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by dataduck 6y ago
I've got quite a lot of experience teaching electricity at a high school level, and I'm also a (relatively) newly qualified motorcyclist with a lot to learn. Maybe we could be of use to each other? If you'd like to get in t
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by dataduck 6y ago
OK, given yodel's answer, I'll go to bat for mathematical notation. - It doesn't change very much, so you can just pick it up and understand it using what you learned at school. Cf e.g. looking at modern Javascript and wonde
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by dataduck 6y ago
Surely common sense is subjective? And many blatantly obvious things are not objectively measurable.
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by dataduck 6y ago
What's the point you're trying to make?
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by dataduck 6y ago
This seems interesting but I'm having trouble visualising it. Would you care to elaborate?
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by dataduck 6y ago
My understanding is that this is also true of the SAT, apart perhaps from the cost of tuition.
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by dataduck 6y ago
That it inevitably means dropping the most challenging i.e. most valuable parts of the course? Not only are resources not infinite; if you make them accessible to worse students, that necessarily means removing the parts which are inaccess
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by dataduck 6y ago
You can cherry pick in both directions. Are you telling me that a kid at a socially homogeneous local school of kids all within the same age bracket will be exposed to more social situations that a homeschooled one who regularly deals with
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by dataduck 6y ago
I provide remote tutoring professionally but as a sole trader, and I'm quite interested in what your experience is (good and bad) of distance learning organisations.
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by dataduck 6y ago
There really isn't any difficult material (at least in the UK) up to KS3. A competent tutor should be able to cover at least STEM alone, and I would be surprised if one person couldn't cover most of the rest. There's also th
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by dataduck 6y ago
I'm more optimistic. I think there will be quite a lot of people who try home schooling for the first time and are pleasantly surprised. Doubly so for remote work. Of course some people will hate it, but horses for courses.
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by dataduck 6y ago
Maybe Google's algorithms have determined that the floor wax company doesn't look at / understand its analytics reports.
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by dataduck 6y ago
For almost the entirety of human history, 12 was old enough to get a job and look after a family. It's modernity that's the aberration here. Our obsession with keeping children immature has nothing to do with their well-being, a
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by dataduck 6y ago
Have a droplet running my app now. Thanks again for the recommendation.
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by dataduck 6y ago
> It's as idiotic as it is well meaning Is it well meaning? The behaviour of the advocates for these sorts of policies fits vastly closer to * Want to dehumanise people by seeing them only as a member of their respective groups * W
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by dataduck 6y ago
Does anyone know of a co-ordinated political opposition to RIPA, and how to support it?
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by dataduck 6y ago
No way. Software works for predictable inputs producing well-defined desired outputs. Reality is nothing like this. Actually good rule systems are ambiguous or weak enough that when someone tries to abuse edge cases, people can turn round
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by dataduck 6y ago
Very useful, thanks! I'll put them at the top of my list.
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by dataduck 6y ago
I'm considering them, but it's not obvious from their sales copy if the service they're providing is simple (upload files; start server from bash), or if they've got some complicated tooling that I'd need to use bef
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by dataduck 6y ago
Of course. It's not like a global recession in the midst of widespread political polarization has ever caused problems before.
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Ask HN: Looking for a simple web hosting solution
3 points by dataduck 6y ago|5 comments
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by dataduck 6y ago
Good question. How many deaths within your family and circle of friends are you willing to accept from political instability resulting from lockdowns?
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by dataduck 7y ago
> What ad networks do is the digital equivalent of filming and spying on people who walk by your storefront. Which is also legal, at least in the UK, and not many people have a problem with it. I think well-known, major abuses will need
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by dataduck 7y ago
Reading the other articles.
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by dataduck 7y ago
There has been quite a lot of noise on HN about this, and many of the other posts have disappeared, perhaps in an attempt to stop the whole front page getting swamped by this story. You can find the other links here: https://hn.a
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by dataduck 7y ago
I don't know if Google's story here is honest, but the two protesters' certainly aren't. They were not organizing anything to do with improving the working conditions or treatment of their co-workers - they were explici
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by dataduck 7y ago
I've been looking at both - as far as I can tell, OpenBanking is UK only, and PSD2 only applies to personal data, not making transactions. Am I mistaken?
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Ask HN: EU Banks and Their APIs
2 points by dataduck 7y ago|4 comments
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by dataduck 7y ago
This study doesn't say what you think it does. Women gain significant advantage in being identified as women, except in the case of a first request, and only then by an amount on the edge of statistical significance. https:/&#x2
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by dataduck 7y ago
I think you've kind of proved your opponents' points here: support for equal rights and dignity for women is something supported by feminism's opponents as much as it is by feminists, so it's a poor differentiator betwee

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