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fishmech posted:You can get that anywhere, ever since man mastered "not needing to walk or ride a horse to get around". And now you're advocating the use of non-subway transportation? This is just unbelievable.
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Lotka Volterra posted:And now you're advocating the use of non-subway transportation? This is just unbelievable. Despite rumors otherwise, you can in fact get to Vermont by multiple means of transportation.
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Jan 12, 2016 05:55
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fishmech posted:Despite rumors otherwise, you can in fact get to Vermont by multiple means of transportation. Fun fact: Vermont is culturally tied closer to Boston than New York because Albany and Troy feuded for so long over the Champlain to Hudson locks that the Boston-based rail companies built a Boston-Burlington-Montreal rail line in the interim.
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Lotka Volterra posted:Nah, mountains and outdoor activities are cool. This is why we allow Up-State to leech off of NYC's much needed tax dollar
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fishmech posted:Despite rumors otherwise, you can in fact get to Vermont by multiple means of transportation. I think I'm going to need a source for this.
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Jan 12, 2016 06:24
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Has anyone actually seen a Vermont before?
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Chair In A Basket posted:Has anyone actually seen a Vermont before? Look for extremely white objects that shy away from heat
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mdemone posted:And you've just engaged fishmech on the subject of trains.  Chair In A Basket posted:Has anyone actually seen a Vermont before? I went to Vermont once  I'm only mostly sure I left Fuck You And Diebold fucked around with this message at 07:07 on Jan 12, 2016 |
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GalacticAcid posted:Doesn't look like it got posted here, but Chris Hughes is giving up on the New Republic. He wrote about it on Medium. "There are bright signs on the horizon: Vox, Vice, the Texas Tribune, Buzzfeed, ProPublica, and Mic embody a new generation of promising organizations — some for-profit, others non-profit — that have put serious, high-quality journalism at the core of their identities." What a world, what a world...
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PleasingFungus posted:"There are bright signs on the horizon: Vox, Vice, the Texas Tribune, Buzzfeed, ProPublica, and Mic embody a new generation of promising organizations — some for-profit, others non-profit — that have put serious, high-quality journalism at the core of their identities." Buzzfeed has admittedly put out a handful of decent articles, but core of their identity? What?
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Jan 12, 2016 07:51
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foobardog posted:For at least my school, the idea that our STEM education was insular seemed like a joke. Basically, we had to take 1 humanities/social science course per term to graduate (roughly 1/5 of our classes). I don't think there are any places where humanities/social science majors need to take a science/math class a term. Now, people took the HSS classes less seriously, and I filled them up with Japanese like a baka, but still, I had plenty time to be lectured at by an economics professor who really was into consumption taxes. I honestly regret taking so few real HSS classes, they were some of my favorite ones. There are; my university required all graduates regardless of major to take a number of credits in history/poli sci, science, mathematics, languages, arts (both "appreciation" and production), and a few other categories. drat good broad education.
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PleasingFungus posted:"There are bright signs on the horizon: Vox, Vice, the Texas Tribune, Buzzfeed, ProPublica, and Mic embody a new generation of promising organizations — some for-profit, others non-profit — that have put serious, high-quality journalism at the core of their identities." 
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Jan 12, 2016 08:05
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Nevvy Z posted:This coming hot on the heels of the train thing is just so weirdly perfect. How familiar are you with social sciences? Because that statistics and advanced calculus part makes me think not very. What exactly is advanced calculus anyways?
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sugar free jazz posted:How familiar are you with social sciences? Because that statistics and advanced calculus part makes me think not very. What exactly is advanced calculus anyways? Someone who doesn't realize that math is an og liberal art probably is also misinformed about the nature of social science research. This someone may also be on a legislative science committee for all we know.
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sugar free jazz posted:How familiar are you with social sciences? Because that statistics and advanced calculus part makes me think not very. What exactly is advanced calculus anyways? Advanced calculus is anything beyond multivariate calculus and regular ol differential equations. Partial differentials, complex calculus, and calculus theory all count. So uh stuff beyond just taking a derivative or solving an integral.
