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by zoolily 10mo ago
Corporate capitalism largely started colonization. Most of the English-speaking colonization of America was started by companies like the Virginia Company, the Massachusetts Bay Company, etc. Most of India was conquered by the British East
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by zoolily 1y ago
Dental procedures can setup trigger points in the masseter and pterygoid, as well as in your neck, all of which can cause headaches until they're resolved. Massage and trigger point needling by a physical therapist can help resolve the
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by zoolily 2y ago
The problem is that there's so little money in academia. In the US, state support for public universities has plummeted in the 21st century. In the last state I lived in, the state university near me went from providing over 75% of tea
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by zoolily 3y ago
Some schools really focus on teaching to the test. Since the tests the student's take require answering questions based on passages, the school requires teachers to only use similar length passwords with no context during class. Their
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by zoolily 3y ago
Ubuntu Linux used to use a SHA2 hash repeated 5000 times, but my Ubuntu 22.04 system uses yescrypt, which is one of those KDFs.
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by zoolily 3y ago
Being married doesn't necessarily increase your income tax in the US. Some couples pay more, while others pay less, depending on how incomes differ between the two spouses both in amounts and in kind. Being married does give you more o
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by zoolily 3y ago
Heavy government involvement with public universities in the form of subsidies once made public education free in some states and low tuition everywhere. As government subsidies have decreased, tuition costs have risen to compensate. The st
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by zoolily 3y ago
Most industry positions are much better than adjunct positions. Adjunct faculty are temporary part-time workers who teach one or two classes per term. They are paid $1000-4000 per class without benefits, which is less than minimum wage when
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by zoolily 4y ago
I subscribe to the The New York Review of Books (nybooks.com) for in-depth reviews and also follow RSS feeds from The London and LA Review of Books.
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by zoolily 4y ago
You might expect more. The US has had several more recent wars. Medical technology keeps a lot of people alive that would have died in the WWII era, leading to higher percentages of disabled civilians and soldiers.
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by zoolily 4y ago
For public universities, declining state government funding is the primary reason for tuition increases. Funding for the state university nearest me declined from the state providing more than over 75% of the budget in 2005 to under 25% las
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by zoolily 4y ago
Remember that "them" above refers to the native population in Hawaii in the post it's taken from. The reason the referendum succeeded was a big decline in the native population combined with large amounts of immigration from
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by zoolily 4y ago
There are efforts to give reviewers credit for their work, like Publons.
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by zoolily 4y ago
The time period in the article is too short. However, when I grew up, abortion wasn't an issue for Protestants, which was the dominant religion where I lived. They considered it a Catholic issue. Abortion became an issue after Republic
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by zoolily 4y ago
Since military might no longer rests on large conscripted forces and once again is based on small professional forces with expensive equipment, where does that leave democracy?
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by zoolily 4y ago
The use of probability distributions and calculus in introductory statistics is a historical artifact. See my comment above about resampling approaches.
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by zoolily 4y ago
The use of calculus in introductory statistics is a historical artifact. Before computers, it was easier to use mathematical models like probability distributions than to do resampling. With computers, it's easy and more intuitive to u
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by zoolily 4y ago
I was only writing about public universities.
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by zoolily 4y ago
Focusing on workforce training is a choice of values too, that not everyone agrees is important.
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by zoolily 4y ago
Universities have a broader purpose than training people for the workplace. Ironically, increased costs is a large part of the reason why society's vision of universities has become so limited. It's also worth noting that reducin
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by zoolily 4y ago
College costs have increased due to decreased state funding and increased regulation (both legal and from accreditors), which requires more administrative staff. Ironically, decreased state funding leads to an increase of administrative sta
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by zoolily 4y ago
MS IE was built from a web browser MS bought from Spyglass, so two startups died in that war. By bundling IE with Windows, MS escaped paying royalties to Spyglass (they were sued over this but settled out of court for just $8 million.)
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by zoolily 4y ago
While most comments focus on fiction, I find the real value of the NYRB for me are the reviews of nonfiction books. These reviews go into much more depth than reviews in other places and often compare and contrast multiple books on the same
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by zoolily 4y ago
Inherited wealth leads to powerful dynasties, both at the local and national scale, who dominate local politics as well as economic opportunities. We see that in both India and the US.
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by zoolily 5y ago
Reddit has a report at https://www.reddit.com/r/redditsecurity/comments/pfyqqn/covi...
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by zoolily 5y ago
That is one tiny yacht. (-;
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by zoolily 5y ago
Manning has a new book, The Cyber Defenders Career Guide ( https://livebook.manning.com/book/cyber-defenders-career-gui... ) that might help. It's an early access book, but all the chapters have been written, so you
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by zoolily 5y ago
There's much more to higher education costs than Baumol's cost disease. Public universities have much higher tuition because state subsididies to universities have decreased. In 2005, the state paid 3/4 and students paid 1&#x
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by zoolily 5y ago
Decentralization transfers powers to local elites, who are more likely to be interested in interfering with you or your group specifically compared to a more or less uncaring larger government. In the US, states weren't bound by the Bi
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by zoolily 5y ago
Look at Chatanooga, TN's munipcal broadband for an example of how a government can be better. As for why, broadband is typically a monopoly or duopoly (phone + cable), which private companies take advantage of by raising prices and spe

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