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That's still remarkably grandiose.

That rant is a bit ridiculous to post here - the foundations of computer science is largely the result of mathematicians who weren't particularly interested in physics.

I recognized a few of the names who deleted the post to be fine mathematicians who have contributed quite a bit to mathoverflow, so I don't think that applies. Mathoverflow is a Q&A site for professional mathematicians, you may have it confused with math.se.

Mathoverflow is the Q&A site for professional mathematicians, not math.se where it may have been more appropriate.

It's called an M.Sc.

Web developers who churn out crud apps think that.

Apple is still the most profitable laptop/desktop producer in the world, but that market is dwarfed by the smartphone market.

They're still objects in that category...

Is Teach for America the one that recruits Ivey league grads and drops them into classrooms in inner city classrooms? I always thought it was a wonderful microcosm of everything wrong with the US system. The exact situation where you need experienced teachers with deep ties to their community is where they put Ivey league grads with no training, experience, or shared life experiences with the students due to their wildly different socioeconomic class. It even has the "white saviour" complex baked into it.

I think you mean that A is an object of your category...

...You think Paypal is a competitor to the app store?

They make the hardware and the operating system!

The Russian puppet narrative isn't exactly a conspiracy theory, several important members of his team have stepped down due to their ties with Russia. And the Russians are behind the hack into the DNC's email servers.

Any chance those physicians will be facing investigations?

Well Western society has, by and large.

Then you'd end up having a fairly stupid argument about the semantics of "better".

Isn't this is case in point that you're wrong?

And being tall doesn't mean you'll be a great basketball player, but it makes it way fucking easier.

>That means that if you live in a more impoverished neighborhood, you're stuck with whatever school you're assigned to instead of being able to shop around, and for a lot of impoverished neighborhoods, that means schools with bad teachers and administrators, and there is no way out of it. This is a huge problem in black communities, and one area where the right legislation could make a significant impact.

Fuck us for wanting to fix those impoverished schools, right?

Jesus fucking christ dude, it's not about giving parents the opportunity to see their children be successful. It's about giving children the chance to be successful.

That's not at all what he said.

Right but someone who has a realistic chance at being hired as a professor won't be working as a commodity software engineer, they'll be in some sort of specialist/research role. Any of the job offers I've seriously considered leaving were to be a computer scientist.

That is, of course, a very silly cultural thing they'd be better off without. My supervisor spent a decade in industry before returning to academia, and he's a pure mathematician/logician.

There's a big difference between "we have a good relationship so I'll do X" and forcing third parties to enforce those protections. Those content provides aren't required to distribute their product and once a proper framework is set up for their situation there's no reason other people can't use it.

Also, professors do steal money. There's all sorts of guidelines at my university now about how grant money can be used because a prof in the medical school used a grant for cancer research to renovate his kitchen (more or less).

When all you have is a golden hammer...

I dunno, I'm pretty happy in a country where all the major universities are public and the healthcare system is socialized.

Are younkt from the UK or US? I know for a fact that both countries have funded great work in accessibility and web design when setting the standards for federal government websites.

I kind of hate how people on the right can cut government funding and then turn around and complain that the underfunded programs are functioning poorly.

But that was the result were two academics recognizing a diamond in the rough. An MBA-type concerned with metrics would never even have accepted him for graduate studies.