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"Matt Bevin has notified the feds that he'll [be a giant dumb fuckhead]" It should be noted that it could cost in excess of 23 million dollars to dismantle kynect, which is an interface that has helped a lot of Kentucky residents get access to healthcare, but The Party of Reduced Spending clearly knows what it's doing here, right?
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Quorum posted:There are; my university required all graduates regardless of major to take a number of credits in history/poli sci, science, mathematics, languages, arts (both "appreciation" and production), and a few other categories. drat good broad education. I can say the same for my university; my Psychology Honours degree required me to take approximately 60% of my classes from the core "psychology" curriculum, 20% from the humanities faculty (which had to include at least 2 subjects in different languages) and 20% from other fields which, for me, meant Computer Sciences and biology (which, subsequently, helped me meet pre-requisite requirements to apply to medicine). The core psychology curriculum also included research methods, statistics, and a thesis component. Dunno if things have changed; this was back in 2001 in Canada. Broad education is a fantastic approach, I took accounting courses, history, political science, and philosophy courses which I probably wouldn't have taken unless I was required to. I'm a better person for it; even if I haven't used these subjects in my career, I have an appreciation for human systems that I wouldn't have developed on my own. **edit** I've taken both calculus and multi variate statistics; they're very similar and I don't think I would have done as well on the latter if I hadn't studied the former. Serrath fucked around with this message at 09:51 on Jan 12, 2016 |
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blue squares posted:its real Good to see Paul Gilbert still getting some work.
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too many choice quotes so posting the whole articledavid brooks posted:In 1997, Michael Wayne Haley was arrested after stealing a calculator from Walmart. This was a crime that merited a maximum two-year prison term. But prosecutors incorrectly applied a habitual offender law. Neither the judge nor the defense lawyer caught the error and Haley was sentenced to 16 years.
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DemeaninDemon posted:Advanced calculus is anything beyond multivariate calculus and regular ol differential equations. Ah ok so undergrad level math. I mean in a way they use advanced calculus but uh for the quant people and all economists but the heterodox bros that's like, the very basic building blocks of what they do. What exactly do people think social sciences are? I mean not everyone is a math nut but quant people aren't exactly uncommon vOv
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Yoshifan823 posted:"Matt Bevin has notified the feds that he'll [be a giant dumb fuckhead]" I hope we get to see a lot more articles where some yokel who got his insurance through kynect talk about how they voted for Bevin but hope he doesn't gently caress them over (as he's loving them over) because OBUMMER.
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sugar free jazz posted:Ah ok so undergrad level math. I mean in a way they use advanced calculus but uh for the quant people and all economists but the heterodox bros that's like, the very basic building blocks of what they do. What exactly do people think social sciences are? I mean not everyone is a math nut but quant people aren't exactly uncommon vOv They extrapolate their Anthropology 100 class to a PhD level and say "Look how easy it is!" I was one of those people when I first started school but have since learned more about the complexity of social sciences.
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Abel Wingnut posted:too many choice quotes so posting the whole article Any system that countenances imprisoning someone for sixteen years for stealing a calculator is broken enough that we should expect to find men like Cruz thriving in it.
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Abel Wingnut posted:too many choice quotes so posting the whole article quote:This approach works because in the wake of the Obergefell v. Hodges court decision on same-sex marriage, many evangelicals feel they are being turned into pariahs in their own nation. Oh no, they can no longer impose their own religious beliefs on everyone in the country, they are totally pariahs now! I really hate the whole "Freedom of religion has to mean freedom to impose my religious beliefs on everyone else" stance that the evangelicals have. Almost makes me want Sharia Law to be enacted just to piss the entitled little shits off.
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The Aardvark posted:They extrapolate their Anthropology 100 class to a PhD level and say "Look how easy it is!" I was totally this way as a stemlord college student, until I saw my sociology major roommate's homework. 
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Abel Wingnut posted:too many choice quotes so posting the whole article I really hope I live to see the end of the Evangelical voting block.
