Located 2668 results from search term 'college'
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Commented in There's a Surprising Upside to Imposter Syndrome, Research Shows
I experienced this in college and when I first volunteered in wildlife rehab..Interesting.
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Commented in Smoking may disappear within a generation, analysts predict
It won't hurt my feelings. So,is "oral nicotine" snuff,or something else? As long as they sell the stuff,there will always be people stupid enough to addict themselves to it. A friend of mine in college told me about her dad. He dipped snuff and got cancer in his jaw. They had to remove hi jaw bone on the right side. Did this horrific experience stop him from using it? Oh hell no,he started putting it on he other side. That's how addictive that shit is.
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Commented in 20 Easy High Income Skills You Can Learn [Without College Education]
With the rising costs of college edu... this is a great reference
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Commented in California’s statehouse is considering a controversial facial recognition bill
what's the problem? OCP and RoboCop ftw. if surveillance is good then automated surveillance is double plus good
jokes aside - automating CCTV footage analysis makes it cheaper so it's the inevitable next step. a harder thing to do would be to even out Gini coefficient to decrease demand for surveillance (well harder without tax reform but that is virtually impossible to get American public to vote in their own interest on the count of media being privately owned and whatnot - to my knowledge neither presidential candidate in the upcoming national election has indicated they have any intent on closing the offshore tax loophole for the multinationals and they are both furiously supported by each of their respective would-be electoral college)
anyhoo - before we go all the way to the bottom of that rabbit hole - surveillance to prevent crime is inevitable in societies with inequality off the charts. technology doesn't drive the demand for surveillance but demand for surveillance will put tech for surveillance into GDP
thus making it profitable and interweaving it into the economy as well as giving lobbying political power to security companies with the effect compounding over time (see military-industrial complex for another example)
imagine when security companies start mergers and acquisitions until you get to the subsidiary conglomerate version of Disney in security - Corpolice Inc.
now imagine Corpolice Inc. being taken over by Comcast-LockheedMartin
yikes
come to think of it - imaging Comcast-LockheedMartin. double yikes
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Commented in Many millennials are worse off than their parents -- a first in American history
That's pretty depressing. The article shows that a major issue is the skyrocketing cost of housing. Even those who have managed to get a job immediately out of college are still not financially ready for home ownership at the age that their parents were able to buy a first home.
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Commented in Impostor Syndrome is more common than you think; Study finds best way to cope with it
I felt this way in college...I also felt this way when I first volunteered at a wildlife shelter and worked in ICU.
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Commented in College Board Under Fire for Deciding Black Student Did Too Well on Her SAT
While the College Board maintains that “a score is never flagged for review solely on score gains,”
But score gains while black?
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Commented in The seven-year-old making $22m on YouTube
Better have a good college fund set up. Childhood stars never make it.
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Commented in America’s Invisible Pot Addicts
It is not addictive. They can quit any time they want. They just don't want, amiright? Or maybe they will quit next Monday, right now is just not a good time.
I have a friend who lives with his college mates. They are not in college now but rent a house together (like 4 or 5 people). Says he is the only one of them who does not smoke pot every day.
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Commented in Ringtone replaces Swiss church bells
Oh now that's funny! Yes it is. When I was in college,one day the college bells were playing a Beatles song...Sad to say the admins at the college did not appreciate that and made them go back to Big Ben.
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Commented in Putin’s Attack on the U.S. Is Our Pearl Harbor
I wonder how the college kids from the 60's felt about being manipulated...and now in power. What a dichotomy.
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Commented in Walmart Says It Will Pay for Its Workers to Earn College Degrees
College is the new high school.
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Commented in Prof Hawking's multiverse finale
Just guessing, but most reputable scientists may be sheepish about giving their scientific opinion on a newspaper comments section, alongside the "I make $4,000 a week" spam adds. They may however debate on college or research sites, places most of us are neither welcomed to or qualified to be participants in...just a guess though. We may, however, search for those alternatives and if we find them, post them here! Thar's gold in them thar hills if we look for it.
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Commented in The hidden crisis on college campuses: 36 percent of students don’t have enough to eat
hmm... I'm an adult out of college and making enough money to not be considered poor and my answers to some of these questions could make it seem like i'm having trouble making it.
