jmromer

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by jmromer 6y ago
One more: Aufhebunga Bunga The global politics podcast at the end of the End of History. From a left perspective. https://aufhebungabunga.podbean.com/
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by jmromer 6y ago
If you're open to being pissed off and want to go exploring beyond the SF / SV / liberal / rationalist / techie / IDW / iNtElLeckshualLY sTiMUlAtING hivemind, I'd recommend the following, all hosted b
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by jmromer 7y ago
> (they hope) is closely related to, or correlated with one's ability to perform the job. The idea is that if one can do these sorts of problems, one can probably do the actual job at hand This is a claim about the intentions behind
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by jmromer 7y ago
> but to call it gender biased is ridiculous Unlikely. > women and minorities are just as capable of playing board games Quite beside the point. Even leaving aside the implicit claims here that (1) the board-game filter measures capa
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by jmromer 7y ago
The "board game interview" is a spectacularly clueless display of net-negative cultural and gender bias. Not to mention just juvenile and unprofessional (my bias, sure). > A relatively recent demographic survey that elicited 3,
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by jmromer 8y ago
> That's what a person who isn't in that position would think. In reality most people just want to live. That's an exceptionally and offensively clueless thing to say. I speak from hard experience.
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by jmromer 8y ago
Indeed—it's a personal decision that every patient and family have to make based on their individual situation. (Just as mine had to.) That's why a categorical claim that there's no harm to having fighting attitude is patentl
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by jmromer 8y ago
A fighting attitude is harmful if it leads you to prioritize prolonging life at any cost.
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by jmromer 8y ago
> I've seen people give up and accept their low chances of survival. It's very rare. This strikes me as being normatively loaded in a way that's unhelpful, at a minimum. There's a cost-benefit analysis that has to tak
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by jmromer 8y ago
Top-down / outside-in test-first development is BDD.
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by jmromer 12y ago
Somehow, and sadly, I wasn't surprised to learn the cause of death. To me Williams's jovial veneer never seemed very convincing. RIP to a gentle soul.
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by jmromer 12y ago
Done properly, the flipped classroom + MOOC format would allow for more personal interaction than the traditional university setting currently does for all but the best students at the most elite schools. That they haven't succeeded
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by jmromer 12y ago
Compare D2L and Blackboard on one hand and the edX platform and Coursera on the other. Are they all LMSs? Absolutely. Is there some buzzword-mongering out there. Undoubtedly. But if you can't see (or, as a user, feel) any significant d
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by jmromer 12y ago
Something I see overlooked is that it's not an apples-to-apples comparison. If you were getting real academic credits for participating in MOOCs, if your degree completion depended on successful completion of a MOOC, I'd wager tha
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by jmromer 12y ago
Using race as a proxy for class is a great way to generate oppression along some margin (i.e., for some poor bastard(s) unlucky enough to be both poor and not a member of a protected racial/ethnic group). If you want to talk about clas
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by jmromer 12y ago
>people who try to be progressive with respect to the policies of the rest of world, but are too selfish to be progressive here at home. +9000 THIS. It's everywhere, you know. You just have to look for it. Isn't it possible, th
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by jmromer 12y ago
But no one ever seems to consider that there might be a point of diminishing returns to density. Or, even if they do recognize the possibility somewhere in the back of their minds, they assume their understanding of returns is the transce
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by jmromer 12y ago
I think that heuristic attributes more foresight to people than they actually exercise in practice. It's more like the impressions one anticipates making on others create incentives and disincentives that shape behavior...but this appl
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Xiki: Can your shell console do this?(youtube.com)
15 points by jmromer 12y ago|3 comments
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by jmromer 12y ago
I suspect that if Henrik is already giving away a digital version, with the paid version he's targeting high-rollers motivated to buy one out of a sense of gratitude/largesse. So a high price tag sort of makes sense.
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by jmromer 12y ago
You're thinking in partial equilibrium. I've no doubt that many women suffer under the yoke of gender expectations that are at odds with their biology. So do men. And even now, somewhere, there are women who suffer because of gend
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by jmromer 12y ago
Mou's live preview was neat for about a week, but eventually I just switched to Sublime Text with the MarkdownEditing, Markdown Preview, and Markdown TOC packages. Powerful stuff, and as-good-as-live preview in your browser. https:&#x
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by jmromer 12y ago
One man's "cultural bubble" is another's linguistic community. I'm an American in America, and here in America, in this here linguistic community, America is shorthand for "the United States of America",
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by jmromer 12y ago
Damn. For a second I thought Google was making some kind of end-run around regulators to put driverless cars on the road. Wrong sense of 'drive'.
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by jmromer 12y ago
To echo what others have said, I suspect what you're responding to isn't just change but churn . The social and economic incentives in place all seem to privilege revolutionary technological innovations over incremental ones, w
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by jmromer 12y ago
> Well, dude, no, actually you can overdress for an interview and you just did. I can think of two reasons why someone would dress up for a dressed-down interview: (1) They don't yet understand the social terrain they've entere
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by jmromer 12y ago
it proves it! /thread
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New Research Proves Gender Bias Extraordinarily Prevalent In STEM Careers(www8.gsb.columbia.edu)
1 points by jmromer 12y ago|1 comments
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by jmromer 12y ago
[Review Quiz] Jeremiah Shackelford left Pivotal Labs because: (a) He was told to leave (b) He was terminated (c) Security would have forced him to had he attempted to remain (d) All of the above.
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by jmromer 12y ago
That's intuitive, and a bummer. I don't think it has any bearing on the truth or falsity of the claim, though. I wonder if "soft pessimistic" (fixed limits) view creates as much depression as the "hard pessimistic&q

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