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The Aardvark posted:They extrapolate their Anthropology 100 class to a PhD level and say "Look how easy it is!" Yeah, this is dumb and it's annoying when people do it. Even more dumb in your example, because biological (aka "STEM") Anthropology also exists.
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Yoshifan823 posted:"Matt Bevin has notified the feds that he'll [be a giant dumb fuckhead]" About 10% of this state is in the Medicaid expansion. I was until recently and it allowed me get some surgery i desperately needed. And now I'm starting a new job that'll pay rather well for the state. I am fortunate that I wasn't saved from health insurance sooner.
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Taerkar posted:About 10% of this state is in the Medicaid expansion. I was until recently and it allowed me get some surgery i desperately needed. And now I'm starting a new job that'll pay rather well for the state. Don't worry, he isn't sabotaging the medicaid expansion until next year. And he isn't getting rid if it completely! He is actually doing something worse, adding copays and coinsurance to it, making medicaid unusable by poor people.
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haveblue posted:The subway isn't a piece of art, it's a utility that millions of people require to be reliable and timely for their lives to be manageable. There's a place for aesthetics in the system- in the parts that passengers experience, on the platforms and cars and in the hallways. The parts that actually make it work should have "charm" as the absolute last priority. You know who else wanted the trains to run on time? 
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Shakugan posted:Many companies actually bemoan the relative low technical ability of US STEM graduates. If someone has to generalize about technical ability, it should be on a school-by-school basis. Nationality is a terrible indicator, unless a country is so small that it literally has no schools that are competent in a given subject area. The U.S. has several schools in the top 10 in just about every category, and fills in the next few hundred positions quite well. I'm sure the U.S. also has lots of bottom-of-the-barrel schools, but that's just more reason why nationality is a stupid indicator to use. I'm interested in hearing where you think the "good" STEM graduates are coming from. EDIT: Though I'm sure there are lots of companies that actually do bemoan the low technical ability of US STEM graduates, because the highly competent ones aren't willing to work for them at the below-market wages that desperate H-1B immigrants are willing to accept. Inferior Third Season fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Jan 12, 2016 |
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If only we were in a sane country the VP being bankrupted by his son's medical bills would be the catalyst for some kind of reform
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Inferior Third Season posted:EDIT: Though I'm sure lots of companies bemoan the low technical ability of US STEM graduates (willing to work at the below-market wages they can get desperate H-1B immigrants to work for). It's this. "America is lacking competent high-skilled workers" = "American high-skilled workers aren't willing to work at the price I want to pay them"
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Rhesus Pieces posted:It's this. Are people who have been working for a long time in a field financially motivated to devalue to the incoming generation of new professionals?
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Luigi Thirty posted:If only we were in a sane country the VP being bankrupted by his son's medical bills would be the catalyst for some kind of reform Breaking Biden?
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Rhesus Pieces posted:It's this. There was an op-ed in my town a while ago about a guy whining about how there's no "skilled labor" in america anymore and we don't value a hard day's work. Someone did some snooping and found out the dude's company had a want ad out for experienced contract welders with their own truck and was willing to pay $17 an hour. For reference, that should pay about $75 an hour.
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Salt Fish posted:Are people who have been working for a long time in a field financially motivated to devalue to the incoming generation of new professionals? Wages at most sizable companies are set by negotiations between the HR and Finance divisions. You're lucky if even the department managers get much say in it.
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Seriously the fact that Biden had trouble with those medical bills should be absolutely terrifying to everyone in this country. Also Ted Cruz is worthless scum and I hope that his rise is just some cosmic deity raising him up so that the fall will be fantastic.
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Yoshifan823 posted:"Matt Bevin has notified the feds that he'll [be a giant dumb fuckhead]"
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g0del posted:Aren't there a lot of low-info people in KY who love kynect and simultaneously hate Obamacare? Doesn't this move open him up to attacks from the right claiming that he forced Obamacare on KY? Kentucky is home to a lot of Evangelicals, so yes.
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