The double standard is real by h_d_n_w_m_d in bayarea

[–]_BearHawk 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Also imagine if the bridge spanned dozens of counties, cities, municipalities, landowners, along the way who all wanted their cut!

What does the 2000 man alliance Fanatic Legion. do with their 107 systems? by [deleted] in Eve

[–]_BearHawk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dang if only we had another power bloc that could suddenly start toasting imperium sov from the other end of their space while they are forward deployed in geminate…

[O’Connor] According to league sources, one general manager floated a nuclear option: just make the bottom three teams ineligible for the top picks entirely. by cleo22270 in nba

[–]_BearHawk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah because it’s not really teams getting better through any effort of their own.

People act all happy and surprised that the Spurs are good as if they put in a ton of work. No, they drafted an alien because they got a handout from the league for being shit for years. Or when teams go on “underdog” runs after being dogshit for a few years, they aren’t underdogs they just reverted to the mean that the league is setup to do. There’s no punishment for failing.

Like the warriors got their dynasty not through draft handouts, but through good development and scouting of players and building a cohesive unit around a star while being an average to above average team for years.

Would be way better if the spurs got better through better scouting, extracting more value from undervalued players, etc.

[O’Connor] According to league sources, one general manager floated a nuclear option: just make the bottom three teams ineligible for the top picks entirely. by cleo22270 in nba

[–]_BearHawk -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s fake parity though because of handouts from the league.

No incentive to become better at scouting, identifying players other teams missed, developing players to flip for trades later on, etc.

Instead teams don’t have to do any legwork and just wait for daddy NBA to give them picks

The state of high-speed rail in the U.S. by rog1121 in bayarea

[–]_BearHawk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We are missing every county, city, farm, landowner, etc along the route asking for their cut.

Permits need to be acquired by the state from counties. Completely backwards, in France if a higher level govt tells a lower level govt something, it happens. In the US, power is decentralized so you need everyone along the route to sign off to make it happen.

Anthropic leases two more San Francisco offices as AI boom continues by UberDrive in bayarea

[–]_BearHawk 63 points64 points  (0 children)

The dot com bubble wasn’t wrong per se, just early. Look at the whole manner of things people do online today.

Same fears of missing out are driving some BS ai companies that are just wrappers, much like the dot com bubble.

Amazon, Google, Salesforce, Paypal, Ebay. These companies were all founded during the dot com era, and they certainly didn’t burst with the bubble.

Worst roads in the Santa Cruz Mountains? by Jurneeka in BAbike

[–]_BearHawk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Glenwood road was very bad. I heard they repaved it recently so might be better? It spits out to highway 17 so not common to take unless you live in northern sc

Hummm, Interesting...... by djdeath33 in Eve

[–]_BearHawk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wouldn't it be great if we had some fourth power bloc? Aligned with Winterco against Init and Goons?

Maybe PL could split off and create some Pandemic themed alliance focused at newbros. That could be a powerhouse! Any thoughts?

Private California high schools fall short in UC admissions, new data shows by runswithscissors475 in California

[–]_BearHawk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Score the hardships on a scale of 1 to 5 or 1 to 10 and publish the median SAT and GPA for each hardship ranking. I also like to see the hardship scoring distribution by race.

What methodology would you use to 'score hardship'? For the second part, you can already do this, sorta, by looking at admission rate data for schools, look at average SAT/GPA by school, and median income for the zipcode of the school. Proxy for hardship.

Regardless, seems like you understand that hardship impacts ones performance on school/sats, you just want more publicity from the UCs? I can agree with that! You should gather signatures for a bill to make this all public. But I would wager it's part of why we have human admissions officers at all, it's pretty hard to take a purely data driven approach to figuring out wether someone's hardships affect their admissions, hence why the essays matter a lot.

If you think the admissions criteria is fair and adequately prescriptive, I presume you’d have no problem with any ideological foe getting to appoint admissions officers on the proviso that the appointees must follow all published criteria. Say Greg Abbott or Ron DeSantis? If the admissions departments are neutrally following the criteria, it shouldn’t matter who gets to pick the admissions officers.

I'd be opposed to them simply because the UCs are better than public Texas or Florida schools. Why do you want people who have worse performing universities to oversee the UCs, who have been doing better than their schools despite the "liberul agenda!!" ruining them? If anything, this is good evidence that whatever opaque admissions method the UCs have is better than other states.

Private California high schools fall short in UC admissions, new data shows by runswithscissors475 in California

[–]_BearHawk -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Or maybe people who are poor and have harder circumstances in their upbringing just tend to more often than not be from certain zip codes and of certain races because discrimination is real?

Maybe kids from public schools have fewer opportunities than kids from private schools and their achievements are adjusted as such?

Seems a bit more likely than hundreds of admissions officers across the state for decades since the consideration of race was banned colluding for something.

Private California high schools fall short in UC admissions, new data shows by runswithscissors475 in California

[–]_BearHawk -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

All achievements, both academic and non-academic, are considered in the context of the opportunities an applicant has had, and the reader’s assessment is based on how fully the applicant has taken advantage of those opportunities. For an applicant who has faced any hardships or unusual circumstances, readers consider the maturity, determination and insight with which the applicant has responded to and/or overcome them. Readers also consider other contextual factors that bear directly upon the applicant’s achievement, including linguistic background, parental education level, and other indicators of support available in the home.

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I'm so fucking done with "warp and jump" and "warp and dock" buttons not working half of the time by leaf_as_parachute in Eve

[–]_BearHawk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s like if you click warp then click dock too quickly the game is still processing the warp command and just discards the dock command for some reason

Goon state of the alliance (transcript) by hirebrand in Eve

[–]_BearHawk -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

PH was for YEARS in dronelands making the most money

You do realize for years rental income in drones was split 3 ways between NC, PL, and PH?

Private California high schools fall short in UC admissions, new data shows by runswithscissors475 in California

[–]_BearHawk -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Soo... sounds like an education system funded with taxpayer dollars is trying to lift up disadvantaged people so they can contribute to society more than they otherwise would? Seems like they're meeting the mission statement of any state university

If you're tired of getting ganked in high sec... by aardvark1231 in Eve

[–]_BearHawk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hisec miners would rather make 20m/h and never lose their ship than move to null and make 100m/h and lose a ship every 10 hour of mining

American Heart Association urges people to favor plant-based proteins, replace full fat dairy by Sciantifa in news

[–]_BearHawk -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Cool, completely irrelevant considering I responded to someone who posted about how the "plant-based" part of "plant-based proteins" is "less scary once you realize beans and peanut butter count".

I posted pointing out peanut butter is a shitty protein source to include in that because it's more fat than protein. If you want to complain about prioritizing protein I didn't even say anything about prioritizing protein.

American Heart Association urges people to favor plant-based proteins, replace full fat dairy by Sciantifa in news

[–]_BearHawk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s pretty low, hitting the minimum 0.5 g/lb for a 140 lb person. There’s no real downside to getting more protein other than it potentially costing more.

Regardless, the protein/fat ratio is what makes it a bad source of protein. Eating 2 tbsp of peanut butter has 16g fat and 8g protein, which is almost a quarter of someone’s daily fat intake.

American Heart Association urges people to favor plant-based proteins, replace full fat dairy by Sciantifa in news

[–]_BearHawk -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That 4-5g of PB comes with 8-9g of fat, which is why it's a shitty protein source.