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by wisty 8y ago
The blame doesn't just go to crusty old mentors. A lot of the traditional approaches are much better than the fads that education academics try to push. If you look at Hattie's work, I'd say most of the highly effective techn
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by wisty 8y ago
A social network with zero users is worthwhile if I can use it as a blog.
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by wisty 8y ago
The manager just pissed on the employee from a great height. It's the manager's job to explain exactly why this was reasonable (and it probably wasn't).
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by wisty 8y ago
Weather prediction is constantly getting more accurate. And since it only really cares about what happens in 7 (now maybe 10) days climate change is simply not a factor.
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by wisty 8y ago
A lot of victims of pretty much any fraud were stupid and greedy, it doesn't mean the fraud was not a crime.
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by wisty 8y ago
IIRC most "slow the onset" things are basically building up enough "reserve" that the symptoms aren't immeditely obvious. If you're well educated, alert (maybe from exercise?) and so on then the early signs of
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by wisty 9y ago
Another example of the Zodiac Killer's writing: Sirs -- I would like to expression my consternt consternation concerning your poor taste + lack of sympathy for the public, as evidenced by your running of the ads for the movie "Bad
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by wisty 9y ago
They don't kill people to take body parts. They execute convicted criminals, and those prisoners automatically become organ donors. One example of the potential moral hazard is that maybe there's some corruption (maybe there'
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by wisty 9y ago
No, the last person you should ask about education are the people who teach teachers. Unless they're the kind who looks at meta-analysis and goes "huh, the textbook is encouraging stuff that's essentially a placebo".
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by wisty 9y ago
As an alternative, maybe Person A spent $20k convincing Person B to pay $20k to eat poop. I believe the polite name for this is the "service economy"?
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by wisty 9y ago
Taiwan has an obesity rate of >20%. Not quite 35% or whatever the USA is, but still kinda high.
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by wisty 9y ago
The risky assumption seems to be "we're the ones with all the power, and we'll only use that power to punish people who deserve it". Also, just for fun, google "Ted Ts'o".
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by wisty 9y ago
You can already fake a political speech if you've got the resources. A look-alike and a good make-up artist can do a lot. The danger isn't a really good fake that can be discussed, but a high volume of OK fakes.
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by wisty 9y ago
For a less silly and inflammatory example, how about feet? Because there certainly are foot fetishists out there.
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by wisty 9y ago
If only there was some way to reduce the price of detached dwellings. If only there was a substitute which less discerning consumers would accept, giving them a place to make soup, have sex, and cook meth without using up too much land.
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by wisty 9y ago
> For seven months, just over a thousand Washington, D.C., police officers were randomly assigned cameras — and another thousand were not. Researchers tracked use-of-force incidents, civilian complaints, charging decisions and other outc
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by wisty 9y ago
> three years of domain-specific education, and a network of people who trust you to--no, who depend on you to be able to get things done with that knowledge This might be the case, but he's now like the janitor who unplugs the toil
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by wisty 9y ago
I know something similar often happens in the public service. Public service managers quickly learn to always hire a few useless people who they don't really need, just in case they need to make cutbacks.
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by wisty 9y ago
His anti-corruption campaign is the main one. There's a focus on "tigers" and "flies" - high profile targets and a general clean-up of low-level corruption. It seems like quite a lot of the "tigers" were o
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by wisty 9y ago
I feel like the main danger isn't AI doing something unintended, but AI working as it's designed to. Imagine law enforcement with strong AI. Maybe it's OK in the US, but how about China? Or North Korea? How about military app
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by wisty 9y ago
I feel a lot of the purpose of jargon in academia is simply to avoid disagreements. It's easy to agree with a metaphor, because you can interpret it however you like.
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by wisty 9y ago
IIRC there's a fairly strong correlation between content mastery and teaching ability, even at the high school level, far more than the correlation between level of teacher training and teaching ability. Obviously there's other fa
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by wisty 9y ago
The laws will target new cars. And the price of gas might plummet as big oil realises no-one is buying. Eventually this will end up costing more - all the gas stations will close as it gets too expensive with reduced economies of scale, but
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by wisty 9y ago
Because a tax is more efficient than wild, emotional guess-work.
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by wisty 9y ago
I don't agree that jerks are people who don't care about other people's individual circumstances. Jerks are people who think that everyone else is a jerk, which is how they excuse their behaviour. It's not that they don&
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by wisty 9y ago
Cathedrals and castles were built to be functional. Concrete and stone are strong under compression, but weak under tension. That's why medieval structures were built with lots of straight lines, or sweeping curves. When I look at a lo
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by wisty 9y ago
> To begin with, even I know most of Google’s work is people-centric. It’s either serving people directly, or analyzing people-data, or imagining the people-future. If you want to spend your life with things and ideas rather than people,
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by wisty 9y ago
It's even more fun when different forms (e.g. set password and enter password) have different validation rules.
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by wisty 9y ago
> Diversity programs would at some point stop being ineffective. I seriously doubt this will happen unless people criticize the failings of diversity programs, and diversity officer take this criticism seriously.
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by wisty 9y ago
Now obviously, what he did was injudicious. If you are a white male and suspect a diversity program is going to fail (and there's a lot of evidence that many of them do fail, sometimes even with negative impacts on the people they are

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