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by montefischer 4y ago
Would things like this still occur if a person's educational history data were treated like their medical data under HIPAA? It is the cleanest proposal I have seen for decoupling education from careerist motivations.
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by montefischer 4y ago
I like to use short metaphorically, outside of financial contexts. For example, the decision to own guns is short civilization, as others have put it. You may be interested in prediction markets for study replication, where you can a real (
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by montefischer 4y ago
Agreed. The American cultural conception of entrepreneurship includes delusion, failure, unethical behavior (recent TV series come to mind). Scientists and possibly medical professionals are still intuitively treated as rational and correct
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by montefischer 4y ago
I believe that a crucial component of rigorous college education today is the acculturation into an ability to sell, spin, etc. absolutely anything into a persuasive, confident, narrative delivery --- putting the BS in bachelor's degre
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by montefischer 4y ago
For those interested, Ivan Illich wrote a series of books criticizing the modern approach to healthcare, education, transportation, gender etc. from a perspective that might be called "degrowth" today. A great introductory essay o
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Students petition against booster mandates at Stanford, GMU, Cornell(newsweek.com)
4 points by montefischer 5y ago|0 comments
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Students petition Stanford University to repeal booster mandate(change.org)
9 points by montefischer 5y ago|1 comments
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Stanford requires booster shots for all students(studentaffairs.stanford.edu)
180 points by montefischer 5y ago|534 comments