iguy

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by iguy 6y ago
I don't know about respect. The data is on persistence of status. They can do this in many countries, those are just two I remember (besides England). Direct records of ancestry are too scattered to piece together long timescales. What
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by iguy 6y ago
Yes. The political point being made with this history is different too, it's one of pride, not shame. It's "Our great ancestors were nice social democrats, too! Unlike your cold-war army, grandpa, they let woman have front-li
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by iguy 6y ago
Yes to slavery being widespread in Europe of the dark ages. The church had something to do with its demise but I'm not sure it's one papal edict. Economics too. But if "late Middle Ages" means say the time of the black d
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by iguy 6y ago
Clark finds this pattern in most societies, IIRC Sweden and China have (in his data) almost identical rates of status persistence. It's not a quirk of English manners. What varies more is the degree to which ordinary people today desce
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by iguy 6y ago
They also aren't a useful rhetorical foil for any present-day arguments. In none of their former territory can you make political hay by deflecting present-day problems onto those particular earlier rulers. That's related to time,
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by iguy 6y ago
I'm not sure that the value of the art was the supposed justification. Not an expert, but I thought they were just arguing for freedom, that children ought to be free to consent to things, not just that great artists deserved a break.
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by iguy 6y ago
And, does the severity of your case depend strongly on your dose? This could have been extremely interesting early on. If it turned out that (say) severe cases in young people required a huge does, then it might have been possible to "
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by iguy 6y ago
Yes I mostly agree, it does set a good precedent, even if all it now gives us is "normal science" data. Would like to understand better how much of the time was needed to ramp up production. My assumption was that Moderna & co
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by iguy 6y ago
Title should (IMO) contain "human challenge". Most vaccine trials have involved humans, but none have involved deliberate exposure, i.e. "challenge". Seems crazy this took so long. Why didn't this happen last summer
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by iguy 6y ago
"begs the question" is another phrase whose meaning is now in the uncertain zone, by the same process.
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by iguy 6y ago
It is exciting. But what's a bit unclear (to me) is how re-usable safety testing is. Are we going to arrive at stage where we can "push to production" after this 48 hour design phase, or are we going to need months-to-years o
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by iguy 6y ago
It's clearly no a silver bullet. There may be opportunities for more blue-collar variants. I'm trying to think where but there was some program to hire former soldiers as teachers, which is a bit like that.
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by iguy 6y ago
Failure is a pretty strong word, they all went on to do other things, better paid, they had options. They tried to teach, for a while, because they wanted to. My point is just that they all underestimated how difficult controlling a pack of
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by iguy 6y ago
Anecdotally, all my over-educated friends who tried to take up teaching (after something else) gave up. Citing this reason, and sometimes the level of bureaucracy.
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by iguy 6y ago
Because it's a mixture. Some rowdy kids are just bored sick, and can't see any point in memorising crap for another stupid exam. These same people might really benefit (let's say, HN) finding out there is more to coding tha
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by iguy 6y ago
I don't think the claim is that this is an untapped source of cheap labor. More that it's a (potential) source of inspiration, direction, contacts, knowledge. High school students have spent their entire lives inside the education
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by iguy 6y ago
I presume GP meant that keeping an unruly high-school class on track is... a skill you won't develop in most workplaces. Not literal "babysitting", but a large part of what teachers do, orthogonal to actually conveying conten
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by iguy 6y ago
Presumably GP's plan would be most useful for high-school students. Exposure to teachers who'd had varied & interesting careers outside the school system could be great for those within sight of leaving it. Maybe part-time red
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by iguy 6y ago
I think "selection" is the short answer. If you can, by any means, arrange to have a class of better-behaved more-interested children, then you can save money. First, you can pay the teachers less, because the job is much more ple
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by iguy 6y ago
Ideally, we would think of this as getting a second use for your heating fuel. Between being mined and being burned, it's temporarily used to let you cary milk home from the store.
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by iguy 6y ago
What this means is that the US has replaced its common-law adversarial criminal justice system, with something completely different. Almost completely, and with very little debate. No referendum, no constitutional amendments. The old one st
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by iguy 6y ago
But it did take 400 years more technology than what Cortez had. The Zulu army was not a walk-over in the mid-19th C, although 50 years later (with gatling guns) it would have been.
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by iguy 6y ago
That sounds in a way the best case scenario, not to need anything from school. (Although not the one which schools should be designed around.) Or do you think that a better-designed school could have pushed you further, perhaps?
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by iguy 6y ago
I don't know either, but lots of stuff in hospitals is disposable, because this is easier than figuring out a system to disinfect & re-use it. Although perhaps that makes more sense in an operating theatre than many of the lower-ri
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by iguy 6y ago
If you "maxed out the math curriculum", then surely you got some idea that you enjoyed logic, and were better than average at solving puzzles? Presumably writers seldom end up writing about the texts they studied in high school, b
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by iguy 6y ago
There are two meanings to "gene" here. What you describe as lego blocks are segments which code for a protein, which is one meaning. The other is just any code which affects the phenotype, including promotors etc. The SNPs mention
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by iguy 6y ago
> Is there any trait that is strongly linked to a single gene? Sure. Sickle-cell anaemia is one classic case, one (recessive) gene. Huntington's disease is another, it's about a specific repeat number. But, as you say, most com
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by iguy 6y ago
For complex traits, I believe people think that linear effects dominate. Which is another way of saying that they see no advantage to adding a hidden layer, which encodes interactions, compared to adding up individual effects. The caveat he
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by iguy 6y ago
A super-interesting book this is Jonny Steinberg "A Man of Good Hope". The man in question is a Somali who, when he's being interviewed, does various jobs in the poorer parts of South Africa. And has interesting perspectives
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by iguy 6y ago
> our rescuers are exposed to mountain risk when they should be sitting back at base ... inter-hospital transfer ... actually worth risking their lives for. Do you think people who sign up to work for mountain rescue, in Switzerland, se

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