jswelker

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by jswelker 11mo ago
The only entity that has ever cared about my college GPA has been other colleges when I signed up for grad school. And even in that case it is just a "stat check" in gamer parlance. 3.0 or greater, yes. Lower, no. That kind of thi
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Maybe some psychos think of it that way, but no one I have ever met, at least not regarding insurance. Some fringe benefits like unlimited vacation, free lunch, etc, maybe I can agree.
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Yes it is true and is sort of the subject of my original post. One of those things I learned in college ironically and is now background knowledge I can't source.
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by jswelker 11mo ago
Not sure why the down votes. Severing health insurance from employers would be a huge win. It's just such a massive task that the efforts to address it like Obamacare aren't enough even remotely.
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It depends highly on logistics like class size. Many programs brag about small class sizes, which are great for students but anathema to university bean counters. These programs often try to subsidize the small program specific courses with
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by jswelker 11mo ago
The employer pays a large portion of the employee premiums. As a result the employee is further indentured to the employer because they cannot leave without depriving themselves and family of health care. And it further obfuscates the actua
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by jswelker 11mo ago
It's an interesting combo, but after working for a decade in higher ed, there is a real division and enmity between the liberal arts and sciences and the "career" programs. The latter is seen as an illegitimate degree mill. T
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by jswelker 11mo ago
Higher ed is like employer based health insurance in that they are both weird path dependent historical accidents. People want cheap healthcare, and it got shoehorned into an odd employer fringe benefit system that really is not at all rela
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And resultingly, if you do go to college and immerse yourself in the educational experience, you come out with superpowers compared to your peers. Getting companies to see those superpowers in a hiring pipeline of course is a different stor
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by jswelker 11mo ago
I lost 50 lbs in large part by eating only potatoes for lunch for a year. Amazing mix of easy, satisfying, and cheap.
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Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew?
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by jswelker 11mo ago
It seems like you were just triggered by my initial phrase "scummy porn and social media platforms." That means porn platforms and social media platforms. Platform is the noun. Social media and porn are adjectives. It seems like y
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If you are equating Pornhub to finding your dad's dirty magazine stash, you are being disingenuous.
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by jswelker 11mo ago
Dude I don't know what mental foe you are arguing against here. I am not saying porn is evil or whatever you think. I _am_ ready to discuss banning Facebook and Twitter and TikTok. I just extend that to Pornhub and OnlyFans too. Not sa
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by jswelker 11mo ago
Regardless of your opinion of porn qua porn, surely you can admit there is something scummy about algorithmic, ad filled porn platforms, and parasocial porn influencer platforms? HN regularly and rightly dumps on these elements on the conte
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by jswelker 11mo ago
On the one hand, fuck creepy government overreach. On the other hand, fuck scummy porn and social media platforms. Can we get rid of both? Maybe we can have some kind of Hamlet-esque ending where they all die in the duel.
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by jswelker 11mo ago
Easy solution: each year just add +1 MD5 iteration. Problem solved.
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by jswelker 11mo ago
Inherited Python code is a mixed bag. Inherited R code is a nightmare.
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by jswelker 11mo ago
Just want to point out codependency--especially if you read Codependent No More--is not about being dependent on another person. That is dependent personality disorder perhaps. Codependency is better described IMO as secondhand addiction. I
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by jswelker 11mo ago
Parents do need to be more involved in keeping kids off this stuff. But it is going to be a lot easier to coerce a handful of exploitative companies to clean up their acts than to coerce millions of individuals parents to do better.
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by jswelker 11mo ago
I agree 100%, but it is fair to point out there is really no precedent for the level of involvement and knowledge and handholding it takes for a parent to navigate the digital world. Yes parents are widely failing, but it should be no surpr
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by jswelker 11mo ago
I know this is a rhetorical question, but... yes? As a parent I absolutely am going to make sacrifices to help my kids get through college, and one is planning for med school. I feel like many immigrant parents have this mentality. It is th
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by jswelker 11mo ago
The productivity gains go to: - an ever increasing standard of living - stonks go up to prevent a pensioner revolt and to inflate egos of billionaires We are kind of equivocating about "the grind" though. There is the grind of a s
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by jswelker 11mo ago
I think the issue is US _culture_, not education (although the two are intertwined). We had too many easy years where you could take a Jack Kerouac road trip for 5 years to find yourself and then settle down to the equivalent of a cushy 6 f
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One hacker to another says "I'm lucky to've met you."
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by jswelker 11mo ago
The song is 34 years old my friend.
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The answer IMO is to have a whitelist mentality toward online safety rather than a blacklist. Parenting is essentially a form of mega censorship. So much that censoring is the default state of the child's interaction with the world, an
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by jswelker 11mo ago
Fortnite says hello! (But yes I generally agree with your point.)
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LLMs have made me feel like consciousness is actually a pretty banal epiphenomenon rather than something deep and esoteric and spiritual. Rather than LLMs lifting machines up to a humanlike level, it has cheapened the human mind to somethin
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by jswelker 11mo ago
I'm not saying the people aren't to blame, but no one is blameless in the cultural decay. If US natives learned to live like immigrants, many ills would be solved, dietary and otherwise.

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