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> "Let’s break down what it takes to create just one course – say, an introductory course on core pre-algebra concepts: - 50+ core concepts to teach - 20+ problems per concept - → …

Ah, I'd been thinking it must be a device somehow related to manufacturing bullets (but how? was the question) -- it hadn't occurred to me that it could mean the pointy tips of bul…

Sounds like the bed of Procrustes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrustes#Mythology

What are "bullet points" as named in this article? It's difficult to find anything on Google not referring to the typographical symbol of the same name. Context: "Archaeologists al…

Interesting that you raise the connection to schizotypal thinking. I recently learned there is a quite explicit connection between excessively instrumental, abstraction-obsessed th…

"Enshittified" is a valuable contribution to the lexicon.

I second the recommendation for Nongbri's "Before Religion". It definitely improved my understanding of what it is we even mean / have meant by "religion". For a more evolutionary …

What is bland is universal, what is universal is bland.

Isn't this true of all new strains of all contagious pathogens? They are constantly undergoing change. We estimate low probability that mutated viruses or bacteria descended from s…

This all depends on how you're approaching the question. Why do you want to read the news? What do you hope to get out of it? You're absolutely right that the NYT has changed in re…

What type and size company do you work for? And how did you find it? That sounds like a pretty ideal scenario to me, but I'm not sure how to go about finding similar positions.

Thanks for the question -- it's important to grapple with even though it can be very uncomfortable and answering it is basically one can of worms after another. If you entertain it…

Hear hear. If your conception of diversity doesn't include viewpoint diversity, you are operating within a prejudicial, small-minded, small-hearted, and regressive framework. If yo…

https://weatherspark.com/ has great data, too. Excellent graphs for temperature, humidity, clear skies, etc.

Being able to read both Galileo's contention that the sun does not move and the church's condemnation of his theory. Being able to read both the corporate press's arguments in favo…

This had been my impression of PTP too, and I think in many circumstances it's true, but I recently listened to this episode from Jane Street's Signals and Threads podcast that gav…

Ah ok, thanks for the prompt reply and I really admire the moderation work you do here!

Hi dang, my mistake on the diagnosis, then. I thought that because I saw an error message that said " Sorry, we're not able to serve your requests this quickly." and after that the…

I appear to have rate-limited from editing that comment after double clicking on mobile, but this is what I was going to add: Edit: As I note in the linked comment, this channel is…

Here is a YouTube channel that has been doing extended livestreams from the ground with both protestors and counter-protestors: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzGiDDKdphJ0GFvEd82…

Negative coverage is much easier to come by than positive coverage if you mostly consume legacy/corporate media on this issue. If you're interested in a deeper understanding of peo…

Wow, there's some intriguing information about chimpanzee behavior in here that I had not encountered in the traditional lore about them: "Since the 1970s, researchers have known t…

Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Will take a look

"In 1996, five economists, known as the Boskin Commission, were tasked with saving the government $1 trillion. They observed that if the CPI were lowered by 1.1 percent, then a $1 …