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by topkai22 7y ago
Wonderful rebuttal, but as for the “Cold War never ended for Russia”, it’s more complicated than that. The Russian state (which is semi indistinguishable from Putin at this point) seems to prioritize external safety, internal stability, and
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by topkai22 7y ago
Oh they do. The most common one is fees for renting a cable modem (which you can avoid by buying, but almost no consumers do). The article cites an "internet cost recovery fee" as well. Remember, in the US, your TV and internet pr
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by topkai22 7y ago
I mean, not really, as it includes other services. It probably goes some thing like this $65 for internet, $60 for tv $35 for phone. $20 for rented devices (such as a DVR) Phone services and the rented devices are increasingly unnecessary,
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by topkai22 7y ago
The expensive live sports streaming I get with my internet :)
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by topkai22 7y ago
This was the highlight of the mandatory washington state history I had to take in 9th grade. That and something about socialist electoral victories in the early 1900s. I don’t think I remember anything else. 5 months of state history for a
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by topkai22 7y ago
FST was functions statistics and trig. Might not be a thing anymore. We required 3 years of high school math, but if you did algebra in 7th grade it counted toward the requirement. A lot of higher tracked kids were done with thier math requ
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by topkai22 7y ago
A better plan would be to take over a decommishioning military base in the plains or midwest. As someone who lives in Nevada, the infrastructure issues are exterme.
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by topkai22 7y ago
2) Isn't true any more. University enrollement peaked in 2011, and isn't expected to reach that level again for at least a decade or more. There are plenty of accetable state schools with 100% or near 100% acceptence rates. https
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by topkai22 7y ago
There are some serious problems with the pathways to engineering majors though. I don't know if it is still the case, but I remember my state school expected calculus pre-calculus in high school as the norm for engineering majors. To
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by topkai22 7y ago
Because it really doesn't. The total incoming undergrad class is ~1650. Across the entire Ivy League it's around 17000. If 20% of admissiosn are affected by legacy/faculty/donors, then that's like 3400 people who wa
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by topkai22 7y ago
Having students watch lectures at home and focusing on individual problem solving during class time is an educational approach called the “flipped classroom” and is supported as effective by research. I wouldn’t worry too much about that me
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by topkai22 7y ago
I think the difference here is it is announcing an accomplishment, not an intention. Since its already happened, you can build pride around it. I believe the article is saying is that announcing "I'm going to quit drinking."
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by topkai22 7y ago
Around 2005, I was taking a documentary film class. The only student film I remember from that class was basically footage of college kids on Bluetooth headphones juxtaposed with mentally ill homeless people talking to themselves. It was st
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by topkai22 7y ago
$141000/year is a shockingly large income for any broad group of people in the US. According to the ACS, the median earnings for all bachelor's degree holding full time make workers is $61k. That's for the full population, so
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by topkai22 7y ago
His proposed alternate metric, interest as a percentage of tax revenue is also deeply flawed- it misses the obligation to pay the principal, which has tripled since the low point in the early 2000s. I like the finance wonks word for debt- l
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by topkai22 7y ago
Love Oster and her works. She’s great for summarizing what is actually out there. Not exactly evidence based, but “Be Prepared” is a whimsical and helpful parenting aid for the first year that I enjoyed. The American Association of Pediatri
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by topkai22 7y ago
Picking Finland as a model is problematic. Compared to the US, it's a small, socially homogenous country that speaks a language isolate. A much better comparison is Canada, which demographically and socially is much closer to the Unite
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by topkai22 7y ago
You don't have to engage politically, but there is some reason to believe that broad civil society participation is important. This encompasses everything from programming meetups, to sports clubs, to churches, to charity, to a PTA. Th
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by topkai22 7y ago
I’ll also throw out that when I played (D3) football in college, the intellectual load of the sport was higher than in some of my academic classes. We’d spend an hour a day studying film, and on the field we were expected to know understand
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by topkai22 7y ago
I wonder how much this has to do to with immigration and immigration policy. The US and Canada have both been very open to migrants since the at least the 80s (current US administration exempted), but Canada has aggressively pursued attract
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by topkai22 7y ago
I don't think a code of ethics would stop this behavior, at least if derived from the existing rules governing PE societies. The relevant ethical rule that for the (US) National society of Professional Engineering is "Engineers sh
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by topkai22 7y ago
Right, I skipped some thoughts there- it’s $12.75 total cost if they a getting a $10 subsidy + the fare, which means other ridesharing services would be competitive (which shouldn’t be a surprise). I skipped stating my subsidy calculation t
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by topkai22 7y ago
The definition of “ride” is ambiguous, but I’m relatively confident that the majority of hails are going to be single rider, and the subsidy is averaging at least $7/ride before they get to the transit station. The article also has ple
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by topkai22 7y ago
Except, since the article states that the average per ride cost on Via is $10, that total cost including the subsidy is more like $12.75, more if you include the rail subsidies. For commuters using the service every work day, that’s >$20
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by topkai22 7y ago
I’d summarize it as “first, find 10 hours per week, and read short books.” TANSTAFL
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by topkai22 7y ago
True, and important because it can cause awful outcomes, but in my experience people are generally just operating from a different set of priors, perspectives, and incentives. As they say about paranoia, sometimes they really are out to get
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by topkai22 7y ago
I'm not even positive is the same concept as the author is referring to, but long ago someone told me "(almost) no one views themselves as a villain in the story of their life" Remembering one concept has been incredibly hel
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by topkai22 7y ago
They are back to two, and the new one appears much further down the “not only OOP” path. It’s more about the grand ideas of CS and less about programming. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP_Computer_Science_Principl...
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by topkai22 7y ago
Re-
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by topkai22 7y ago
I'll echo others on this thread and say at 12-16 weeks your work abilities are dominated by lack of sleep/just recovering from lack of sleep. However, I think the implication is that these changes stick around. After we finally hi

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