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by tabeth 10y ago
I personally disagree with premise (though a few points I must agree with), I think the real problem is the lack of satisfaction in general. Because some capitalistic societies are obessed with growth, we've created problems for oursel
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by tabeth 10y ago
GlimmerJS is going to be amazing. I can't wait to check it out soon.
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by tabeth 10y ago
What? Arguably, a bus is the most flexible and cheapest way of transporting people in groups over 10 while simultaneously maximizing the use of existing infrastructure.
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by tabeth 10y ago
1. Yup, I did check out the link. I completely agree with its conclusion -- that Stuyvesant's model need not be scrapped for something like Harvard's. Though, I never claimed that. 2. I'm in complete agreement. 3. I'm a
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by tabeth 10y ago
A few questions need to be answered (that I couldn't find trivially on Google): 1. What's the average income of parents whose students get in? 2. What's the discrepancy in the admittance rates compared to the city on a whole?
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by tabeth 10y ago
Ah. I assumed in this scenario we had some mechanism to determine who is a legacy applicant (or not). You make a good point.
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by tabeth 10y ago
Absolutely. However, because of the current issues there are a lot of politics involved in education, so it's hard to change anything. For example, even if you wanted to implement a "random" system, which is objectively super
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by tabeth 10y ago
This is only because schools are so crappy to begin with, by design. If a degree actually meant something it wouldn't matter what school you attained it from.
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by tabeth 10y ago
I had a very different experience, going to an "elite school". Basically kids teach themselves most things, and professors are there for clarification, in my experience. Also, are you suggesting that professors at elite schools ar
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by tabeth 10y ago
This is the reality: 1. High schools that tend to send high numbers of people to schools with acceptance rates less than 20% tend to be dis-proportionally represented. [1] 2. High schools that send kids to good college are more expensive (e
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by tabeth 10y ago
Really? Seems pretty easy to analyze. Just take legacy applicants and their non-legacy equivalents and see the admittance rates.
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by tabeth 10y ago
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the real reason. The reason is schools. Elite prep schools to elite Ivies to elite starter jobs to elite opportunities to elite companies. "Elites" tend to be, ancedotally, more bro-ey. Like
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by tabeth 10y ago
I don't know what's more frustrating, the blatant nepotism, or the apologists for this behavior. Good grief.
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by tabeth 10y ago
What a silly comparison. A toolshed and a kitchen are not equivalent. Replace kitchen with bathroom and you'll see the silliness.
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by tabeth 10y ago
I completely agree. The amount of megacorp apologists on here is deeply disturbing to me. No matter what happens, there's always someone willing to apologize for them. Business seems to be the new religion.
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by tabeth 10y ago
What you mention here is why I disagree with the fact that you can up OR downvote here without commenting. A comment should be required before you can upvote or downvote. All for similar reasons you raise here.
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by tabeth 10y ago
It's very unlikely that Verizon's business will suffer, given their membership in the internet oligopoly [1]. Also, in regards to your other point -- what's stopping Verizon from just changing their business model? The fact G
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by tabeth 10y ago
Is this really that different from Verizon phones having Google services enabled by default (if that's even true -- I don't use Verizon). Why is Verizon spying on you any worse, or better than Google or Facebook? No one should spy
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by tabeth 10y ago
Everytime I see these types of articles I wonder if we're still in feudalism. Should we really be celebrating that a single individual is worth more than hundreds of millions of people[1]? I dunno, it seems dystopian , like we're
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by tabeth 10y ago
Interesting article. I think one thing to also consider is that women can also be toxic, so the question isn't really how to retain technical women or men, but rather, how can you promote leadership practices to women (and men) that re
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by tabeth 10y ago
Wow, this is ridiculously impressive. I wonder what the audio equivalent of this would be. Anyone know how long this takes per image?
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by tabeth 10y ago
Ah, so close. I really just want something like Handlebars, with a generic adapter for any language for compilation. Then you can load with javascript a client-side controller if you want to add in interactivity. --- To expand, I think the
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by tabeth 10y ago
You make an excellent point, however I think the main difference between this compared to 15th or 19th amendments is that this wouldn't apply to all of the states and roughly equal amounts.
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by tabeth 10y ago
Perhaps the premise, that smart people maximize income, is incorrect.
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by tabeth 10y ago
What exactly would be the advantage of Calexit? 1. Republicans would win every national election for the foreseeable future. This is bad, republican or not, as it essentially undermines democracy. 2. The chance of a civil war would grow sig
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by tabeth 10y ago
In regards to the SPAs, what exactly is the alternative? In my mind you have two possibilities: 1. The most ideal is to "pick the right solution for the problem." Meaning, you will analyze the problem and do the right thing, e.g.
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by tabeth 10y ago
couldn't you just as easily say you build the wrong thing in more time with your hypothetical increase in future speed, but you go out of business because you never have any customers? what you're saying is the right thing, if you
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by tabeth 10y ago
shouldn't the goal be to do whatever provides the most value and builds your product or business the fastest? if you waste time with a microservice architecture where you could've done more, faster with a monolithic app that seems
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by tabeth 10y ago
What are the other forms of discrimination that are reinforced? I'm still unconvinced that anonymous interviewing isn't superior in every way for those who are currently discriminated against. It seems most of the counter argument
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by tabeth 10y ago
Which of the following do you not believe? All of these are common knowledge. I don't have time to be educating people won't aren't aware of basic facts. Maybe you're not from the U.S, so I'll give you the benefit o

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