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by msg3 5y ago
I think there are far more examples of developing countries ignoring copyright - the US didn't recognise foreign copyrights until the 1890s.
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by msg3 5y ago
Fair enough, although I think you are maybe thinking a bit too narrowly about what school taught you. To get you to the point where you can write a scientific report takes an awful lot of learning... seems unfair to dismiss all of that.
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by msg3 5y ago
Being able to read "exemplary works" is a really strange and narrow definition of literate. I also have to disagree that "twitter speak and memes" is not intelligent communication -- just because something is new, doesn&
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by msg3 5y ago
But would you have been able to learn from those roles if school hadn't laid the groundwork? You can't expect a school to teach every child every skill they need for their adult life. It sounds like you were able to teach yourself
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by msg3 5y ago
Kids enter school at 5 or 6 with a range of reading abilities - some can recognise simple words, but very few are fully literate. The UK currently has a literacy rate of 99% -- something is going right. Learning to write and perform basic m
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by msg3 5y ago
..or time. Schools in the UK have already got a curriculum that's pretty full. Everyone will have their own different list of "essential life skills" and trying to fit them all into the curriculum is impossible. One thing tha
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by msg3 5y ago
We see this with Dyson claiming every few years that they can't find enough engineers -- translation -- we can't find enough engineers for the salary we want to pay them.
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by msg3 5y ago
I'm just not sure this is true. There are plenty of things wrong with the education system in the UK, and no doubt many individuals are completely failed by the system. But most kids do learn to read, write, perform basic maths and han
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by msg3 5y ago
I guess the problem here is the ambiguity of not responding -- it could mean you're not interested, but it could also mean you are too busy to reply. Without additional information, the salesman doesn't know which case it is. From
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by msg3 5y ago
I think that's a huge part of the problem though - we've made it so the only way we can get research done is by training a new researcher - even though there's already plenty of trained researchers who are struggling to find
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by msg3 5y ago
I think we had a far smaller number of people going to university back in the "golden days of science" - not sure you can really compare. A tenure lottery seems like an extreme option - there has to be a middle ground between what
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by msg3 5y ago
I think this would be a positive step, but to play devil's advocate, what happens when this superstar scientist retires? If I'm a researcher in his lab, does my job just disappear? If so, I'm still going to feel pressure to
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by msg3 5y ago
I agree with your diagnosis of the problem, but don't think your solution is a good way forward - immediately after undergrad is way too early to be evaluating research potential and would just shift the hyper competitiveness earlier.
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by msg3 5y ago
> "The climate is in danger/is not in danger and we should or shouldn't do so and so" is an expression of an idea, and can't be libel. If I was an employee of a climate action advocacy group, wouldn't public
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by msg3 5y ago
> So is it OK if a mob (not a legal or govermnet entity) stomped on you and beat you to a bloody pulp? No - legally and morally, this is not OK. > If a church (not a legal entity) asked its members to spit on your face and abuse you o
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by msg3 5y ago
> It's meaningless to be for or against free speech in some binary sense. What you can have is an opinion about the mapping from speech to consequences. You might think that speech should map to lighter consequences than it does at
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by msg3 5y ago
I'd agree that a twitter mob getting someone fired is in most cases a bad thing and I can think of a bunch of reasons why it's a bad thing. But "infringing on the employees right to free speech" isn't one of them. T
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by msg3 5y ago
Surely that depends on a number of things -- the nature of the employer's business, the manner in which the opinion is expressed, etc? I think businesses should generally be free to set their own terms and conditions, provided they are
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by msg3 5y ago
Fair enough. I'm certainly not advocating that it's ok to punch someone over something they said. The context of this thread (expressing political opinions at work) makes me think the other types of consequence are more relevant f
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by msg3 5y ago
Yes, and I think that's a good thing. But I don't see think that's incompatible with my view here - that freedom of speech doesn't mean I have the right to say anything and expect to keep my job. If I was to say somethin
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by msg3 5y ago
Punching people in the face is illegal regardless of the reason - I don't really see how that's relevant? Are you really saying that it should be impossible for someone to lose their job over what they say? If someone, for example
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by msg3 5y ago
I'm sorry but I have to disagree here. You want your speech to be free from consequences -- i.e if you were to call someone a liar / cheat, they can't change their opinion of you based on what you've said? How is that co
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by msg3 5y ago
I'm not sure about the current situation, but I believe the loans were maintained for a long time to ensure a certain level of government control over the large Chaebols.
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by msg3 5y ago
According to the Korean economist Ha-Joon Chang, the Korean government (or rather the dictator Park Chung Hee) is directly responsible for a lot of the success of the large Korean companies like Hyundai and Samsung. It's been a while s
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by msg3 5y ago
I have to disagree about the low quality matches (completely agree about the debt issues). I watch both NFL and Football and think the average NFL game is more competitive / exciting than the average EPL game. Look at this season - it&
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by msg3 5y ago
For many of the clubs in the ESL a major problem is that participation in the champions league is not guaranteed. Currently, the top four clubs from the English Premier League qualify for the following season's Champion's League.
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by msg3 6y ago
By itself, it's probably not a good idea. If the government supports the development of a chocolate production industry, including support for cocoa exporters, then it has every chance of success.
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by msg3 6y ago
The Korean economist Ha-Joon Chang makes similar arguments in his book Bad samaritans. He argues that this model was successfully followed by Korea (Samsung, Hyundai, etc), Japan, and even Henry VII in 15th century England - well worth a re
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by msg3 6y ago
Just like the US and UK did when they were emerging economies.
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by msg3 6y ago
For me, the pencil is the killer app for my ipad. It's turned a nice to have gadget into an essential for getting anything done.

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