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Interesting. I graduated from the _other_ UW (University of Warsaw) and our uni has course-swapping capability built into the University Study Service System (USOS)[1]. FYI public university education is fully government-funded in Poland (i.e. it is free for students). 1 - https://usosweb.mimuw.edu.pl/kontroler.php?_action=news%2Fde...
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I was more thinking that there's not a particularly natural overlap between sports and academic ability. You'd think that by tying the two together, you'd get both worse sporting and academic performance than if they were unrelated.
The US has a decidedly liberal viewpoint on education. Sports ability is in some sense an educational endeavor. The ancient Greeks called it "athletics". So US educational institutions don't really have any hangup against treating sports any differently than they might treat a CS class. They are a subject you have to study and train at...and sometimes sit in a theatre and have a class time about (watching scout foota…
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I wish they would post the emails. It's all hearsay still.
Email text can be easily faked too, there's really no reason to weigh them higher than the story other than they can be slightly tricky to fake the style and verbiage you might expect to see from that type of email.
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You’re being downvoted for poor critical thinking in this case, which led you to write a comment that doesn’t add to the conversation. Of course the father is “heavily invested” in his son. That comes from decades of raising him, diapers, dinners, driving and him around, and probably also sharing 50% of his genes.
It's less a lack of critical thinking and more an overabundance of cautious wording to avoid unnecessary offense. I'm suggesting that this father may have engaged in nepotism once before, which makes me question his integrity. Not every father does that, so it's more relevant than just "of course, it's the dad". I phrased it cautiously because I don't know the full story, but the pieces are there and I think it's wor…
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Until they post evidence, legal counsel comments on it, or its reported by a news agency its a bit moot. I personally would have gone full nuclear and posted all evidence to put pressure on the school already by now. If I'm already defacto expelled I'd have nothing to lose by putting this on blast. Its weird that he hasn't posted anything given the retaliation he is receiving, hence why its hard to take completely se…
Not weird at all if lawyers are involved.
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Until they post evidence, legal counsel comments on it, or its reported by a news agency its a bit moot. I personally would have gone full nuclear and posted all evidence to put pressure on the school already by now. If I'm already defacto expelled I'd have nothing to lose by putting this on blast. Its weird that he hasn't posted anything given the retaliation he is receiving, hence why its hard to take completely se…
Jeez, somebody not going immediately full mental meltdown fully public for reason X Y Z should be immediately dismissed. You have 0 info about him or his life, so it would be wiser to stop passing clueless judgements.
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It's worth noting that the dad also gave his son a job at his company while the kid was still in high school. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but it does show that the father is heavily invested in this kid and willing to act affirmatively to give him a leg up, which means I personally would not count this as additional testimony backing up the story. The dad's testimony doesn't make it less likely to be…
You’re being downvoted for poor critical thinking in this case, which led you to write a comment that doesn’t add to the conversation. Of course the father is “heavily invested” in his son. That comes from decades of raising him, diapers, dinners, driving and him around, and probably also sharing 50% of his genes.
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I'm surprised this is upvoted so much. All we have is a LinkedIn post and a GitHub repo. We haven't seen any of the original emails/writing from UW, not have we heard UW's view. Am I being overly skeptical here?
Yes, with a completely clickbait intro (given he took the site down after the university warned him, which he said later in his post). To be fair he follows up the first post saying that the university is holding his future registration hostage unless he builds them a similar website: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jdkaim_github-jdkaimhuskyswap...
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It's less a lack of critical thinking and more an overabundance of cautious wording to avoid unnecessary offense. I'm suggesting that this father may have engaged in nepotism once before, which makes me question his integrity. Not every father does that, so it's more relevant than just "of course, it's the dad". I phrased it cautiously because I don't know the full story, but the pieces are there and I think it's wor…
I think people are also reacting to presumption that [hiring ones son[ is a [negative] mark on integrity or honestly. Many (most?) people don't draw that as a logical conclusion.
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> You may only interact with someone professionally, but you never know what kind of person you are really working with. Sometimes people may seem nice, but are pure evil. It's not even always a case of being evil. Large institutions/companies are full of polices and processes designed to protect the system at all costs and some nice people will turn their brain off and strictly follow those policies either because t…
Absolutely. It's my impression—after many mistakes—that one of the most important pieces of advice I could have given myself at a younger age, is that "your job is basically a function of what you're empowered to do and what you're clearly rewarded for, don't imagine it to be something it's not, don't pretend or act as though you have more influence than you do". Your bank's website might have shit accessibility and…