netjiro

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by netjiro 6y ago
Housing is generally supply blocked due to zoning/regulation/bureaucracy/etc. It's a severely dysfunctional market in most areas.
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by netjiro 6y ago
From what I've seen, the decline in Swedish education started with moving primary education from centralised state control and funding to municipal control and (significantly less) funding. Then accelerated with removing national testi
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by netjiro 6y ago
https://www.davidsongifted.org/search-database/entry/a10489 The first few paragraphs are fun / scary.
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by netjiro 6y ago
I'm curious. Is there anyone here that have their children in special schools for gifted children? Or were themselves placed in specific schools? Not just accelerated, skipping grades, extra activities, etc. Which schools? Good/ba
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by netjiro 6y ago
Great, I agree in principal, but run the numbers. Is it worth spending 1h of the day learning new things then 7h teaching others? I say that is wasteful.
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by netjiro 6y ago
And it is also a waste of resources. The top slice of population can do amazing things if given resources and time. Why waste that? It's the most crucial resource we have!
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by netjiro 6y ago
Sadly, these are aggregates of unpublished results, from multiple sources I've talked to over the years. Last year of "gymnasium" (grade 12), right before I started my university masters program: I was travelling most of the
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by netjiro 6y ago
> The reason to stuff everyone in one box is socialization. Also not going so well for the top 5%. They develop much better if they are not stuffed in the same prison every day as the rest of the population. I'd guess the same would
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by netjiro 6y ago
I've seen test numbers where the top 5% group learn around 5-10x faster than the 50% group. The numbers hold for short term recall, long term recall, problem solving, critical and creative thinking, etc. There is no way "school&qu
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by netjiro 6y ago
Make sure I can go undisturbed for long periods.
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by netjiro 6y ago
Agile, as commonly encountered nowadays, is mostly just cargo cult. People chasing dogma and buzzwords with zero understanding of why and when it has great application and benefits. Just like so many other trends in the past. Way too easy t
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by netjiro 6y ago
For most I think it's just finding friends to play with, then finding time/priority/scheduling to actually get playing.
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by netjiro 6y ago
https://github.com/netjiro/hactac Fun, tricky, tactical hacknslash tabletop/rpg. Played since 2008. A bunch of adventures and campaigns available. Uploading when I have time. Hundreds of hours of adventures in the
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by netjiro 6y ago
Don't agree. Too simplistic. Even on the very narrow definition of some GDP-per-capita-like metric. Assume that one country decides to implement the 65y-killswitch. Everyone who possibly can will move to some other country. You just
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by netjiro 6y ago
> Best case the West has also wiped out a generation of healthcare and pensions to pay. ? really? Are you actually proposing that killing off people when they retire is a good thing for society?
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by netjiro 6y ago
> will draw the wrong conclusion A risk. But it doesn't take much to get people on the right path. 1) trust your staff, give them autonomy and agency. 2) asynchronous transparent communication for discussions and decisions. 3) remov
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by netjiro 6y ago
> They’re usually looking to discount your salary In my experience, less than 1/4 of the organisations and projects I help go remote / distributed do it for cost reasons. Most do it for brain power and efficiency. It's eas
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by netjiro 6y ago
> you'll do what your boss asks unless it's illegal or immoral. As an employee your primary obligation is not to your boss, but to the owners of the company. If your boss is ordering you to do something that is detrimental to t
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by netjiro 6y ago
Join together with some fellow biohackers and make a fun transgenic plant. It's not that expensive or difficult, if you choose the plant well. Then you're a proud God of GMO with your intellectual spawn multiplying to (probably no
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by netjiro 6y ago
Check out Iceland. https://usgreenchamber.com/how-iceland-is-revolutionizing-gr... Slowly developing insulated indoor aquacultures, led lighting, robotic harvesting, perfect climate control, gas mixture, mineral and nutrien
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by netjiro 6y ago
Increasing thermal inertia in our housing is a great idea. It saves energy. But: we need to build low energy housing to manage climate change. That means there is very little waste energy available. Last house we built was 230m2, family of
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by netjiro 6y ago
> all you need is a blower fan and some pvc And a lot of land area. That last part tends to be the problem.
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by netjiro 6y ago
Fun idea, but I think you're underestimating the total systemic information density between DNA and final body. But I'm sure you can start there and find some interesting tangent that can very well turn out to be worth pursuing fu
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by netjiro 6y ago
It's all feasible, if you have cheap enough energy. The installations themselves are not that expensive. The energy required is very expensive. And unless it's 100% 0-Carbon it will only exacerbate the situation.
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by netjiro 6y ago
Yes, have always occurred. But now it's amplified due to other effects, partially (or primarily) driven by effects of global warming. It's not the absolute we have to watch out for. It's the rate of change!
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by netjiro 6y ago
> Global warming is umbrella term for 'Extreme Weather Conditions' Yes and no. It explicitly means that the average temperature, globally, is increasing. Drastically so. Extreme weathers is just one of the side effects. Others
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by netjiro 6y ago
http://libgen.li/item/index.php?md5=3C1CA115683EED376688B78C... depends on where you happen to be at the time ...
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by netjiro 6y ago
I remember a version of this being proposed some 15+ years ago. Glad someone is trying it. IIRC the estimated cost was not that high. It was not intended for local use. Please don't use fossil fuel to run stuff like this.
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by netjiro 6y ago
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Bok/Landers/?)
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by netjiro 6y ago
Life ain't fair, and it's certainly not a meritocracy. When you rise to power you can take better care to promote the right people. But according to what "right"? This is not a one dimensional problem. Then we have the i

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