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by fossuser 6y ago
I'm not following - the Australia government can introduce this if they want, FB can just block news on their platform (as they did).
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by fossuser 6y ago
It's certainly an imperfect metric, but I'm skeptical of the claims that there's a better measure for 'higher learning'. Often when people say this, I've found they're really just using it as a proxy for s
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by fossuser 6y ago
Relatedly I read the top colleges try to get students they know they'll never admit to apply, because the more that apply, the more they can reject and the more selective they become. Selectivity is a status symbol, so you want as many
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by fossuser 6y ago
> "[1] Even worse: While I agree with premise that we should strive for a better educated electorate, someone arguing the opposite could easily point out that the increasing political discord is correlated with the increasing fracti
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by fossuser 6y ago
I don't mean to come across as overly harsh or partisan against liberal arts majors. I think the content is often interesting. I just think it should be taken along side a technical major too. I do have a bias against overly flowery la
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by fossuser 6y ago
Agreed - "students refuse to do so" as the parent comment mentioned because they recognize the risk, both with the things you suggest and the ding to the prestige they're trying to buy in the first place. While I agree with t
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by fossuser 6y ago
> “Classics graduates are also likely to have superior reading and writing skills compared to a typical CS graduate.” “Typical” might be doing a lot of work there. I wouldn’t buy it in the general case.
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by fossuser 6y ago
This is a really big deal for things like personal finance or financial independence that required knowledgeable networks to understand important early decisions and the right thing to do. Now I can read about this stuff on reddit and learn
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by fossuser 6y ago
I think it's not good - not because a CS degree needs to be more expensive, but because the liberal arts degrees are over priced. A poetry degree should not cost nearly what it does. CS education tied to ISAs makes education more acces
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by fossuser 6y ago
You can substitute it for English, Communications, or Literature if you prefer.
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by fossuser 6y ago
I think LS is piloting a program that pays students per month while they attend. Your point about them just scaling up to maximize potential return is a good one - a bad potential outcome I hadn't thought of. Hopefully reputation would
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by fossuser 6y ago
Even if you have a BS, you'll still need to get recommendations from professors you likely have not talked to in a decade (and also take the GRE).
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by fossuser 6y ago
Lambda School style ISAs cap the return at 30k. The top schools don't need ISAs because they're selling prestige they can charge a lot more for. Since they're so highly selective they can admit only students who will succeed
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by fossuser 6y ago
Which is exactly what I'd predict in a world where "Interest Surges in Top Colleges, While Struggling Ones Scrape for Applicants". When the thing being sold is prestige, lower tier colleges don't actually have the produc
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by fossuser 6y ago
> "Because it has a large numbers of applicants. It's offer and demand." I suspect that's because these students are really buying prestige and a classics degree is the easiest option. > Something I've noticed
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by fossuser 6y ago
The price is so high that even if you’re not paying full price, it’s often still extremely expensive.
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by fossuser 6y ago
I wouldn’t give Galloway’s predictions much thought - he’s wrong almost all the time. https://twitter.com/profgalloway/status/1180197139101696013 If he had to make bets on his predictions he’d be bankrupt.
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by fossuser 6y ago
There is so much broken with modern universities and incentives around pricing - why are all degrees four years? Why does a classics degree cost the same as a CS degree when the market value of a classics degree is basically zero? I wrote a
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by fossuser 6y ago
I think a lot of this could be solved by Lambda School style ISAs. If the school isn’t actually good at education then it fails. True alignment of incentives.
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by fossuser 6y ago
Makes sense to me - if you’re mostly buying prestige that gets concentrated in the top institutions. If you’re trying to buy education the others are overpriced.
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by fossuser 6y ago
Well we’ll see what the deal ends up being. I hope FB’s offer is nothing. Maybe FB will charge the media for the referral traffic that FB directs to them. That’d be where I’d start negotiations. This isn’t what the Australia government want
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by fossuser 6y ago
FB was right on the merits here. The news has no leverage, they want to shakedown FB for driving traffic to their own sites? I'm glad FB told them to fuck off. Meanwhile Google decided to pay Murdoch's extortion fee: https:/
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by fossuser 6y ago
I’ve been thinking about The Machine Stops a lot since the start of covid, it’s wild that it was published in 1909. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
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by fossuser 6y ago
There’s privacy duck and delete me, but they’re mostly focused on the scammier public data collection sites where it’s harder to remove your information.
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by fossuser 6y ago
I think it’s possible to care about AI ethics and not like Timnit.
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by fossuser 6y ago
It might be a burden or responsibility to meet if what you really get pleasure out of in life is your next heroin fix.
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by fossuser 6y ago
Yeah, the piece reads like a rationalization by a drug user still in the early stages of a problem. We'll see how things turn out in the end (maybe I'm wrong), but I'm pretty skeptical of a positive outcome.
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by fossuser 6y ago
Azure is huge and a really big deal - I just don't attribute that success to Ballmer. It may have started under his watch, but it was floundering - I think that's one of the things Nadella deserves credit for making successful.
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by fossuser 6y ago
I hit an issue when I first got my M1: https://www.reddit.com/r/applehelp/comments/jy3o5c/m1_macos_... I’m not sure if it’s fixed now, but I don’t think it was related to the volume group.
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by fossuser 6y ago
I think this is our core disagreement distilled down. I think Ballmer couldn’t have done it, he was too tied up personally in windows. Some of the examples you mention under Ballmer are more examples of strategic failure under his watch. Xb

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