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by wisty 2y ago
Sunk cost? Selection bias? I don't think you can get a PhD by accident, you have to really want to work in academia (or a specific industry). And I doubt getting a second post doc position is all that hard (as long as you're willi
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This is the old "siiiiiir why do we need to do this if we have calculators"? It matters - https://www.edweek.org/education/little-numbers-add-up-to-bi... Students who know the facts will be better at math. Ev
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I'm suprised that people are super-duper angry at pg's 2025 essay when it's substantially the same as his 2004 essay "what you can't say" - https://www.paulgraham.com/say.html other than using
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by wisty 2y ago
I think this is wrong. Descriptively / "objectively" if you make your demand cleaner, you decrease demand for dirty consumption. You can't say individuals don't matter by comparing them to the world, that's inv
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Eventually and it was massively controversial within academia. There were studies that showed it worked, but studies are positivist and for many education academics, positivist is an insult. That's why it took literally generations and
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Large groups of experts in a non-science can be wrong. Either the Vatican University theology department, or a Baptist theology department would be at least one example.
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If the parents cared and were well educated then those numbers would be much better, simply by them helping kids with homework etc. But schools shouldn't require that.
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Education theory is divided among educational progressive and conservatives, it doesn't entirely align with political parties. Educational progressivism is actually more antiquated than conservatism - the classic progressives were 19th
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Neither should be controversial.
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Please try to be civil. I mentioned phonics, do you agree with what I said on it or not?
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People are getting disillusioned by education; partly because of politics, but also because there's a good reason not to trust the experts. Phonics and memorising times tables in schools should be as controversial as hand washing in ho
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If you buy a cheap house in a good neighbourhood, you spend as little as possible on the building, and are mostly buying land. You are presumably buying a house because you think the land will increase in value.
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Spending more time and effort than other people are willing to do works in a number of fields.
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For those who don't know, Keaton was amazingly dedicated as a comedic stuntman - a silent era Jackie Chan (he was less popular after the silent era, but kept working until his death in the 60s). From Wikipedia: Garry Moore recalled, &q
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by wisty 2y ago
I'm not an expert, but as far as I can tell UV allows you to do this without feeling so guilty (it handles multiple versions of Python and libraries AFAIK quite well).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect > In economics, the Baumol effect, also known as Baumol's cost disease, first described by William J. Baumol and William G. Bowen in the 1960s, is the tendency for wa
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The US crime system, including all its rights, hardly seems to be the best in the world.
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Celiac is a very clear cut medical condition. Most gluten intolerance seems to be nothing but hypochondria, with along with your standard "restrictive diets work until people figure out how to eat highly processed garbage with the new
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by wisty 2y ago
Maybe some people just aren't smart enough to understand quantum tunnelling and band gaps, and there's no real better analogy. And even if you do kind of get these, the bad analogies let you remember the standard behaviour so you
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The argument is that the objective test is whether you can actually convince anyone to hand over money.
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Bad old code has been battle tested. Bad new code has not, and is more likely to have the show stopper bugs you want to avoid.
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by wisty 2y ago
Part of the argument seems to be the lack of deep, interesting content. But is that content still being made? Dead Internet theory is a meme (or maybe even seriously believed?) for a reason - everything seems to be on a handful of increasin
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by wisty 2y ago
Disposing of evidence can sometimes be more incriminating than not. Let's say he shuts up and gets a lawyer. His lawyer can say that maybe the real gunman noticed he looked similar, then switched bags on a bus. It's weak, but it&#
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The author also said to internalise it, but the simple fact is that in a proof-y math test you can't just say "well it should converge if everything is well behaved", the edge cases matter and definitions set the boundaries.
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Losing glycogen stored in muscle is not a huge issue IMO, as it should come back fast. Stuff that's easy to gain is usually easy to lose and vice versa.
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You are half right, just like unicode. IIRC you can mostly translate Kanji and Hanzi characters and they are almost 1:1 but you need to know whether to use a Japanese or Chinese font, and unicode just assume you have the right font IIRC (an
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by wisty 2y ago
If it's conditional, it's not unambiguous. But hey, I'm not a lawyer, maybe a lawyer (or better still, a judge) could clear it up?
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It isn't ridiculous for police to question a guy who murded his girfriend. And IIRC they weren't stupid, they checked with a lawyer to see if that was a legally a request for a lawyer.
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Thus is an example of a rhetorical question. You aren't asking for anything, you are making a statement. Another example is “If y’all, this is how I feel, if y’all think I did it, I know that I didn’t do it so why don’t you just give m
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by wisty 2y ago
Sorry, back at my computer now. When it comes to ethnicity / race (or really any characteristic) there's a few ways writers can do it: 1. Colourblind - race has no real impact. It's simply not a big deal when writing the char

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