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by aik 17y ago
The end of the presentation had an image of a possible solution - basically having the touch pad exist right below the keyboard, just like it is on any laptop built today. Definitely makes the keyboard/touchpad area quite a bit larger thou
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by aik 17y ago
Pretty cool. I could see my productivity increase from something like that.
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by aik 17y ago
Your description here makes sense, though I don't see a description on the actual website. Really had no idea what it was. Not sure what Kart Me means either at the moment. Looks nice otherwise. Cool design.
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by aik 17y ago
My main point is that an entrepreneur has complete control over everything they do and therefore complete control over how much money they make (or as much control you can possibly have over something like starting a business), while a teac
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by aik 17y ago
What's a solution to this? What if pharmaceutical companies creating vaccines were NPOs? Would that solve anything? What if the world could be structured so people can't get rich off of the sickness of others?
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by aik 17y ago
Cool. The main thing I find confusing is the rating scheme. It's hard at first to know what constitutes "good". The site rates movies where the benchmark is the quality of the trailer. If a movie has a 58% "voters said the movie is bette
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by aik 17y ago
With the exception of Stockholm, where in Sweden would be a good place to find startups?
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by aik 17y ago
http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01Imn1eHOjIQYh--XbUltnaw==... Thanks!
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by aik 17y ago
Why would entrepreneurs lose their motivation? Entrepreneurs are working for themselves, not for some chunk of change someone else will give them if they perform as well as some random person wants them to. If we get rid of teachers after
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by aik 17y ago
Exactly my thought. Hence the situation the US is in now - teachers don't get paid for performance, but school districts do and they force all kinds of behavior on teachers, namely teach how to pass THE-CURRENT-IMPORTANT-TEST.
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by aik 17y ago
It was only a 2 year study and the first year had no positive results. A teacher motivated by incentives receives their motivation externally. Motivation in such a form is never sustainable I don't believe. Over time, I would expect the mot
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by aik 17y ago
Nice site. Thanks.
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by aik 17y ago
Thanks for the link. I wish I would have been enlightened so early on. I didn't realize the stupidity of typical college life until I was in my last year.
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by aik 17y ago
I'd love to try this out as well. aikon3390 -at- google's mail.
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by aik 17y ago
I find her final thesis statement interesting though completely unrelated to her argument in the rest of the article: "Until we teach both teachers and students to value knowledge and to love learning, we cannot expect them to use their min
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by aik 17y ago
I have a Palm Centro and I just have to tap the screen anywhere to snooze. To turn it off then requires a second tap to a specific button on the screen. Best I've used.
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by aik 17y ago
The ads are very intrusive indeed. While glancing at your site, my senses heightened because my "be careful or you will click on a tricky advertisement!" sense was increased to CODE RED. The alternating ad-content-ad scheme is very much N
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by aik 17y ago
What does that mean exactly?
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by aik 17y ago
Even if that is so, a majority of work (that requires thought) is progress that results from spontaneous creativity.
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by aik 17y ago
Well could you IMAGINE something so great that you could see as a possible replacement (at least for part of the school experience)?
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by aik 17y ago
"College isn't just about academics, strictly speaking. " Good point. Regardless of in what form you attend college, interaction with others with similar interests/studies is a necessity no doubt. The main thing that bothers me about colle
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by aik 17y ago
"One thing that became obvious to me was that the student population could be divided into two general classes. Students that 'needed to be taught' and students that were self-learners." Is this a fair classification? I have a theory: A l
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by aik 17y ago
"The university offers courses that would be quite impracticable to offer online." Which classes exactly would you classify as impractical? Is this about right? Practical: Math, Physics, Sciences (minus lab), History, Humanities, Governmen
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by aik 17y ago
I can't get anything on the site to play - it just sits there thinking when I click on a song. Overloaded? Site looks great though. I'm excited to try it out!
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Ask HN: Would you consider an online education?
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by aik 17y ago
Hilarious. Valid points. I'm sure he could go on and mention another 100 or even 1000 things. I love Star Wars still.
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by aik 17y ago
What would be the first thing you do? All that adds up...
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by aik 17y ago
Good point. Few thoughts that inspire people to get into it and could lead to a revolution: 1. Textbooks are fairly static unlike websites 2. Websites are more easily accessible 3. Books are boring to most people 4. Websites are not Why yo
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by aik 17y ago
"No doubt all these social explanations are true as far as they go, but they do not address the deeper question of why people’s psychology should have evolved in a way that makes them want fewer children when they can afford more." I've alw
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by aik 17y ago
Cheating...smart...whatever you want to call it. Being forced into speaking/learning as quickly as possible is by far the best approach I know. I can't imagine anyone having the determination to be as consistently focused as someone is wh

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