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by notechback 6y ago
That you don't care about the discussipn doesn't make it less important. Special classes take up resources so it is indeed a policy decision where to allocate funds.
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by notechback 6y ago
There is no free market in modern capitalism. Even Smith already warned of the dangers of accumulation of capital and the need for checks & balances to avoid oligopolies and monopolies. It's a winner take all approach (at least in
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by notechback 6y ago
You see a global move towards "inclusive" education which aims to provide opportunities for all levels of performance and background/conditions, including the gifted. Eg Portugal and Norway are impressive reference cases.
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by notechback 6y ago
Just to point out that all autism spectrum disorders have quite a spectrum. Some Asperger's cases are barely able to function, others excell in various fields.
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by notechback 6y ago
What do the Chinese want with a .com domain? Occam's razor: is it spycraft with a front company or a good old capitalist scheme for own profit?
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by notechback 6y ago
What's so bad about having maths TLDs?
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by notechback 6y ago
Apparently many US hospitals are formally non-profits but operate very much in a corporate logic. What did mayo do with its bn profit last year that Op mentioned? Mayo earns $12bn per year. As contrast, a hospitals in Germany for a whole ye
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by notechback 6y ago
You are claiming that doctors (which, were?) were aware of this disease before its first official case was diagnosed/published?
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by notechback 6y ago
> What they miss is that these studies starts with researchers making value judgements, and those judgements aren't more legitimate because a researcher made them. I disagree. That a researcher (aka expert with significant theoretic
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by notechback 6y ago
And the effects are still there today: most French wines are grafted onto roots of resistant American varieties as otherwise the more would still kill them today. This might mean much less olive diversity.
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by notechback 6y ago
I don't know about English but other languages have a central body that manages the language, eg implementing spelling reforms. Eg German and French have a simplification every few decades (done by a central process) and a regular proc
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by notechback 6y ago
So they paid $1000 for 530k accounts. What's the use case of a stolen zoom account? To impersonate an institution this doesn't seem quite enough, so is it just lulz?
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by notechback 6y ago
On the flip side, I've noticed PowerPoint can bring immense efficiency gains to environments where the standard is to write to a detailed report for every little thing. You don't need a detailed user guide of 20 pages of text if a
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by notechback 6y ago
Making a more usable Jira must be a potential billion dollar business. Outside it support/development It's used by many orgs because for their vague use cases nothing else is available.
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by notechback 6y ago
I once wrote a paper related to genetics. It's known that cells contain various parts (organelles), some of which used to be independent cells. Those are rather well researched but finding scientific references for some points were sur
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by notechback 6y ago
Thesis - antithesis - synthesis. Question would be whether you are better off at the end. Did your journey through these concepts help you improve your own understanding and action?
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by notechback 6y ago
I disagree. What's the alternative? I prefer having a few wrong concepts in my toolbox than none at all. As the Gates quotes in the article suggests, it's good practice to be vigilant and run a basic reality check before absorbing
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by notechback 6y ago
Insane to do an online masters for 30k. I see the ads everywhere and I just can't imagine who really wants or needs that - and then you apply for jobs and get refused because it's "just" an online masters...
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by notechback 6y ago
It's a very complex issue with many elements. E.g. the EU has been critising Germany's early 'tracking' on one or the other path for decades, some changes have taken place with a new school type introduced a few years ag
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by notechback 6y ago
Actually coronabonds would not allow the EU to borrow. It would allow individual countries to borrow with the guarantee given by all countries jointly. Those against it were mainly Netherlands, Austria and Finland, but Germany was not exact
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by notechback 6y ago
Both, local regions started but the central government also instructed to offer beds if possible and is coordinating things.
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by notechback 6y ago
The problem are the procurement rules. You want to make procurement as 'fair' as possible, but this makes the process lengthy, slow and costly. The only option or deal with this form the administration perspective is to to occasio
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by notechback 6y ago
Vaccine is expected latest by spring.
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by notechback 6y ago
You would like this book: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2448-a-people-s-history-of-...
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by notechback 6y ago
While I too prefer dishes that are not "meat substitutes", I don't think the veggie X are always bad. Sometimes I just want a burger and then one of the newer vegan options is often good enough. A rule of thumb I've stum
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by notechback 6y ago
Is this really a legislation or just one of many "own initiative" reports by the parliament which are intended to move the Commission to make a proposal but bear no legal value?
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by notechback 6y ago
I think you are generalising too much, there are also some good courses on Coursera. But many are more shallow than e.g. EdX, which has some excellent more in depth courses.
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by notechback 6y ago
Seconded I've taken a number of courses and this is by far the best mooc I've taken.
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This sticks out to me: > We also had issues in some regions, such as China, where Google's services are intermittently blocked. China alone accounts for 25 percent of all Internet users. Given that some subset of those could not acc
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by notechback 6y ago
But Skype was actually an encrypted communication channel until Microsoft bought it and removed server-side encryption

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