What is your opinion on Starlink compared to the LTE connection? I have pretty good LTE here - but I can also get Starlink. The difference is about $40 a month.
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I understand loan forgiveness in certain situations, even as proposed by the US current administration [1]. But choosing to attend a small liberal arts college and agreeing to pay more than 80k a year I don’t think is one of those situations.
[1]: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...
This statement, and the rest of the post, simply reads "I don't like different". However, the article is about the mathematical benefits of A4, the failures of 8.5x11, and the true benefit of A4 from a paper-size agnostic society.
This article convinced A4 is better (and the entire system) not because it doesn't fit in my folders, but because it makes practical sense.
If you want data on this assertion research "capitalism with socialist characteristics." If you want the data straight from China read their 14th 5-year plan (I wish the US had these kinds of plans) translated by Georgetown University here [1]. China is very open about what they are doing in published writing.
If you want more information read "The World According to China" by Liz Economy. I can suggest about 10 other books too, but that book was published in 2022 and is the most relevant book I read. Unfortunately China's government from a Western lens is such a complex topic I can't simply link to one article about how China runs its economy and "private" organizations to prove my point. This complexity unfortunately leads to people making false assumptions about how China operates without the requisite knowledge - and then deciding how we should make policy decisions towards China.
[1] https://cset.georgetown.edu/publication/china-14th-five-year...
You lost your credibility here when you took a large group and applied a judgement on all of them based on how “their brain is wired”. Replace “extreme right wingers” in your sentence with almost any other group without evidence and you will likely not agree with your own statement.
> The tale about Nazis in the Ukraine army is true for pretty much every country, including mine and yours.
Please provide evidence to this statement and the following paragraph. You have found a hypothesis that fits your narrative. That does not make it true.
[1] https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html
Do you happen to have any historical evidence or perspective which supports the theory that right wing people pushed this the false history - or that the right wing conspiracy is widely accepted by the contemporary historical communities? I'd like to read.
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This was unexpectedly accurate.
"We are unable to provide refunds or exchanges for mistaken purchases" becomes "Refunds or exchanges for mistaken purchases are unable to be provided."
[1] https://www.ranker.com/list/times-politicians-used-passive-v...
This made me research India’s policy on Russia’s invasion because the answer seems obvious. If you disagree with the invasion than that is why they shouldn’t buy it with the ruble. But it appears India is staying rather neutral.
Edit: Well I got the Merkur 34C after 23 minutes of research.
I've also seen people mentioning if they were going to get a masters they would do so in a different field. I just finished one in policy. I learned much more in this masters than I expected. I realized there are many games to be played, this article was posted to the top page this week and resonated because of it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31267685
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/technical_reports...
> First, depending on how congestion pricing is implemented, it can be either regressive or progressive. This depends in large part on how toll revenues are used. For instance, if regions spend revenues in ways that benefit low-income individuals, congestion pricing is more likely to be progressive. However, if regions use revenues in a way that benefits all individuals equally, congestion pricing may be, overall, regressive. This is the strongest finding in the economic literature.
> Second, even when low-income and other transportation-disadvantaged groups benefit as a whole from congestion pricing, it is very likely that some individuals will still be worse off.
> Third, for all forms of congestion pricing (but more for some than for others), the distri- bution of residents and job opportunities (not to mention shopping, schools, places of worship, and other important destinations) has a large impact on the equity implications.
> Fourth, high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes, the most common form of congestion pricing in the United States, tend to raise fewer equity concerns among motorists, since they provide drivers with an additional choice of using a set of priced lanes while allowing them to continue using parallel, free lanes if they prefer.
> Fifth, while congestion pricing has been shown to reduce emissions in general, there is scant evidence showing that congestion pricing can specifically reduce negative environmental consequences for neighborhoods disproportionately affected by emissions.
> Given the risk of negative impacts to low-income and other groups under congestion pric- ing, we looked at suggested ways to diminish these impacts. Two mechanisms are in common use: (1) revenue redistribution and (2) discounts and exemptions.
> https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44877/ukrainian-fighte...
And this is why there are armament switching which you turn on only when you enter approved airspace to employ weapons / countermeasures and turn off when you leave (and vocalize on the radio to do so for the rest of the jets in the formation). Then pushing the button which releases weapons or countermeasures does nothing.
In the picture above you will see a dial for modes. They range from human tell the machine exactly what to do (via the PRGM dial and other switches), to human consent to what the machine wants to do, to machine do what you want to do.
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith
Adding willful seems to violate these. The first, maybe a stretch, as willful applies to the author and not the argument. But more the second as it does not assume good faith. I think the comment holds the same value without adding willful.
How did you rate your negatives to judge the filter was correct? You know the "Positive" status, you know your true and false positives from the interview question (People you hired that performed well or didn't. Or said another way, the predicted value was positive while true value was positive or negative).
But did you know your true and false negatives (the people you didn't hire that would have been good or bad. Or said another way, the predicted value was negative but true value was positive or negative)? Did you know the candidates you rejected who would have been good at fulfilling the roll at your company (False Negatives)?
To be clear, I don't know the false negatives either and the interview question may be the best litmus test for the behavior desired, minimizing false negatives and maximizing true positives. But I just don't know for sure if the question did work out in practice to be a good filter of people with that skillset without a true negative dataset. The Precision is good, but the recall/sensitivity may not be. Then again, you probably know how the candidates you hired performed before you used the new question and after - which may be an indicator on false negatives.
Also, that does seem like a really fun interview question to answer for me. Kudos.
EDITED: Changed the question at the same time the response came from OP. Original post asked if they hired those who failed the test to know more about the negatives. They did.
I read that speed test reported 100Mb/s and local files were receiving 8Mb/s (1MB/s). Either interpretation doesn’t change the intent much. But now I’m curious if the MB was intentional.
I don’t really care what the normal convention is, but the fact that Mbps and MB/s are sometimes used interchangeably does cause confusion, especially outside this environment.
Was the choice to use Mbps as a standard a marketing idea? Like they have 1 MB/s? Well we have 8 Mb/s.
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
I think entering a new job is similar, I may think I'm going to really like the job, but then when I'm actually doing the job I realize there are things I didn't consider and don't like it. Luckily, I can quit a job easily. In a marriage - you have to grow together if you want it to work.
There is a book which describes exactly what the author of the article realized too late, it's better to learn it via reading than in hindsight:
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
The second article is specific to the reserves and guard. The main point I gather is that the process of evaluating time served is flawed and caused mistakes which made members a) lose their benefits even if they were currently using them and b) place the burden and costs on the service member to resolve. I'll restrict my statement to active duty only.