Kevin_P
18d ago
I am elite enough not to need to perform manual labor, the proof is in my delicate fingernails.
This is the same reason others see it as low class - it's announcing "I'm in a position where people could mistake me for a manual worker, so I need to do this to distinguish myself". Just another example of the barberpole of fashion.
Kevin_P
18d ago
Plus Carthage between those two. But if you're going back that far then it stops being a distinctive feature of Sicily because everywhere was conquered back and forth in those days.
Kevin_P
3mo ago
I don't think much has really changed with Chunwan. Nationalist posturing has always been part of the show, that part is nothing new, and the same thing for washed-up western celebs - Lionel Richie and Westlife haven't been relevant for decades. The robots were kind of cool but showcasing China's strength is part for the course.
On the broader point I agree that the "China is an advanced country now" narrative is working, and part of that is due to propaganda, but it's also pretty much true. If anything, attraction to Chinese culture is well behind where it "should" be if it was based on national strength.
Kevin_P
3mo ago
I don't have any statistics to prove you wrong, but this doesn't describe my experience at all. Even if you back off from "sneer at breeders" to just "actively dislike kids", my perception is that this group is still vastly outnumbered by people whose objection falls into the "too much effort" bucket.
Kevin_P
4mo ago
Not to push you into becoming the Japanese sex industry guy, but I noticed you referred to hostess clubs and girl's bars as two separate categories. I was previously under the impression that these were the same thing; any chance you could quickly elaborate on the distinction?
Kevin_P
8mo ago
Sketch engine might be the most reliable option. Use the English Trends corpus, which is basically "everything we could scrape off the web". Instructions here
It also lets you see the most common words used together with your search term, which might be helpful to distinguish programming frameworks from theoretical ones.
It's a paid service but they have a 30 day free trial.
Kevin_P
8mo ago
A few thoughts:
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Google Trends is about search traffic; content volume is a different product (ngrams). So this would be about people looking for "my framework", which wouldn't necessarily be linked to more people writing frameworks
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Possibly incompatible with the first point, but a post-AI uptick in a particular word/phrasing doesn't always translate to more discussion of the relevant concept. There are just some words that LLMs really seem to like using, and I wouldn't be surprised if "framework" was in that category
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When I think about the word "framework" I would usually associate it with coding rather than theories. So to the extent that it's really related to an increase in some activity, that could well be programming rather than theorising.
Kevin_P
10mo ago
A bit of a late reply but it includes all types of schools. If you dig into the data there's a division between academic and vocational streams. It doesn't include kids that have completely dropped out of school though, which is relevant for some countries.
Kevin_P
1yr ago
I remember a well-known poster here (Tracing Woodgrains? Not 100% sure) having the same plan, then they took longer than a traditional degree to graduate because a large part of the university experience is social pressure and the WGU experience doesn't provide that part.
I really don't like the narrative around this incident.
In particular, this:
a girl who studied economics in the U.S., with no prior medical background and minimal entrance exams, obtained an MD from China’s top medical school in just four years
.. seems completely normal to me. Lots of places have 4-year medical degrees if you start with a bachelor's. The intellectual ancestor of this forum is Scott Alexander, who did exactly that - undergraduate degree in philosophy followed by a 4-year graduate-entry medical degree.
The difference is only one less year vs a standard 5-year medical degree, and the 4-year program doesn't include compulsory courses like English, politics etc, so they're probably spending about the same amount of time on the actual medical training.
The comparison to a regular medical course as 5+3 years also seems misleading because graduates of 4-year degrees also need to do the same 3 years of residency training. It's not 4+4 vs 5+3, it's 4+4+3 vs 5+3
I'm not saying the story doesn't raise real concerns. But the thesis plagiarism and skipping two thirds of her residency are the real issues here, not graduate-entry medical degrees.
[Edit: And of course also the part where a surgeon left an anesthetized patient on the operating table for the best part of an hour while he chased after his lover. Focusing on Dong's academic credentials feels like fixing blame on the mistress rather than the actual guilty party.]
Kevin_P
1yr ago
We run into kids in the same uniform as the top school in China again at the market, furthering doubt that this isn't some universal high school uniform.
Not a universal uniform, but in recent years the government has been encouraging top schools to set up branches elsewhere. Some have set up quite a lot and they generally aren't on the same academic level as the original campus. So even if the uniforms say RenDaFuZhong or whatever, it might not be the "real" RDFZ.
Kevin_P
1yr ago
Getting a phone with a hardware shutter button is absolutely essential
The Volume Down button works for this on pretty much all recent phones.
Kevin_P
1yr ago
That distinction doesn't really exist anymore. Look on the Steam store page, Gathering Storm is under the DLC section.
Kevin_P
1yr ago
Kevin_P
1yr ago
It's included in the original grant amount. So you'd ask them for 155k, and the team at Prestigious University would ask for 170k for the same work, then the funder would theoretically take that into account when deciding where to spend their money. You also have to tell them how much is direct costs and how much is overheads, not just "we need 155k".
Kevin_P
1yr ago
British English already has a word for this: quango (from quasi-non-governmental organisation)
Kevin_P
1yr ago
Language courses are overwhelmingly female, even compared with the overall college population. And they usually include a year abroad which is a big driver of moving abroad more permanently.
Kevin_P
1yr ago
You're both overstating and understating the situation.
On one hand, it goes way beyond just literature and philosophy. Open up the STEM box and you'll find that it's only really the T and E parts that lead directly to careers. There might be more demand for PhD graduates in the sciences but the majority of students stop with a bachelors and there aren't really any more jobs that specifically need a degree in e.g. biology than those that need you to have studied history. High school teacher is basically the full list.
But on the other hand, you're missing the generic value of a degree. Pretty much all white collar jobs these days need you to have a degree and most aren't particularly picky about what you studied. Yes, maybe a lot of that is just signaling, but the signal is a real thing (earning a degree proves that you have some combination of intelligence and conscientiousness, which is also valuable to an employer) - so playing the game is rational for both students and companies.
Kevin_P
1yr ago
I would expect most young people to have at least a driver licence if not a passport
Tangential, but I wouldn't be surprised if passports were more common than driving licenses, especially among young people.
Kevin_P
2yr ago
Handheld whiteboard for character writing practice. I spent probably 30-60 minutes a day just repetitively writing and erasing.
I'd advise against this part, it's a whole lot of effort for very little gain. You'll hardly ever need to write characters by hand. 99%+ of the time you'll be typing instead which is based on pinyin - you just enter Latin letters and choose the right characters from a list based on the sound.
Much easier to just learn the basics of how stroke order works and then focus on reading and typing. Copy the characters from your phone on the rare occasions that you have to write anything on paper.
Kevin_P
2yr ago
Based on the page history at archive.org the "certain hospitalized patients" line was added in May 2020, with the "should only be used in a hospital or during clinical trials" part being added around a month later. At the time it seemed plausible that it would work.
Kevin_P
2yr ago
I think you might have misunderstood. The one that has to pay is the developer.
End users aren't being charged, so there's no reason for them to mess with firewalls or DNS settings. Maybe a tiny handful might try to support the devs by blocking Unity's tracking beacon, but 99%+ will just hit the Install button as usual.
It's class anxiety all the way down
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