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by skh 8y ago
I mentioned relatively short time scales. I'm thinking multi decade time scales and not something like wars. If the predictions of sea level rise are correct then the problem won't be to just one region. It will be world wide a
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If Bangladesh becomes uninhabitable those 150 million or so people will need to move. Four thousand years ago there weren't anywhere near that number of people in the area that is now called Bangladesh. The scale has drastically chang
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The evidence is that the Earth is warming so it's not odd that there aren't any dire warnings about it cooling. When it cools suddenly then I'm certain there would be dire warnings. It seems to me that the dire consequences
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I didn’t claim government run prisons are always better. I’ve consistently said they are generally better.
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India is not a single example. You don't count India switching to a capitalist system from a socialist system and improving as a single example of the profit motive making things better. Great. What is your point? Let's say i
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I didn't write a logical fallacy at the end or purport to have written one. I think you may have misread my comment. Can you elaborate? I think I wrote exactly what I intended to write. I gave an example of how someone can make sta
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by skh 8y ago
The article presents no evidence of that (much less the actual relevant comparison, which is whether government-run prisons in those same states would be better). My evidence is not limited to the NYT article. Your original comment indic
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by skh 8y ago
The "If your point..." is important and should not be left out. I don't understand the point rayiner was making. I made a deduction on what I think he/she was attempting to say and specifically qualified my statement w
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by skh 8y ago
The notion that government can’t do anything right is a destructive one and it needs to die quickly. Privatization in industries that ought not be profit driven is a bad thing. There is nothing hyperbolic in this statement. That you thin
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by skh 8y ago
You claim that being profit driven does make things magically better and provide a single example. Do you really think I can't find a single example of where being profit driven made things worse? You can't think of a single exa
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by skh 8y ago
I've never met anyone say that government does everything right. Can you cite me a source of one politician that has ever said that? Reagan famously said: The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the gove
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From my perspective the country started on a bad path with Reagan. He popularized the notion that government is never the answer and he popularized the belief that lowering taxes is always the right thing to do. So now we have cities, cou
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by skh 8y ago
I hope someday that a large majority of Americans come to the belief that the love of money is not always the best motivator. Being profit driven does not magically make something more efficient or better. It only makes people try to maxi
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by skh 8y ago
It seems to me encouraging pedestrians makes things more social. Everyone driving in their own car seems a lot less social to me. Can you elaborate on why this is anti social?
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by skh 8y ago
Overvalued on a personal level means something costs more than you are willing to pay and you can do without said thing. That’s how much it costs means you think it’s too expensive but you really want it or feel you can’t do without it and
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by skh 8y ago
What is the purpose of your first sentence? Colloquially we speak of democracy as being something with representation that is elected with a large majority of the adult population being eligible to vote. Surely you know this so I can&#x27
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by skh 8y ago
That is probably a better solution. I have do not disturb for 10 pm to 8 am and have it set to not allow anyone to disturb me. But thinking about it now maybe I should allow calls from contacts during those times.
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by skh 8y ago
I suggest downloading a silent ring tone. I got one for a dollar. The silent ringtone is my default ringtone. I went into my contacts and changed the ringtone associated with them to be one that makes noise. I no longer am bothered by s
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by skh 8y ago
I don’t know anything about you and haven’t I indicated a belief about where you are. All I’m doing is tellling you what the phrase “college algebra” refers to in the context of the U.S. higher education system. In a nutshell all I’m say
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by skh 8y ago
Well, I teach college algebra a lot and I teach it in the United States. I’m telling you what that term means in the United States. I don’t know what it means outside of the United States. Beginning Algebra and Intermmediate Algebra are t
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by skh 8y ago
Yes, long term it will be as you say. The only thing administration cares about is passing rate. None of them care to measure whether or not those who pass know the material. So....I pass more people than I want to.
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by skh 8y ago
For college algebra and precalculus: http://www.stitz-zeager.com For calc 1 - 3: http://www.apexcalculus.com I did find one really good intermediate algebra book but can’t find the website.
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by skh 8y ago
I did look at Knewton but wasn’t quite what I needed. I’ve come to the decision to never use paid materials for my classes.
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by skh 8y ago
For the most part unions in the U.S. are ineffectual. Union membership is quite low and only in select industries. Pricing power for unions is virtually nonexistent. In addition to all this there are no unions for students worth mention
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by skh 8y ago
I didn’t berate you. Of course I made assumptions. I specifically said so. Where I did make assumptions I mentioned that this was a guess on my part. From my reading of what you wrote your assumptions are embedded winthin your assertion
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In the United States college algebra is a course that covers things like the quadratic formula, solving basic exponential equations and things like that.
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I am in a union. We do get pressure from administration. They can’t force me to use a given website but pressure does exist. You’ve made a lot of assumptions about me and what happens in departments. I’ve been in the job for 18 years and
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by skh 8y ago
I never use paid materials in my courses but I understand the desire to use things like MyMathLab. We have a lot of students. Grading sucks and writing problem sets sucks. The pay isn’t good either. Especially for new faculty. For the m
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I teach mathematics at a community college. The content I cover has a very slow rate of change. There is no valid educational reason for textbooks to cost so much in my area or to change from year to year. I decided some years ago stop u
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I’m thinking beyond software engineers. I’m thinking about people who don’t have pricing power for their labor and are not at all in a position to negotiate. They have to rely on government to help them with unequal balance in power when

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