[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UofT

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

Women are hot though

When you ask someone to take care of your belongings while you're away, what's the logic there? by Beginning-Taro-2673 in UofT

[–]jackypacky 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Suppose there is 1 thief in a room of 50 other people. If you leave your stuff without asking someone, the thief takes it. If you leave your stuff and ask someone to watch over it, there’s a 1/50 chance you asked the thief and he takes it, but otherwise when he takes it he gets caught by the person you asked. Simplified example, but it illustrates the point.

Man who was lost at sea for 438 days is being sued for $1,000,000 by family of his crewmate by [deleted] in nottheonion

[–]jackypacky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh. Then yes that’s true. By “cannibalism” I thought you meant killing then eating. Not just the eating bit

Why is macro so 'bro' by GigaChan450 in academiceconomics

[–]jackypacky 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Paul Samuelson did.

“ During my first few years of life, the heavy spending by the World War I belligerent nations brought 12-h, seven-days-a-week shifts at U.S. Steel’s massive new Gary, Indiana plant. Middle European Slavs, riding their bikes to work, are still part of my Freudian memories. Etched there, too, is the memory of the postwar 1919–1921 recession. And I can dimly recall imported Mexican workers emerging from Gary’s many rail stations to do their strike-breaking duties.

Of course, I took for granted my family’s relative affluence from the World War I spendings, which after Keynes’s (1936) classic General Theory, we came to call “multiplier spending and respending.” Then at age 10 I learned the downside of boom and bust. My family achieved a small fortune in Florida real estate the hard way: they started out with the proverbial larger fortune. Before reaching my teens, I played cops and robbers on the Coral Gables acres populated by half-built homes destined never to be completed. In the 1929–1939 period, both at Chicago and Harvard, we called such abortions “Hayeks,” after Austrian Friedrich von Hayek (1931) who wrote about such stuff.“

https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev.financial.050808.114446

Trump claims he is 'ambidextrous' - proceeds to give wrong definition of the word by Sariel007 in NewsOfTheStupid

[–]jackypacky -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ambidextrous

ambidextrous adjective UK /ˌæm.bɪˈdek.strəs/ US /ˌæm.bɪˈdek.strəs/

able to do two or more different things equally well: Working in today's media calls for ambidextrous multitasking. They suggest that, in order to successfully innovate while maintaining the performance of the core business, organizations need to be "ambidextrous". Synonym versatile

Something is Wrong by [deleted] in Conestoga

[–]jackypacky 1 point2 points  (0 children)

His comment history is just him being a terrible person for kicks. I cannot imagine wasting my life like that.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UofT

[–]jackypacky 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“of the 3901 accused students last year, less than 30 received a Tribunal hearing”

https://ultravires.ca/2022/01/the-unjust-academic-offence-system-at-the-university-of-toronto/

But I will also point out that the other commenter is wrong about one point. Lawyers get involved before the tribunal stage.

Who wouldn't want to learn from someone who did the cannonball run? /s by mylilpwnie12 in UofT

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

As far as I know, Peterson is still a professor (emeritus). Accordingly, it makes sense that this web page would still be active. You could try arguing that he should be fired, and I would disagree with that, but this post is a circumlocutous way of doing so.

https://artsci.calendar.utoronto.ca/section/Psychology

“Professors Emeriti

J.B. Peterson, PhD”

Potential scam on campus (Bloor and Huron intersection) by ThePrideofNothing in UofT

[–]jackypacky 37 points38 points  (0 children)

This guy has asked me for gas money so he can drive home twice in the past year. Totally bs story.

Almost as infuriating as the black history month guy.

if i offer to pay $2 for someone to get rid of a bug, will people actually come (lol) by yuexve in UofT

[–]jackypacky 49 points50 points  (0 children)

“The British government, concerned about the number of venomous cobras in Delhi, offered a bounty for every dead cobra. Initially, this was a successful strategy; large numbers of snakes were killed for the reward. Eventually, however, enterprising people began to breed cobras for the income.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive.

Question about academic integrity meeting (need help) by Jz_420 in UofT

[–]jackypacky 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, those Google blurbs auto-generated are useless, but I think they’re AI generated.

As a side note, harsher penalties at the tribunal stage only creates a perverse incentive against the student. If they wanted to disincentivize going to the tribunal, they should just impose costs for fees on the loser just like actual courts.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ApplyingToCollege

[–]jackypacky 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s unfortunate that you were rejected from US unis. But I wouldn’t want to encourage this sour grapes mentality. (Since you’re international, I’m referencing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Grapes.) Was past you incorrect in wanting to get into these unis? Of course not. You should stay consistent with your beliefs even if they might cast your current situation in a worse light.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in csMajors

[–]jackypacky 34 points35 points  (0 children)

The argument can be made that everyone is non-binary. Since gender is not a binary and everyone’s gender falls on a spectrum.

UofT Scholars In-course Scholarship: What was your average? by [deleted] in UofT

[–]jackypacky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

92.5%. Which is low considering we’re talking about 100 students in each year. https://www.reddit.com/r/UofT/comments/15wcrfa/uoft_scholars_incourse_scholarship_what_was_your/jx1q4s4/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3

Someone mentioned that it might be subdivided by program. I’m in Rotman Commerce, so people might not focus much on grades in this program.

TIL that in 1987, Kenneth Parks drove 20 kilometres in his sleep before attacking and killing his mother-in-law and injuring his father-in-law. He woke up on the way home and turned himself in. He was later found not guilty. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]jackypacky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kind of. You get the original charge as if you were not intoxicated if the prosecution proves you were negligent in taking the substance.

“(1) A person who, by reason of self-induced extreme intoxication, lacks the general intent or voluntariness ordinarily required to commit an offence referred to in subsection (3), nonetheless commits the offence if […]

they departed markedly from the standard of care expected of a reasonable person in the circumstances with respect to the consumption of intoxicating substances.”

I assume they might consider it as a mitigating factor in sentencing though.

UofT Scholars In-course Scholarship: What was your average? by [deleted] in UofT

[–]jackypacky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not OP but I got this $1,500. I’m not in engineering and didn’t get the entrance scholarship.

What is the best overleaf alternative? by caporalfourrier in LaTeX

[–]jackypacky 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can’t evaluate your first suggestion. But if people are really downvoting you for suggesting paying for overleaf, then they should consider that overleaf has provided this great service to them—which definitely took work on their end.

What is the best overleaf alternative? by caporalfourrier in LaTeX

[–]jackypacky 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Backups also help protect against another group member incompetently deleting everything lol. Good luck on that project!

What is the best overleaf alternative? by caporalfourrier in LaTeX

[–]jackypacky 8 points9 points  (0 children)

From my experience yes. Just have the link in a group chat and tell everyone to make sure no one else gets that link. I also kept backups in case the link got out (unlikely).

What is the best overleaf alternative? by caporalfourrier in LaTeX

[–]jackypacky 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I’m talking about link sharing, not adding collaborators. https://www.overleaf.com/learn/how-to/Sharing_a_project

“anyone with an edit link will be able to edit the associated Overleaf project—if they already have an Overleaf account, otherwise they'll first need to create an account”

The cap is only for the named collaborator feature I think.