ushtaritk421

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by ushtaritk421 5mo ago
Expecting a kid to run a mile in Physical Education class rather than call Uber is not denying technical progress, nor is it hurting their ability to call Uber later when it is appropriate.
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by ushtaritk421 7mo ago
Many parents of preteens and young teens that I know simply do not allow their childrend to use social media on their own devices. Doesn't sound like that bad a solution.
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by ushtaritk421 8mo ago
Yes, as an American I think that all forms of government that are not liberal democracy basically are illegitimate. We can have relationships of convenience with other governments, but it should be known by such governments somewhere in the
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by ushtaritk421 1y ago
I hear they even have a gun that makes a big hole in you that makes you die
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by ushtaritk421 1y ago
I think there’s a couple justifiable reasons to have legacy admissions. One, help the poor, smart kids meet the rich kids. Together, they can get more done than separately. Second, I think the legacy folks see their relationship with the un
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by ushtaritk421 1y ago
Cool project, but on a practical level it seems like a lot of trouble just to avoid paying for premium
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by ushtaritk421 2y ago
This is indeed a crazy idea (your words, not mine). Why should a foreign worker who can do a job in the US that pays 2,3,4x what they make at home be forced to languish underpaid because of where they were born? And why should the US econom
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by ushtaritk421 2y ago
I would be very interested in this.
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by ushtaritk421 2y ago
I had an elementary teacher in the early ‘90s who did the same. I don’t remember any of us thinking it odd at the time.
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by ushtaritk421 2y ago
Dumb phone turned off and in backpack would serve fine for this scenario.
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by ushtaritk421 2y ago
In the US you can be fired with 0 notice or severance, regardless of tenure in most states.
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by ushtaritk421 2y ago
All increases in the number of people doing work and creating things can increase GDP per capita (especially if you count the increase in the income of the person who immigrated, as you should). Inexpensive Indian IT guy makes IT cheaper, w
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by ushtaritk421 2y ago
Presumably these people applied for the jobs in question. I think it isn't for you to decide that their chosen job is pointless.
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by ushtaritk421 2y ago
I don’t think there is anything wrong with this. If anything, we should change the law to encourage much more high-skill immigration
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by ushtaritk421 2y ago
Bernie Madoff did die in prison, so there’s that.
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by ushtaritk421 3y ago
Immigration is the natural effect of people moving to where the market price of labor “demands” they move. Doesn’t seem that artificial.
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by ushtaritk421 3y ago
The fact that Disney fights viciously for the extension of copyright periods goes against your assumption.
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by ushtaritk421 3y ago
I bought a Logitech
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by ushtaritk421 3y ago
Can’t believe it has taken this long to add these features
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by ushtaritk421 3y ago
I don’t think I have a strong opinion on whether computer generated CSAM increases or decreases actual child abuse (could see it going either way or even different ways depending on the time scale). That aside, sometimes we have laws that e
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by ushtaritk421 3y ago
It’s big companies but it’s also (mostly?) the nice retired insurance agents and school teachers who like their quiet neighborhood and the fact that the house they bought 30 years ago can be sold for 4x its inflation-adjusted purchase price
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by ushtaritk421 3y ago
Seems completely beside the point to be honest. Like they come from here and cause a small fraction of the mischief they are purported to cause there.
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by ushtaritk421 3y ago
How much does Roblox exploit the kids if they instead go and play outside?
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by ushtaritk421 3y ago
Right, but an org that accepts fake papers (now easily generated) gets outed easily and ignored by everyone. Legitimate orgs with real review processes presumably sniff out the fake papers easily with their current procedures and don't
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by ushtaritk421 3y ago
Feels like AI makes the fight against paper mills easier. A group could submit AI-generated papers to different places and create a public index based on how successful they are at getting their nonsense papers accepted.
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by ushtaritk421 3y ago
Maybe the problem is analogous to what Orwell describes here: "Even a single taboo can have an all-round crippling effect upon the mind, because there is always the danger that any thought which is freely followed up may lead to the fo
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by ushtaritk421 3y ago
This seems like very poor planning.
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by ushtaritk421 4y ago
Prose writing used to be a fairly honest signal that someone smart spent time writing it for you. Now it's not, so we will invent another signal that someone smart spent time on you.
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by ushtaritk421 4y ago
As soon as people figure out teachers are using this, schools will either ban it or come up with another useless but time-consuming task to signal to parents that the teacher cares individually about their child enough to do the time-consum
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by ushtaritk421 4y ago
“white childless workers” also doesn’t get flagged.

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