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by vkou 5mo ago
Well, then. In that case, the simple solution is to admit more students in the first year, and aggressively flunk out the ones whose performance does not match their high school grades.
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by vkou 5mo ago
This article took ~8 million words to get to a point. 'Write shit. Edit it. Repeat.' What a disappointment.
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by vkou 5mo ago
Have you looked at the Uber app recently? 90% of it is promotionshit. I am just looking for a fucking taxi. Are there any VCs looking to give away a few billion dollars to disrupt the ossified, wasteful, poor customer experience taxi app ma
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by vkou 5mo ago
Is there a shortage of students who have a grasp of elementary school math, who apply to UC? Instead of admitting the captain of the ping-pong team (who can't count past 21 - or past ten without pulling off his boots), maybe admit any
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by vkou 5mo ago
The universities can just fail them out and admit people who barely missed the admission bar in their place. Many of them will make it. What's wrong with making universities easier to get into, but harder to stay in?
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by vkou 5mo ago
Not everywhere in the world is a dystopian shithole. I would say that most places for the most part aren't. What I mean to say is that every society has dystopian elements (that are perpetuated and maintained in an incredibly negativ
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by vkou 5mo ago
You'd be surprised by how long a pathologically stupid system can perpetuate itself. Look at any of a million of local shitty maximums our (or any other) society is trapped in. They are all dystopian on one axis or another, and many of
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by vkou 5mo ago
Citing one bad election or referendum, and another country that just had a complete political upheaval that has blown up in our good friend Orban's face, and a third that's up in the air isn't as strong an argument as you wou
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by vkou 5mo ago
Which is precisely why AI is such a godawful thing for society. It enables powerful idiots with incredible amounts of control over your life to be bigger, dumber powerful idiots. That's the real AI safety concern, not whether or not ch
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by vkou 5mo ago
Democracy in the US is sick at the best of times. It's a fundamental flaw in strong executive presidential republics, doubled down on by the legislatures ability to constantly redistrict in a way that advantages the incumbents, tripled
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by vkou 5mo ago
There is also the fourth - the press, which is either actively cheerleading him, or sanewashing every insane thing be does, or walks an eggshells around him.
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by vkou 5mo ago
Nothing, but when your spouse turns into an abusive piece of shit, breaking up with them and looking for a new one is the right call. Sure, the new one might turn into one too, but that's no reason to stay with one who is definitely
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by vkou 5mo ago
Canada is not particularly dangerous, but it has a horrible case of being drowned out by American culture (which strongly influences Canadians' subjective perceptions of their environs), and having the same kind of problematic urban pl
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by vkou 5mo ago
This is a solved problem in civilized countries. The time between arriving at an airport and boarding your plane in Japan is ~10 minutes, most of it walking. Because they don't spend an hour fucking around with clownshow security, and
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by vkou 5mo ago
Maybe show that to drivers, too, every time they have to renew their license.
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by vkou 5mo ago
Generally the difference between a library and a framework is that you can use bits and pieces of a library to add functionality to your project. A framework expects most of your project to be shoehorned into it. Whether something is one or
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by vkou 5mo ago
Or walk home from school, or the playground, or wherever they are going from, through the middle of what in any NA city would be described as 'downtown', and would get CPS dispatched on speed-dial.
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by vkou 5mo ago
Given that my friends with iPhones were having more trouble than me with a visitor Suica, the phone advantage isn't a major one. Also, non-Tokyo transit systems often support VISA tap and pay. A visitor Suica card (that you can buy at
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by vkou 5mo ago
Well, I could go with a different insurer that blatantly and brazenly lies about their network coverage[1], or I could go with one that doesn't, but still doesn't have my doctors in it, or I could go with the other one that people
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by vkou 5mo ago
The caller is a minimal wagie following a script, you can't get mad at them. The chucklefuck that wrote the script that you can get mad at won't pick up your calls. That's how responsibility works.
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by vkou 5mo ago
US insurers expect you to click on sms links and log in with your username, password, and 2fa all so you can receive a fucking marketing message.
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by vkou 5mo ago
The current senate would rubber-stamp maga dropping a nuclear bomb on Seattle. There does not seem to be any red line for them when it comes to support of the unterfuhrer.
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by vkou 5mo ago
When they'll get a president with a subservient congress elected twice, and go on to drive the country into a burning dumpster, I will be willing to entertain the possibility that the existence of the Senate protects us from their dest
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by vkou 5mo ago
Antifa and BLM have the political power of a mouse fart. Please don't compare them to the elephant in the room.
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by vkou 5mo ago
You can lobby congress to put him in a 6x6 cell. For any reason whatsoever, including no reason whatsoever. Their trials are ultimately a yes/no vote, the facts don't matter. They are just as complicit in failing to exercise their
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by vkou 5mo ago
They are intentionally malevolent, and at this point, it's safe to assume that anyone making excuses for it is as well.
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by vkou 5mo ago
Homicide is not always murder, but what we saw in Minnesota was murder by any definition.
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by vkou 5mo ago
Murder is a capital crime regardless of who you work for. Those fucks were violating both federal and state law. 'Give it time' will only work if the GOP is removed from power. Otherwise, not a single thing will happen. Otherwise,
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by vkou 5mo ago
You'll find that in most countries, town cops don't take orders from the federal government.
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by vkou 5mo ago
A national identity needs to stand for something. It can't just be defined as 'we hate Ontario and the federal libs and want to become an American gas station'.

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