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by syzarian 4y ago
I did not. I teach at a community college. Having a Ph.D. probably would have hurt me had I gone into private industry as a programmer. So I have been told.
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by syzarian 4y ago
I quit my math Ph.D. degree program during the dissertation stage. Completed all coursework and realized that I did not care about the problem I was working on. It’s hard to find decent jobs in academia and if you do find a tenure track jo
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by syzarian 4y ago
I see. I thought you might have meant something differently. Thanks for clarifying!
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by syzarian 4y ago
I don’t understand the good for them part. Is it good to not want a walkable city? One can have walkability and retain the ability to drive to another city, right?
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by syzarian 4y ago
It is easy to get swept into an information bubble where you end up exchanging messages/comments will like minded fools. In the old days such people were laughed at and mostly harmless. Dumb ideas, like vaccines causing autism, would
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by syzarian 4y ago
Nothing quite like sarcasm whilst making a sweeping, incorrect generalization about what I wrote. LBJ, like all people, had faults but his statements should be assessed on their merits and not discounted simply because of his flaws.
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by syzarian 4y ago
All else being equal I would agree with you. I do think though that enforcing things like land acknowledgment statements in syllabi creates resentment amongst those in the middle. There is also harm, I think, in letting those who advocat
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by syzarian 4y ago
I’m under no illusion that upper middle class want to actually effect change. Upper middle class whites are content to put BLM signs in their yards so long as “they” don’t move into their neighborhoods. I think though that one should not d
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by syzarian 4y ago
No. I say this because media and those in power have perfected the ability to portray black organizing in a menacing way. And portraying programs that help poor people in racial rather than class terms. So a farmer getting government su
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by syzarian 4y ago
My cynical view is that I think our pursuit of profit is such that politicos would rather have taxpayers partially fund the school breakfast. That way a private company can get the contract and provide shitty meals in order to extract as m
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by syzarian 4y ago
Nothing scares those in power quite like poor people organizing. If poor whites in the U.S. could be made to realize that their oppressor is the same as for poor blacks, Hispanics, and other ethnic groups then real progress could be made.
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by syzarian 4y ago
From my brief reading on dyadic regression your first sentence is why dyadic regressions are used in the circumstances of the paper. I don’t know the validity of the paper but I do strongly suspect Sabine doesn’t either and that her Tweet
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by syzarian 4y ago
That’s a nice article. This line stood out to me: This commitment arose from their conversion experiences and their gradual, conditioned acceptance of ethical misbehavior. I don’t have a formal definition of “brainwashing”. That term, t
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by syzarian 4y ago
People can be “brainwashed” or “deprogrammed”. Does this change the brain? Certainly the direction you propose is plausible. I wonder what the direction of the cause/effect is.
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by syzarian 4y ago
The data does not appear to me to represent a function. There is a lot of verticality to the data. It’s doesn’t appear to me to be logistic, exponential, or a higher degree polynomial. What is the best model? I don’t know. I’m not a sta
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by syzarian 4y ago
I don’t know neuroscience. I do know that sometimes there is so little known about a given area that one has to grasp at straws so to speak. You look for clues and present the findings. I don’t know what one does with the data represente
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by syzarian 4y ago
Expert with controversial opinions in her area of expertise feels qualified to criticize the work of experts in an area she knows nothing about. EDIT: Turns out it’s a dyadic regression and Sabine doesn’t know what she is talking about.
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by syzarian 4y ago
Maybe they should say, “individuals who share the same American ideology”. What is interesting to me is this part of the abstract: …revealing that polarization can arise from differences in the brain’s affective valuations of political con
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by syzarian 4y ago
One can do all three, right?
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by syzarian 4y ago
The land acknowledgement statements really irk me. Pretty much all land has been conquered, reconquered, or otherwise changed hands many times over the last several thousand years. What is the point of saying this land once belonged to gr
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by syzarian 4y ago
The United States attacked the energy supplies of an ally? When was this? It doesn’t seem reasonable that Biden faced with criticism at home for higher energy prices would exacerbate that problem by attacking the gas supplies of NATO alli
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by syzarian 4y ago
Thank you for the correction. I'm shocked this is so since it's not like conservatives will never again gain power in Canada. So it doesn't make sense to alienate a political party that can someday defund you.
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by syzarian 4y ago
For the most part, in this current time, they are. There are examples where they aren't bad, of course.
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by syzarian 4y ago
Definitely doesn’t exempt one from scrutiny or criticism. But I find it hard to believe that they only allow an ultra narrow viewpoint. I don’t watch television news so I realize I could be completely wrong.
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by syzarian 4y ago
What you say here is what someone who has extreme or fringe political views would say. I don’t know if you do have such views but it might be worth considering what it means or how it comes across to others to say things such people say.
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by syzarian 4y ago
What was true 75 years has long since stopped being true. Today no one can reasonably describe U.S. presence in Germany as an occupation. Please reconsider your sources of information. They are duping you and preventing you from understa
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by syzarian 4y ago
It’s clearly reasonable to believe that a major power would attack energy supplies against an adversary. It is not reasonable to believe that just before winter a major power attacks the energy supplies that its essential allies need. Esp
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by syzarian 4y ago
It requires one to be fairly detached from political reality to describe U.S. military forces in German as an occupation. You lose credibility by saying such a thing. You should reconsider the sources of your information.
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by syzarian 4y ago
As stated it got Russia out of the Nordsteam1 contract without any legal repercussions. What you say is plausible. It’s also plausible Russia wanted this. I don’t know the truth of the matter. I don’t believe the U.S. decided that addin
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by syzarian 4y ago
What is settled is Russia’s crimes in Syria and their indiscriminate bombing of civilians. Seymour lost credibility by disregarding these facts in his reporting. The U.S. is still involved there and the U.S. hardly can take the moral high

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