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by aik 16y ago
Reclix, please send me an e-mail: aikon3390 at gmail. Your long term vision is nearly identical to my current one and I would love to hear how you are preparing for that vision.
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by aik 16y ago
True. It seems that the standard benchmark is where we stand on some arbitrary test in comparison to other countries. The purpose of education is to move the characters "United States" from a low position on a piece of paper to a location
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by aik 16y ago
I completely agree with you. Today I found myself using a search in another tool and sat there for a moment after I typed, waiting for the results to come in. Once I realized the results weren't going to come until I press enter, I found
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by aik 16y ago
This kind of logic doesn't make sense. I'd love to find a word for it. No one has simultaneously done good and bad like that. If a person does bad, then change their views or themselves, and proceeds to do good wholeheartedly, then good,
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by aik 16y ago
In some cases I agree that eliminating all tests is bad, especially if nothing else changes. It's especially bad when tests are eliminated without teachers changing their style. If you're going to change one you have to change the other.
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by aik 16y ago
Perhaps he should have used more objective references. I believe the author does not find much worth in porn. Your subjective opinion is clearly different. How is having "issues" related with his viewpoint?
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by aik 16y ago
All depends on your definition of high intelligence. I know some very intelligent (rapid cognition, knowledgeable, very capable of thought...) people, who completely lack any form of self-control and are essentially bums.
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by aik 16y ago
I agree, creativity and freedom to do what you feel/want are very connected. However, if the project is large enough, self-control and discipline is required to turn that project into something great, especially for entrepreneurs who wear
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by aik 16y ago
I can relate with the article in that I've noticed in myself that if I ever go a week where I watch more movies/TV than usual, I VERY quickly notice myself feeling like it's OK to watch that amount, or more, in the future. Actions of that
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by aik 16y ago
How so? He says he's learning and this is a great way for him to learn.
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by aik 16y ago
His analysis of the Iranian issues is a bit frightening.
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by aik 16y ago
In addition, the article ends with one of the author's children asking [while in a class that has no tests]: “How do I know if I get what’s going on in math class?” I find this kind of thinking dangerous in that this question is essentially
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by aik 16y ago
I completely agree. This article is full of oddities like that, drawing correlations in places where it does not necessitate causation. "These are not the big once-a-year or once-in-a-lifetime exams, like the SATs, but a stream of smaller,
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by aik 16y ago
Wow that is sad. How would you describe these women?
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by aik 16y ago
"I think this is highly improbable" I apologize - I should have either not included the parenthesis comment or explained it further. So to explain it a little further, I don't think we give our forefathers enough credit when they devised t
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by aik 16y ago
Ideas taught in these subjects would have to be nearly purely conceptual. You get the idea, you make sense of it, and it's in you for life. Because of this I think it only makes sense that a majority of such classes should be spent outsid
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by aik 16y ago
I think he has a great point here. I think the most important part of that kind of education would be to awaken the masses to the fact that they're being manipulated every single day by everything around them, whether someone has construct
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by aik 16y ago
I live in Sydney and used DDG for a while, but mainly switched because Google returns noticeably faster for me and I noticed I became frustrated when waiting for DDG.
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by aik 16y ago
There shouldn't be a need for the page to postback when adding/deleting/completing items. A necessity for a site like this is for it to be faster and more convenient than anything else. My notepad++ session is more practical than this in
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by aik 16y ago
Same disappointment here. "We'll email you once the system's ready for you" I took as "We're now indexing. Once we get done indexing, we'll e-mail you and you'll be good to go!" Indexing completed and I still waiting for that e-mail 5 hour
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by aik 16y ago
Exactly, which is very interesting. The number of schools that call themselves "Liberal Arts" schools is fascinating, especially considering that their focus is very opposite in that it is very much vocation/job preparation related, rather
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by aik 16y ago
I'm reading the same book. What in particular brought you to the book if you don't mind me asking?
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by aik 16y ago
My take is that the sunsets would be a replacement for the less-fruitful things one does in life - watch mindless TV, spend a lot of time on hygiene, [enter time-wasting task], etc. I don't think it's a replacement for actually accomplishi
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by aik 16y ago
Definitely cool. If when creating your own multiple choice questions, if you select the "show text box upon selection" checkbox, I think you should be able to define text for a label that appears next to the textbox (that would contain some
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Ask HN: Where do you buy your non-DRM ebooks from?
7 points by aik 16y ago|2 comments
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by aik 16y ago
I have never been told to put down my book or magazine during takeoff or landing, or ever heard an attendant ask anyone else to.
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Godin to no longer publish books(mediabistro.com)
50 points by aik 16y ago|16 comments
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by aik 16y ago
Yeah military is definitely an option as well. Easily the most motivated and focused person I met in college was a Navy veteran who had recently gotten back from Iraq.
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by aik 16y ago
I completely agree. This is exactly the area I'm interested in. There needs to exist something in between high school and college. In other countries especially, a lot of people take a "gap-year" and travel and work elsewhere in the world
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by aik 16y ago
Exactly. And why stop at 8-9k at a state university? She would be equally clueless and most likely surrounded by even greater confusion. This is the state of most people entering college in the United States. A person should not consider

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