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upvotinglurker commented on Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Height: A Cautionary Tale   nber.org/papers/w26480... · Posted by u/blfr
matheweis · 6 years ago
Is it possible that good teachers hang out in the lunchroom and encourage their students to eat? I don’t think it’s fair to so readily dismiss the hypothesis without a good look at the relevant data.
upvotinglurker · 6 years ago
If children aren't eating, the cause is most likely not being able to afford food, or not being provided with food by their parents. If teachers were to have any effect, it would be by giving the children money or food, not "hanging out" and "encouraging" them.
upvotinglurker commented on The Provocations of Camille Paglia   city-journal.org/camille-... · Posted by u/amanuensis
philipps · 7 years ago
I had not seen this interpretation of the perceived value of education before and find it intriguing (and tentatively agree). I am surprised there aren’t more dissenting comments because it flies in the face of the free-market libertarian interpretation of value, which would argue that people do not value things that are free.
upvotinglurker · 7 years ago
A clearer way of stating it might be not "the euro students value their education more because it's free," but "the euro students value their education more because college attendance is determined by academic status rather than ability to pay. So, they had to work hard at their studies to get into college, and must continue to perform well academically or risk being kicked out."

Whereas in the US, college attendance generally* is determined by ability to pay, and a student who can pay will almost certainly be able to find some college that will let them attend, whether they take their studies seriously ("value their education") or not.

*Of course achievement still matters if you want to get into the most selective institutions ... but I gather you can do that with (a lot) of money, too.

upvotinglurker commented on Caviar was a free bar snack   delanceyplace.com/view-ar... · Posted by u/hecubus
NikolaeVarius · 7 years ago
I did some extra research because I find this sort of HN style dismissivness extremely annoying.

Millionaire's cabbage seems to refer to Millionaire's salad which seems to be specific to the use of Deckenia nobilis, which are a protected species due to illegal over-harvesting. So the assertion that the term "millionaires cabbage" is funny because heart of palm is common in brazil seems disingenuous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deckenia_nobilis

upvotinglurker · 7 years ago
From Harold McGee's fabulously scientific book On Food and Cooking[0]:

"Hearts of palm are the growing stem tips of various palm trees, especially the South American peach palm Bactris gasipaes, which readily resprouts after its tip is cut....[Harvesting] hearts of other palms often results in the wasteful death of the entire tree."

(emphasis mine)

[0]https://books.google.com/books?id=bKVCtH4AjwgC&lpg=PA316&vq=...

upvotinglurker commented on A Single Male Cat’s Reign of Terror   theatlantic.com/science/a... · Posted by u/pseudolus
malvosenior · 7 years ago
Don’t people still keep cats for pest control? They’re really good at it.
upvotinglurker · 7 years ago
Small farms that keep grain-fed livestock absolutely do.
upvotinglurker commented on The Rise of Coffee Shaming   theatlantic.com/health/ar... · Posted by u/spking
mindcrime · 7 years ago
It doesn't. This is just another item that belongs on lists like:

If you don't like gay marriage, don't get gay married.

If you don't like guns, don't buy one.

If you don't like expensive coffee flavored milk drinks, don't drink them.

Etc.

upvotinglurker · 7 years ago
One of these things is not like the others. Other people cannot kill me with their gay marriage or expensive coffee flavored drink.
upvotinglurker commented on The Bitter Truth About Olives (2016)   nationalgeographic.com/pe... · Posted by u/bpierre
jhbadger · 7 years ago
Although a lot of Americans get confused when "corn" is mentioned in various translations of the bible, not understanding that maize is not being referenced (which would be very weird indeed) but that the word "corn" used to (and still does to some extant) be used to refer to grains in general and wheat was probably being referred to.
upvotinglurker · 7 years ago
Also, even more archaically, to grains of salt - for example, those used to cure corned beef.
upvotinglurker commented on How to Be Better at Parties   nytimes.com/guides/smarte... · Posted by u/mhb
watwut · 8 years ago
His point was that he is making effort not to be dick over unimportant matters to people who don't enjoy that. Because all in all, what he described was not looking for throughtfull discussion and it seemed to be intentionally so.

I for one, appreciate effort and am willing to reciprocate. If he don't explain me why my favorite shows are dumb, I will not insult his shows.

You also assume that people who take others apart don't mind the same being done to them. In my experience, they typically like to pick apart others, but can't handle being picked apart.

upvotinglurker · 8 years ago
> In my experience, they typically like to pick apart others, but can't handle being picked apart.

Yes. cryoshon even states in his post that he wouldn't want to be around a person like himself. So he's only allowed to interact with masochists who like being constantly criticized while never criticizing back, because anything else would be "fake"?

upvotinglurker commented on 14,400-year-old flatbread remains that predate known agriculture   atlasobscura.com/articles... · Posted by u/vinayan3
ryanmercer · 8 years ago
>You do realize this was simply bad teaching, right?

It was in the history textbooks.

upvotinglurker · 8 years ago
Primary/secondary textbooks are not professional academic publications, and typically lag far behind the latter. Your primary/secondary teacher's behavior is not a reflection of professional archaeologists' behavior.
upvotinglurker commented on Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America   nytimes.com/2018/06/27/bo... · Posted by u/petethomas
leetcrew · 8 years ago
> What's the point of high income when you have to use it to buy things you otherwise get as part of the package anyway

it doesn't just cancel out though. software devs in the states make much more money, to the point where you can easily afford the things that the government would provide you in europe. plus you obviously have to pay for those things through taxes anyway, and guess who pays the lions share of that. if you are in a high income bracket, you are always going to pay more in than you get back in direct services.

upvotinglurker · 8 years ago
You'd have to reach a very high salary before you can buy a presidential election or gun control laws (stuff I think GP was alluding to in their post)

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