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by qntty 7y ago
"Many are realizing that education is a zero-sum credential game." Can this silly meme die already? Maybe it's understandable coming from an economist who values education for no other reason than it's economic effects,
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"During 2016, the U.S. exported $1,051 billion in manufactured goods and imported $1,920 billion, a manufacturing goods deficit of $868 billion." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_in_the_United_St...
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This is a newer feature of Day One (but you have to pay to get it).
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$70k is total expenses for most 4-year residential universities. E.g. https://student-accounts.yale.edu/tuition-and-fees [yes, this is typical even for schools less elite than Yale]
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Why the downvotes? Some of Marx's least "problematic" writings is his early stuff on alienation.
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I believe that GP is saying that not paying taxes is theft from society.
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You can learn many of the most important sorts of things that a 13 year old would want to learn by being into video games. Computers, math, history, how to tell a good story, how to organize a group of people to accomplish a common goal. Of
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You might argue that kids not knowing anything when they graduate is a symptom of the focus on professional skills. I found that the more people tried to teach me what they thought I "needed" to know rather than the things I was i
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Note that this research was done in 2017. You can see the press release here: https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/current_results.asp Sample questions from the test are available here: https://nces.ed.gov
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I must have missed the memo
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Weird to associate nihilism with something that the article compares to religious practice, which is emphatically not nihilistic.
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Seems like the lack of a livable government pension is the real issue here. Why should an employer have to worry about "paying" employees after they stop working for you? There should be social programs under democratic control th
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Moreover, "Fear and Loathing", as a phrase, has been used by many writers, the first (possibly) being Friedrich Nietzsche in The Antichrist. In a Rolling Stone magazine interview, Thompson said: "It came out of my own sense
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There's lots of good music made in the past, but I still read music review sites that review recently released music.
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is frequently recommended here. I would especially recommend understanding section 3.2, which I've found very helpful for understanding the environment model of other languages. Compute
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You don't dismiss things in the world, you dismiss unhelpful patterns of thinking, and cultivate helpful patterns.
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> To date we’ve made around $88,000 in revenue via our recruiting services, $78,000 of which has come in 2019 so far. Total, not monthly.
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If they don't get paid, they have lost the entire value of their labor. Why is this worth less than money? If anything it should be worth more. There are only so many hours in the day.
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https://outline.com/nGrnKy
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It seems like he lives in Mumbai, which makes his $688 equivalent to about $2,805 in SF. Still low, but not as bad.
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Scriptio Continua(en.wikipedia.org)
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Probably because they like meat but think it's unethical to eat.
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health insurance != heath care
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You could say the same about television.
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Math is done for it's own sake. Read this article if you want to know more about people trying to spell out of justification for this. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/07/22/the-aesthetic...
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Given how many math problems are solved in the shower I would think it would be the other way around
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The point of contractor work is to offload risk to the employees.
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If you want to understand Linux systems programming, I've never found anything better than the book The Linux Programming Interface . For Linux internals, Linux Kernel Development by Robert Love is good. For something more removed f
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See also: you can't be good at something that you don't think about in the shower, http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html
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Averages like purchasing power don't tell the whole story for poor people. You have to ask how much of the basic necessities of life they can actually get for their money.

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