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by bugsy 16y ago
Parents can also believe that homeschooling does just as good a job as other schools. Because they don't list that their motivation was that they can do better than a public school does not mean that they believe they will do worse. Conside
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by bugsy 16y ago
I do it and I am able to work from home most of the time as an engineer. To do a smash up classical education job teaching your 8 yr old to speak fluent Latin will take 4 hrs a day. Then you spend 8 hrs at work while they run around wild, w
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by bugsy 16y ago
It is indeed a pretty realistic preparation for mechanical factory labor from the industrial age, which is when this model of institutionalized mandatory schooling took hold. Sit down, do your work, obey authority, don't ask questions. Fact
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by bugsy 16y ago
In unschooling circles, acquiring interesting books and materials and leaving them laying about for kids to find or ignore is called "strewing".
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by bugsy 16y ago
SandB0x, what you describe with your father, his encouraging you to follow your interests and providing materials and support as requested, is indeed what the most common sort of unschooling is like. Now imagine that you are doing that rath
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by bugsy 16y ago
A lot of the controversy comes from the reality that there's no single definition for unschooling so it can range from montessori style progressive education in which facilitators help the independent learner explore a curriculum of their o
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by bugsy 16y ago
I would advise you follow the wage claim route with the state since you were an employee. If you were a contractor you'd have to sue in small claims court, you'd undoubtedly win a judgement, and then it would be up to you to enforce the jud
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by bugsy 16y ago
This is a great idea, but wow, there's going to be a lot of big files stored and how much could one possibly charge for this is uncertain. I have a small studio. If I was faced with paying let's say a reasonable $120/yr fee for this service
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by bugsy 16y ago
Yes, quit and it won't hurt, you'll find work in 6 months. You might even be able to get hired someplace before quitting, on the condition that your start date is six months from now. You're probably burned out. If you use this time to do t
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by bugsy 16y ago
OK, we'll just remove the illuminating example that was giving you heartburn and leave the original point, awaiting your further gleeful downvotes to eliminate reasonable good points that don't fit your political agenda. -> Feynman coul
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by bugsy 16y ago
Feynman could tell whether or not there was a flaw in a proof just by hearing what the conclusion was and applying common sense. That worked for him since he had a really good intuition based on decades of thinking and personally observing.
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by bugsy 16y ago
Thank goodness some CPU designers have some common sense. There is no advantage whatsoever to 64 bit addressing. You are just pushing a bunch of zeros around forever. That's not to say 32 bit is enough. 40 bit shows the designers have some
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by bugsy 16y ago
Yep. Kind of like the electric universe people have been bucking the status quo as well and on the last comet rendez vous mission they were the only ones to correctly predict what would happen.
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by bugsy 16y ago
Interesting. The creationists have been saying for decades that assuming a fixed rate of decay is a mistake. So they were right again.
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by bugsy 16y ago
Reasonable efforts is not defined. Spending 5 minutes on the internet googling their name is a reasonable effort. So is spending 1 minute. So is spending 0 minutes and saying you tried your best. But if I decide to reprint Disney works I ge
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by bugsy 16y ago
In practice I can imagine how this would be enforced. A typical cat and knitting blogger no one knows about won't be contacted. But the blogger that starts writing critically about the city waste and corruption is suddenly on the radar and
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by bugsy 16y ago
The entire premise of orphan works is a scam. The issue is not even of releasing the recordings for all to enjoy. It's of a company or organization wanting to sell works still in copyright without obtaining permission from the legitimate ow
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by bugsy 16y ago
These aren't works from the 19th century. Some of the performers are still alive, and those who are not their estates are entitled to control over their output. Why the hell should big outfits like Disney be the only ones with proper protec
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by bugsy 16y ago
This really gets to usability. Most scientific calculators I have owned have a y^x key AND a √ key. Most have a cube root key as well. √ is a very common operation and with its own key can on many models be applied to a result with a single
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by bugsy 16y ago
I've never squatted on a domain. Is the idea here that each year every domain would be subject to auction to the highest bidder? If so, that hardly seems fair that after having spent thousands of hours promoting a domain and invested in it
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by bugsy 16y ago
Holy cow, didn't notice that - I thought it was some wise ass seeing what he could get away with as a joke. That this is meant as a serious patent and was accepted, oh boy.
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by bugsy 16y ago
Wow!
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by bugsy 16y ago
That's pretty fucked up. When the legal system has failed this badly, armed revolt is about the only option left.
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by bugsy 16y ago
What a tool.
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by bugsy 16y ago
Even more so than the program itself which provides nominal funding is the message this sends. Here is a country that welcomes entrepreneurs and will go out of their way to make their country a good place to do business. Their goals are als
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by bugsy 16y ago
Yes, that's the main one I was thinking of, thanks. The seam one also I had in mind.
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by bugsy 16y ago
These sorts of articles are transparently engineered propaganda. Someone sat around "How can we increase taxes and wealth for ourselves?" "What about a parking tax! $1 each time you park anywhere nationwide, that would be billions each year
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by bugsy 16y ago
Hm, it's not a great algorithm compared to some others that have been discussed here. There was a crazy one last year where it could replace entire large regions of the photo automatically and there was no indication anything had been alter
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by bugsy 16y ago
Sure we're doing well using imported oil to run equipment, using natural gas to manufacture fertilizer (this runs out in less than 10 years according to reserve divided by newly built 'clean gas plant' consumption), and latin slave labor to
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by bugsy 16y ago
Sure, but manufacturing and farming, making things, is the actual financial foundation of an economy. Service sector depends on the existence of sound economical functioning of the jobs that produce things in order to function. If no one is

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