Benjamin Franklin got the flow of electricity wrong.

“You provide the pictures and I’ll provide the war”

And the city just humored him.

Harvard University is older than calculus.

I loved that Technology Connections video.

It is far worse than that.

Universities have a lot of metrics that they are judged against that don’t lead to a quality education. Research doesn’t lead to good undergraduate students. A good pass rate just means the curriculum is soft enough to keep don’t students from failing.

So you have university presidents who are incentivized to increase prestige and they aren’t going to focus on the quality of education because that doesn’t lead to better metrics. If presidents try to defend their universities’ way of teaching, they get replaced by those who follow the system.

Liability insurance just becomes part of the cost.

A lot of consultants and contractors do the work for different governments. A reason why governments like this is that private companies find hiring and firing a lot easier. So, if a company performs poorly, it is really easy to fire them. In some cases, governments can also get individuals working for the consultant or contractor to stop working on that governments’ jobs, effectively firing them.

It can be a lot easier to get rid of a poorly performing consultant over a poorly performing government worker.

Governments don’t pay consultants to do work, but to leave when the work is done.

No, but my job includes producing and verifying calculations.

We already deal with computer models, but there is a concept of “garbage in, garbage out” where the model is garbage because the inputter didn’t understand what to put in the model or even what model should be used.

So the modeling may be more efficient, but the budget gets blown in verification because the model is crap.

Yeah. Paris is a nice city, but it is still a city. I feel like people who judge Paris harshly don’t like any major urban area.

I just don’t engage. You don’t have to talk back and they get the hint rather quickly that there are more rubes nearby.

Venice kind of has a Disneyland vibe.

There aren’t any scammers, the place is filled with history, and is relatively well kept and run. The flip side to it is that feels like a theme park at times.

It also has Disneyland prices.

Pisa has a few other places, but you can see the city in a day and not miss anything.

The issue with a lot of subs on Lemmy is too little content, not too much. There isn’t enough traffic to warrant high moderation and said moderation may scare off those who want to participate.

My apologies.

That was an amazing YouTube video.

College CV’s are different and are meant to go more into detail regarding specific accomplishments.

What kind of ketchup? Tomato, banana, mushroom?

It is one of the mother sauces.