Although this results in fewer coins in circulation it should also mean the demand for coins should be way down. So it still doesn’t explain a shortage.
Where do you think the American public is on that chart?
I’m a former paid Dish sub (and 90s New Republic reader) who unfollowed and stopped reading Sullivan 2-3 years ago. Basically, he trades in standard forms of English “educated” racism and is more religious than ever. Like Sam Harris, he’s very, very concerned about cancel culture, where it’s the subject of half his columns. He hates Trump, but if he wasn’t gay he’d be Catholic secret-society-curious. He makes the occasional good point, but every column has at least one whopper. He’s often cranky Western Culture gay guy these days.
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Kind of posted in the Dale/Rupar thread.
https://johnlewis.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-john-lewis-announces-plans-grow-beard
If we think of coins circulating around the country in waves, what may be happening is that temporary shortages that would be replenished in a day or two might not be addressed until a week or two because the velocity of circulation has slowed and the next wave is further away, time-wise.
I suppose it’s not really the change in spending patterns at retail that is the driving the coin shortage. In the past, these places have always been able to get coins from banks with no problem. So, what coin-heavy businesses are no longer depositing as many coins? One thing that springs to mind are vending machines. With more work from home, we have fewer office workers feeding the machines for snacks. There’s less driving which means less use of parking meters and car washes.
I once went to like step 2 (of perhaps 4) of potentially doing graduate-level college work for some middle east failson. I wasn’t interested, but if I had done the work it would have been of solid quality (though likely not publishable).
In philosophy? That would have been quite an odd choice.
Although, I kind of wish you made it to step 4, so we’d have an entertaining TR. How did you even get to step 2? How were you approached and how much money are we talking about?
It was comparative and international law (think islamic vs English/international). Think i maybe answered an online job post in like 2009 (the small IP law firm i was working at in Monterey basically went under when its 2 biggest clients pulled back most of their work). I don’t know international and comparative law and wasn’t interested in doing academic legal work for less than six figures. The people involved apparently hadn’t thought much about law experts charging more than philosophy experts. I seem to recall the smallish shop had various “employees” (perhaps 10) who assisted various different clients. It was basically the middle man and everything was done virtually.
When i was a philosophy TA in Canada it was pretty easy to spot some Chinese who were cheating via downloaded or purchased papers. They were expelled.
What method did you use to prove it in order to justify the expulsion?
I wasn’t into to weeds on the cases. The work stood out for being in perfect native english (if average papers). This is like 1998, perhaps we just found another copy of the same paper online. I don’t remember well, but a few students, if only for language reasons, had no business being at a serious English language university (Simon Fraser). That said one can write a good philosophy paper in poor English, but it’s a bad idea to write a poor philosophy paper in good English. (Worst case would be a great philosophy paper in perfect English.)
I feel like these days that’s probably the best approach. If it’s a bespoke paper, they may know you didn’t write it, but it will be unprovable.
Yeah it’s not an amazing battery, but the field is dogshit anyway, never saw one of these things that I didn’t feel dumb answering some questions and mildly insulted answering others. Anyone remember that one from a few years ago that was checking your alignment with candidates and was just hopelessly obviously pushing Jill Stein?
With this one, stuff like
inflation is much more important than unemployment
Like, I dunno? I can probably find a few experts to tell me either one. It’s like: food or water? Decide now, much depends. And then:
Astrology accurately explains a lot of things
I mean hmmmm sorta depends how you look at it, really. And that’s kind of being a bit cute, it’s not really what the question is getting at, but is there a big astrology contingent, are they politically aligned in some way? I’m skeptical.
Perhaps, but philosophers are pretty good at proving things and if you spark interest you’ll get attention.
I remember a meeting where like 3 TAs and the prof went over some submitted papers at random to make sure everyone was on the same page with grading. This is like phil 101. One paper was a clear A/A+. That student is now a philosophy professor at U Toronto. (And an ex-girlfriend, but that’s another story.)
I think this is more of a problem than an advantage. Philosophers are also keenly aware of when something has not been proven.
Point is, if you do good enough work, you’ll get noticed. And if after being noticed you can’t even discuss your own paper, much less related subjects, the issue will be pressed. Perhaps there will be a surprise 2 hr in class essay exam or there’s like 10 other things that can be done.
I agree they can easily find ways to fail you. But to expel you for cheating is considerably tougher.
It’s possible there was no formal expulsion. This sample of cases includes three semester suspension for plagerism, which is likely effectively the same for a mainland china student.
https://www.sfu.ca/archive-sfunews/sfnews/1996/May23/dishonesty.html
ouch:
Cheating: Two students cheated in final exam; copied from another student.
UBSD decision: Found both students cheated. President imposed one semester suspension on one student; imposed a five semester suspension on the other student due to similar offense the previous year. Student appealed to SCODA but penalty upheld.
but
Cheating: Student cheated in final exam.
UBSD decision: Board found student did not cheat or intend to cheat.
This one stood out to me. I’d really like to see the full story on it:
This cheating stuff reminds me that about a year ago a student offered to pay me to take the LSAT for him. He actually came to visit me at the casino to pitch his plan. I turned it down, of course, but my moral compass is not well-calibrated and I won’t lie I considered it.
His plan was really, really good. It was clear he had spent days crafting it. I was immediately dismissive, but he sat with me for hours explaining it. Dude had received a dispensation to take the test in a room by himself and he specifically asked them if he could read questions out loud because it helped him. Had all kinds of spy gear, the basic plan was to have a hidden camera in a shirt button and an earpiece, sounds simple but it was really quite intricate to avoid ever getting caught. He had double time to take the test, so he would have been able to cover for the time lost transmitting the questions.
I was mostly intrigued because in the abstract I like a good scam that doesn’t feel like it’s personal.
Now, people are taking standardized tests at home so I’m sure there are easier ways to cheat by sharing the screen and whatnot.
Also, a guy from Kuwait who spent time in the UAE told me I could make six figures taking the LSAT four times per year if I moved there. Shrug.