lthornberry

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by lthornberry 2y ago
Most academics teach in departments that don’t grant phds. They’re at liberal arts Colleges or regional state universities. True that statistically only a small percentage of grad students will go on to have their own PhD students, but
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by lthornberry 2y ago
The fact that you don't understand something is not evidence that it's not valuable.
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by lthornberry 2y ago
This is Dunning-Kruger in sentence form.
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by lthornberry 2y ago
The glut is primarily a function of the fact that universities have decided that it's fine to have most of their courses taught by poorly-paid adjuncts. That is, actually, a bad thing. If we returned to having tenure-track faculty do
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by lthornberry 2y ago
Yeah, I noticed later that the example sentences used the correct translation. Presumably that's because it's easier for translation software to differentiate among the various meanings of "used" when it's in the c
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by lthornberry 2y ago
How are you generating the decks? There are some incorrect translations, at least for for the version of Spanish I learned. Maybe there’s a dialect that says “ser usado” instead of “acostumbrarse” for “be used to”?
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by lthornberry 2y ago
Those numbers do not mean what you seem to think. 1st, proficiency on that test is a pretty high bar. There are kids making perfectly adequate progress who don’t score proficient. Second, average per-pupil costs are meaningless. Baltimo
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by lthornberry 2y ago
The decision to promote blue check replies is a product-level decision that has made the user experience much, much worse
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by lthornberry 2y ago
There are tort firms doing that in every area of tort law. ADA cases are not easy wins and don’t often produce significant awards.
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by lthornberry 2y ago
Basically similar situation in the US, that’s what the article means when in references “formation” issues.
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by lthornberry 2y ago
Eh, I teach in a university and that experience makes me extremely skeptical of most high-school graduates' ability to get an education from online resources. If you can do that, great, it's certainly a much cheaper and convenien
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by lthornberry 2y ago
It also creates conflict of interest problems among the owners. How do you ensure that only your share of the business profit is getting siphoned off to support your kid? Does each owner get one fail-son slot?
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by lthornberry 4y ago
I also support a shift to UBI, but your description of TANF/WIC is not grounded in reality. TANF has a 5 year lifetime, and many states actually have lower limits food stamps do not come close to covering the costs of feeding a family
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by lthornberry 4y ago
This is the important point. Anyone paying taxes in the US is subsidizing Harvard.
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by lthornberry 4y ago
Cars are also not compatible with many types of disabilities. Cars will need to be part of the transit mix, but they don't need to dominate it.
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by lthornberry 4y ago
That's not what the Canadian system is, though. The state kills people, and not just the terminally ill. There is lots of room for coercion, and more than a few disabled people have stories of someone trying to persuade them to consi
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by lthornberry 4y ago
For many decades, California has had extremely restrictive building regulations, especially in the most desirable areas. That is slowly changing, but the actual building has always been straightforward. It is getting the permission to do
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by lthornberry 4y ago
Ironically, I live in the notoriously high-crime city to your north, with kids basically the same age. The older one has free reign of our neighborhood at this point. We live in a walkable neighborhood with streets narrow enough that cars
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by lthornberry 4y ago
This kind of thing is much more likely to happen in the discussion section of a large lecture class than in a small seminar, because the discussion section is likely taught by a graduate student with little prior teaching experience.
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by lthornberry 4y ago
This is a plot point of the season of The Wire set in the school system. In Baltimore, it is definitely tied to funding--schools get per-pupil funding, but students have to actually be in attendance a certain percentage of the first six wee
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by lthornberry 4y ago
There's significant research showing that housing-first policies (which means getting people into housing with basically no strings attached) are effective not only at reducing homelessness but also at improving mental health and addic
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by lthornberry 4y ago
It's a result of not funding appropriate community-based supports after deinstitutionalization. Deinstiutionalization could have worked out very, very differently, if we'd been willing to pay for the alternatives.
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by lthornberry 4y ago
I don't know anything about Texas non-compete law, but "right to work state" refers to restrictions on unionizing. It has nothing to do with non-compete clauses.
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by lthornberry 4y ago
Agree. The total US non-defense research budget has hovered below 2% of federal spending for the last four decades. The military budget has been around 15%. We need more research, not less.
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by lthornberry 4y ago
The issue isn't just whether you actually are a US Person; it's whether banks, etc., believe that you're not. Risk-averse institutions may just avoid doing business with anyone who seems like they might be, and can use whate
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by lthornberry 4y ago
This varies massively by school or district. I teach history to undergrads, and some of them come in having had entire high school classes on the history of civil rights--these students are usually either from majority-black districts, or
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by lthornberry 4y ago
Age discrimination is illegal by statute - the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. If you haven't seen that, it might give you pause about whether you have enough information about this subject to form an informed opinion.
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by lthornberry 4y ago
There are good points here, but the equal protection clause has nothing to do with this issue. There are standards in contract law that apply (and are state-specific). Those could be statutorily changed.
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by lthornberry 4y ago
I’ve rented in CA as well as other states. CA rental protections were great for getting my landlord to back down from withholding my security deposit for illegal reasons.
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by lthornberry 4y ago
That "because" is glossing over a massive leap in logic. "Not applying objective professional standards" is not just a government problem, as pretty much anyone with experience in a large-scale private organization can

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