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Here is a 2024 article from the Stanford Daily: https://stanforddaily.com/2024/03/13/behind-stanfords-double... In 1996: 13,811 students, 1488 faculty, 5881 total staff. In 2024: 17,529 students, 2323 facult
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What is it that makes this possible in Japan? And why doesn't it happen in the US?
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I'm sorry for you and your family. This is a catastrophic thinker's literal nightmare.
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At what level of $$ investment do angel investors, Silicon Valley VCs and/or boards expect professional, periodic audits? This is what I personally want to see in non profit board meetings: cash flow, headcount, categorized expenses an
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I don't believe so anymore - at least not in California. https://www.hoover.org/research/californias-businesses-stop-... "Between January 2022 and June 2024, employment in US private businesses increased by a
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Check out CSS or FAFSA calculators to figure out your expected family contribution. Financial Aid offices at places like MIT that are need blind fill in the gap between your expected contribution and cost of attending with aid. The answer
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Just to be clear, the US Government isn't stupid - there is a constituency for every single dollar spent. Opaqueness is a feature not a bug.
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How does it compare to Threads?
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What are examples of things one might learn doing this?
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Scammers are stealing homes from under their owners' noses. AI..making it..easy
(msn.com)
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I've heard some students are concerned that any text submitted to an AI-detector is automatically added to training sets and therefore will eventually will be flagged as AI.
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I'd encourage you to examine the grading policies of the high schools in your area. What may seem obvious based on earlier-era measures of student comprehension and success is not the case in many schools anymore. Look up evidence base
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Sometimes suboptimal tools are used to deflect litigation.
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There are some completely new and wacky fee structures though. I recently flew Avelo airlines - baggage fees were a function of when I paid - rising as I got closer to the flight date.
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Every incoming kindergartner, middle school student and high school student should be required to submit a blood lead level test to their school for data collection. This can be easily administered as part of their yearly checkup. That dat
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Hosted my own domain and mail server right under my desk...
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> If people can get away with it, they will do it. This is not universally true and individuals and societies don't have to be organized this way. Why are streets in some countries filled with trash when others are clean? My commun
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Similar - when I was younger, I would never have suspected that a scientist was committing fraud. As I've gotten older, I understand that Charlie Munger's observation "“Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.”
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How much of the decline in testosterone among young men may be attributed to the plastics? https://www.urologytimes.com/view/testosterone-levels-show-s...
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What if the largest landlords in a community just hired someone to canvas the city on a monthly basis and collect rental price data that way. In most markets, comparative pricing of other vendors is always a solid baseline for where to star
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I miss it too. What I find strange is that almost no conversation is taboo now regarding sex, gender, sexual health, etc. This is certainly progress. At the same time it seems as if attraction, flirting, and sexuality has all now seemingl
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I would love to see these kind of "I'm leaving [AMZN|AAPL|GOOG|META|MSFT|NFLX|NVDA...]" posts all include a net worth. A post that says I'm leaving with $700K would hit different than I'm leaving with $30M.
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Solutions to negative externalities are always hard. Testing is an inherent problem that can lead to accountability and demands for remediation or renumeration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality#Possible_soluti
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How did she confirm that items she was buying contained the gold claimed?
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The big wattage numbers are great - but it is unclear how many watt-hours can be supplied - how many hours can California's grid run with batteries? It appears that the batteries are 4 hour batteries. Two questions: is there excess so
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Adults are free to make a wide array of legal, ethical, but nevertheless terrible decisions. An example is poor dietary choices. All jobs are a conversion of time/skill/knowledge/strength/etc. into a fungible token, mon
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Not everyone though - freelancers and contractors in particular want to work on their terms.
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If this were true, how would you explain that both drivers and riders enter into the relationship voluntarily. Most of my uber drivers have been intelligent and knowledgeable about their options - quite the opposite of exploited and vulner
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This article has some pictures from just a couple of months ago of street sales of tools: https://nypost.com/2024/04/14/us-news/nyc-block-turned-into-...
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I am sorry for your loss.
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