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by skhunted 3y ago
Last year about 7.5 million people attended public 4 year institutions and about the same number attended public two year institutions. Around 5 million attended private institutions. Over the last 25 years there has a been a steady decli
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When Americans clamored for rivers that didn’t catch fire and for smog in LA to go away it became clear to corporations that it would be much cheaper and better for profits if they setup factories in poor countries that didn’t require them
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by skhunted 3y ago
Do you have any evidence that Euclid disagreed with me? Elements starts off with a list of postulates, definitons, and common notions. Then he proceeds to proposition 1. He does not motivate why one would want to come up with propositi
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by skhunted 3y ago
Before one can do advanced mathematics (I have too have done research in math) one needs to learn the basics. Reading Smullyan did not in any way help you learn advanced mathematics. It may have helped you to get motivated to learn math a
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by skhunted 3y ago
The language comes first then the applications. There’s a reason the order of topics evolved the way it has.
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I’m ABD in math for discolosure purposes. I strongly disagree with your recommendations if the purpose is to get an introduction to higher math. The book in question is much, much better for introducing one to higher math than any of the b
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by skhunted 3y ago
The free trade agreements came after the environmental movements. Claiming environmental movements caused this is too strong a claim. But it is not entirely a coincidence that one followed the other.
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Globalization was largely a response to environmental movements in the U.S. We offshored our pollution generation.
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What other President profited from government employees being forced to rent rooms at his hotels? You really have to be deep in the cult to not see a problem with this.
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How do you start an online meeting in Teams? I can’t figure it out. I’m using the iPad app. There is no button or link for starting a meeting. With Zoom I have a static url and just send it to people. I would use Teams for my classes but
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by skhunted 3y ago
Feynman’s lectures demonstrate my point. From Wikipedia on the lectures: As a result, some physics students find the lectures more valuable after they have obtained a good grasp of physics by studying more traditional texts, and the books
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The issue, as I see it, is that roughly 50% of the population is incapable of learning algebra at a proficient level. I suspect that being able to learn algebra well greatly depends on one’s early childhood education. People living in ba
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by skhunted 3y ago
For the vast majority of the students the curiosity, as you put it, isn’t really there. Understanding is very hard work and most people don’t want to put in the work to acquire understanding.
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by skhunted 3y ago
What bullshit. Now, 15 years later I relearn a lot of those thinga because school made it sound boring only for me to later discover it is one of the most exiting things your brain can do. But that is about thinking on solutions to actual
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by skhunted 3y ago
I imagine - but have no data to back me up on this - that a lot of those comments you mentioned on Khan Academy come from two types of people. Those who are relearning the subject and are amenable to applications and those who say they wan
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by skhunted 3y ago
I’ve been teaching mathematics for decades. Know how many students like the cool applications at the time they are taking the class? Very, very few. Usually, it’s later on in one’s journey through life that appreciation for the cool appl
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by skhunted 3y ago
They absolutely should. It's quite clear that some food has been engineered to be addicting and is very bad for one's health.
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rubuquity’s comment said that it should be illegal; not that it was illegal. In order to close a loop hole or an unintended consequence one must first be aware of its existence. I don’t know enough about the topic but it does seem wrong,
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by skhunted 3y ago
It’s worth that much as a way to bribe him and not get sent to jail for doing so.
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Obviously they weren’t using the word “murder” in a legal sense but rather in an informal sense. The OP is conveying the idea that they find the killings to be morally wrong.
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by skhunted 3y ago
Yes. There are some things so unhealthy that it is worthwhile to try to prevent people from using them. Heroin is one such substance in some peoples’ mind. Gambling is something that can be very addicting and destructive and as such socie
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by skhunted 3y ago
It wasn’t absurd. It established that pretty much everyone agrees that government intervention is sometimes needed to protect people from their impulses. The idea that everyone (especially kids) can simply exercise self control when it co
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by skhunted 3y ago
There are some things society thinks people should not be allowed to be legally tempted with. Some people think one of those things is social media for people under a certain age.
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by skhunted 3y ago
… we'd be pushing teaching social media 'literacy' to when parents lose the tools they have to teach their kids. There are ways of teaching said literacy without allowing unrestricted access to social media. Your last para
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by skhunted 3y ago
We agree then that limiting access to alcohol is appropriate at some age level. Different countries do it at different ages. What is optimal is society dependent. I gather then that we are in agreement that limiting access to social media
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We agree that giving kids access to heroin as a way to teach self control is idiotic. What we don't agree on is that social media in its current incarnation is heroin like. I think it is. ..heroin was the primary means of social in
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by skhunted 3y ago
I believe the part of the brian that deals with impulse control isn’t fully developed until early 20s. We don’t willingly and willfully let kids have access to alcohol and heroin. By your reasoning it seems like we should so that they can
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by skhunted 3y ago
Yes people should be taught skills to deal with making good choices and learning self control. But we don’t give kids heroin as part of the lesson in learning self control. The biological imperative for sex is overwhelming and there’s not
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Do you know at what age people are able to properly deal with things that require self control? I believe that part of the brain doesn’t mature until early 20s. At 18 a person is legally an adult so 18 seems like a much more reasonable cu
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by skhunted 3y ago
What economist is willing to say that there is a shortage of electricity where electric companies are regulated in the U.S. because there is a cap on how much they can charge? In almost every state there is not a shortage of companies will

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