Getting the costume is easy enough -- the real challenge is locating people walking around in public holding Edith Wharton novels who aren't already clutching them tightly to defend against roving gangs of anti-intellectual cosplayers.
I'm guessing you were using the Find Restaurant option - that just picks a particular spot within the location you enter and does a 50-mile-radius search. For "Texas" it apparently picks a spot around Sweetwater.
When is the best time to take a baby to a nice restaurant?
a) During a fire
b) On Easygoing Deaf People's Night
c) After the baby has graduated from medical school
Possibly relevant: by way of Alex Tabarrok, here's a post about so-called "normative sociology", i.e. the tendency to mix up morality with causation ("the study of what the causes of problems ought to be", per Nozick).
Here's a different hypo: a conservative couple goes to a jeweler to buy a wedding ring, and while talking with him/her, talks about their opposition to gay marriage, their belief that homosexuality is depraved, etc. etc. The owner doesn't say anything and completes the purchase, but when they come back to pick it up, they see that the owner has put a rainbow flag on the store window. They angrily demand a refund.
Was the store owner being obnoxious in this case? Would you support the couple demanding a refund?
One other thing that would be good to bear in mind is that since regulations do have costs, a serious discussion should include not just thumbs up/down on each particular proposal but also some attempt at prioritization/budgeting across the whole space of possible actions.
Actually I think this is broadly true about policy discussions in general. There's a temptation (exacerbated by the blog format) to talk about one issue at a time in isolation, as if we had unlimited resources to do everything that's worth doing. It would be interesting to talk about how we would split out a given dollar of spending among, say, health care vs. welfare/poverty programs vs. charitable foreign aid, etc.
It's kind of funny that the tweet-series that should've been a blog post was then turned into a blog post but still in the format of a series of tweets.
Yeah, if there's a lot to say, I prefer it when there's just one tweet with a link to a blog post or article. Especially when something like this shows up in my feed, where it's reverse-chronological and separated by a bunch of other tweets.
Evidence shows that diversity — of all types — leads to better learning outcomes.
Do you have a link or two for that? It's a very broad statement -- whatever specific studies you have in mind to support it are probably more restricted (what age ranges? what types of schools? what social class(es)? what sorts of diversity?) and also probably not able to truly justify "leads to" (more likely just "is correlated with").
The nice thing about the really elite schools is that you can be strategically vague about where you went but everyone will have a good idea what you meant, as long as you say it with the right amount of hesitation and reluctance -- "I went to college in Boston" (or New Haven, or Silicon Valley).
Whenever I come across people giving out free advice on how to get into an elite college, I'm always a little suspicious that they're purposely giving out bad advice because someone they know is planning to apply to elite colleges and they want to drag down the competition.
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"It's a fair cop, but society is to blame."
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Getting the costume is easy enough -- the real challenge is locating people walking around in public holding Edith Wharton novels who aren't already clutching them tightly to defend against roving gangs of anti-intellectual cosplayers.
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I'm guessing you were using the Find Restaurant option - that just picks a particular spot within the location you enter and does a 50-mile-radius search. For "Texas" it apparently picks a spot around Sweetwater.
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But then you'd be out of a job!
... I mean, they are paying you to proofread all these posts, right?
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Nah, it just leaves first base open for the next batter, usually the out-of-left-fielder.
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I'd suspect his train of thought was more "third-world" than "dark skin". Still a stupid thing to say, though.
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Per Dave Barry:
When is the best time to take a baby to a nice restaurant?
a) During a fire
b) On Easygoing Deaf People's Night
c) After the baby has graduated from medical school
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Possibly relevant: by way of Alex Tabarrok, here's a post about so-called "normative sociology", i.e. the tendency to mix up morality with causation ("the study of what the causes of problems ought to be", per Nozick).
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the primary lesson
ISWYDT
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How not to talk about climate change (assuming you actually want to change minds).
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Here's a different hypo: a conservative couple goes to a jeweler to buy a wedding ring, and while talking with him/her, talks about their opposition to gay marriage, their belief that homosexuality is depraved, etc. etc. The owner doesn't say anything and completes the purchase, but when they come back to pick it up, they see that the owner has put a rainbow flag on the store window. They angrily demand a refund.
Was the store owner being obnoxious in this case? Would you support the couple demanding a refund?
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Preach it, brother!
One other thing that would be good to bear in mind is that since regulations do have costs, a serious discussion should include not just thumbs up/down on each particular proposal but also some attempt at prioritization/budgeting across the whole space of possible actions.
Actually I think this is broadly true about policy discussions in general. There's a temptation (exacerbated by the blog format) to talk about one issue at a time in isolation, as if we had unlimited resources to do everything that's worth doing. It would be interesting to talk about how we would split out a given dollar of spending among, say, health care vs. welfare/poverty programs vs. charitable foreign aid, etc.
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Oh, I just figured out #20, but I cheated and looked up one of the books, so I'll rot13 it:
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On #2, Omoo and Typee are both Melville novels but I don't recognize the other two - perhaps one of them is another Melville and the other isn't?
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This is a really cool puzzle. A couple that have occurred to me so far:
14: unlike the others, I don't think Rabbit, Run includes an actual rabbit.
18: George Bernard Shaw is the only non-pseudonymous George.
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It's kind of funny that the tweet-series that should've been a blog post was then turned into a blog post but still in the format of a series of tweets.
It's a little like reading an epistolary novel.
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Yeah, if there's a lot to say, I prefer it when there's just one tweet with a link to a blog post or article. Especially when something like this shows up in my feed, where it's reverse-chronological and separated by a bunch of other tweets.
On “How I Think You Should Try to Get into an Elite College, Part 2”
Do you have a link or two for that? It's a very broad statement -- whatever specific studies you have in mind to support it are probably more restricted (what age ranges? what types of schools? what social class(es)? what sorts of diversity?) and also probably not able to truly justify "leads to" (more likely just "is correlated with").
On “How I Think You Should Try to Get into an Elite College”
The nice thing about the really elite schools is that you can be strategically vague about where you went but everyone will have a good idea what you meant, as long as you say it with the right amount of hesitation and reluctance -- "I went to college in Boston" (or New Haven, or Silicon Valley).
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Oh crap, just realized scores were mentioned. I need to stop barely skimming and replying at work.
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Next we should have a topic where it seems terribly relevant to mention one's high SAT scores...
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I was just being flip - your advice seems pretty reasonable to me.
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Whenever I come across people giving out free advice on how to get into an elite college, I'm always a little suspicious that they're purposely giving out bad advice because someone they know is planning to apply to elite colleges and they want to drag down the competition.
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