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The ‘Skull-Breaker Challenge’ Spreads on TikTok(forbes.com)
1 points by virtuous_signal 7y ago|0 comments
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
One good thing to come out of certain rating systems, like Uber and Airbnb, is that the users get rated too. If someone is a terrible customer, then they can probably make things a lot worse for the driver or host than vice versa, and witho
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
Even as a grad student, my teaching evaluations couldn't negatively affect me. The only people it could have real, negative consequences for were instructors, who work on contracts. As an example, my department head (perhaps unintentio
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
I don't know if "motivation" per se is studied in this context, but the genetic links for at least "self-regulation"[1], "self-control"[2], and "political ambition"[3] have been studied: [1] http
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
>And given that it’s now a US requirement to have medical insurance It became a "requirement" in 2014 with Obamacare, but since the repeal of the individual mandate in 2019, there is no financial punishment (except well, the in
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
I can see that perspective too. I had interpeted it as "don't make it seem that our research (via seminar talks) can be understood by undergrads!"
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
My takeaway/tldr: Act in a way that makes your colleagues (potentially future colleagues) feel smart.
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
A much more recent piece on the same subject came out yesterday: https://thehill.com/opinion/education/480603-what-is-uc-davi... In the middle they link to Berkeley's report on one hiring cycle in the life s
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
If you want to see the mentioned knitter's one-year-old blog post about her excitement at visiting India, including her apology, it is here: https://fringeassociation.com/2019/01/07/2019-my-year-of-col..
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
Full study from sci-hub: https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1177%2F095679761989758...
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How Firm Are the Foundations of Mind-Set Theory?(journals.sagepub.com)
2 points by virtuous_signal 7y ago|1 comments
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I Quit Yale(nytimes.com)
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
This struck me as too tidy, so in the spirit of debate let me offer a little pushback: >We are seeing such things dissolve because we have other options these days. 1) Do we have other options? I think we do, but I don't think the s
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
I'm also LGBT and I have to guess that >in many cities the queer people all know each other is massively untrue based on my own anecdatum. Where I'm from, there is certainly a group who all know each other, who hang out at the
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
Albeit I didn't know about those communes, but I think LGBT acceptance was extremely rapid. The only other change I'm ready to compare it to was slavery and black civil rights: consider that the first state to legalize same sex
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
This is spot on. I wonder if this exodus has resulted in people trying to make workplaces their "religious community"; but obviously people who happen to be at the same company don't have any reason to agree on important iss
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
A company can choose to ban you from their service for this. Uber eats, probably not an issue. But imagine the inconvenience of not having Uber for the rest of your life. Or worse, Airbnb which doesn’t even have a close competitor. I would
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
By casting the widest net I mean they are including everything possible in the denominator: perhaps everyone who does the first stage of the process. I know way too many people from my small social circle, who got jobs at Google, to believe
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
This website[1] says that $5mm net worth standard is for multiunit franchisees, whereas it's $1mm[2] for (presumably) a single store [1] https://www.thebalancesmb.com/most-popular-food-franchises-a... [2] https:/&#
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/business/subway-franchise... Apparently too many subways has caused bully by Subway the corporation of franchisees over good locations.
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
I think either of these acceptance rates are computed by casting the widest net possible. Nevertheless I have to believe Chick-Fil-A has a very rigorous process for hiring managers, who in turn know how to hire good workers; I have never on
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
This has errors, including at least two problems with the wrong answer.
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
>Tori in 4 dimensions are just nicer in general. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_torus#Still_more_gene... Torus (as in 2-dimensional torus) is nice in R^4, and in general the n-dimensional torus is nice in R^
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
For anyone wondering about the significance of this, the following is my loose explanation: you probably know that a torus is the surface of a doughnut. Better yet, it can be thought of as a square with edges identified (like the videogame
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
Fantastic. I would not have thought that binary-tree-drawing could be such a complicated problem.
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
No -- I'm going off news that came out in light of the lawsuit against Harvard recently, but I have no reason to believe other elite universities handle it differently. These things are shrouded in secrecy for the precise reason that
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
This totally might be the case. However it's still a good change and might lead to other colleges following suit. I'm reminded of a recent trend among the Ivies where Princeton was the first to eliminate loans from its financial a
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
So the author mentions hearing about the Reingold-Tilford Algorithm which wouldn't work for the example given since R-T is meant for binary trees and a family tree might have more than 2 nodes. Which led me to wonder why is there even
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
That's true, and in addition to the claim that legacy admits make the entire college experience more affordable for everyone else, is probably the strongest objection. I would venture the following: if we agree on the norm that "p
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
I'm aware that it's typically an edge; what I mean by "mediocre" is not a personal description, but rather the state of being quantitatively less meritorious than those students who gained admission without the legacy ed

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