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by panglott 10y ago
You're not saying that it's not whitewashing so much as you're saying racebending is OK. And of course it is. Because changing the race and cultural background of characters can subtly change the meaning and context of the pi
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by panglott 10y ago
Look at the decades of effort that's gone into restoring the American chestnut, one of the most productive and economically important trees of eastern North America. This is not something that is easy to do.
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by panglott 10y ago
You're thinking about this backwards. Passengers are willing to tolerate hour-long intrusive security screenings before boarding an airplane, so we should look at implementing security screenings on buses and trains. Right now, they&#x
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by panglott 10y ago
It sounds more like this is an example of the rise of authority within a specific society, examined as a window onto social processes at the beginning of the development of authority. There is no way that cultural phenomena from Chavin diss
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by panglott 11y ago
Being coached by professional microbiologists in a working lab is not really an advantage?
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by panglott 11y ago
We need more vague, clickbait-y headlines?
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by panglott 11y ago
It's been a decade since I backpacked through China, but potatoes were a thing that were always lost in translation. Did not know fried potatoes could be both greasy and undercooked.
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by panglott 11y ago
Looks like HN is obssessed with physical attractiveness. Humans are interested in other things about their mate as well: intelligence, for example. In surveys, nearly everyone reports that they would like a mate at least as or more intellig
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by panglott 11y ago
This was the first question that came to mind: what dialects does it support? I assume it is standard Parisian French.
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by panglott 11y ago
Interesting, it looks like this is an app geared at accent reduction, which could be promising. I'll try it out. Duolingo French elicits speech, but I fear that it is set so permissive as to hardly be helpful (I haven't dared to t
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by panglott 11y ago
Me too, but I don't click on links that look obviously bad. I open the half-dozen or so most promising links.
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by panglott 11y ago
There are a huge, huge number of people that have 401ks and IRAs that only offer a small number of actively managed mutual funds, many of which have high fees, and there is little consumer education about the high of these fees. If this rul
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by panglott 11y ago
There is such a huge disconnect between people humanities professors and humanities PhDs who are successful but did not seek to become a professor. Programs don't keep track of them, there is a general disdain for anything not tenure-t
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by panglott 11y ago
The evidence I've seen suggests the opposite: the self-motivated natural autodidacts that do well in MOOCs would do well in nearly any educational setting, whereas the many people who need more scaffolding, support, and personal instru
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by panglott 11y ago
This is about humanities PhDs, written by a lit PhD. The English PhDs have long been the most vocal of this line of criticism, where the problem has been most extreme. English and humanities BAs are eminently hireable, as the author points
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by panglott 11y ago
I was unbanked for a couple months when I first moved to New York years ago, because I couldn't open a bank account without a utility bill. Eventually the way I got a bank account was because my employer brought one in to sign up emplo
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by panglott 11y ago
Meh, liberals and conservatives like to immiserate the poor in different ways: conservatives try to drive down wages and liberals try to drive up prices. As a simple matter of increasing purchasing power at the low end of the economic scale
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by panglott 11y ago
Human children require lots of care. But high US inequality raises both the consequences of not investing in your individual human capital and the cost of investing in your individual human capital.
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by panglott 11y ago
The U.S., relative to Europe at least, has family leave policies and child care institutions that are uniquely bad for young families, especially families at the low end of the economic scale. Not that Europe has solved this either. A socie
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by panglott 11y ago
Sexual culture on average really was quite different in the 1950s and 1960s. Public norms were certainly very different before the sexual revolution, and public norms can certainly influence private behavior. There were norms against public
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by panglott 11y ago
U.S. society has decided that it must be very costly for young women to have children—having children makes it very difficult to obtain the education and career experience necessary to effectively support young humans. So young women are un
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by panglott 11y ago
Interestingly, Wikipedia says AFSCME was not really interested in collective bargaining until the late 1960s/1970s, when it had a period of rapid growth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Federation_of_State,_
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by panglott 11y ago
Land value taxes are interesting, but if you look at the communities that implemented them in the era of Henry George, most of those communities have abandoned them because it's difficult to administer over the long term a taxation sys
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by panglott 11y ago
IMO it'd be better to draw a board on a piece of wood and use black and white glass gems, rather than buying a very low-end set. Very cheap sets have stones that are just too small. Probably the best beginner set would be a set of full
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by panglott 11y ago
I took up Go about six months ago, after many false starts over the years. The secret for me was to stop playing computers and start playing humans online (I like online-go.com). Computers at lower difficulty settings make a combination of
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by panglott 11y ago
I am not pro-proprietary-software. I am pro-software. Software and technology are empowering and fascinating, especially to bright young kids. Now, free software is more empowering than proprietary software. And kids need exposure to softwa
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by panglott 11y ago
The most important thing for education is simply getting the attention of the kids. Once you have their attention, you can get them to tinker and play and learn. But until you actually have their attention, it's all "you can lead
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by panglott 11y ago
I always wish these reports would break out the average vs. the distribution. America, more than any other developed country, tolerates a high level of poverty. And poor kids just don't have the resources to do well in school, and brin
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by panglott 11y ago
In general, we don't tax and license people who use the roads. There is no licensing pedestrians, for example. And there was no licensing ox-carts in the 19th century. Similarly, when the safety bicycle was invented and popularized in
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by panglott 11y ago
Yep. But hierarchical bureaucracies are also rife with inefficiency and dysfunction. Coordinating the activity of groups of human beings at scale is just a hard problem. It could be that holacracy is effectively not much different than hier

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