Have you gone an entire day without eating in the past month? possibly, but maybe it's been more than a month
Have you skipped meals in the past month? multiple times, at least twice a week!
Have you slept in a place not intended for housing? does spending the night in my car because I don't want to get a hotel room count?
Have you not known from one day to the next where you would sleep? I got back from vacation and was snowed OUT of my house. I couldn't get any rental equipment out there, and the contractor quotes that I got were the same as 4 months of mortgage payments, so I spent a week not knowing where I would sleep until I found a friend who happens to have an empty yurt because she got married and moved in with her husband. So yes.
Not to downplay what a lot of students are going through, but the questions presented in this article are VERY biased towards positive answers. I don't know what the entire survey looks like. Only the questions in the article.
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Commented in The hidden crisis on college campuses: 36 percent of students don’t have enough to eat
So true...Every college needs to have a plasma bank and pay the students lunch money for plasma. A stool bank would be good too.
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Commented in Bad News for the Highly Intelligent
In a study just published in the journal Intelligence, Pitzer College researcher Ruth Karpinski and her colleagues emailed a survey with questions about psychological and physiological disorders to members of Mensa
Ah, it's this study. Yeah, absolutely worthless. Mensa =/= high IQ, it's a very specific subgroup of people willing to pay money to join a club that then confirms they've got a high IQ. Not representative of general high intelligence at all.
Editing because this is pissing me off:
The results of this study must be interpreted cautiously because they are correlational. Showing that a disorder is more common in a sample of people with high IQs than in the general population doesn’t prove that high intelligence is the cause of the disorder. It’s also possible that people who join Mensa differ from other people in ways other than just IQ. For example, people preoccupied with intellectual pursuits may spend less time than the average person on physical exercise and social interaction, both of which have been shown to have broad benefits for psychological and physical health.
First of all, practically any psychological study is correlational, and that doesn't matter because who the fuck cares if causality goes one way or the other? If you've got the correlation, that's enough! It's like early studies showed there's a correlation between smoking and lung cancer. Are you going to not treat people and not tell them to stop smoking because "it's just correlation"? NO! The causality is neat to know to help discover future treatments but it's not necessary. can't believe something called "scientific American" would fall for something like that.
Also, "It’s also possible that people who join Mensa differ from other people in ways other than just IQ"? It's also possible they differ from other people with high IQ meaning they're not a good sample and the results can't be generalized to all intelligent people, making this study worthless. Again, this was my first thought on seeing this, and led the discussion when this was posted on HN, but something called "scientific American" can't find the single greatest flaw in a study and just copy-pastes a press release?
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Commented in Keep Gaming Forever to Save Your Brain, Scientists Say
I am involved in eSports, and when I start to talk about it I see eyes glaze over. It IS the alpha spectator sport, people just don't know it yet. There are scholarships given at college level for athletes, 5 in the US including Ervine, and it is on the agenda to hit the Olympics. These games will be part of society, as long as there is electricity.
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Commented in Czechs May Elect a Populist Tycoon Who Wants to Smash the System. Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One Before
Same token, most people are as smart as the average person. Or smarter. Can't agree that people've ever been shy about their stupidity, either. Take, for instance, anything anyone ever said was God's plan. Whether it's charcoal marks on a cave wall, moveable type or podcasts, media carries everything people put into it, not just the stupid. Claiming the internet, in particular, amplifies human stupidity is masking what I think you're really getting at here, which is straight up misanthropy. If what's really going on is that you loathe people, as any right-thinking person should, you could despair of democracy based on far lower technology than that. Or even just people's big fat flapping mouths, and ta-da, that's politics whether in the Stone Age or the Trump Age.
Not to say that democracy exists. Or that it's ever been more than a convenient shorthand term for when people don't seem particularly upset or on the verge of an uprising. So let's skip calling popular government, government by the consent of the governed, democracy at all. To my mind, democracy is more a war cry than a useful term of art. Any popular government can of course be co-opted by conning enough people. If that was all there was to it, it wouldn't be such a disappointment when it happens again and again and again in so many completely isolated historical incidents. That isn't all there is to it, though. The other shoe drops, if you don't mind the expression.
