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by kaitai 3y ago
A shelter is generally a place that you go to overnight, where you can't keep your stuff, you have to be out early in the morning and come back at a strict time in the afternoon or evening. Very different than an asylum which provides
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by kaitai 3y ago
Nah, this is a lot of projection. More likely fanfic: could be that the one who got tenure had the former advisor who would add her to grants and bring in a lot of $$, or who started a center that would bring in a lot of $$. Routine researc
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by kaitai 3y ago
For heaven's sake, think a little. This is an empirical discussion of hiring heuristics that result in a certain system. It's not just networking (generally used to refer to development of professional connections, though yes peop
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by kaitai 3y ago
Do you understand what it takes to get tenure in the US? Generally 10 years post PhD of grinding, working summers and weekends. (That's from 3 years of postdocs and 7 before tenure.) By the time you get tenure you don't know how t
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by kaitai 3y ago
Now let's back up a moment. In US society we have said for the last 60 years max that it's usually illegitimate to discriminate on the basis of race, and before that it was legal and actually approved of to discriminate on the bas
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by kaitai 3y ago
You are on to something here. The thing I'd contribute is that then we need teacher training to improve math teaching in the US. Math teaching in the US is often of poor quality, as teachers may not be trained well and are often not co
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by kaitai 3y ago
Thanks for folks pointing out the link to the article on Dallas -- I'll post it here to boost it. https://www.the74million.org/article/dallas-isds-opt-out-pol... 25 years ago I was part of my National Honor Societ
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by kaitai 3y ago
Disagree for a number of reasons. 1) A good public education should be available to all students, with reasonable transportation provided. This is an axiom for me. 2) Private schools do not seem consistently provide a better education, but
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by kaitai 3y ago
"I think the crux of the midlife crisis is coming to terms with tradeoffs. Everyone has spent potential to get where they are, and there aren't do-overs." << This. It is at the same time crisis-inducing and very motivat
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by kaitai 3y ago
Twitter mattered to the thinking/writing class. It had a big influence on journalism and the kinds of people who write think pieces or tutorials or posts that get widely read by people like those who read HN. A relatively small amount
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by kaitai 3y ago
I think that it's really shitty that one can take hormonal birth control with perfect responsibility and encounter negative side effects. I also think it's really shitty that the US has the highest infant and maternal mortality ra
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by kaitai 3y ago
In the United States, there are two quite distinct aspects. 1) Health. Agree that talking to a doctor -- or a nurse, or a midwife, or a well-trained community health advocate -- is quite useful when understanding the practicalities of takin
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by kaitai 3y ago
I was happy with a low income until I had a kid. Then the calculus shifts. Same with physical disability or taking on caregiving responsibilities.
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by kaitai 3y ago
Hah, just linked to the Minneapolis counterpart study above. Yes, this is an elegant natural data experiment, thanks for sharing this version that touches a larger dataset.
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by kaitai 3y ago
There's an elegant paper and analysis that addresses this in Minneapolis, another city that's had some DOJ attention for policing. https://lawandinequality.org/2020/11/24/does-the-minneapolis... The
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by kaitai 3y ago
Unless they get better acceleration and lower cost of ownership + a cool factor.
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by kaitai 3y ago
You can't get a promotion in the bureaucracy if you just "do things well". You must "innovate" and start an "initiative". Administrators also get a pay bump for completing degrees like a master's and
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by kaitai 3y ago
Yes, agree, and this dovetails with a sibling comment by a long-time teacher. I have a child in the US and have family close in age and demographics in non-US countries. The pressure of school-as-childcare is unique to me in the US because
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by kaitai 3y ago
For a trucking job you do in general need a commercial driver's license (CDL) which has far more stringent requirements than getting a regular driver's license. Many states require an EAD (employment authorization document) to get
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by kaitai 3y ago
It sounds like you only care about problems that affect you very directly, which is pretty short-sighted. There are many climate-related problems that are affecting people already in Central America (no rain, can't farm, so they'r
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by kaitai 3y ago
A white legacy applicant at Harvard is 5 times as likely to be admitted as a non-legacy white applicant. "Our model of admissions shows that roughly three-quarters of white ALDC admits would have been rejected if they had been treated
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by kaitai 3y ago
Nah, I just want to have a fair chance in any industry I go into, rather than being measured on a different meter stick.
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by kaitai 3y ago
That's where things fall down, though. I've done some admissions work (I am not professionally in admissions or HR or anything, I was just an academic mathematician). A lot of "qualifications" are experiences you can buy
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by kaitai 3y ago
Small actions on a personal level can help people feel efficacy and engage on a larger level. Political and economic action is absolutely what's most important, but humans have weird psychology. Some for instance will not engage in the
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by kaitai 3y ago
The poster is most likely referring to laws like those in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's "anti-riot" bill, which was passed but eventually found unconstitutional. It gave civil protection to anyone who ran over protesters with a
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by kaitai 3y ago
If you want to live in the country, live in the country. I, though, like living in my neighborhood of single-family homes & small/medium size apartment buildings, with four coffeeshops, two independent grocery stores, restaurants,
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by kaitai 3y ago
An operative word here is people.... the set "people with jobs" contains a far higher fraction of folks who like attractive men than is represented here....
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by kaitai 3y ago
I passed this article & discussion on to physician spouse, who would specifically like me to reply to this comment: "You are being very emotional." Digging deeper (as the comment above alone isn't worthy of HN, IMO): &quo
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by kaitai 3y ago
For those who don't want to read the article, it's important to note that if rhizobia are not present in your soil, you may want to inoculate your soil with it to get things going. It doesn't come along for free with a bean o
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by kaitai 3y ago
It's bacteria that live in the bean roots that do it continuously . Read more about rhizobia here: https://www.gardenbetty.com/a-look-at-legumes-rhizobia-and-r...

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