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by vivekd 10y ago
>Fortunately, working for money is not an inherent part of nature. It is a construct, created by people, that can be changed by people I don't think that's true. Certainly money is not a part of nature, but I think working in
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by vivekd 10y ago
What's interesting to me about this podcast was the suggestion that the solution to burnout is not less work or taking a break, but getting appreciation for the work you put in. Burnout seems to not be really about the work involved b
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by vivekd 10y ago
I disagree with this idea. For starters, sample sizes alone don't give you reliable results, even with large sample sizes you might have other issues that affect the results such as poor design, it may not be reproducible or (as is oft
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New study suggests marsupials originated in N. America(washington.edu)
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by vivekd 10y ago
I don't agree with everything in this article but I think a part of it really put into words something I had been feeling for some time. I had always found it easy to agree with Stallman's view of free software. I think most reas
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by vivekd 10y ago
You're right, in many cases, hate speech and bullying are obvious and can be easily spotted. But there are always grey areas and disagreements where eradicating hate speech and bullying can also end up getting rid of speech with valid
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How my startup failed (1999)(alumni.stanford.edu)
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Facebook finds discrepancy in its like and share metrics(newsroom.fb.com)
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by vivekd 10y ago
I know some subreddits have "be kind and respectful" built into their rules, but this is often gamed by some redditors who will make carefully worded passive aggressive statements at ideological opponents and then quickly call for
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by vivekd 10y ago
I don't think rigging the primaries to make Bernie Sanders lose is anywhere in the same stratosphere. Or how about the clinton foundation recieving money from Saudi Arabia and Quatar despite knowing that they were funding ISIL. I cou
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by vivekd 10y ago
CIA says Russia helped Trump win the White House. . . by leaking emails showing the extreme corruption going on in the Clinton campaign and doing the job the media organizations should have been doing all along were they not just puppets fo
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by vivekd 10y ago
Yes they are forced to take the job by circumstance, I meant they aren't forced to take the job by uber or some other entity. But if they are forced to take the job by circumstance, I imagine depriving them of that job would leave the
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by vivekd 10y ago
Maybe that's odd in the States but here in Canada most jobs that an individual can get without a degree or experience would fit into the category of sweated labour. Many people are working multiple jobs to get by because a single inco
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by vivekd 10y ago
With visual basic, I think it was reasonably easy enough that anyone who wanted to write code could. I think what the industry is under-estimating is the fact that most people really don't want to write programs. They are happy to us
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by vivekd 10y ago
I doubt it's self sustaining, the maritime provinces are very poor with high unemployment and have been that way since the fisheries industry collapsed. PEI is a little more self-sustaining because they have things like potato farming
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Growing premium peaches in Fukushima(nippon.com)
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780 000 year old remains give insight into early hominid diet(haaretz.com)
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by vivekd 10y ago
I remember Bill Gates said in an interview that he still regularly takes online courses on subjects such as oceanography. People still love to learn, just, I don't think a formal college environment with grades and exams is necessaril
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Galactic gold rush: the tech companies aiming to make space mining a reality(theguardian.com)
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by vivekd 10y ago
To be fair, if an individual's primary source of news is facebook, it doesn't seem like such an individual would be all that informed about the world around them with or without facebook.
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by vivekd 10y ago
No I just meant that under ordinary cirumstances, where there is no explicit threat made, there can be no legal liability on part of the school or teacher. And even when there is a threat made, so long as some report is made to her superio
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by vivekd 10y ago
There is some evidence: For example this study shows that home schooled children are significantly less likely to drink or do drugs https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4652803/ but I will admit that
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by vivekd 10y ago
I think public schools foster an environment of sex, bullying, drugs and weapons by getting large groups of children together and offering very little supervision. I don't think those kinds of environments could exist outside of moder
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by vivekd 10y ago
Only one of those incidents is of a lawsuit against a teacher, the other two incidents are of a lawsuit against the families. And there is a very good reason for this. There is state immunity granted to teachers and schools in that they c
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by vivekd 10y ago
Because church groups and extracurricular sports teams and home schools all have a stake in protecting the kids. School shootings, stabbings and drug dealings happen every day, and no one gets fired, no one gets in trouble, no one gets sue
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by vivekd 10y ago
what school did you go to - drugs and weapons were everywhere in my school. I bought pot off my classmates.
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by vivekd 10y ago
So many opponents to homeschooling are talking about socialization as the key component of schooling. This seems misguided. Modern schools seem to be a terrible environment to socialize kids, with things like bulling, weapons, drugs, sext
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by vivekd 10y ago
How valid is this research? They seemed to have arbitrarily chosen factors that the researchers seem to feel is "essential to democracy" and then simply decide that these factors are in decline. Maybe I missed this but I didn&#x2
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by vivekd 10y ago
As a Canadian I oppose this, and not because I'm worried about money or taxes. I oppose this because the CBC provides news and entertainment in a way that directly competes with Canada's privately owned news and TV networks. As
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by vivekd 10y ago
I've been there as well, and to deny that Sub-Saharian African governments are rife with corruption is simply dishonest on your part.

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