jswelker

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by jswelker 9mo ago
Good idea! I haven't and won't. Now read me the original text of Anselm's ontological argument and explain it in modern English without falling back to ancient philosophical gibberish like "substance" and "pote
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by jswelker 9mo ago
"Paying a guy from the Philippines to write your code and submit it under your name is just another tool no different than using an IDE!" Surely we agree that some boundary exists where it becomes absurd right? We are just quibbli
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by jswelker 9mo ago
I'll ignore your ad hominems there. I am not saying I _know_ anything. Rather, I am disappointed in the incredible hubris and overconfidence shown by the Church fathers, not in terms of their faith but in terms of their certainty in th
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by jswelker 9mo ago
I find the Nicene Creed to be a major stumbling block as a person of Christian faith with a background in formal philosophy. Rather than accepting the inherent paradoxes in Christ's message, it attempts to shoehorn it together using th
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by jswelker 9mo ago
Yes "we" can, but the difference is that in a liberal order "we" at least ostensibly represents the people, and in an illiberal order, "we" represents a naked power grab by whichever elite group currently has t
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by jswelker 9mo ago
I think it is fair to say everyone has failed on every level and every side to some extent. This is classic tragedy of the commons, where the commons is the seemingly unlimited power and wealth of America that everyone wanted to cash in on
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by jswelker 10mo ago
The real question is whether the stock craters again after this bubble pops. CSCO has nearly doubled in the last year. Hopefully sound fundamentals will be enough to dodge the next crash.
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by jswelker 10mo ago
But they do have great salads.
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by jswelker 10mo ago
Ban social media and go a step further and ban mobile devices for children while we're at it. The generation of iPad babies is completely broken. I kept my kids away from that stuff religiously, but now these brain addled goblins are t
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by jswelker 10mo ago
Your niece and her husband are one in a thousand parents. Very few have the fortitude to do it. Not a good outlook for the future if we depend on the virtue of parents.
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by jswelker 10mo ago
My friend, this is America. We already have so much experience relocating displaced undesirable native peoples into marginal lands where they can cosplay independence and autonomy. Oklahoma is pretty much taken, but I think we can spare Ar
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by jswelker 10mo ago
I think the court is trying desperately to avoid having to rule on anything and will slow walk this until it hopefully goes away, while giving the admin virtual carte blanche to do what they want.
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by jswelker 10mo ago
I think there are plenty of things that haven't been tested because they are so obvious they don't need to be tested.
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by jswelker 10mo ago
I don't think they have the balls to end it. I think they just decide that adjudication on the case takes 4+ years, they sidestep making any real decision, and they hope and pray the whole thing goes away with the next administration.
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by jswelker 10mo ago
I'd actually entertain a ban on birthright citizenship _for all citizens_. Imagine as a thought experiment that everyone in the US had to go through the immigration process to earn a place here. If you are born here, you have a green c
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by jswelker 10mo ago
In this case it was more of a "Meh, maybe." Which IMO is worse than Betteridge's Law.
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by jswelker 10mo ago
I got very excited during the Grusch hearing time period a few years ago and followed the UAP community for a few months (years?). It seemed very legit at the start, but how long has it been now with still zero evidence from that whole cong
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by jswelker 10mo ago
Even if my taxes doubled, it would be less than just the premiums on my current family health coverage.
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by jswelker 10mo ago
Shoulders of dwarves.
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by jswelker 10mo ago
The author must have written the headline as a legitimate question to the audience because they certainly did not make much effort to answer it in the article.
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by jswelker 10mo ago
In short, soft skills. It depends on your degree I guess. In an MBA or education program, the distance between try hard and slacker is narrow. In more abstract less career oriented programs, the difference on critical thinking and comm skil
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by jswelker 10mo ago
I think the point is that you need to feel out the options available, which are fairly unique to each kid based on geography and grades and parents and extra curriculars, not just take a one size fits all approach of going to community coll
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by jswelker 10mo ago
> knock out core credits in community college The correct way to do it is to utilize high school dual credit or dual enrollment offerings. Then you can shave off a year or two of college but still be eligible for freshman scholarships. O
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by jswelker 10mo ago
Very apt metaphor for the current situation.
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by jswelker 10mo ago
I'm not talking about Ivy schools. I mean regional state and private schools that educate the majority of people who attend college. These do not have multi billion dollar endowments unless you are summing them all up.
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by jswelker 10mo ago
True, but with respect to the university visa system at least it is pretty vague. The ICE stuff is not targeting Chinese and Indian uni students.
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by jswelker 10mo ago
Envy of the world due to network effects and inertia, not due to any inherent superiority of our model. There are some good parts of our model, don't get me wrong, but they do not explain the status of the US system at all.
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by jswelker 10mo ago
Community colleges are the best existing institution we have to fill the gap. They are too wedded to the university model though. Credit hours, semesters, discrete courses, administrative overhead, the whole works, minus much of the campus
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by jswelker 10mo ago
The F1 issue is absolutely real. Foreign students have been the secret sauce in keeping prices lower for US students for a long time now. Trump 1 and now Trump 2 presidencies have created financial crises at most universities just by making
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by jswelker 10mo ago
It's especially fun if your employer is in a field with an aging employee population--like higher ed ironically. The insurer gives the same premium rate to all employees, meaning everyone is in the same risk pool. The old and or unheal

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