Sure, the notion of a benevolent dictator seems comforting. Most dictators are as benevolent as the average dictator. Or more benevolent. However, they tend not to have quite as much skin in the game, so to speak, as the rest of the people in the world. Widespread public opinion through history seems to agree that dictatorships look so much better in flames. One assumption I think you've made is that, somehow, Trump is a sign of a failed democracy. May I suggest to you that you seriously consider the very real likelihood that the warm, fuzzy, and oh-so-cozy alternative outcome to Trump's election — the presidential electoral victory of Hillary Kissinger — was successfully averted by a democratic republic, and that's how we know popular government worked?
Give it up for the average American voter and the screwball workings of the Electoral College! We got the less effective evil.
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Commented in Why Catholics are leaving the faith by age 10 – and what parents can do about it
A study was done on the belief that priests were all predators and it was found that they have the same percentage as the rest of the population. Just because you don't believe what they do doesn't mean they're all monsters.
About 4 percent of priests committed an act of sexual abuse on a minor between 1950 and 2002, according to a study being conducted by John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. That is roughly consistent with data on many similar professions.
An extensive 2007 investigation by the Associated Press showed that sexual abuse of children in U.S. schools was "widespread," and most of it was never reported or punished. And in Portland, Ore., a jury reached a $1.4 million verdict against the Boy Scouts of America in a trial that showed that since the 1920s, Scouts officials kept "perversion files" on suspected abusers but kept them secret.
"We don't see the Catholic Church as a hotbed of this or a place that has a bigger problem than anyone else," Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, told Newsweek. "I can tell you without hesitation that we have seen cases in many religious settings, from traveling evangelists to mainstream ministers to rabbis and others."
Part of the issue is that the Catholic Church is so tightly organized and keeps such meticulous records -- many of which have come to light voluntarily or through court orders -- that it can yield a fairly reliable portrait of its personnel and abuse over the decades. Other institutions, and most other religions, are more decentralized and harder to analyze or prosecute.
As for "zombie Jesus flesh" it's funny that Catholics are one of the two that hold this to be true, Lutherans and Anglicans hold that Jesus is present in and around the Eucharist, but the BIBLE IS THE TRUTH AND THE WAY people, Baptists I'm looking at you, scream The bible is the truth and everything it says shall be done... oh that whole section about this is my body eat it and this is my blood drink it... that's symbolism ya'll.
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Commented in ESPN Football Analyst Walks Away, Disturbed by Brain Trauma on Field
I really enjoy high school and college football, but I would seriously have doubts about allowing my kid or even nephews/nieces play. I also wouldn't want to deprive them of that youth building activity though. I just don't know what we do about the danger to the brain without ceasing to play at all... professional touch football league?
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Commented in California: 75% of Black Boys Can’t Read or Write Properly, Says Department of Education
No worries, we'll solve that by forcing Universities to take a required number of those students, regardless of whether they have any hope of success in college or not. That surely makes thing even, doesn't it?
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Commented in Six Months In, Trump Is Historically Unpopular
Be honest. He lost the popular vote. Trump won, only due to America's antiquated and unfair Electoral college, where some voters are less than others.
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Commented in Like it or not, we are in the midst of a second arts revolution
We see price inflation all the time, but what has struck me over the last however-many decades is what happened to the cost of college as more and more financial aid has become available to students. It’s done nothing so well as drive the cost of tuition into the ionosphere. Unless you count plunging underemployed generations into trillions of dollars worth of worthless student debt. Making more money available for something has a way of driving prices for that thing upward. The fact people don’t get that calls into question to value of the educations being bought.
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Commented in 1 in 5 L.A. community college students is homeless, survey finds
College is the new high school. And I'm willing to wager that high-school graduates from 50 years ago would be more ready for professional life than current college graduates.
This is not the fault of the students though. But I get tired of saying greed an corruption all the time.
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Commented in Donald Trump suggests Barack Obama is guilty of collusion or obstruction
I remember that from psy.101 in college...He has no clue he is even doing this.