knagra

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by knagra 10y ago
+1 for sticking to the engineering arguments and ignoring the ad hominem.
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by knagra 11y ago
Those labels are less problematic because they are much better defined (e.g., "German Jews" == persons who practice(s|d) Judaism in Germany), self-applied labels (e.g., anti-Communist), or a combination of both (Cold War liberalis
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by knagra 11y ago
You do realize the sentiment behind the second clause of your last sentence contradicts the assertion of the first one?
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by knagra 11y ago
Here's a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma#Generalize... I also wanted to say that several million people would be jobless if everyone decided not to go to college come August. The economy wo
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by knagra 11y ago
I demonstrated that you could still get a worse result with mutual cooperation than you could with mutual defection, which violates the T > R > P > S condition for the dilemma to be a prisoner's dilemma in the strong sense. I
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by knagra 11y ago
I'm a liberal, and I got a BA in History from Berkeley. I studied European and American diplomatic history, with an emphasis on war. I mostly took classes on modern European and American history and classical European history. I urge o
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by knagra 11y ago
Let's assume the situation with higher education is a prisoner's dilemma. I, as a player, decide not to go to college (cooperate), while everyone else decides to go to college (defect), resulting in me paying a sucker's payof
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by knagra 11y ago
Requiring a degree for a job that doesn't utilize the information the acquisition of which the degree is meant to connote is clearly untenable. That's a given. The author is on point about market demands for higher education being