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Show HN: The Rankings Game: A satirical simulation of university management

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Ask HN: Living room video conferencing for older adults

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twoslide
·قبل 6 أشهر·discuss
The Rankings Game, a satirical simulation of university management: https://rankingsgame.com/
twoslide
·قبل 8 أشهر·discuss
https://rankingsgame.com/ - A strategy game simulating management of a university
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·قبل سنتين·discuss
In addition to a touching personal tribute, this article also illustrates the jobs crisis for PhD graduates. Someone who started his career in the 1950s works into his eighties, teaching from hospital, and dies less than a week after retiring. This is not a good model, and a good argument for mandatory retirement ages.
twoslide
·قبل 3 سنوات·discuss
While this is an important trend, GDP is not the same as wealth. You could have the same reported trends with a static, declining or GDP.
twoslide
·قبل 3 سنوات·discuss
This article has very little that hasn't been said many times before, for example in The Atlantic back in Dec:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/chatg...
twoslide
·قبل 3 سنوات·discuss
Sorry, it's google's Captcha3 library (it thought you might be a robot). If you have time to try again, I'd be grateful for feedback!
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·قبل 4 سنوات·discuss
I think others have given good recommendations, but will add the Atlantic and New Yorker.

Also agree that a problem with The Economist is that it is always overtly pushing a particular view of the view world (rooted in a faith in the rationality of markets), which is coupled with fairly strong advice/prescriptions in much of the writing.
twoslide
·قبل 4 سنوات·discuss
I believe it's not actually contrails specifically but rather the effects of releasing exhaust (CO2) at a high altitude (which would happen whether the contrails form or not).
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·قبل 4 سنوات·discuss
Not perfect, but twice in two days is too much! I have other servers on digital ocean that have had no issues, so will probably put all my eggs in that basket!
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·قبل 4 سنوات·discuss
I'm going to be looking to leave in the next couple of months.
twoslide
·قبل 4 سنوات·discuss
Most views I've heard are that it is quite impossible to force someone to buy a company, but rather there will be settlement to exit the deal.
twoslide
·قبل 4 سنوات·discuss
Since it was written in 1998, competition from FAANG was minimal
twoslide
·قبل 4 سنوات·discuss
If you read the paper, it is not an accident at all. It was an intentional program where 14% of households fined under ACA received a letter to tell them how to enrol. A little sad the US Govt fined the rest but didn't provide this info to them.
twoslide
·قبل 4 سنوات·discuss
Your comment is factully incorrect. The article cites three studies, only one of which (Gao et al) is based in a Chinese institution. The other two have lead authors at University of Arizona [1] and UC San Diego [2].

Note that [1] is specifically titled "The Huanan market was the epicenter of SARS-CoV-2 emergence"

Mischaracterizing the evidence and/or article really doesn't strengthen the "Occam's razor" argument.

[1] https://zenodo.org/record/6299600 [2] https://zenodo.org/record/6291628
twoslide
·قبل 5 سنوات·discuss
Education is completely the same: compare teachers to principals or education professors (and within universities, assistant to full professors)
twoslide
·قبل 5 سنوات·discuss
That's not the law in the UK. A throttle electric bike is still an electric bike, as long as it has pedals that can propel it:

https://www.gov.uk/electric-bike-rules
twoslide
·قبل 5 سنوات·discuss
In the UK, international fees are deducted from the standard fellowship. While already low, it then becomes a poverty wage. This practice should really be banned, if funding someone the university should do it a livable level.
twoslide
·قبل 5 سنوات·discuss
Looks great if you live in a world of cast concrete and tiles. I would need some convincing that it could handle the dips/cracks/bumps in UK pavements (sidewalks). The video mentions a suspension system, but it is a vague, and the wheel diameter may pose limits to how much this can accomplish.