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by slurry 13y ago
I realize that it's difficult to understand another culture, especially one so very different and - honestly - so much more complex and sophisticated than one's own, as the United States is in comparison with Belgium. I realize th
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by slurry 13y ago
That's a question, not an argument.
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by slurry 13y ago
Do tribal colleges have significantly better graduation rates than mainstream community colleges? I'm having a hard time finding good, current, nationwide numbers online, but that seems implausible on its face. (On the other hand, it s
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by slurry 13y ago
You're getting downvoted for the first line, but the second line is the most insightful comment so far.
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by slurry 13y ago
Some people like high-rise apartments right next to the train station. Some people want to prevent people from having such an option.
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by slurry 13y ago
Huh. Everything from Blast into Math! to Holonomy Groups in Riemannian Geometry and well beyond, all jumbled up together in one big unsorted uncategorized list.
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by slurry 13y ago
Not sure why it should bother us that a basic cable celebrity is getting frustrated with questions. It's not like people are asking Andrew Wiles to answer long division problems here. Low-to-middlebrow amateur political economy, by con
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by slurry 13y ago
One problem with the conventional history is that it's very much oriented around agriculture on plains, using irrigation, with buildings made of stone or clay. This kind of agricultural culture is good for archaeologists because it lea
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by slurry 13y ago
Nope, had me weeping like a big white baby.
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by slurry 13y ago
For doing useful things on Android? I don't think it can be reasonably disputed that Python is worse than Java.
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by slurry 13y ago
Really not clear what point you're trying to make. Still not clear how Kagan violated free speech by not saying much. And definitley not clear what any of that has to do with social media and admissions at a sample of schools that does
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by slurry 13y ago
The law school isn't part of FAS. And free speech includes the right to say nothing, even if for careerist advantage.
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by slurry 13y ago
'Classically liberal' is a gesture of self-congratulation, not a useful descriptor.
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by slurry 13y ago
I think most of the humanists writing these are trying to bootstrap a longform journalism career and want eyes on it. ;)
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by slurry 13y ago
Yeah, you can find basically identical complaints (not always prestige-format essays though) from bio, chem and physics PhD's. Those job markets are nearly as bad as humanities and social sciences. And since pharma is in a state of dis
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by slurry 13y ago
Sometimes a thing can be a bad idea without being illegal or even strictly speaking immoral.
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by slurry 13y ago
It's legitimate to ask about the ethics of administrators investing personally in a student startup, especially when the students drop out en masse.
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by slurry 13y ago
In the short term the pay is not so great and getting worse, in the long term they still can't get fired. Your analogy does not work. Unless you are talking about their administrators. In which case yes, quite a bit like Microsoft.
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by slurry 13y ago
What's wrong with "appeal to principle"?
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by slurry 13y ago
From the examples in your post, it seems like you only got to calculus. Which is not really advanced math.
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by slurry 13y ago
People aren't really starving in Kenya, either. It's not a rich country, but people eat.
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by slurry 13y ago
Really a charitable understatement of the case against.
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by slurry 13y ago
The studies cited in the Slate article come out of education and speech-disorders research. Those fields have problems too, but not all of the same ones as clinical psych.
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by slurry 13y ago
Nate Silver's lack of a math background? Why does this keep getting repeated. He has a BA in economics from one of the most quantitative and rigorous programs in the country, plus some work at LSE. I'm sure he has more formal math
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by slurry 13y ago
Thunderstorms like this are interesting to me because while surveys of the first two floors show the water rising, an inspection of the attic seems to indicate that not much water has actually come up here yet, at least not more than an inc
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by slurry 13y ago
I'd be happy to amend "inaccurate" to "disingenuous" and "dismiss the work" to "try and work out what the authors might have meant [and then dismiss]". I don't at all mind making those seman
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by slurry 13y ago
Your own citation proves you wrong. One of the Social Text editors was so convinced of the legitimacy of the work that even after being told it was a hoax, "suspected that Sokal's parody was nothing of the sort, and that his admi
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by slurry 13y ago
And if they end up serving no practical use they end up discarded and ignored by scientists and engineers (if maybe not pure mathematicians). The author's point is that there is no such selective pressure on lit crit. Litcrit theory
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by slurry 13y ago
Social Text received Sokal's piece, found it amateurish and unreadable, asked him to make changes, he got cranky and insisted it run as is. They sat on the piece. Later, they had a special issue on The Science Wars coming up, figured a
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by slurry 13y ago
In semi-fairness(?) to trend-following humanities scholars, deconstruction is a little bit passe by now anyway. (It's telling that the article we're talking about is from 1993). Badiou is the big new star, Deleuze/Guattari is

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