disingenuous. Sure, Dunbar has a lot of influence in shallow realms: MBA textbooks, managerial self help books, military slideshows and such. Re: umwinding... I think most of what Wengrow unwinds is a straw

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