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by quacked 2y ago
I work for a NASA contractor. This is a very stupid, bad move, since young and recently-called-up civil servant talent are often the people we really want to keep. We will be hurting on the Artemis program if the probationary civil servants
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by quacked 2y ago
There's a difference between "obedience to a authority as a guiding instinct" and "agreeing with the political goals of authoritarians, and then finding that they've taken over and are doing what you want". One
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by quacked 2y ago
There seems to be a lot of coping in the anti-AI department about the utility of the current LLMs. "I'm not impressed". You're not impressed that 98% of knowledge workers can 10-100x their own work output for free? As a
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by quacked 2y ago
I think the phrase you called out--"be a part of our mission"--that most corporations (and, mimicking them, government agencies) regurgitate is itself the approach to socialization that causes people to feel less inclined to work
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by quacked 2y ago
I think a big part of the ability of these shady companies pulling the brightest minds away from more clearly beneficial fields is that important flavors of ideology necessary to motivate people to take less lucrative work have been strippe
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by quacked 2y ago
It's just a guess. There are 40,000,000 men worldwide in the top 1% of any metric, and I am fairly certain it's safe to assume that Mahomes can throw, lift, sprint, run long-distance, and stands tall enough to place in that top 40
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by quacked 2y ago
"Dad bod" is a very silly term. Any "dad bod" talked about by the popular media is almost always accompanied by height and extensive musculature. Mahomes is in the low end of "athleticism" in the NFL, but is 99
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by quacked 2y ago
"Adult-level social skills" for children was historically normal, and it's only in the past century that children are assumed to be incapable of speaking plainly and intelligently to adults, or vice versa. You might want to d
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by quacked 2y ago
Unless the original commenters sneak-edited their comment, they included the word "whites" specifically to not ignore the non-whites and point out that universal literacy was not "universal" in the early US.
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by quacked 2y ago
> less controlled environments later in life when it's harder to change habits, like in uni or in the workplace. You're right on pointing out the environments in which homeschoolers often perform poorly, but you used the wrong
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by quacked 2y ago
Prisons would be a lot safer if the dangerous inmates got kicked out of prison and left behind the ones who didn't attack other inmates. If you want to improve schools quickly, expelling problem kids is the easiest way to do it. But th
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by quacked 2y ago
The only way you can get teenagers to really engage with any kind of instruction is to take some of the guardrails off and let them interact freely. This means they'll ask controversial questions, use slang, curse now and again, crack
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by quacked 2y ago
I think schools must move on from the "homework" model--that is, the model of education where the students must turn in homework assignments to receive grades that count toward their final GPA--and return to in-person handwritten
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by quacked 2y ago
I don't understand why people consistently seem to think that I am telling people that their experience "isn't real" or that their brains and behavior aren't different from the majority, or that everyone can get aro
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by quacked 2y ago
> There isn’t a brain scan that can detect ADHD. I think it's important to note that even if there were, it wouldn't change the inherently arbitrary nature of ADHD diagnoses (as opposed to the more objective presence of a bacte
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by quacked 2y ago
I wouldn't say you overreacted. It's impossible to both convey and read tone over the internet, so there's no way for you to know that I don't mean to be insulting. I also like to write in a polarizing and cynical manner
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by quacked 2y ago
I "have" ADHD, although I don't believe in it conceptually and I don't take any drugs for it. I think if you poly-score people on impulse control, attention span, time sensitivity, organic recall of pertinent time-sensit
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by quacked 2y ago
Yeah, if Forbes estimated all my stuff I could sell it for probably about 10% within what they said.
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by quacked 2y ago
Right. I guess a more concise way to phrase the pro-book-choice side of the argument is "it's better for an adult to have a strong reading habit and a weak analysis habit than it is for them to have a weak reading habit and no ana
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by quacked 2y ago
That's a good point, thanks.
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by quacked 2y ago
Were those classes actually reading all of Pride and Prejudice in a single week, or were they skimming and then using prior skill and knowledge to conduct discussions on the book?
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by quacked 2y ago
Well, sure, I agree that it depends on both the age and the student, and of course as you say your location. I think in this case it's important to remember that nearly everyone on this forum was a top 5-10% student. The "general
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by quacked 2y ago
I agree with you--reading and writing must both be done frequently. Ideally both are occurring constantly. However, the problem with "learning to structure your thoughts in an essay" is that most schools teach one style of essay,
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by quacked 2y ago
I agree with you. I think also that kids today, and possibly for the past 50 years, don't have enough of a real grasp of history, culture, and civilization to really appreciate the classic novels they're currently exposed to as pa
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by quacked 2y ago
The only two things I can think of are handwritten essays and books that are more stimulating and interesting. Normally, I'd prefer that young scholars read difficult, culturally relevant novels, and assume they'll read for fun on
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by quacked 2y ago
This trend could be fought against by doing away with the (in my opinion) absurd practice of constraining school English classes to "deeply analyze a few select texts at a very slow pace and then write essays on pre-selected topics&quo
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by quacked 2y ago
Yes, it could, but my belief is that as long as the company isn't about to go out of business, it doesn't matter because the competitive advantage within our bracket is irrelevant when compared to the top of the entire league. In
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by quacked 2y ago
Sorry, I should have been more specific in my last paragraph. I was talking about individual employee performance, not an across-the-board increase in performance across all company metrics like gross profit, etc. A 25% across the board per
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by quacked 2y ago
I think that the adverse effects of allowing WFH pale in comparison to moving up and down the spectrum of strengths of companies within certain industries, to the point that WFH/WFO seems like an irrelevant question unless you're
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by quacked 2y ago
A lot of people on HN just don't really know any stupid people. There are many adults in the US who struggle to work a grocery store self-checkout machine or remember a string of numbers longer than 5 or 6 digits. (I'm 70% sure th

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