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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Some people call these "quantum puzzles" because they can exist it two states at once. (And I'm guessing someone has made a puzzle with three different possible answer keys. I guess.)
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Absolutely. If the US government looks at the old loans as being predatory and unfair, why do they continue to make new ones with essentially the same terms and structure? The simplest way to reform the system is to shut down the new loans
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Helping the people who are hurting is profoundly unfair to the people who spent within their means. I know plenty of people who didn't go to a fancy college because they couldn't afford them. Mercy to the free spending debtors is
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Really? Pretty much every school I've ever seen has a special office of tutors that takes care of the various affirmative action admits. And also athletes. Definitely athletes. I don't think I've ever seen any such office for
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
The debts are huge, but forgiving them is not the answer. If the debt is so toxic, why is the US government still creating new loans that are just as big or even larger? And why are the colleges still forcing their students into the same de
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
To me, a more interesting question is how the students do after four years. Are the legacy students clustered toward the bottom 20% of the class? Are they evenly distributed in a way that suggests that legacy status didn't matter? Or d
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
A good point. Starches produced by plants are also long chains of sugars. Are they "plastic" too?
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Why? Because I believe they're wrong. I think it's just wrong to engage with any business and disable, sidestep or circumvent their way to make money. It's like shoplifting. It reminds of people who open up a box at the super
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Me too. Flash is a great technology, but it tends to forget things, especially if there's no power applied to it.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
> corporations aren't fighting them for their employees' benefit. But they are. The long-term profitability of the company is essential for ensuring the jobs of everyone. History is filled with the bankruptcies of unionized com
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
And just today I learned that the CEO of the failed sub exploring the Titanic said that he didn't want to hire 50 year old white guys. What a tool. He said they weren't "inspirational."
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
> "no bullsh*t about random overnight account closure..." Is it possible to predict this in advance? Can't these companies just do it any old time they feel like it? There's always a first. Or is there good regulation
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Yes. I can even imagine some extreme nonsense where the regulators call the loans because they're not backed by collateral any more.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Hello? The purpose of the classification is to keep the information secret. Do you seriously believe that printing the info on the front page is somehow not as indictment-worthy as keeping the documents stashed away? The reality is that wha
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
I still have nightmares about Kafka. I pulled out my hair for two weeks. That product was very appropriately named.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Anyone know if someone is selling something similar?
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Mark Roper, the former NASA engineer who designed glitter bombs to catch porch pirates, has also been putting out the bait in San Francisco. It's very sad how quickly the robberies happen. https://abc7news.com/glitter-b
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
The cool, indie stores were the first to go. They can't afford to be so accommodating to theft. The big box stores and the chains were able to cross-subsidize with the profits from the burbs. But now even they can't afford the cha
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
I don't think most people understand just how fine the precision happens to be. All that hard work just so people can laugh at memes as quickly as possible.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Are they the only suspects? I'm thinking of "Presumed Innocent", the Scott Turow book/movie.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Me too. I was annoyed on a recent trip that they were charging for food, but I realized that the food was never very good to begin with. I would much rather have a lower ticket price and buy what I want.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
There was a book that I can't remember that suggested the entire epidemic in Africa was overblown. It wasn't denying it, just saying that some of the estimates of 20,30 or 40% infection rate were wildly overstated. Now that it&#x2
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Just wait until people go into town and arrest them one by one. That's one solution.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
The amount of work that a publisher does varies, but there can be quite a bit of typesetting. Naturally, there are some lazy, low-rent journals that don't do much. And certainly the publishers love it when the author(s) do a great job
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
The publisher creates the journal and brings aboard the editor(s). The author then can decide where to submit a paper -- or maybe even just distribute it for free on the Internet and forgo all of the bureaucracy. The author has ultimate con
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
I feel like the Wizard of Oz when I tell the scientists: you've had this power from the beginning. No one needs to "escape" from big publishing. The scientist has always had complete control over the work. They own the copyri
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
DRM is anti-copyright. For Doctorow and the EFF, encryption is good when a person uses it but bad if a publisher uses it. The EFF was built by Big Tech to help support the wild, piracy-friendly growth of the Intertubes. All of the stances t
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
I find this kind of funny since I've always associated Doctorow with the EFF and the big tech-funded campaign to undermine copyright so Big Tech wouldn't need to share any revenues with the authors, artists and publishers. It was
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Would you rather be told you're not going to get a stable job as a researcher when you're 21 and first applying to grad school or at 28-35 when you're finally told you didn't get any interviews for a tenure track job?
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
You seem to assume that the expense would stay just so high. I'm guessing it could all be done for so much less. For comparison, please see the buildings in the former Soviet Union or Venzeula or Cuba to see how well they're maint

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