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811.
by quacked 5y ago
Why not work a service job for a while? There's no delayed gratification in bartending or waiting tables. Show up, clock in, serve drinks, go home. It's not easy, but the success conditions are clear, and when you're done you
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Ask HN: Could Microsoft restrict access to file backups via Microsoft Account?
2 points by quacked 5y ago|2 comments
813.
by quacked 5y ago
Wait, but if you choose the guy giving access as the mistake made in the course of his work, then what's the new plan?
814.
by quacked 5y ago
I've always thought that the "Myth of the Lone Genius" is a bit of a "motte-bailey" format argument, where an aggressive, undefendable stance is advertised, and then when challenged the person who is making the argu
815.
by quacked 5y ago
Look up "proof the moon landing was fake". I have an aerospace degree and don't think it was fake, but I still find it strange that Google won't return any of the conspiracy pages I enjoyed reading about a decade ago.
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by quacked 5y ago
Looks great. It reminds me of my microwave, which has two dials on it and is better than every other microwave I've ever owned.
817.
by quacked 5y ago
I don't think there are any. If you got to the point where you somehow managed to source the labor, materials, and space to manufacture "dumb technology", you'd be sued into oblivion by competitors who wouldn't want
818.
by quacked 5y ago
I definitely can't claim to know anything, but I would have a very hard time believing that other claims that are similar to these aren't part of a wider agenda. To be clear, I'm fairly conspiracy-friendly. I am just very ske
819.
by quacked 5y ago
I wouldn't even go that far. We have to remember where this information is coming from. This is the U.S. Military. We don't have "pilot confirmation", we have files, transcripts, and audio that are allegedly pilot confir
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by quacked 5y ago
I lack your optimism; when they pass on, their houses will be transferred to small- and big-time rental companies, who will rent their houses to young people for more than a mortgage would cost. The only hope, in my opinion, is a giant, pro
821.
by quacked 5y ago
How did you learn to memorize more effectively?
822.
by quacked 5y ago
I think the "not wanting to work for poverty wages" thing makes more sense when you compare the tradeoff. Until you're making around $30k, you can either be in dire financial straits and not work 40 hours per week, or you can
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by quacked 5y ago
That's symptomatic of a dead organization, in my opinion. All employees should be compensated at the highest level the organization is willing to pay them at that moment, in terms of responsibility, compensation, and title. If there&#x
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by quacked 5y ago
Is there a significant difference between a group of people controlling resources that are also following and enforcing laws and the state, except for the number of people that are participating in the enforcement? If you have the ability t
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by quacked 5y ago
Of course, my mistake! I only learned what socialism was just yesterday from a series of Tucker Carlson videos. Would you be so kind as to explain how socialism does not involve decentralized control of a set of resources by each individual
826.
by quacked 5y ago
You know, I couldn't tell you. That's new information to me.' Here's what I'm wondering, in that case; if she is indeed a deep state plant working on behalf of the global-capitalist-regime-disrupting American "
827.
by quacked 5y ago
I'm sure neither you nor I watch Fox News; I typically recommend people ignore cable news completely. What does lead to socialism/communism is the modern urban/suburban American lifestyle. If you grow up in a fully state-f
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by quacked 5y ago
It's not necessarily sinister; if anyone organizing collectivist propaganda believes that what they're doing is good and virtuous, then it's just a regular plot. As for its efficacy- many, many young people today openly ident
829.
by quacked 5y ago
That's hilarious, because I've recently been a little annoyed because I think Sesame Street was designed as a vehicle for encouraging socialist revolution. The designers of Sesame Street were open supporters of a great deal of c
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by quacked 5y ago
I don't think we three necessarily disagree; we are alleging that the system causes people to be afraid of intellectual pain by virtue of its structure. Students feel the pain of schooling, in the form of shame and suffering, and assum
831.
by quacked 5y ago
If you don't already have it, "Thinking Physics" by Lewis Carroll Epstein is very good. Also: https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~abhishek/chicmath.htm Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by quacked 5y ago
Children who grow up spending the majority of their time in school are raised by their peers, rather than by productive adults. They look to each other for behavioral and moral cues. I have found that students from classrooms are, on the wh
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by quacked 5y ago
Is it really your opinion that students of modern education are "well-socialized"?
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by quacked 5y ago
I just don't think that a classroom can possibly match the free-form, consequential education that comes from serious one-on-one time with a skilled, productive adult performing a consequential task. It is extremely likely that Europea
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by quacked 5y ago
Every Russian and ex-Soviet I've ever met was extremely proud of their school system, which arose from the Soviet system.
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by quacked 5y ago
I haven't; I freely admit that what I'm talking about would never work in a classroom. That is why I also believe that it is the classroom model itself that is fundamentally flawed. I think we could get into an endless debate here
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by quacked 5y ago
I don't know how to teach math, but I know how not to teach math. 1. Don't teach that math is a "ladder". Trigonometry is not "harder" than geometry, although many concepts in trigonometry are expressed as geom
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by quacked 5y ago
I've always thought that sketch was the funniest one on CH.
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by quacked 5y ago
Some friends of mine and I are working through Simulacra and Simulation. It takes us about 30 minutes to get through three sentences, while we parse the horrible word choice and ridiculously obfuscating sentence structure. Luckily, once we&
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by quacked 5y ago
I don't get the sense the EM sells himself as SJ, but some of he people I know that have worked a few levels under him definitely don't have the same kind of awed respect SJ's acolytes did, although they respected him a great

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