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by docbrown 8y ago
Better yet, bring the US a 4 day work week and pay for 5. It works well for New Zealand - https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/19/new-zealand-experiment-finds... && https://www.4dayweek.co.nz&#x2F
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Your entire idea is basically a community college. Professors are there to teach. You get two years done and most, if not all, of your gen eds.
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>Teaching-focused people, even if you make them full professors, are still comparatively cheap This is where liberal art universities strive. While their endowments and grants may be lower, their retention and graduation rates may be hig
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>it's an interesting question why it always does. Not really. It’s a good question to ask but the answer is rather simple: R1 institutions stay afloat because of research grants; they need researchers to secure that grant $$.
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>Non-tenure track academic teaching positions that pay "horribly"... I can already imagine the kind of talent they attract. Honestly, as a former CC student, non-TT professors/lectures at the junior level were some amazing
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>School was a complete waste of time for myself. The only benefit was for social connections. With all respect, I’m calling bullshit on this. Social connections were thee only thing you learned? Where did you learn how to read so you c
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NPR has an article on the Central African Republic's scouts who promote vaccination, relay messages about the Ebola outbreak, and domestic chores — https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/01/1
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by docbrown 8y ago
> - university professors are more selfish and self-serving With respect to academia, this point seems to come up a lot, which is highly dependent on school, subject, etc. But in my opinion, a lot of times it boils down to a couple thing
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China lands Chang'e-4 on far side of Moon(planetary.org)
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One area in which I think this could be big: deaf culture. Instead of a device being triggered by voice, you can trigger commands by spelling them out via ASL and hoping NL can predict wisely or give choices -> wait for users response si
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Being neutral on any spectrum, Richard Pryor and George Carlin are socially accepted as two of the greatest comdeians of this time and they spoke on politics often. If doing so does anything, it accomplishes bringing awareness to bigger iss
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>Ibuprofen is anti-inflammatory medication. And an acetaminophen tablet is a painkiller. While your statement is in fact true, ibuprofen is still a better choice for a fever. The latter is also generally considered a safer alternative, e
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>This individual recommends that society do nothing even though there are other military powers. Based on the below passage, I do not believe they are advocating for military abolition at all. Your comment implies they want to rid the US
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Neat idea. Hidden within the ReadMe file, someone re-wrote this tree in Wolfram but made it ornamented looking. [0] Going further, the same author of the latter tree had a post picked by staff titled “Random Snowflake Generator Based on Cel
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by docbrown 8y ago
>I was always informed either directly or indirectly through mutual friends, usually by phone or SMS/iMessage. Precisely this. A type of thinking which includes Facebook being a persons only means of communication is very simplistic
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The $4.6b in subsidies also helped make NY more appealing to Amazon. >“The taxpayer costs of these two deals is high, both in absolute terms and on a per-job basis, contrary to Amazon’s artful spin. Together, we believe they exceed $4.6
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The Tactics and Tropes of the Internet Research Agency (2018) [pdf](disinformationreport.blob.core.windows.net)
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The IRA and Political Polarization in the United States [pdf](comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk)
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>The researchers lost touch with 13 people, while 57 people died and 332 declined to take part." This is one of the major downsides to longitudinal studies— people are unpredictable.
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>I don't understand what the U.S. or the West is supposed to do about it. They’re doing what they can and should do via policy decisions. I don’t remember reading a piece thus far where going to war with Suadia Arabia and Mohammed b
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DNA from gum connects materials and genetics of Scandinavian hunter-gatherers(biorxiv.org)
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>I don’t think a lot of poorly managed companies even get to a $1b valuation. I think any product can become valuable depending on how you market it to your targeted users. FB is said to be somewhere you can go to be with friends and fam
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This may be an unpopular opinion but here it is: Zuckerburg started this as a hobby with it being something he may never have thought of becoming full-scale. Fast forward to today and Zuckerburg is in over his head. He has control over this
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I wonder how the decision from Jennings v. Rodriguez played into this courts ruling. While Jennings v. Rodriguez gave immigrants the right to periodic bond hearings [1], it gives them civil rights from the start. 1: https://www.n
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>Before long genetic engineering will be commonplace but almost exclusively among the rich. I think we’ve already fell into this type of scenario and I think this is partially why some are so against it. They’re looking at this as an lux
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DSM-5 cannabis withdrawal syndrome(sciencedirect.com)
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>why did you choose psychiatry over for example a PsyD degree? And: what are the key data points that make you believe that the pharma-centric approach is the one worth devoting your career to? The patronizing stench of this comment asid
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>However, as long as the people have the right skills or mindset I don’t see the issue. That is exactly what they’re looking for, regardless of degree type. Without digging up all the numbers, soft skills in the hiring process are import
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>The first time I tried high quality olive oil >I thought it was unreal For those people who may be having trouble understanding the comparison, this reaction would be the same reaction as if we were tasting supermarket hummus and le
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Here is Nissan’s full press release regarding Ghosn in which they implicate Greg Kelly, Representative Director, as also being involved in this scheme. One thing is for certain: they’re hanging Ghosn out to dry. >Nissan has been providin

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