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by trowawee 7y ago
Actually, a lot of people at the time had issues with slavery! At an absolute bare minimum, 3.9 million enslaved people in the United States probably had some strong critiques to level against the existing system of slavery and Lee's d
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by trowawee 7y ago
I’m using Feedbin (and their website) in the browser and Reeder 4 on iOS. I think it’s a pretty solid combination.
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by trowawee 7y ago
Disclaimer: I'm married to a doctor. That said, I agree with your point that they are over-paid, but I absolutely don't agree with the idea that you only need a moderate amount of intelligence to work as a physician. A slight majo
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by trowawee 7y ago
Because Americans aren't buying groceries or paying rent in the rest of the world, they're doing that in America. Knowing that you're theoretically well-off in comparison to people living in other places doesn't put food
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by trowawee 7y ago
> Now, you didn't watch Rauf play, so all you have to go on are the stats. I did. I was a huge fan of him in college. He averaged over 30ppg as a freshman (his scoring dipped in year 2 because he had to share the court with Shaq) a
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by trowawee 8y ago
Well, first, I reject the idea that the only potential motivation for learning new things, building interesting things, and working hard is personal greed, especially given that virtually the entire tech industry is built on the hard work o
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by trowawee 8y ago
It's not an outcome I'm particularly worried about. There are a lot of countries with a median GDP per capita greater than or roughly equivalent to the United States[1] with more robust social welfare states and lower GINI coeffic
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by trowawee 8y ago
I think there are a lot of policy changes that could make massive strides towards resolving this. A significantly higher marginal tax rate and a wealth tax would reduce the amount of wealth available to gift. Lowering the amount of money th
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by trowawee 8y ago
They have a staff of 90 engineers already out of an overall headcount of ~300. Performantly serving text and images to a userbase of 2 million users/month is not a wild expectation. it's barely even table stakes. And if you fail a
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by trowawee 8y ago
Literally hundreds of thousands of dollars. Flights on private jets when there's a pressing need for travel. Rent and food and entertainment in major cities, full tuition payments for millennials and, as they reach the point of startin
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by trowawee 8y ago
> I understand there is empirical data showing how race is correlated with zip code, but you still choose your zipcode at the end of the day. Unless you live in a city that was redlined[1], which is to say, unless you live in virtually a
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by trowawee 8y ago
> The root of injustice is simply bad luck. Ethnicity and gender are only loosely correlated with bad luck but there is no causal relationship between them (not so much anymore at least). This is wildly ignorant and ahistorical. There ar
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by trowawee 8y ago
Well, that's certainly what Harvard would argue, although a lot of people might disagree, but even if we accept their/your framing, that doesn't solve the issue. You're throwing around "most qualified" and &quo
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by trowawee 8y ago
Well, the cynical answer is that the elite schools churn out the people who go into the media, government, and various other halls of power, so a lot of the chatter is actual graduates of these schools discussing their own alma maters, and
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by trowawee 8y ago
Not trying to be unkind here, but you keep bringing up examples from Oxford in a discussion about the American higher education system. There's a big difference in culture between the two, and so discussing Oxford as a counterpoint doe
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by trowawee 8y ago
Absolutely agree. I don't know how much this particular proposal would help them, though; I think catching those people would require a wholesale overhaul of the educational system: universal free pre-school, standardizing school fundi
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by trowawee 8y ago
"simply admit the most qualified students" is the "assume a spherical cow" of the college admissions discussion.
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by trowawee 8y ago
...kinda, yeah. Feynman's an interesting choice of example, actually; he wanted to attend Columbia, couldn't get in because of anti-Semitism, and then attended MIT before it was "MIT, Famous Engineering School", when it
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by trowawee 8y ago
Not really. Is it more impressive to climb the seven summits, or write an original work and have it performed by the New York Philharmonic? These aren't cleanly comparable things (which was always the point, of course; the focus on &qu
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by trowawee 8y ago
It would also probably dramatically worsen the grade inflation that's already rampant at a lot of the elite feeder high schools that pump people into the Ivies (and rampant at Harvard itself[1], fwiw). 1: https://www.washing
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by trowawee 8y ago
People who go to HYS et al. aren't paying for the quality of education; they're paying for the signaling device and the network opportunities.
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by trowawee 8y ago
From the stuff I was reading/folks I was chatting with when I ran into the problem, it sounds like restarting your instance could sometimes fix it - I assume Netflix is basically playing whack-a-mole with AWS-based scrapers.
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by trowawee 8y ago
Yeah, this is a big problem. I set up a Streisand instance last year just to play around with, and while the set-up was pleasantly simple and the results were great as far as the VPN functionality, it shut down Netflix entirely for me. Defi
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by trowawee 8y ago
They claim they've been profitable for the last three years, although they do so without providing any actual numbers.[1] [1]: https://www.adweek.com/digital/meundies-pivots-its-membershi...
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by trowawee 8y ago
> Why are these questions so hard to answer? At a micro level, because collecting accurate data on the best diet or the best workout system is functionally impossible and because a lot of the people who are theoretically researching thes
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by trowawee 8y ago
They tried that[1], and it didn't work out for them. [1]: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/354217/sunsetting-d...
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by trowawee 8y ago
Higher volume, faster turnover, economies of scale, predictable customer interaction schedules. All the things that make a local coffee shop or bookstore attractive, both to own and to patronize, directly conflict with those factors.
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by trowawee 8y ago
Short answer: no. If you aren't part of the club, or if you don't go out of your way to find out these things, this is not particularly well-known. And honestly, I could flip this pretty easily: there are lots of narratives out th
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by trowawee 8y ago
I think it's interesting that you quote Stevenson (and more broadly draw in the restorative justice movement here) because one of the core pieces of restorative justice is admitting your wrongs and making concrete steps towards making
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by trowawee 8y ago
Some good suggestions here from Jeff Atwood: https://blog.codinghorror.com/programming-your-hands/

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