MrBlueIncognito

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by MrBlueIncognito 4y ago
> DrPhysicsA is literally ALL of physics. There’s more to physics than what one person or organization can teach.
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by MrBlueIncognito 4y ago
> Schools should also do all they can to emphasize academics and de-emphasize sports, to counter-balance the natural tendencies of teenagers. You are over-generalizing. This “natural tendency” does not apply to good portion of teenagers,
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by MrBlueIncognito 4y ago
> Personally, I think adding back the assistants for questions and proctoring will significantly reduce the cost savings (if not nullifying them completely) depending on how you implement them. If the quality of education can be improved
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by MrBlueIncognito 4y ago
> To be fair, there are "interactive" teaching methods that scale very well. In old-time schools, it was common for a single teacher to teach a large number of students, who would rote learn a teacher-prepared "lesson&quot
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by MrBlueIncognito 4y ago
Agreed. What we might need is a mix of online resources for teaching with offline schools for other aspects of child psychological development.
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by MrBlueIncognito 4y ago
Not every kid is going to be a part of sports and hobbies clubs. A lot of us never had any friends outside of school. We need some kind of institution to facilitate social interactions between children. Till date that has been the function
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by MrBlueIncognito 4y ago
I agree, despite being happy about the issue reaching a broader audience. I wish there was a HN for politics. Maybe we have Reddit for that.
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by MrBlueIncognito 4y ago
Demolishing a temple doesn’t justify demolishing Muslim homes. I don’t see what you’re arguing for here. If I demolished a mosque, would I be allowed to selectively demolish the homes of Hindu rioters?
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by MrBlueIncognito 4y ago
Defamation lawsuits are mostly filed by wealthy or influential individuals against common citizens. It is a tool to keep everyone that can’t afford decades-long legal battles obedient and shut. Laws regarding defamation do more harm than g
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by MrBlueIncognito 4y ago
Rioters and protesters come from oppressed and impoverished communities. Nobody speaks for them. The media speaks for the rich and powerful politicians. It’s weird how the actual victims are portrayed as the wrongdoers here.
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by MrBlueIncognito 4y ago
"who destroyed government or private property during a protest, strike or riot, and that if necessary, the property of the accused would be seized and auctioned to recover the money" — Narottam Mishra, Home Minister https:/&
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by MrBlueIncognito 4y ago
The Nazis killed millions through their actions. Will that justify you killing even one?
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by MrBlueIncognito 4y ago
People like turning a blind eye to what they feel uncomfortable accepting. That the world we live in is being increasingly influenced by just a few profit-maximizing entities.
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by MrBlueIncognito 4y ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iKcWu0tsiZM A short-film/parody on how an extreme obsession with inclusive speech makes it impossible to communicate clearly without consequences.
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by MrBlueIncognito 5y ago
One could reproduce a similar effect by surrounding your query with double-quotes on Google. > Return search results by randomly selecting an exact string match from the index. It could potentially surface results that you could not have
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by MrBlueIncognito 5y ago
I can think of some reasons. 1. There's <100 billionaires with enough wealth to buy 51% of Twitter. And even for most of them, such an investment would represent a larger share of their wealth than it will for Musk, meaning greater
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by MrBlueIncognito 5y ago
A "video-game company" doesn't necessarily have to be a game developer, and being a distributer is enough. Consider how "music company" aptly applies to Spotify.
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by MrBlueIncognito 5y ago
> And yes, sometimes it is important to expect humans to not make mistakes. For example, at railway crossings. Even if you drove over it 100 times and no train came, the 101th time you may still die if you don't check for a train be
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by MrBlueIncognito 5y ago
> I remember when Facebook bought Instagram. Instagram had something like 13 employees. Why does Twitter need two orders of magnitude more? Companies tend to hire more employees as long as the marginal benefit to doing so is greater than