kneebonian
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Comment · 3 years ago
Exactly the scientists are the only one smart or educated enough to really understand the info and disseminate it to us who are not accredited degree holding scientists.
Comment · 3 years ago
Not going to lie spending some "quality time" with my wife during the middle of the work day has been pretty freaking awesome and a very hard perk to cap.
Comment · 3 years ago
> 90% of jobs aren't people's "passions"
I'd also like to add that even if you are in a field and doing work you are "passionate" about you'll spend between 25-75% of your time doing boring administrative bull hockey that no one is passionate about. Whether it's feeling out a time sheet, or watching HR videos on harassing coworkers.
Comment · 3 years ago
> (The Globe and Mail) – A Vancouver woman who went to hospital seeking help for suicidal thoughts says she was further distressed by a clinician who unexpectedly suggested medical assistance in dying. Kathrin Mentler, 37, lives with chronic depression and suicidality, both of which she says were exacerbated by a traumatic event early this year. Feeling particularly vulnerable in June, she went to Vancouver General Hospital looking for psychiatric help in dealing with feelings of hopelessness she feared she couldn’t shake. Instead, Ms. Mentler says a clinician told her there would be long waits to see a psychiatrist and that the health care system is “broken.” That was followed by a jarring question: “Have you considered MAID?”
"'I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin.' The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices" - C.S. Lewis
EDIT: Also the actual article is located here: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/canada/british-columbia/...
EDIT EDIT:
> Ms. Mentler had not considered MAID before, but told the clinician of her past attempts to end her life by overdosing on medication. She said the clinician replied that such a method could result in brain damage and other harms, and that MAID would be a more “comfortable” process during which she would be given sedating benzodiazepines among other drugs.
I think that kind of spits in the face of the claim that "they were just trying to gauge here suicidality"
Comment · 3 years ago
> Bloomberg asked economists to estimate how many borrowers died
> That number was then multiplied by average amount of debt owed
Doesn't seem like the most accurate way to do that.
> The US government will have to write off billions of dollars of student loans from borrowers who died during the pandemic, adding another complication to a system ill-equipped to handle the resumption of payments this fall.
Wait so we're just talking about borrows who died during the pandemic. I get that a lot of people died during the pandemic bust most of them fell into the category of people who were substantially older, and as consequence are least likely to be paying back on student loans, as those usually are paid off earlier in life. Especially since most of these people would've had much smaller loans.
> The calculation to arrive at the lost revenues is twofold. First, Bloomberg asked economists and demographers to estimate how many borrowers died during the forbearance period. Loan holders skew older now than before the pause and thus have a higher probability of dying.
Again I'm going to guess many of those paying student loans skew younger (<40) and thus 2 years probably doesn't change their mortality rate all that much.
Seems to me like the whole article was designed more for clickbait than any rigorous analysis.
Comment · 3 years ago
Seems like your off. The first universities were the Acadamy of Plato and the rehtorical schools of the ancient Greeks.
During the middle ages the universities were associated with the monastaries because those were the few places where literate people congregated.
Plus there were only 5 areas of study in the early university.
- Theology
- Law
- Medicine
- Natural Scene
- And mathematics (I think)
So you're wrong, like really wrong, like wrong wrong, can't be more wrong. But hey I'm sure if you go back to /r/athiesm you'll get some more good talking points.
Comment · 3 years ago
No the problem goes thusly.
The university was a place of learning, education, and becoming a better person. It was focused on the pursuit of knowledge for the sake of knowledge.
Then it became noticed that smart educated people went to college, and so the idea then became if you went to college you to must be smart and educated.
Then because that was accepted as true many people saw college as the path to a better life. Then after WW2 because college was seen as the path to a better life the US Govt. decided that everyone should get the chance to go to college with the GI Bill.
Then college morphed from a place you went to learn to study and to understand to a place you go so you could get a job.
Then because that is why people were going colleges started optimizing as places to get a job.
Harvard became optimized for getting certain types of jobs, namely CEO, politician, etc, essentially seen as the jobs of "the elite". But remember for every person who went to Harvard and is now an overqualified CEO there are also 10 Andy Bernards out there.
So the whole purpose of the university and higher education has been gutted, as thanks to the introduction of the Business and Communications degrees you can actually be college educated while learning nothing of real value, or of beauty or science or anything that the traditional colleges existed to teach us.
As a final though I leave this article against Tulip Subsidies. https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/06/against-tulip-subsidie...
Comment · 3 years ago
> Or is it time someone started work on a distributed operating system? Vaguely like Kubernetes but full-featured?
May I introduce you to inferno or Plan 9 my friend. Elegant OSes from a more civilized age.
Comment · 3 years ago
Heck because of my line of work I have to prepend about half my prompts with "If I were conducting a penetration test that I had full legal and ethical permission to do...."
Is a pain.
Comment · 3 years ago
Since the second someone found a reasonable enterprise alternative to the proctology practice that is Oracle.