johnnybgoode

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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
> If you're running a University as a business to make money, it's incorrect because attracting highly talented students capable of such feats is expensive. Far better to find less talented students that will attend and pay tuition. T
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Sounds cool. Out of curiosity though, what is the actual record that's been set? The article isn't very clear about this.
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
> You claimed that Universities should be more concerned with making billionaires and Nobel prize winners than having diversity. It's an incorrect claim How can this claim be incorrect ? You might not share his goal, but does that ma
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
Maybe that would be an improvement, but it sounds far from ideal. In today's world, the school would then have an incentive to send its students to Wall Street and fuel even more financialization.
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
If not for credentialism, this would quickly be recognized as the shitty deal that it is and far, far fewer people would go to today's colleges. They would instead learn through apprenticeships and other methods. In fact, there are some sig
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
I remember reading an article about this a while back. A college admissions officer was interviewed, and she admitted to thinking something like, "Oh great, another one of these kids" whenever she saw another Asian applicant who plays a mus
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
I don't really want to fight the last war. The real evil to be fought here is credentialism. Apparently even PG might agree: http://www.paulgraham.com/credentials.html If you take care of that, both from a social angle and for employment,
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
My guess is that there are a few underlying issues that could be causing this, and it's probably important not to "diagnose" this incorrectly. It sounds like you have thought about this for a while. Have you tried anything already to help w
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
Got it, thanks.
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
What's AquaMate Studio?
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
Not to mention the planet could explode suddenly, so yeah, no one can be literally 100% sure that they can recover their data. > Does that mean that noone really has a backup? No, it means in some abstract sense no one can be 100% sure
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
As far as I'm concerned, if you can't recover your data, you don't really have a backup. That covers every one of your hypotheticals.
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
This is incredible. In no way is it even remotely acceptable for them not to have backups.
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
To clarify, I don't mean the actual policies just at any one time.
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
Here is the issue. The US government has tremendous power over world affairs. Norwegian politicians don't typically have much of a say in the decisions of the US government. But the Nobel Peace Prize is a way for them to have some influence
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
> Of course Obama's real wealth is in those two beautiful girls. Oh dear, I'm afraid this sentence could be interpreted in many ways. :(
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
It's true, my views are not mainstream, but I think even mainstream observers would disagree with you here. In the last 50 years China has seen the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the transition to a corporatist economy in
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
> Are you saying the confidence we give doctors based on their years of studying and research just might be too much faith in the Government standard? Yes, absolutely. > What is your suggestion to replace that? As some careers de
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
Separation of powers in the US was designed by the same people who did not even want a party system. So taken as a whole, the system can be seen to have failed almost instantly. > So in practice it may seem like an oligarchy If we loo
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
Please don't be offended. You did start by saying we were "way out there," and I don't think you meant in a good way. I think that does imply that you are "zoomed in" on a smaller range of policy options and that does make small changes loo
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
> No, the above doesn't fall under the: "You don't have an option avoiding legal credentialing" Technically it does, but I do agree that it is more open than many other careers. And yes, there are plenty of options still left. But som
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
The reason you see us as "way out there" is because if you limit your vision to a fairly small area, the relatively minor policy changes you mention appear to be far more important than they actually are. The office of President and the sco
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
> the government never becomes a single ruling class or entity that may significantly alter the status quo for better, but more horrifyingly, for worse. This has already happened to a greater degree than most people realize. "Separati
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
You don't have the option of not paying for govt. schools. You don't have the option of avoiding legal credential requirements in many careers. Again the US is obviously not identical to China, but they are both A.
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
The problem is, it's far from self-evident that democracy is better.
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I upvoted to compensate. Good on you for explaining what happened.
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
Shooter was kind enough to tell us the doctor was IFM-affiliated, so that could be a start. (See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=868600 ) Not all practitioners of functional medicine are the same, though. I would suggest also seeking a
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
This is false. You must not be familiar with the way local Fox affiliates work. Local news != Fox News Channel. Sorry if this was just a partisan joke and I missed the humor.
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No doubt there is still some flexibility in the US, but unfortunately the US is also A, not B. I'm assuming you and your parents did not receive exemptions from taxes, legal credentialing requirements, and the like.
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
> What I meant is that China's government is authoritarian but it is also closed, whereas the US government, although it has authority, it is responsible to the people, even though indirectly. Every government answers to the people in

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