elgar1212

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by elgar1212 4y ago
This article comes off as a little too polemical. Is there administrative excess in academia? Yes. But the author seems to have an underlying motive > George Leef, the director of research at the Center for Higher Education Policy, has d
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by elgar1212 4y ago
Are all models made in Taiwan though? Where do you find the data to confirm where they source their parts from?
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by elgar1212 4y ago
> I was under the impression that most MBP are made in China? afaik they all are, but this was a purchase from several years ago
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by elgar1212 4y ago
Yes, but I got it several years ago and wasn't as concerned about China at the time Future gens of mbp might not be made in China (but afaik they still are)
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by elgar1212 4y ago
> Well, Big Tech is not the only concentrated industry. A bunch of concentrated industries use Big Tech antitrust as a pretext for going after Big Tech—not to end monopoly but to redistribute the industry’s share of the monopoly themselv
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by elgar1212 4y ago
I've been considering moving from a mbp to an x1 for a while now, but a couple things are keeping me from it: - mbp isn't dead (yet) - x1 is made in china, human rights issues - x1 is less repairable than other thinkpad models suc
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by elgar1212 4y ago
Here's another one about waterboarding, very odd... http://wikiwho.ailef.tech/diffs/156bbb833d79c589d7791bc8d02f...
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by elgar1212 4y ago
Glenn Greenwald - No Place to Hide Reason why isn't necessarily because of the specifics of the 2013 leaks, but because he documents the interaction between government and press (and how he was demonized and threatened afterwards). Tl;
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by elgar1212 4y ago
> Casey Lewis, a youth-culture consultant who writes the youth-culture newsletter After School, told me over email. “They don’t want to be on it, but they feel it’s weird if they’re not. A "youth-culture consultant" trying to p
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by elgar1212 4y ago
this is even more infuriating than actual ads, because at least actual ads have the "sponsored" label and don't try to hide it
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by elgar1212 4y ago
The thing about the IC -> management path that bothers me (and makes me skeptical of people who take it) is that programming and getting PRs merged is so god damn satisfying Going from this to just having meetings, training people, looki
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by elgar1212 4y ago
Some interesting ones: http://wikiwho.ailef.tech/diffs/c5885fe11dbfd31923f7554cf41c... http://wikiwho.ailef.tech/diffs/c5885fe11dbfd31923f7554cf41c... http://wikiwho.ailef.tech/dif
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by elgar1212 4y ago
> One of the Navy Network Information Center (NNIC)'s top edits is the Subic rape case. What's the tl;dr of what happened here? It looks to me like someone in the US military raped a Filipino girl, and then either blackmailed h
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by elgar1212 4y ago
> History was always written by the victors, we only see it happen in real time now. A modern spin on this: history is no longer written by the victors, but by people with literally no life outside of writing crap on the internet
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by elgar1212 4y ago
> Tell me about how many people I know who went to a CISSP bootcamp, passed the test, and walk around not knowing shit? It's the same in a lot of universities too. So because bootcamps are an insufficient means of testing, standardi
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by elgar1212 4y ago
> people who are qualified to manage do the managing It's very convenient that those who are "qualified to manage" consistently come from the same stratum of society
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by elgar1212 4y ago
> Maybe it's not for Harvard consumption, but auditioning for a Conservative internship? Or maybe the author was genuinely disturbed by the inequalities and racism currently being perpetuated by said administrative bloat, similar to
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by elgar1212 4y ago
> Students are only taught rote memorization from primary school onwards. They spend their formative years in before-school and after-school coaching doing more of the same, all to crack that single test which will determine their future
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by elgar1212 4y ago
> Harvard has instead filled its halls with administrators. Across the University, for every academic employee there are approximately 1.45 administrators. When only considering faculty, this ratio jumps to 3.09. Harvard employs 7,024 to
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by elgar1212 4y ago
> The people that go to these schools go on to be the upper-crust of society. They can think outside of the box and push the envelope of human knowledge. Yeah, kind of like SBF > I would challenge that these schools are looking for pe
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by elgar1212 4y ago
I can't think of any book that's really helped me solve problems. The reason for this is that reading isn't a problem solving activity, it's relatively open ended. You can do exercises, but most of them don't have a
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by elgar1212 4y ago
RMS foresaw all of this crap happening. This is why his message is probably going to outlive us. I just wish someone would wade through all the crap he wrote and collect all the actually relevant stuff. All the other weird stuff just takes