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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I just assume they all are. Then, when someone gives me an actually thought-out reason for why they did something and it seems plausibly pre-hoc (so to speak), I can be legitimately surprised and delighted. But in all honesty, I’m talking a
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Probably doesn’t help that it seems like nutrition research does 180s every so often on pretty much every reported “finding.” That has probably as much to do with the hype surrounding actual research though, so I don’t necessarily blame the
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I think you overlooked (or perhaps just ignored) their point about that: > even there, we know current prices are investor funded to gain share
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
And satisficing is a dirty word, apparently. :(
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Really? I had no idea Teetotaling was the new in-thing. Welcome, friends! (For me, it was a choice based on my own mental health plus a family history of alcoholism on both sides, but I surely never thought that not drinking would become a
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I think it’s fascinating how many people are enamored by how the building looks. To me, it’s horrifically ugly, just a giant glass rectangle on squat legs. De gustibus non disputandum est, eh?
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
My response to post-hoc rationalizations is to stare and go, “Mmm hmmm, you have no idea do you?”
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I don’t know of any teachers, who punish teenagers extra when they say they don’t know why they did something. Honestly, they’re just being honest. They really don’t know why they do impulsive things.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Haha, I hadn’t really thought of it in those terms before. “ I really hope we are alone because if we’re not, it’s gonna be so embarrassing for us.” :D
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I mean, yeah, but an architect with advanced classical language training.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Just curious: what’s the difference between the past and today? What changed for you?
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I’m sorry, but your comment came right after the comment thread about a guy printing gay porn and I thought you were making a joke and I was giggling about the firmware and hardware thing and then I realized you were making a serious point.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Try looking at what they say about how the Senate will work. Or about how a president would respond to impeachment, and how impeachment would work as a check.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Fun experiment to run: go through the Federalist Papers and find places where they make psychological observations/predictions about how people in government/politics do, should, or will act. Note that these observations/pred
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
The problem with your voting solution is that the Supreme Court has constitutionalized the issue. Getting money out of politics in America is going to require a constitutional amendment.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
But how do we put de lime in de coconut?!
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Oh god this. I get emails from students with emoji and I very frequently have to ask them, “How are you using this one?” Of course, the fascinating thing is that different groups of kids use the same emoji slightly differently. So.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I was wondering about this because my only memory of it is just how much people hated it. That and security problems.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Big Ass Telescope?
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Yet it got put in the same sentence as Bell Labs. First sign for me not to take it seriously.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Retraction Watch, maybe? https://retractionwatch.com/
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Notwithstanding my asshole-ishness in my original comment, I actually appreciate you asking these questions. I don't have all the answers. I can gesture at some of them, which I will do later tomorrow (today? Hi, it's 2:00 am). I
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
This is something I hear startlingly often. It's not the majority of kids, by any means, but I've had a number of students who fail classes so they have to go to summer school, just to escape from home.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Perhaps it was too abrasive. Hubris? No, I don't have any amount of confidence to drive me to offer big, system-wide solutions. Because schooling and its issues are incredibly complicated and bring into play much, much more than just
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
> Maybe you go to a school in a poor area, or with a lot of violence, or far too many students for the teachers to pay any individual attention to; or, relatedly, maybe you’re required to spend a lot of time caring for siblings or parent
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
First, why do people do this? > MacOS makes your life miserable but you find it cool because marketing makes you believe it. Well, your offhand condescension sure convinced me that I’d want to spend time on your community! Or, you know,
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Sounds like a job for the orcas…
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Your response prompts for me a point I left out above: there’s major ambiguity here about “learning.” Learning isn’t one thing. Memorizing definitions of vocabulary words isn’t the same thing as explaining how you might apply a word in diff
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Yeah, that was painful. How does memory work? Me, teacher who took graduate school classes on educational psychology: he’s going to talk about short-term memory, etc. now. Him: NEURONS! Also, the article never mentioned the one absolutely k
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
It’s on appeal. The injunction requiring Apple to change the terms was stayed pending appeal right after the injunction was issued. That is not unusual, btw. Apple lost its appeal before a panel of the 9th Circuit. The only thing it can do

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