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by robonerd 4y ago
One problem with companies buying pizza is they always buy it from whatever pizza shop has the best reputation for reliably filling large catering orders, which is never the pizza shop that makes the best pizza. I like pizza, but I only wan
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by robonerd 4y ago
Well you can do as you wish I suppose, but personally I would rather avoid getting into gun battles with machinegun toting bank robbers. Better for the government to hire some men to do it for the rest of us. You know, like police.
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> I visited a place one where the schtick was to get new employees to make a paint print of their hand on the wall like a primary school kids This sort of thing seems to happen quite a bit. Somebody in HR goes baby crazy and starts tr
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by robonerd 4y ago
You can't and won't because the truth of the matter is that police very frequently wait outside during anything even remotely resembling a hostage crisis, and a gunman holding a gun to your face inside your house isn't even a
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by robonerd 4y ago
I think you have this precisely backwards. Soulless crunch work in the video game industry as a code monkey given no creative control over the game is more likely to kill your interest in playing video games. If regular boring non-videog
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by robonerd 4y ago
> if my perception is you claim to not "believe" in things like borders as you very purposefully do as many crimes as possible to bring yourself pleasure, then get on a plane to Berghain or Britain or whatever to do it all ove
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s/can't/won't/ Either way makes no difference because you aren't going to produce quantifiable data that shows police waiting outside during hostage situations is unlikely.
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by robonerd 4y ago
As I said, I don't know how it should be implemented. I'm certainly not proposing the implementation of a social credit system. What I am saying is that I'm confident that the mechanism by which gifted programs help stud
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by robonerd 4y ago
Even if you only hire "good teachers" and give them "enough resources", some of those teachers will perform better than others. And the attention of those teachers will be wasted on the students who don't want to b
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by robonerd 4y ago
I'm fairly confident that you can't produce a quantifiable metric backing up your position either.
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> if you call the police and tell them someone broke into your house and is holding you at gunpoint, the police will come and deal with the situation. Very likely, the cops would declare that a "hostage situation" and wait ou
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by robonerd 4y ago
If you're talking about the top 10% of kids, you're obviously not talking about [just] the hyper-elite future bank executives (who are probably what, the top 0.0001%?) The top 10% of students is quite large would include all mann
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Who needs a better teacher? The gifted student or the remedial student? The well-behaved students. Good teachers are wasted on troublemakers and class clowns, regardless of their IQ. And if a dim student who scores poorly on IQ te
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by robonerd 4y ago
Algebra I at 8th grade would have placed you a year behind when I was in school. 7th grade was Algrebra 1, Algebra 2 was 8th, Geometry was 9th (first year of highschool). 10th grade had Trig, 11th had pre-Calc, and Calculus was the final
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by robonerd 4y ago
How would you measure "racial differences in per-pupil funding" if not with difference in expenditure per-pupil?
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by robonerd 4y ago
I think this works well for college, but at the highschool level you have the complicating factor of parents being involved in the decision making. How would you account for the parents who think their little monster is a perfect angel and
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by robonerd 4y ago
> teach all students at the level that would have been taught only to gifted students before? You just can't do that, no matter how much you want it. Some teachers are better than others, they can't all be elite. The teache
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by robonerd 4y ago
The gifted program helped me immensely in highschool, although the hour or two I actually spent in the gifted classroom was mostly wasted playing board games. However being in that program gave me the ability to switch classes/teacher
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by robonerd 4y ago
> "Groups under a certain size (Dunbar * ?) can be managed socially with personal reputation and shame and shunning and all that." You're just trading one hierarchy for another; an official and overt hierarchy traded for a
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by robonerd 4y ago
> perhaps similar to similar patterns within protestant christianity Dead on. Once you eschew centralized authority, the group fracturing as everybody discovers their own slightly different version of truth seems inevitable.
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by robonerd 4y ago
The only trafficking I've heard conservatives talk a lot about is trafficking of kids, particularly Epstein, Rotherham rape gangs, and also deep-end stuff like pizzagate. Conservatives being outspoken about trafficking of middle clas
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by robonerd 4y ago
Lmfao, I've never been outside America or Canada. I'll take you calling me European as a compliment though.
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by robonerd 4y ago
The article says the FBI knew of the accusations by 2015, but didn't have Nassar arrested until late 2016 more than a year later. Does anybody know if a year of delay is typical or atypical? I don't know much about these proces
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by robonerd 4y ago
I don't see why "What about innovation?" is taken seriously as an argument anyway. USB-C is more than adequate, we could coast with it for the next hundred years. Nobody is kept up at night by the lack of innovation in AC
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by robonerd 4y ago
Mongolia today has Genghis Khan on their money, particularly the 20000 Tugrik banknote. Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean Mongolians generally approve of what he did, just like Americans today don't agree with everything t
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by robonerd 4y ago
Internet itself isn't the problem. You could organize all of those IRL get-togethers using email. Influencer culture isn't a problem that effects email. Similarly, you can use discord, zoom, skype, IRC, SMS... all of these ar
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by robonerd 4y ago
I didn't suggest punishing so I don't know what you're responding to. What we need to do is listen to bullies (aka, the normal kids) and take their concerns seriously. Without fail, they're the first to notice these pr
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by robonerd 4y ago
The work of the engineers that kept him alive was all done before the accident, not simultaneous to it. When the accident was unfolding, the engineers were either unaware or assumed the pilot was dead.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> You either need to get a new TV set or an ATSC 3 decoder to watch tune it in. [...] until they start turning off ATSC 1 transmitters How did things get this bad? In the 90s and early 00s, you could watch virtually any OTA televi
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Lack of career prospects, lack of marriage prospects and lack of social attachment At least in many cases, these problems are caused by the men themselves (or by their mental conditions, if you prefer). That "low status "

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