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by quacked 4y ago
I have sympathy for the semantic point you're making, as I call myself "conservative", but match ideologies with very few people in the US that self-identify using the same word.
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by quacked 4y ago
> So invade other countries? Establish new governments that do what we like? You have described the history of every single western country, within which the majority of dominant-ethnicity citizens enjoy a physical safety and quality of
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by quacked 4y ago
Did you read my first comment with intent to understand my point or just to nitpick me? I said pretty clearly: > If you are part of an ideological tribe that wants to protect humans from each others' petty brutality you must seize l
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by quacked 4y ago
The majority of people in the US who bother to care about human rights abuses and exploitation of vulnerable populations are "progressives".
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I never said anything about "no trial", I said that murder and exile are the only two effective sentences for people like slavers. There's no amount of "personal rehabilitation" that excuses it. A light touch only e
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This reminds me of a point I feel progressives (usually steeped in several generations of western living) tend to miss. The underwritten currency of human society is violence. Using it, you can take what you want and the only way to stop yo
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by quacked 4y ago
I've had the opposite experience--if you don't list accomplishments you don't get a call back. Job duties alone are considered an insufficient resume.
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by quacked 4y ago
Do you think that the only way to learn to document something important is to write boring standardized essays in a school setting?
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by quacked 4y ago
I knew I'd see Gatto come up eventually. I owe my life to that man. Before and after reading his work is like before and after the Wizard of Oz switches to color.
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First, I don't believe you're correct about social cleverness not helping drivers, line workers, or office drones. If anything, the more basic the work, the bigger the rewards for social cleverness are, as you use your relationshi
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by quacked 4y ago
> School is not about doing great work. It's about learning the tools which you can use to do great work. We have no compatible ideas if you insist upon this being the case. School is not "training for real life", it is re
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What exactly do you think "critical thinking" is? The first prompt presumes to pick what was important about the book, mandate the form by which the book will be analyzed, and set up a minimum amount of effort before the writer ca
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by quacked 4y ago
Good lord, that is even worse than I'm describing. A great many people cannot fathom the fundamental truth that the majority of learning is useful simply because it allows us to enjoy to process of living in society for 70-90 years
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by quacked 4y ago
I play tennis, soccer, ultimate frisbee, jiu-jitsu, disc golf, rock climbing, hang gliding, whitewater kayaking, bicycling, and kite surfing, and I've taught many of the same to beginners. I assure you that the instruction only works
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by quacked 4y ago
I covered this point in my last paragraph. The problem with students isn't that they can't follow directions or collaborate; it's that the hate school and don't want to be there . One of the reasons they hate school and
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by quacked 4y ago
> How about we give up the idea that students are producing great work? Almost all teachers are well ahead of you on this one. Far rarer is the belief that students are capable of great work. This is, in fact, my central point: if all of
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by quacked 4y ago
All acts of deliberate writing can be examined for clarity, concision, fulfillment of their own purpose, etc. If the purpose of an essay is to teach writing , then the writing should be inspired and flow freely. It's only after som
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by quacked 4y ago
Which is exactly the type of writing that an AI excels at. Educators have made their own bed, and GPT-3 is just tucking them in.
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Busywork in sports and nutrition are all in obvious service of a more important goal (increase performance in sports). There's a clear incentive and reward to your performance. The same is not true for busywork in school. It is disconn
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by quacked 4y ago
Essays are wonderful . It gives me great joy to write essays today, although they're sometimes called "blog posts" or "rants" or "emails" or "memos". I hated writing essays in school, because th
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The problem with "writing pointless essays" is that students who write pointless essays learn that writing essays is pointless.
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by quacked 4y ago
I love your attitude. I have the exact same one. I'm so excited that another form of busywork has been eliminated from school by robots. Eventually they're going to start having to structure classrooms around learning instead of
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by quacked 4y ago
Maybe? I think that the system is poorly designed, but I can still do everything I want to do with a medium level of difficulty in achieving it. MyChart is way better than nothing, but it's not as good as "a good version of MyChar
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by quacked 4y ago
Secondary to the question, but I live right by the Epic campus and use the Epic MyChart platform to communicate with the University of Wisconsin health system. It is phenomenal as a patient; I can handle all billing, message any doctor I&
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by quacked 4y ago
My best friend was a child prodigy at math and his parents started him on "The Number Devil" which I believe is number theory
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Ask HN: How can my friend recover his Instagram account from a scammer?
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by quacked 4y ago
Haha, that reminds me of what my hang gliding instructor told me right before I took my first solo flight. I was very anxious despite good preparation and kept asking him edge case questions, and he cut me off and said "listen, what yo
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by quacked 4y ago
You are perfectly demonstrating the total inability of left-wing people to govern effectively. The Christians make up a huge percentage of people who oppose climate reform. If you want non-violent, non-authoritarian action on environmental
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I literally did made my case. Real climate action done with majority consensus must win the support of people who don't currently believe in environmental causes. This will require a change in messaging in order to capture opponents.
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by quacked 4y ago
What makes you think I don't believe in God, and what makes you think that no one who believes in God wants to protect the environment?

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