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by smogcutter 2y ago
Speaking as a teacher, the primary things happening here are: 1) remote school taught developing brains that when something is difficult or boring you can just check out and play on your phone. For many, it’s not that they don’t want to lea
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https://hbr.org/2024/03/lessons-from-the-bud-light-boycott-o... Advertisers don’t have to believe the content is actually objectionable to fear reprisal. Outrage machine types on all sides will make an issue out o
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by smogcutter 2y ago
The Bakshi movie definitely isn’t camp. It plays itself way too straight (so to speak). If it reads as corny today it’s because it’s such pure, guileless 70s kitsch. Also, I realized rewatching it recently for the first time in forever that
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by smogcutter 2y ago
> If you assume that there's an even chance of getting caught (e.g., if searches are random based on the traveler) then fewer larger trips reduces the number of times your agent is caught. What? No it doesn’t. It just increases vari
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by smogcutter 2y ago
I think we’re talking about the same thing, but to clarify my meaning: If you weigh the severity of students mistakes (or successes for that matter) in relation to each other rather than to an objective rubric, you’re effectively stack rank
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by smogcutter 2y ago
> As you said, once you have seen all mistakes you know how "bad" of a mistake it actually is. Crucially, this is not quite what the poster said. It’s not about stack ranking students against each other. Say every paper makes t
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by smogcutter 2y ago
Ok sure, but the point about autonomy and exploration remains.
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by smogcutter 3y ago
“The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life." - Paul Morphy
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by smogcutter 3y ago
Surely you mean an asset, not a liability?
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by smogcutter 3y ago
In the black powder era of warfare, soldiers were given similar warnings about “slowly” rolling cannonballs. People would think they could stop them like soccer balls, and lose a foot.
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by smogcutter 3y ago
The irony is that argument also ends in the effective extinction of most farmed animals, or at the very least a massive die-off.
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by smogcutter 3y ago
If you’re going to be pedantic, at least be correct: Websters: “a romantic or passionate attachment typically of limited duration”
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by smogcutter 3y ago
Oh yeah, 5 and 6 are… different. To be clear, by “takes up with” his editor I mean they had an affair. I hesitate to use the word because afaik Herbert was a widower at the time, but can’t think of a better one that hits the right tone.
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by smogcutter 3y ago
Read through book 4, God Emperor of Dune . At that point, “rails” are a distant memory. It’s wild, it’s wooly, it’s a 3 thousand year old worm king writing in his diary. Book 2 is grim and deflating, 3 picks up the pace again but is really
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by smogcutter 3y ago
Thats right, I forgot about Nau’s enforcer (whose name escapes me atm). Anyway I think the point remains - after that point, the reader is meant to understand that the emergents self-serving justifications are just that.
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by smogcutter 3y ago
Yeah, discovering Nau’s chamber of horrors is meant to strip any illusions about his motivations.
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by smogcutter 3y ago
In no other professional field is someone with 7 years of experience considered “senior” anything. Edit to clarify my meaning: I’m not trying to come at you, just pointing out that this seems to be symptomatic of the problem as a whole.
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by smogcutter 3y ago
Not parent, but: > I'm not saying this is the case with Pb, it's just a funny idea.
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by smogcutter 3y ago
The Stasi, as well. I wonder if even within Germany there’s a difference in attitudes between east and west.
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by smogcutter 3y ago
I think the unwritten rule is that subspace communication takes precisely as long as the plot requires it to. (Especially in the more modern series)
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by smogcutter 3y ago
This would indicate there’s some survivorship bias there: married people are happier because unhappily married people are free to get divorced. In addition, it’s obviously possible to be single, unhappy about it, but happier than you were
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by smogcutter 3y ago
This is a wonderful find! Something in the first chapter that hits home for me: how much better smoking is in retrospect than reality. The memory of the perfect cigarette never goes away: on the porch on a sunny day, with a book and coffe
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by smogcutter 3y ago
In my city (a suburb of LA), the trash contractor says they don’t have separate bins because they “separate recycling at the facility”. What a joke! As if they’ve got someone going through your trash like a raccoon, picking out the bottles
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by smogcutter 3y ago
> The information they gather is circumstantial and probably would not hold up in court, but they can use it as grounds to get a warrant. Just to clarify a possible misunderstanding: an officer testifying that they saw you go into a stor
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by smogcutter 3y ago
> and suddenly nobody can even identify who is the decision maker. For management more interested in playing politics, this kind of ambiguity is a feature, not a bug. This is how you take credit for successes, and shift blame for failure
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by smogcutter 3y ago
> so the only people pursuing such tended to be exceptional academic/intellectual outliers. That’s an odd way to put “wealthy and privileged”
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by smogcutter 3y ago
> I'm not saying I underutilize my service, I am actually talking about equivalent usage except concentrated rather than diffuse. No I get that, my point is that the usage pattern you’re describing isn’t really relevant here. > L
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by smogcutter 3y ago
I mean, for starters this whole conversation is fantasy because streamers, or really, businesses in general, will never on their own initiative stop taking taking money from customers. Auto-cancellation or whatever is never ever going to ha
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by smogcutter 3y ago
Ok so why do you want to pay for that time? Why not have payments paused during the period of inactivity, and resume when you want to use it? The point is that this is a choice by content businesses. Pausing and resuming payments could easi
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by smogcutter 3y ago
In education theory this is known as the “zone of proximal development”.

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