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by wrp 2y ago
Another relevant aspect of Japanese management is the enforcement of consensus decision-making, which blunts the influence of the highly competent and incompetent.
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by wrp 2y ago
Did Baum ever confirm this political interpretation of his works? I've read about his writing approach and it doesn't seem likely to me. His intention was to create a body of fairy tales that was purely American, that is, without
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by wrp 2y ago
Olivetti typewriters used to have keys like that. ( https://www.massmadesoul.com/olivetti-praxis-48 ) Maybe using those as a point of reference would help in your search.
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by wrp 2y ago
Tolkien never gave a comprehensive explanation for his position, but Robert Stuart in his Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth (2022) argues that Tolkien consistently assumed that all the flesh-and-blood humanoids in Middle-earth wer
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by wrp 2y ago
In that, Tolkien was casually following traditional European usage, e.g. the "German race" versus the "English race", which didn't clearly distinguish between genetics and culture. I can appreciate the desire to get
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by wrp 2y ago
I'm not as familiar Korean intellectual trends as I was in Japan, but I think there is enough similarity for a comparison to be informative. In the 1970s-80s, Japan was faced with the anticipation that they would need to accommodate ma
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by wrp 2y ago
> this poem and about a dozen more to memory I hope one of them was Acquainted with the Night . :-)
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by wrp 2y ago
The Necropolis Railway also features in the Basil Copper novel Necropolis (1980).
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by wrp 2y ago
> national single payer Medicare/Medicaid for all. Barack Obama himself said in an interview that this option wouldn't be on the table, because it would kill millions of jobs. When there is great inefficiency in a system, remem
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by wrp 2y ago
A good deal of confusion in topics like this comes from assuming that not having vocabulary to describe differences means that people weren't aware of the differences. That's silly. Have you ever tried to pick a paint for your hou
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by wrp 2y ago
I saw an interview many years ago with some American historian (of the labor movement?) who argued that establishing universal health care was on the table in the 1950s, but the unions opposed it because health care was the prime benefit th
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by wrp 2y ago
A few reasons. Laser doesn't do well with thicker or textured paper. More durability in commercial situations. And then there is color. The Epson EcoTank line seems to be selling very well.
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by wrp 2y ago
I traveled to Asia for many years out of PDX. Now I have to go through SEA, SFO, or LAX, all of which are a very inferior experience. What happened with PDX? I miss the PDX-NRT run.
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by wrp 2y ago
Since this is HN, I'm hoping for some discussion of how this could be applicable to software documentation. I've felt similar frustration with complex board games and software, and thought often about crossover in techniques of pr
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by wrp 2y ago
Personal anecdote from knowing a few cases. It seemed to result from too much time alone and ruminating. Getting out and doing stuff with people made their hypochondria fade into the background.
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by wrp 2y ago
From Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965): Captain Rumpelstoss: "But...how will I learn to fly?" Count Manfred Von Holstein: "Same way as we learn everything else in the German army: From the book of instru
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by wrp 2y ago
Is this tax because the state needs the money or is it social engineering?
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Busan is also very nice in winter. Although it's cold, humidity is low and most days are sunny. In summer, though, I prefer to be just about anywhere else.
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by wrp 2y ago
> fictional advertisement for such a product in a sci-fi story Beyond the Blue Event Horizon by Frederik Pohl The artificial food was called CHON.
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by wrp 2y ago
> His [Wells'] novels are not social novels at all. The science fiction novels for which Wells is best known form a small part of his fiction output, and are from early in his career. Most of his ca. 50 novels are "social"
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by wrp 2y ago
> "What it takes to get in the Army is, quite frankly, a lot of fraud and perjury," one recruiter said. I knew a guy who retired from a TLA after a long period of doing security checks on new hires. He said that people who try
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by wrp 2y ago
I've wondered about that. Any major crisis is going to last much longer than a week. Will having a week's supplies really make a difference? Maybe it will lead to a slight staggering of refugee movement. I can't help thinking
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by wrp 2y ago
I loved Scientific American as it was in the 1970s-80s, and was saddened to see what happened to it after around 2000(?), but I can see how having an editor like Helmuth would be a rational choice for the owners. The purpose of a commercial
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by wrp 2y ago
Maybe he was inspired by the history of "dollar-a-year men". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-dollar_salary
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by wrp 2y ago
In discussing how to adapt teaching methods, we have also looked at evaluation by LLM. The most talked about concern now is the unreliability of LLM output. However, say that in the future, accuracy of LLMs improves to the point that it is
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by wrp 2y ago
TFA touches on the finding that highly intelligent students do not show a significant tendency to be more creative in their careers. Researchers on creativity doing historical surveys have observed that above average intelligence is not par
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About a decade ago, it was a hot fashion in Education schools to argue that homework did not promote skill development. I don't know if that's still the case, as fashions in Education can change abruptly. But consider what this po
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Does pedagogy have established and verified methodology that will result in a completely PHYSICALLY developed student, if only the student does the EXERCISE as prescribed? No, but we still see the value in physical activity to promote healt
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I have been working with colleagues to develop advice on how to adapt teaching methods in the face of widespread use of LLMs by students. The first point I like to make is that the purpose of having students do tasks is to foster their deve
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by wrp 2y ago
Investigative journalism in the past wasn't all as great as we like to think. Yes, there was some outstanding work, but there was also a lot of junk from lazy writers. The news hack who hung out in bars and generated stories from bits

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