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by hkt 10y ago
There is an element of tech company led social engineering going on here: everyone and their dog want to be able to sell their kit as educational if they can. So we get told about the wonders of the internet constantly and schools end up bu
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by hkt 10y ago
If self direction is rare in youngsters that is because it is not fostered by their experiences. That's to say, the system needs to cultivate it. I don't know about America, but in the UK teaching as a career path depends on who i
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by hkt 10y ago
I support this kind of thing too. Independent learning is hugely important. I think kids are deterred from independent learning by stultifying practices in the classroom that make them feel that learning has to be bounded and dull. It doesn
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by hkt 10y ago
Ring looks promising, re GNU projects. I've personally reached the conclusion that software isn't enough for this, though: it is people who choose to flog your data and it is money that buys it (think FB and WhatsApp). In my view
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Proposal for a community run replacement for Signal and WhatsApp(medium.com)
3 points by hkt 10y ago|0 comments
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by hkt 10y ago
For those wondering, Brexit will still happen but Parliament may decide to force the government to aim to remain in the single market. They will do this to prevent a cataclysmic economic shock, but in years to come the Brexiters will gloat
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by hkt 10y ago
We have a saying in Britain, that few people remember now: "rise with your class, not above it". That comes from an understanding that making the best of living under a system that creates opportunities to be rich and opportunitie
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by hkt 10y ago
Not even slightly true. 100% inheritance tax means relative equality between members of the same generation. There are still differences in upbringing to contend with, but the extra tax money can fund education or other compensatory measure
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by hkt 10y ago
Merit is to do with worth, not net worth. You can't inherit the ability to be good at anything, but you can inherit money and property. See the British upper class for a fine example of wealthy inheritors void of merit.
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by hkt 10y ago
Being poor is actually associated with making modally appropriate decisions. That is to say that people adjust to it. Case in point is discounting: offer someone £20 today or £100 in a year. A person poor enough will likely take the money n
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by hkt 10y ago
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts There is always something stimulating and new in the archives, which go back years for some programmes. Also, every episode of "Short Cuts" (available above) is usually something amaz
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by hkt 10y ago
The solution does not have to be technical. If you want to restore control to as wide a group as possible, start by running a centralised service with a membership structure. Not everybody is clever enough to run their own stuff, but almost
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by hkt 10y ago
He is actually saying that the law could only change due to technological advance. That law (if memory serves) banned burning coal, which was how people heated their homes. There had to be something that could heat their homes instead of co
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by hkt 10y ago
Privacy is constrained by technical skills in most people's model. Thats where the scarcity lies. People talk about it as a software problem, but don't understand that lots of people have not even a slight grasp of why Facebook an
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by hkt 10y ago
Or an organisation people could freely join without being forced to learn system administration concepts and practices. Imagine WhatsApp, but owned and sustained by (a subset of) its users on a non-commercial basis.
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by hkt 10y ago
This remains a bit of a silly argument. It is like saying we can wipe out poverty if only more people were able to get rich: the way that people progress is through collective provision. That means the state, or associations of people who v
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Membership organisations alongside decentralized protocols can restore the web(medium.com)
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by hkt 10y ago
I worked for Bytemark. If you want to automate from the start (even slightly) they're a pitifully bad choice, I am sad to say.
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by hkt 10y ago
That sort of thing, sure. I'd like something a bit more consumer focused, though!
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Decentralization is not the only way to save the open web – democracy can, too(medium.com)
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by hkt 10y ago
I wish someone would build an open-hardware unlocked-boot loader phone that could run any old Linux distribution I choose on it. It would be great to have real choice and a hardwarm that could support more than just a manufacturer approved
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Ask HN: How hard would it be to make a cheap, hackable phone?
3 points by hkt 10y ago|3 comments