dmvdoug

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by dmvdoug 1y ago
No, there is no more to this. They fucking eliminated grants for studies on transgenic mice because they thought that was the same thing as transgender. That’s the level of thought and care put into this.
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by dmvdoug 1y ago
How about the non-offenders we deported there this very month who received no process in this country and whom the government has now been forced to admit or accidentally sent there?
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by dmvdoug 1y ago
Gotta say, my man, you were the one making blanket proclamations about what governments must care for first. Yet you shy away from defending the principle.
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by dmvdoug 1y ago
“How will we be able to learn anything about the human centipede if we don’t let researchers act in full transparency to study it?”
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Well, regardless of whatever you think about truly reciprocal tariffs, the Trump Tariffs are not that. They released the formula they used to calculate the levels and it has nothing to do with other countries’ trade barriers. It’s like lite
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Yeah, they’ll figure out how to feed the robot whatever will get the robot to shut up, and then go do things teenagers do when they have no adult supervision. Great model lol.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Yes, if you want to give your kids, a solid, college-bound education, you are more likely to find it in private schools than your local neighborhood public school. However, there are some really great public schools, it just depends on wher
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Fully acknowledge and confront the fact that public education serves as essentially a catch-all social service agency for a significant chunk of our populace and stop pretending it’s just about knowledge-transfer. For kids who come from sta
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Numbers vary, but we’re on a modified block schedule, so it’s 180ish every two days. ;) Anyway, thanks for the kind words. I’ve been pretty down about it recently because it seems like we’re just papering over deep structural and systemic p
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
I think it depends on what you mean by “engage.” Hell, I was morbidly shy in high school, so I would virtually never talk, but I was engaged with the material. It’s not a one-size-fits-all proposition. With class sizes being what they are,
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
> Which I'm assuming is in a university setting, yes? No. Title I urban school in the state’s third largest city. > There will be some that engage…. First, if I were being nitpicky, i’d say that this assumes that it’s the stu
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
I have for the past four years averaging 180-200 students on my rosters.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Try talking to them. Try asking them questions about what they think about things and then challenging them to defend it. Above all, try listening to them. Truly listening. Not call and response. Not 3-second wait time followed by “good j
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
I don’t think it’s most people’s primary motivation, which is how it sounds like you’re interpreting me.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Yes. There are, of course, plenty of people who work in the federal government who do it because it’s a job with decent benefits and so on. But there is a significant chunk of them, I would guess the majority from my dealings, who take prid
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Thank you, O wise one. Shall you be my guru?
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
You’re also insane if you’re a lawyer trusting gen AI for that. Set aside the fact that people are being caught doing it and judges are clearly getting sick of it (so, it’s a threat to your license). You also have an ethical duty to your cl
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Reading this thread, Jesus. TIL: HN has a significant following of drug users. No judgment, y’all do y’all, but it was surprising.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
There is so much written about the million different ideas for “memory of the future,” and it is exceedingly difficult to find any sober assessments of where things are at the moment. Do you know of anything to look at?
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
That makes so much more sense! Although the pedant in me wants to argue that calculus plural is “calculi”/“calculuses” (the dictionary gives me the latter, although I’ve never seen it in the wild myself—-but I won’t pursue that because
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Can someone please help me parse this sentence? > Brownian motion and Itô calculare a notable example of fairly high-level mathematics that are applied to model the real world What is “Itô calculare” supposed to have been? I am stumped
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
The other wannabe Trumps don’t have the draw/sway with MAGA folks that Trump does. DeSantis tries and tries but he’s perceived as just a weirdo for the most part. Vance likewise. There’s something uniquely compelling about Trump to the
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
USAID was created by Congress. To get rid of it, Congress must pass a bill doing so and the president must sign it. That’s how this country’s fundamental institutions work. Don’t like it? Try to amend the Constitution. That’s what the rule
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
That’s kind of sweet that you think radicalization is about policy preferences. Like the GP, my elderly parents have turned into Trump partisans. They listen to Fox News all day and night. It’s constant exposure to and participation in Two
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Yes, vastly better. The title as it now stands makes no sense at all.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Do you have a blog or other site where you post your writing? Your explanations are quite good and easy to follow for someone like me, an interested/curious onlooker.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
I began to read this thread just for the horror-show-train-wreck voyeurism of crazy. But your simple riposte made me laugh, so, gold star, you.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
There is also no financially engineered solution possible when one of the groups has final say on whether anything changes and if it does, what exactly—at least when that group gains from the status quo. Cut x number of federal programs?
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Yes, that’s why that section stood out so strongly to me, in contrast with the general frost of responses in this thread before I posted, which was, “Oh, you poor dear.” Peak HN in some ways I guess. :)
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Just curious: did you actually read the whole post? When I got back home and regaled my friends with my mountain stories, one of my friends joked that I should work for Elon and Vivek at DOGE and help America get off its current crash to d

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