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by wisty 6y ago
Universities exist to teach teenagers basic literacy skills, and maybe a few technical skills in the STEM degrees. They're mostly just high-school English teachers with a few more qualifications and better writing skills and more dedic
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by wisty 6y ago
This paragraph really stood out as this: > “The late seventeenth-century invention of shops and shopping by an urban middle class who lived by trade was mirrored by the growth of a new type of domestic space,” Worsley writes. “What might
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by wisty 6y ago
I'm guessing it works because of the (relatively) small amounts of money involved. A years savings ($1000-20,000 depending on the sou sou) is not worth pissing off your entire social network over. The real value wouldn't be the fi
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by wisty 6y ago
> Banks don't increase the total supply of money, all fraction reserve does is keep more of it in circulation. It doesn't increase currency (M0). But is there 'money' in your bank account? They increase money by a sli
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by wisty 6y ago
1. "Back in the day" people actually were forced to work on computers to get anything to work (much like boomers had to work on cars to have them run). Now for many kids it's a passive learning experience, they can just say &
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by wisty 6y ago
The book Freakanomics mentions that Westerners in groups tend to avoid picking the same thing to avoid looking too conformist (and the last people to pick are unhappy with their choice because they were railroaded into getting something odd
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by wisty 6y ago
Multiple inheritance was a mistake.
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by wisty 6y ago
A hospital can call a part-time EMT and ask them to work a few extra shifts due to some disaster. They can't ask them to bring a bed.
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by wisty 6y ago
Whistle blower protection laws, and regulators with teeth being more likely to be effective?
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by wisty 6y ago
As I understand it, the "promotion through seniority" thing isn't always a huge issue. It's basically a way to create less risk and stress for employees. As long as they put in the work (and yeah, they're ALL expect
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by wisty 6y ago
Maybe the clothes aren't there for the judge or jury, but for the clients. If a lawyer dresses to the nines and wins the case, the client will feel justified in paying their fees.
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by wisty 6y ago
> Just granting it at random or equally is probably very very far from optimal if it means that an exceptional PI cannot even do the things to push his/her research to the next level. What does "far from optimal" mean? Let
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by wisty 6y ago
Ill-defined descriptions of how to teach (or manage) better often seem a bit silly to me. In these fields, people generally improve with a bit of experience and effort, to the point where they're happy with the results they're get
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by wisty 6y ago
The US government already spends an absolutely incredible amount of healthcare, comparable to Canada or the UK (per capita). Medicare (old people), Medicaid (poor people) and VA, funds for people who don't pay emergency rooms. It'
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by wisty 6y ago
If the mayor of Portland joins them, and many of them just chant "fuck Ted Wheeler" at him, maybe they need to come to the table with solutions rather than just problem?
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by wisty 6y ago
A lot of these protesters seem to be willingly acting as shields for the brick-throwers. How many times have we seen a black-clad (thus like the 'secret police' unidentifiable and unaccountable) brick thrower seek shelter in the c
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by wisty 6y ago
Replication (or imitation) and mutation in a selective environment can create the illusion of intent without it needing to be present.
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by wisty 6y ago
In a badly managed mess of a project, "reputation" means never implicating the wrong person in the inevitable miss-steps. And by "wrong person", I mean "your boss, your customer, or anyone who they are friends with&
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by wisty 6y ago
As I remember the actual story: The the hammer was waaaaay more than $1000. But that's because the military said "We'll pay you a total sum of X, but to make it easier to fund the project we'll let you break it into n pa
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by wisty 6y ago
Look at the revealed preferences. A grandparent might accept a 20% chance of dying, if it means regularly taking their grandchild to the park in the last few good years of life they have left. Most of the people at great risk of CORVID only
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by wisty 6y ago
Any reasonable definition of "you" would suggest a mind with free will (at least to a certain level of approximation). Also, aside from any philosophical mind / matter or free will / predestination arguments, it's n
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by wisty 6y ago
Latinos and people with mental illness (and fat people) are kinda still acceptable targets. Poor whites. Men in some contexts. Asians in some contexts. One of the biggest issues with the whole anti-discrimination movement now is that it is
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by wisty 6y ago
Often, society is wrong and capitalism is right. When society is prejudiced against a group (not the fake prejudice that society complains about - major broadcasters like Fox and CNN are both probably championing groups who have plenty of s
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by wisty 6y ago
> The police said a group of teenage boys that night had punched and kicked another teenager at a nearby playground and stolen his cellphone. The teen flagged down an officer and was driven around the neighborhood looking for the boys. H
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by wisty 6y ago
I'm not sure if it's original, but the book American Gods had a good joke about this. "How do you know the CIA didn't kill JFK?"
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by wisty 6y ago
Cheap buildings are cheap, but when they have money I think architects just try to be unique, which just ends up being uniquely ugly in most cases. I don't think this is entirely true. A lot of the most hideous (in my opinion) modern b
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by wisty 6y ago
Plenty of people can construct arguments that breaking the rules are acceptable when they do it.
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by wisty 6y ago
How is this different to the following? "Using counterfeit money is arguably OK because some of the people who use it might need it, or see the need to earn a living as a needless waste of time as long as there's idiots who'l
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by wisty 7y ago
> I think the real question here is why tech companies (or rather their CEOs, founders etc) are not making a fuss. A heavy compliance burden is a moat for incumbents. This is true in most industries - businesses only squeal about regulat
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by wisty 7y ago
I think people are being pretty cynical about this. In my experience, there's usually a few good senior people to learn from, unless you've joined a truly terrible company where everyone good has either left or burnt out. However,

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