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by dfadsadsf 3y ago
If 80% of students get A, it's very weak motivator if you are top 10% student. Essentially there is no point in working harder than some arbitrary pretty low threshold. Most subjects has unlimited depth so it should not be too hard to
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by dfadsadsf 3y ago
Universities are just gaming ranking. If you are DEI candidate and have low SAT/ACT, you are steered to not provide the score. That way if you are accepted average SAT score for university is not affected and university still rank high
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by dfadsadsf 3y ago
There is oversupply of people willing to fill high level positions. Problem is that if you want people who have proven that they are skilled (aka successfully held equivalent or higher position at similar company) the pool is much smaller a
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by dfadsadsf 3y ago
Japanese companies did not do very well over the last 20 years (by pretty much any metric) so objectively US executives as a group did significantly better than Japanese executives as a group. In addition you can't talk only CEO salari
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by dfadsadsf 3y ago
Essentially due to western government sanctions, leasing companies are forced to break the lease (law of the land). In retaliation, Russian government sanctions are blocking airlines from returning the planes (law of the land too). Both are
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by dfadsadsf 3y ago
It’s open question who stoled from whom with leasing companies refusing payments and all Russian assets frozen in EU/US.
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by dfadsadsf 3y ago
While I am sure there was database somewhere with badge-in data, up until now I have never worked at a place that looked at that data or made it available to managers or employees. Exempt status (non-hourly worker) in US essentially prevent
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by dfadsadsf 3y ago
Considering de facto almost $20 minimum wage in US, $1 is like 3 minutes of work - hardly unaffordable considering average person spends 3-4 hours/day on the phone.
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by dfadsadsf 3y ago
I think as all in life it's situational. Would I trust imperfect AI to pick medicine out of 1000 available in a drugstore? Probably not - what if it picks Fentanyl (or whatever drug that can kill me). Would I trust it to pick Ibuprofen
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by dfadsadsf 3y ago
Recidivism rate is high so People who commit murded will likely commit other crimes if released so removing them from society is a good thing. Keeping them in jail forever is a waste of resources so execution is right approach. The one thin
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by dfadsadsf 3y ago
You need to pay congressmen enough money so they can have upper middle class lifestyle - without that pressure to take bribes is dramatically higher. You have nice 5bdrm house in good school district and enough money for nice vacation + sav
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by dfadsadsf 3y ago
In neer peer conflict air supremacy is probably pipe dream because of combination of ground based anti aircraft systems and inability to take out airports for more than 1-2 hours without using tactical nukes. Tor/S300/S400 and wes
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by dfadsadsf 3y ago
The most obvious one is that Asian American are considered “disadvantaged” group for getting SBA loans which makes zero sense (highest earning group in US). They also qualify for minority-owned business status that opens up gov contracting
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by dfadsadsf 3y ago
We should be very careful about drawing conclusions from Iraq or Afghanistan on potential performance of US army against competent and motivated opponent. Both Iraqi army in 2003 and Taliban in 2001 just melted away deciding not to fight. T
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by dfadsadsf 3y ago
Literally airbnb (and few smaller alternatives) are the only sites where you can get place with kitchen and two rooms (traveling with wife and 2 kids so hotel room is not really an option). Airbnb is lifesaver - you just have to be ready fo
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by dfadsadsf 3y ago
If said student is in Munich or Frankfurt his cost of living is very similar to student in Cambridge. Also while Cambridge median is high, 30 min drive gets you to the place where median is less than 50k.
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by dfadsadsf 3y ago
This problems is mostly solved for in state vs out of state tuition. Just institute 12-15 month waiting period or 3 months waiting period with full time job.
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by dfadsadsf 3y ago
With that, the US is widely recognized to have the best universities in the world. A lot of countries claim to take education seriously, but the result is often very mediocre. Very few people will pick IIT or Beijing University if they are
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by dfadsadsf 3y ago
The problem with a single nationwide standardized test is that kids will spend an inordinate amount of time (and money) studying for it. Major downside is that time is mostly wasted learning tricks to answer questions instead of learning so
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by dfadsadsf 3y ago
Magic that happens in top universities in US is combining money (kids of billionaires) with smarts (kids with 1600 SAT) in one place. Both bring different skills to the table and result is disproportionate share of top scientist, business a
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by dfadsadsf 3y ago
Much better is to stop the service but add button "Resume" that re-enables service for two more weeks with no data loss. That way you give users opportunity to gracefully migrate away. Stopping service and immediately delete data
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by dfadsadsf 3y ago
At this point there are no evidence that climate catastrophe that can make human extinct is either likely or possible - at least due to global warming. At worst some coastal regions get flooded and places around equator become unlivable wit
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by dfadsadsf 3y ago
You are stretching credibility when you talk about 6 months to retrain from GA to some other analytics tool. 1-2 weeks is much more realistic timeline considering standard industry terms and similarity between tools.
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by dfadsadsf 3y ago
There is oil in Sakhalin Island, new pipelines are planned and existing railways are fully capable to transport enough oil to sustain military campaign if China curtains civilian oil consumption (like every country at war did in WW2). Frank
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by dfadsadsf 3y ago
Just buying lab busts plausible deniability that the kid has merit and it's not just money.
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by dfadsadsf 3y ago
> 'peer-reviewed' by some non-existent degree mill That's what poor people will do and it is easy to filter for degree mills. Upper middle class people will pay PhD students to add their kid name to decent papers as second
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by dfadsadsf 3y ago
I think this is already happening, to some extent. Back in the day, all the smart folks would flock to a handful of top universities. But now, things are changing. The reliance on SAT and merit is decreasing, and universities are focusing m
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by dfadsadsf 3y ago
According to the link you shared, it seems Kaspersky has been prohibited solely on governmental computer systems in certain nations which Kaspersky previously revealed as deploying malware against their adversaries, correct? I doubt many on
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by dfadsadsf 3y ago
It was a choice between having kids or not having them at all. At her age, delaying was not an option. People have kids in all kinds of terrible situations and hers is not that bad. She has supportive families on both her and her husband si
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by dfadsadsf 3y ago
Or they do not care about ethnic war on periphery of Europe that affects none of US vital interests? Making irrelevant war in far remote country existential good vs evil struggle is how US got into Vietnam. The fact that there were zero neg

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