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by forensic 15y ago
Basing your values on provably incorrect myths is building a house on the sand. Values must be fundamental and universal. They must be ends in themselves. They should not be based on trivia. They definitely should not be based on provably i
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by forensic 15y ago
I don't live in New York, but in my city any loud or disruptive noise is against the rules and can be fined. I think this is a good policy consider the purpose of the subway. However I do wish there were more public places where people coul
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by forensic 15y ago
Most Asian cultures hold filial piety as one of their highest values. Parents wield tremendous power over their children and use well-established and ancient psychological ploys to control their kids and obtain obedience. These are facts of
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by forensic 15y ago
Anyone who rides the subway likely knows that it's against transit rules to make loud noise. You don't need to look it up. These rules are there for good reasons. Bold people can sometimes get away with making money by breaking law but we d
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by forensic 15y ago
>I have observed none. How hard have you looked and what is your definition of fraud?
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by forensic 15y ago
This isn't true. Lots of people don't look their race for one thing
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by forensic 15y ago
Basically social power and wealth is distributed in a top-down way based on which school you went to. "grades" don't actually mean anything they're just a social fiction created to justify why some people have greater shares of power/wealth
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by forensic 15y ago
Why are you stating the obvious? I am trying to make a point that in the world of vicious competition for grant money, every shitty incremental experiment is lauded as groundbreaking. For very understandable reasons. I'm being facetious abo
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by forensic 15y ago
You're splitting hairs. Groundbreaking has a pretty low bar these days. Just remember that 50 year old profs came of age in a different era.
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by forensic 15y ago
this is why your employees hate you and constantly talk bad about you to your own boss. Did you hear about the quiet mutiny being arranged to have you pushed out when John is distracted by his vacation? Didn't think so.
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by forensic 15y ago
> In other words, the choice is never "Forge these results, or have no career." Yes it is, because in order to have a career, it is not enough to just publish. You have to publish in prestigious journals and you have to publish original
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by forensic 15y ago
Every scientist who has been caught forging data, has basically just claimed it was an accident. Whether they got "punished" or not depended purely on their political connections, not their behaviour. What's worse than the possibility of a
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by forensic 15y ago
this isnt an issue with imperative programming, it's an issue with BASIC and the stupid way that computer scientists use math symbols
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by forensic 15y ago
Apple pretty easily dispels this notion. The PC makers commoditized themselves by provided no added value.
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by forensic 15y ago
The key thing is that his ambition is not to achieve something, it's to "be the top 1%". His ambition is all about being better than others. Healthy ambition is an ambition to create something beautiful, to help people, to deliver the total
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by forensic 15y ago
If we live in a democracy, yes. Are you sure you understand the concept of democracy?
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by forensic 15y ago
difference between corporate policy and government policy. Government policy is supposed to be democratic.
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by forensic 15y ago
What's the rush?
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by forensic 15y ago
If you have to pay people 10X just to put up with you, maybe it would be more cost effective to hire a different CEO. You could pay the CEO 2X, the engineer 1X, and that would save you 7X!
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by forensic 15y ago
Yeah he's definitely manic and probably co-morbid with other issues. Manic people often develop inflated self-images to compensate for their repressed feelings of inferiority. Just an all around neurotic. Generally miserable to be around an
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by forensic 15y ago
http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf
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by forensic 15y ago
The cry for data on a topic like this is pointless. It's a point of view informed by my own experiences and observations as well as reading thousands of philosophers, scientists, educators, theologians, statistics, anecdotes, discussions, a
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by forensic 15y ago
I don't expect belief. I expect effort. I imagine you doing the rounds at dinner parties raising your finger shouting "Citation needed!" over and over again. Google: gatto, liberal education, conformity, obedience. My argument is a point of
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by forensic 15y ago
If you cancelled all schools right now, no one would stop learning useful and applicable skills. But many many people would stop being obedient. The bait of school is the opportunity to learn, something every human inherantly loves. The opp
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by forensic 15y ago
Wouldn't it be great if you had a personal research assistant who would spend hours looking stuff up for you?
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by forensic 15y ago
Churches predate assembly lines too. It's not about literal assembly lines, it's about obedience and conformity, the tools of social control since time immemorial. Public school is just the latest version of obedience training.
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by forensic 15y ago
Your mistake is thinking that school produced those scientists. They produced themselves despite school, not because of it, and they thrived because Germany invested heavily higher education and research. Science in Germany was due to Germa
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by forensic 15y ago
Compare and contrast tradition schools for the wealthy with what became public school. A proper education comes when you put pupils in a room with a very smart person and let them question him. He answers their questions and introduces them
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by forensic 15y ago
Nobody wants to admit that the concept of "school" itself was designed to church out assembly line slaves. It's not a surprise that when the system is designed to turn humans into robots... that's what you get. Anyone who comes out of schoo
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by forensic 15y ago
I thought Berkshire doesn't invest in IT?

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