lthornberry

Most academics teach in departments that don’t grant phds. They’re at liberal arts Colleges or regional state universities. True that statistically only a small percentage of grad students will go on to have their own PhD students, but that doesn’t mean there are no jobs for the rest.

The fact that you don't understand something is not evidence that it's not valuable.

This is Dunning-Kruger in sentence form.

The glut is primarily a function of the fact that universities have decided that it's fine to have most of their courses taught by poorly-paid adjuncts. That is, actually, a bad thing. If we returned to having tenure-track faculty do a substantial majority of teaching, most people who get humanities degrees would get jobs in the end.

Yeah, I noticed later that the example sentences used the correct translation. Presumably that's because it's easier for translation software to differentiate among the various meanings of "used" when it's in the context of a sentence.

How are you generating the decks? There are some incorrect translations, at least for for the version of Spanish I learned. Maybe there’s a dialect that says “ser usado” instead of “acostumbrarse” for “be used to”?

Those numbers do not mean what you seem to think. 1st, proficiency on that test is a pretty high bar. There are kids making perfectly adequate progress who don’t score proficient. Second, average per-pupil costs are meaningless. Baltimore city pays for two of my kids’ educations. One costs the city about $8k (the money that a school gets for a kid with no extra needs). The other costs well over $100k, due to significant disabilities. Baltimore has a disproportionate number of kids with significant needs of some sort, including learning disabilities, extreme family poverty, and ESL learners. Those kids need extra resources. A voucher system isn’t going to change that.

The decision to promote blue check replies is a product-level decision that has made the user experience much, much worse

There are tort firms doing that in every area of tort law. ADA cases are not easy wins and don’t often produce significant awards.

Basically similar situation in the US, that’s what the article means when in references “formation” issues.

Eh, I teach in a university and that experience makes me extremely skeptical of most high-school graduates' ability to get an education from online resources. If you can do that, great, it's certainly a much cheaper and convenient route. I don't think we should discriminate against people who got their education that way. But most people need more structure and expert guidance.

It also creates conflict of interest problems among the owners. How do you ensure that only your share of the business profit is getting siphoned off to support your kid? Does each owner get one fail-son slot?

I also support a shift to UBI, but your description of TANF/WIC is not grounded in reality. TANF has a 5 year lifetime, and many states actually have lower limits food stamps do not come close to covering the costs of feeding a family People do sell food stamps sometimes, not because they have more than they need, but because they are desperate for cash to pay for other necessities such as utilities.

The idea that people are getting by for years and years based on these as sources of income is a myth.

This is the important point. Anyone paying taxes in the US is subsidizing Harvard.

Cars are also not compatible with many types of disabilities. Cars will need to be part of the transit mix, but they don't need to dominate it.