sdsaga12

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by sdsaga12 2y ago
> "Let’s break down what it takes to create just one course – say, an introductory course on core pre-algebra concepts: - 50+ core concepts to teach - 20+ problems per concept - → ~1,000+ individual problems per course That last num
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by sdsaga12 3y ago
Ah, I'd been thinking it must be a device somehow related to manufacturing bullets (but how? was the question) -- it hadn't occurred to me that it could mean the pointy tips of bullets themselves. And thank you for the book recomm
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by sdsaga12 3y ago
Sounds like the bed of Procrustes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrustes#Mythology
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by sdsaga12 3y ago
What are "bullet points" as named in this article? It's difficult to find anything on Google not referring to the typographical symbol of the same name. Context: "Archaeologists also found a hammer, tweezers, pliers,
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by sdsaga12 3y ago
Interesting that you raise the connection to schizotypal thinking. I recently learned there is a quite explicit connection between excessively instrumental, abstraction-obsessed thinking and schizophrenia. I recommend looking into the work
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by sdsaga12 3y ago
"Enshittified" is a valuable contribution to the lexicon.
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by sdsaga12 3y ago
I second the recommendation for Nongbri's "Before Religion". It definitely improved my understanding of what it is we even mean / have meant by "religion". For a more evolutionary understanding of religion, I&#
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by sdsaga12 4y ago
What is bland is universal, what is universal is bland.
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by sdsaga12 4y ago
Isn't this true of all new strains of all contagious pathogens? They are constantly undergoing change. We estimate low probability that mutated viruses or bacteria descended from strains we are familiar with will have dramatically more
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by sdsaga12 4y ago
This all depends on how you're approaching the question. Why do you want to read the news? What do you hope to get out of it? You're absolutely right that the NYT has changed in recent years, but that change has been part of syste
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by sdsaga12 4y ago
What type and size company do you work for? And how did you find it? That sounds like a pretty ideal scenario to me, but I'm not sure how to go about finding similar positions.
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by sdsaga12 4y ago
Thanks for the question -- it's important to grapple with even though it can be very uncomfortable and answering it is basically one can of worms after another. If you entertain it seriously, it really gets down to the philosophical ro
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by sdsaga12 4y ago
Hear hear. If your conception of diversity doesn't include viewpoint diversity, you are operating within a prejudicial, small-minded, small-hearted, and regressive framework. If you belive the most salient details about a person can be
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by sdsaga12 5y ago
https://weatherspark.com/ has great data, too. Excellent graphs for temperature, humidity, clear skies, etc.
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by sdsaga12 5y ago
Being able to read both Galileo's contention that the sun does not move and the church's condemnation of his theory. Being able to read both the corporate press's arguments in favor of invading Iraq and independent voices cri
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by sdsaga12 5y ago
This had been my impression of PTP too, and I think in many circumstances it's true, but I recently listened to this episode from Jane Street's Signals and Threads podcast that gave some interesting explanation of why they chose t
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by sdsaga12 5y ago
Ah ok, thanks for the prompt reply and I really admire the moderation work you do here!
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by sdsaga12 5y ago
Hi dang, my mistake on the diagnosis, then. I thought that because I saw an error message that said " Sorry, we're not able to serve your requests this quickly." and after that the edit button was no longer visible for me on
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by sdsaga12 5y ago
I appear to have rate-limited from editing that comment after double clicking on mobile, but this is what I was going to add: Edit: As I note in the linked comment, this channel is openly supportive of the protests. As I also write there, a
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by sdsaga12 5y ago
Here is a YouTube channel that has been doing extended livestreams from the ground with both protestors and counter-protestors: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzGiDDKdphJ0GFvEd82WfYQ/vid... As I wrote elsewhere
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by sdsaga12 5y ago
Negative coverage is much easier to come by than positive coverage if you mostly consume legacy/corporate media on this issue. If you're interested in a deeper understanding of people who support this movement than you can gain fr
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by sdsaga12 5y ago
Wow, there's some intriguing information about chimpanzee behavior in here that I had not encountered in the traditional lore about them: "Since the 1970s, researchers have known that chimpanzees — especially those in Tanzania or
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by sdsaga12 5y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Will take a look
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by sdsaga12 5y ago
"In 1996, five economists, known as the Boskin Commission, were tasked with saving the government $1 trillion. They observed that if the CPI were lowered by 1.1 percent, then a $1 trillion could indeed be saved over the coming decade.
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by sdsaga12 5y ago
I see, I thought you were listing your understanding of the death toll that had already been reached in actuality and not the theoretical potential death toll without vaccine intervention. That makes more sense.
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by sdsaga12 5y ago
Approximately 3.5 million globally have died from covid according to the WHO: https://covid19.who.int/ If you include deaths from related factors, like increased poverty or unrest, I'm sure the numbers go up a bit, but
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by sdsaga12 5y ago
Well said. I think your observation about the centrality of meaning not only rings true in the specific case of developer experience but also echoes the meaning crisis endemic to modern American life. Put another way, the capacity for human
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by sdsaga12 5y ago
Agreed that New York City is an outlier in a number of ways, but there does appear to be something interesting going on with regard to rising U.S. costs for a variety of things besides just construction (e.g., health care and education).
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by sdsaga12 6y ago
What do you make of this study by professors from Princeton and Northwestern that finds that "economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while av