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One more: Aufhebunga Bunga The global politics podcast at the end of the End of History. From a left perspective. https://aufhebungabunga.podbean.com/

If you're open to being pissed off and want to go exploring beyond the SF / SV / liberal / rationalist / techie / IDW / iNtElLeckshualLY sTiMUlAtING hivemind, I'd recommend the fol…

> (they hope) is closely related to, or correlated with one's ability to perform the job. The idea is that if one can do these sorts of problems, one can probably do the actual job…

> but to call it gender biased is ridiculous Unlikely. > women and minorities are just as capable of playing board games Quite beside the point. Even leaving aside the implicit cla…

The "board game interview" is a spectacularly clueless display of net-negative cultural and gender bias. Not to mention just juvenile and unprofessional (my bias, sure). > A relati…

> That's what a person who isn't in that position would think. In reality most people just want to live. That's an exceptionally and offensively clueless thing to say. I speak from…

Indeed—it's a personal decision that every patient and family have to make based on their individual situation. (Just as mine had to.) That's why a categorical claim that there's n…

A fighting attitude is harmful if it leads you to prioritize prolonging life at any cost.

> I've seen people give up and accept their low chances of survival. It's very rare. This strikes me as being normatively loaded in a way that's unhelpful, at a minimum. There's a …

Top-down / outside-in test-first development is BDD.

Somehow, and sadly, I wasn't surprised to learn the cause of death. To me Williams's jovial veneer never seemed very convincing. RIP to a gentle soul.

Done properly, the flipped classroom + MOOC format would allow for more personal interaction than the traditional university setting currently does for all but the best students at…

Compare D2L and Blackboard on one hand and the edX platform and Coursera on the other. Are they all LMSs? Absolutely. Is there some buzzword-mongering out there. Undoubtedly. But i…

Something I see overlooked is that it's not an apples-to-apples comparison. If you were getting real academic credits for participating in MOOCs, if your degree completion depended…

Using race as a proxy for class is a great way to generate oppression along some margin (i.e., for some poor bastard(s) unlucky enough to be both poor and not a member of a protect…

>people who try to be progressive with respect to the policies of the rest of world, but are too selfish to be progressive here at home. +9000 THIS. It's everywhere, you know. You …

But no one ever seems to consider that there might be a point of diminishing returns to density. Or, even if they do recognize the possibility somewhere in the back of their minds,…

I think that heuristic attributes more foresight to people than they actually exercise in practice. It's more like the impressions one anticipates making on others create incentive…

I suspect that if Henrik is already giving away a digital version, with the paid version he's targeting high-rollers motivated to buy one out of a sense of gratitude/largesse. So a…

You're thinking in partial equilibrium. I've no doubt that many women suffer under the yoke of gender expectations that are at odds with their biology. So do men. And even now, som…

Mou's live preview was neat for about a week, but eventually I just switched to Sublime Text with the MarkdownEditing, Markdown Preview, and Markdown TOC packages. Powerful stuff, …