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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
> GMU is a commuter school ranked outside the top 100 GMU is R1. R1 unis compensate faculty unusually well compared to other institutions, regardless of other social prestige indicators. R1-level compensation is not typical of US unive
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
> You can throw administrators into "professorial caste" That makes about as much sense as throwing the C-suite of a manufacturing company into the "laborer caste". Administrators these days mostly aren't form
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
> The push for more and more college is a huge wealth transfer from the middle and lower-middle class to the upper-middle class professorial caste. Hanlon begs that we consider the possibility that a pedestrian understanding of basic s
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
> temporarily flips around due to oversupply, like we've seen in some industries, e.g. MBAs at various times, or lawyers recently). Or software engineers in the near future, given the hockey-stick growth in enrollments... which br
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
> It was a genuine question Sorry for the snark then, I've edited my comment. > that employers will refuse to hire anyone who hasn't attained them FWIW I think that's different from what you asked -- refusing to hir
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
> Sure, but these fields are known for being selective Lots of fields that aren't so selective also require a tertiary (= post-highscool) education of some form. Most notably, a huge swath of jobs in health care that involve patie
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
It sounds like you've confused tertiary with post-graduate. Tertiary typically means post-secondary. Secondary typically means US high school or equivalent. (from wiki: " The World Bank, for example, defines tertiary education as
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
The answer is mostly completely obvious, and the fact that you're even asking makes me wonder if you're trolling (EDIT: apologies, I over-reach). Here are some categories of jobs for which most people don't or can't self
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
> I think a reality that will hopefully soon catch up with societal stigma in the United States is that college isn't right for everyone The idea that this stigma exists is mostly a conservative pundit talking point used to justif
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
Could you share links to buggy ones? I'm interested in seeing how they go wrong.
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
They already are tacked on to a budget bill. From TFA: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) introduced the amendment as an add-on to the commerce, justice, and science appropriations bill earlier this week
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
The author's "fallacy" isn't so much a fallacy as much as it is one particular (and rather unsurprising) opinion on how to answer the questions that Aaronson and Hanson have asked. In this sense, the author fundamentally
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
Have a link?
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
TBF, it's extraordinarily difficult for a full-time scientist to do better at PR than a full-time bullshitter. Some (e.g., Ng) pull it off, but they tend to be exceptionally brilliant, exceptionally dedicated to their work, and well-su
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
Exactly! The point of static analysis is avoiding the need for "millions and millions" of tests.
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
This was > ~3 years ago, so maybe things have gotten better lately.
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
Writing/deploying F# on a non-Windows machine is a huge pain. Been there, won't do that again.
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
> is to dismantle them And then what? Because a new institution is going to sprout up in its place. Maybe some aspects (e.g., medical billing) will be improved. But there will still be a new institution and it will still have lots of b
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
The posts below explain the normative policy problems with your view, but fail to point out the biggest flaw: you're simply wrong , as a matter of fact, about what this decision entails. The majority opinion directly addresses your co
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
Contesting political parties. That's exactly how it's done in many countries already.
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
Yeah, democracy can suck when you disagree with the majority opinion...
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
Often the fine just makes it very easy to establish guilt, and victims are left to fend for themselves in the court system. It might not even be possible for the FAA to pass money from fines along to the victims.
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
Or roads and bridges and railways and free hospitals?
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
> Unfortunately it did not unclog my drains, guess I have to call a plumber wth is in this guy's drains?!
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
Exactly. Most arguments given against online voting systems are equally valid arguments against in-person voting and especially against mail-in ballots. Those arguments are the red herrings.
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
6 months?! My experience was closer to 4, 5 in good years and 3 in bad. But summers were idyllic.
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
Most of their revenue = Most of their volume is questionable. Do you have any sense for whether revenue and vole are roughly correlated here?
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
Yes. A more meaningful comparison would be the market cap of various bitcoin exchanges; the flaws with that comparison are pretty much the same as the flaws with comparing bitcoin to WU in general.
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
This is basically exactly what I was trying to say with my original comment; thanks for stating it in a clearer way.
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
> The major metropolitan areas are far less safe That mostly depends on who you are and what you're doing. I've felt scared in cities more often than I've felt scared in rural areas, but the most objectively dangerous si

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