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by Planktonne 5y ago
Agreed; I also teach virtually, across a number of platforms, and Zoom is the one that just works easily and intuitively for everyone. Screen sharing and breakout rooms are a pain in all the other tools I've tried. It's not my fav
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> A platform with questionable quality and no real support This applies equally well to the small volunteer platforms and the large commercial ones. The scale is different, sure, but the various app stores and platforms that take a cut a
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by Planktonne 5y ago
Google absolutely hasn't returned the answer in the most relevant form. Minimum wage in the UK is defined as an hourly figure, and the UK doesn't use the Euro. That's the key point of the article.
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by Planktonne 5y ago
It's not 'user error' for a user to ask an unanticipated question; that's poor design.
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I think the fact that those two countries are called out as an example suggests that monthly is not the norm; difference exists, but common discussion/comparisons tend to use hourly (as shown in the top table), and the majority (?) of
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by Planktonne 5y ago
It's not a weirdly American thing; as the article says, the standard is to express minimum wage as an hourly figure [1]. People don't necessarily refer to their own wage as an hourly figure, but that's an entirely separate th
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> In eight years the smartest thing on the planet will be an artificially intelligent machine, says Mo Gawdat. No it won't. This is a fluff piece to sell a book written by someone who should know better.
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by Planktonne 5y ago
"Starve the beast" is an American conservative slogan and strategy. American conservative politics is absolutely ridden with corruption, obstructionism, and cronyism. Again, just because someone claims that they are incorruptible
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by Planktonne 5y ago
The HN audience is not perfectly reflective of wider society. One obvious example is that people on this site tend to be more technically aware than the wider population, but that's not the only relevant characteristic. The userbase he
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by Planktonne 5y ago
> someone will pull some comparison out of the analogy and use that to detract > to great popular success This is an HN audience issue, not an analogy one.
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Yes. If a stated principle conflicts with common behaviour, then you focus on the behaviour. People/organisations aren't incorrupt just because they claim to be.
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Deploying an algorithm to make decisions for you is ethically equivalent to making those decisions yourself. 'An algorithm decided' should not be considered a reasonable excuse, particularly if the person making the excuse was res
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Powerful people exploiting poor communities while talking about freedom is not at all unprecedented.