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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
> "from 2016 to 2017, the proportion of adults who described themselves as more anxious than the previous year was 36 percent" Note this is not the same as the real increase in anxiety from 2016 to 2017, nor is there evidence
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I believe (1) is circular: "State X is a problem because it tends to keep us in State X" - but why is X a problem in the first place?
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This immediately raises several questions: 1) What are the legitimate concerns with only women teaching young children? 2) What is the evidence that men aren't interested in teaching young children? How can it be shown that the effect
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Presumably they are referring to the healthcare and education fields being over 3/4 women. In my opinion, whether such disparities are problematic, and in which fields, is a genuine question.
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I wonder how this all fits in with the recent trend towards Stoicism in Silicon Valley: From Epictetus, a father of Stoicism >1. Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion,
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
There is a good reason property tax isn't quite like a wealth tax: property tax is used to pay for services provided by the municipality (schools, libraries, roads). More similar to the wealth tax would be the so-called https:/
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
To be more generous, they hire fantastically bright people, but they do not give candidates an ethics quiz, nor would it even be possible to construct a non-gameable filter. This likely goes for any company that grows from small to giant: e
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This is a superb argument. Thank you.
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I don't have firsthand knowledge, but my conjecture is that the old Google probably had a significant % of employees who held the belief "We shouldn't censor for China, even if that makes us lose money". But over a perio
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Some lowlights for those who don't want to read the whole thing: >[H]e returned from a 10-day trip to Italy's Amalfi Coast. Before that, he boasts, he journeyed to a yoga retreat and juice cleanse in Bali, the perfect setting t
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The sad fact is that sober analyses like these won't make their way around. Meaning a large subset of readers of the first article will have more "evidence" for their mistaken interventions to improve academic performance. O
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I think this has more to do with the fact that there are (generally speaking) only two sexes. So if we talk about one lagging behind, then it is obvious that we are comparing one to the other. On the other hand, if you were to speak about u
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It goes without saying that this is very cherry picked. At the same time, it deserves to be seen simply because celebrities/mainstream media are ignorant of, or choose not to report on these kinds of disparities.
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>Having the right to assemble doesn't mean the government has to make it easy for you There's a good active/passive distinction to be made here. For facebook groups, say, I would consider shutting down a group to be an &q
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So what I think of as "free assembly" way back when, is the private meetings that our founding father had in taverns and homes when they were planning the rebellion. Today I would consider that to be, say, Antifa (or whatever gro
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
I like that there is a logic and consistency to this "hyper-capitalist" approach, but the founders could not have had internet platforms in mind when they wrote the rules. Back when the country was 10,000x smaller, then yes, meet
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
Right, I can definitely see the danger with something public being taken private, but I feel like it's happening more often in the opposite direction. I just read this recently ( https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12&#x2
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Something I wish was addressed is what the right to peaceable assembly even looks like in the age of technology. I guess the same could be said about free speech, but I feel the greatest threat to these rights isn't from the governmen
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UC Berkeley's rubric for scoring job applicants' diversity statements is here: https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202001/rnoti-o1.pdf
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Response letters, including 2 joint letters signed by over 600 people each, are here: https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202001/rnoti-o1.pdf
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Almost everything he says rings true with me after we got a dog. Especially the moments where I feel present and the joy from doing mundane tasks. Get a dog if you are childless!
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I never could get into history in school, but I love the idea of looking at history through the lens of one particular item and find it more interesting. I know of ( https://www.amazon.com/Debt-Updated-Expanded-First-Years&#
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This year's test paper is here: https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/study-here/undergraduate-study/ma... I was surprised and (as a math major) delighted to see these sorts of problems. There are a lot of standard top
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Can you solve it? Would you get into Oxford?(theguardian.com)
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And I agree with this 100%. I think that if we could somehow by fiat pay teachers as much as we paid doctors or lawyers we would attract the same calibre of talent. But we pay teachers as much as janitors or secretaries and somehow expec
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I kept scrolling, hoping to see "serialize a binary tree" or something I could answer. Disappointed.
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Despite having a math background, I got stuck on page 1, which is supposed to be definitions, where "Utilization" is used without being defined. With some googling, it turns out this is the ratio of a Poisson parameter to an expo