He means a tendency to assume, without consulting evidence, malicious intent rather than good faith.

You can be blamed for not locking your home, but the thief still goes to jail.

But they don't then combine all the degrees and ditch "pure" CS, which was the point.

*what needs to be solved

Something like this could at least work in simple cases like sharing bandwidth over a network, where bids are often made by machines on behalf of people, and when most people are somewhat separated apart from what they get. Just like there are many different views on what's fair or not, there is also an abundance of problems and what's needed to solve.

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No. It's more like turning off the radar and shutting down artillery at a front-line base.

So we're going to see this every four years? Except every hundred years? Except every four hundred years?

As subtle as it might seem, in many cases good university-level teaching also relies on the constant intake of information via a continued effort on research. Stuff could get old really quickly these days. Professors have to learn before they teach, and it is the thorough, rigorous investigation in some topic that gives them sufficient insight to keep their authority. If it's not done by themselves, it was already done by others. It is especially true for courses that deal with cutting-edge technology, or when courses have to be designed to educate students to meet new academic or industrial demands.

At somewhere I worked previously, a mathematician was refused professorship. Some people on the committee were chosen from the design school and the business school, and they unanimously blamed the mathematician for his low cumulative impact factor, comparing him to themselves, which was actually a significant cause of his rejection. All evaluation was based on metrics and simple rules such as "number of papers in a top X journal in the past Y years". Just like the case with frat traditions, people who survive this stupid system feel justified to stick to it. It was not long ago that the department of mathematics was at the edge of collapse