ravitation

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by ravitation 5y ago
> Personally, I know that I need a focus for my intellectual life. Would your abilities feel stretched by being a cashier? How about a janitor? Waiter? These jobs are what "work" actually is for most people. I think most people
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by ravitation 5y ago
I don't know if it really feels incomplete, instead the article seems to make a more compelling case for the opposite of the headline actually being true. If we assume the following premise from the article is true... > The only way
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by ravitation 5y ago
> But I don't buy that this is true for very many jobs in tech. Not only that, but it's probably true even less often when looking at the totality of jobs everywhere.
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by ravitation 5y ago
I mean you responded as if you think I was using HN comments as a representative sample and not as an illustrative anecdote... > Even "essentially no access to services" is closer access to services than the common exurban comm
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by ravitation 5y ago
Eliminating the commute, when it is replaced by living in a suburb with essentially no access to services without driving (especially when there was access before), can still be a net negative... That's the point of the anecdote...
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by ravitation 5y ago
While I agree we don't really know, I think it is quite likely to have a negative effect. Take, for example, these comments, which are full of people who have left NYC, a place where you can function entirely without a car, and moved t
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by ravitation 5y ago
> My working hypothesis is that people in general want to live in California like places, if they can afford it. This is my general thinking as well, and it happens to fit with my current life experience. I'm unconvinced that there
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by ravitation 5y ago
The larger problem is not simply getting access to medicaid, it's also that the US defines poverty essentially based on access to medicaid... Where a non-trivial portion of the population does not qualify for medicaid, but are also far
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by ravitation 5y ago
Lol.
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by ravitation 5y ago
Lol. Ignoring the general absurdity here, none of this has to do with the basis of reading/writing, which in English is a set of phonetic letters. I've described why these must be memorized.
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by ravitation 5y ago
>Well you don't need to convince me of that since I admit as much in my original post! Ok, I guess in your degree program the only difference is that you sit around in a lab instead of a lecture hall learning those fundamental thing
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by ravitation 5y ago
Ok... I was responding more specifically to... >the standard sequence is just year after year of memorizing facts and definitions with very little comparable lab time And I compared the lab and lecture time... and they are very similar (
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by ravitation 5y ago
You cannot reasonably intuit the sounds that letters make, or the meaning of combinations of letters without some underlying phonetic information. Your ability to recognize those patterns is built upon learning the meaning of words and lett
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by ravitation 5y ago
I mean you are just wrong. You memorize what sound (well sounds) the letter "a" makes, which is of course fundamental to being able to write because English uses an alphabet. You might argue that reading isn't writing, but th
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by ravitation 5y ago
>Take chemistry for example. All of chemistry should be in a laboratory setting. All of it. It’s a perfect hands on discipline, yet the standard sequence is just year after year of memorizing facts and definitions with very little compar
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by ravitation 5y ago
It's somewhat amusing to see someone write a lengthy rant against testing because memorizing information is archaic, when the ability to write, at least at the start, is learned this way. The most obvious example why you're wrong
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by ravitation 5y ago
It's a choice funded by the automobile and airline lobbies.
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by ravitation 5y ago
The Texas Triangle has a higher population density than France, a relative abundance of space between major cities, and four major metropolitan areas... But it's private companies trying to build high-speed rail, not Amtrak. The idea t
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by ravitation 5y ago
These are long term problems for a development shop that is 2-3 people, getting work that allows for survival and growth is the problem now. An external partner, as long as they are facilitating the development of relationships and the cont
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by ravitation 5y ago
This is all true, but the "rainmaker" doesn't have to be the CEO, or just one person, or even work at the company. An alternative is to find an external "rainmaker," an example that I've often seen is small con
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by ravitation 5y ago
Technically in your framing, there still would be a headwind (i.e. things limiting the rate of the acceleration). Either way, this framing only works in very specific contexts, for example "renewables" or "many countries,&quo
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by ravitation 5y ago
>It is all relative. Hence the "net" part of what I said... All of what you said is fairly self-evident... The article essentially argues to focus on the soft breeze at our backs instead of the hurricane in our face, which is a
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by ravitation 5y ago
>If we can achieve this progress without real political or financial support, think how quickly it could change with it. Rather than trying to power through a headwind, we now have the wind at our backs. Obviously the idea that climate c
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by ravitation 5y ago
From the MIT Technology Review article... >Some researchers sensed that the young entrepreneurs were in over their heads. The science of in vitro gametogenesis is dominated by a small cadre of university research groups who’ve been worki
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by ravitation 5y ago
>Perhaps a level of professionalism that you would expect from someone working at a fast food restaurant? Uh, no. That's why I disagreed initially... I certainly don't have the same expectation of professionalism from someone h
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by ravitation 5y ago
I mostly disagree, I would like ECE to offer both a career for those that pursue it and a certain level of professionalism that I would not expect out of essentially a babysitter. But, what's more important here is that, as it is curre
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by ravitation 5y ago
> This seems like a weird take, but maybe I don't understand. Are you saying that the other parties are equally at fault for failing to prevail in negotiation against the unions? Well, first, we've not actually been discussing
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by ravitation 5y ago
> Pointing to arbitration seems to be passing the buck. The unions had a hand in negotiating the arbitration rules and criteria. And simply pointing to unions, as opposed to the numerous other parties involved or the process itself, is a
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by ravitation 5y ago
It is of course not a defensible position to say that all corporations only do things for profit (especially as it has not only to do with intent, but intent of an organization); even if it were true in all but a single case. Since that&#
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by ravitation 5y ago
I assume you don't literally mean "working next to," but instead mean police unions prevent abusive and/or violent officers from being fired; but, as far as I'm aware, the bigger problem is that frequently arbitrati

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