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by relkor 11y ago
I am not only talking about university here. This attitude pervades the entire structure of education all the way down to primary school. What I am advocating here for is different system that actually allows students to purchase the level
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by relkor 11y ago
What I have seen is that there are many different good explainations of material. However some of these will result in faster uptake by me. The only way the economic transaction of education makes sense to me is to acknowledge the potential
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by relkor 11y ago
Valid point for university, but I have seen this same attitude all the way down the chain to primary school and secondary school. Maybe teachers in primary school are apeing the attitudes of college professors in an attempt to capture the g
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by relkor 11y ago
If we are paying for access to the infrastructure, then why are students boxed into many separate cells staffed by a human "teacher". If you admit the teacher unit is worthless, then why are they there? According to your business
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by relkor 11y ago
I would be happy to sell you a chance to eat, or a chance for medial care, or a chance for housing. Education is as necessary as a public utility. To charge any price for a chance to learn while billing as a product (actually knowing thin
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by relkor 11y ago
I am not paying for a "chance to learn". I am paying for a self-professed expert in pedagogy, whose has spend devoted their proffesional life to the art of shoving information into arbitrary people's heads. I go to the doctor
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by relkor 11y ago
I used to spoof user agents, randomly mutating. Then last month I started to run into sites that refused to load/render for incorrect strings. It appears the Google and other large companies are now sending customized versions of their
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by relkor 11y ago
Is there any solid guide to preventing browser fingerprinting? Or is the only protection constantly changing your accept headers + user agent?
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by relkor 11y ago
I suppose trade deals would require too much coordination between those inept national administrators. I guess it is also too bad that there are no international standards like TCP/IP becuase that would require coordination as well. An
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by relkor 11y ago
Where did I say CIA plot? That is a strawman you have erected. The Russian economy was helped substantially over the past decade by rising oil prices, this economic improvement formed the cornerstone of the current Russian administration. W
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by relkor 11y ago
It was my understanding that the drop in oil price was engineered to screw the Russians. Opening up exports of oil indicates the the leverage on the Saudis has gone stale, and they are making serious noises about limiting production again.
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by relkor 11y ago
To be fair, this is machine learning we are talking about, not algebraic topology. The experts in ML are still proud of the fact that they figured out the chain rule...
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by relkor 11y ago
This was fantastic. These are the kinds of articles that I read HN for. Keep up the great work Internet!
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by relkor 11y ago
To be more formal, there are two possiblities that I see: 1) You are RecruiterBot born from the forge of a brillant engineer smarting from rejection and trained to communicate using audio samples from bugs placed in business schools. - The
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by relkor 11y ago
Don't know why this is being downvoted, it certainly resonates with my experience. I write C by day, but I found that making a webapp that compared offers w/ cost of living and tax treatment to be an eye opener. I learned a great
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by relkor 11y ago
That's creepy
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by relkor 11y ago
My concern would be getting a link that I am supposed to follow where I input my debit card number. Can someone explain how I know that text message -- which can be sent by anyone to me -- has a valid link to money? I would be extremely sus
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by relkor 11y ago
Fair enough, I agree with your point about the inclusion of said iPads. The only counterpoint that I would have would be to compare the capital efficiency of letting kids chatter about bullshit, which is free, to using expensive techinical
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by relkor 11y ago
I am curious as to why you have been scanned so many hours over (?) years. How was that funded? Did you learn anything especially interesting other than no ill effects?
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by relkor 11y ago
> Does everything need to be skill building and development oriented? In short yes. There is a finite amout of time before you die, and that time is measured in years, not millenia . We spend ~12 years in school playing "general edu
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by relkor 11y ago
The difference in your Agile and pair programming examples is that those interactions are fundamentally between people with similar abilities. In business, the teaching, listening, and understanding are communication between people with sim
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by relkor 11y ago
To provide a counter argument, because I do not think the attitude should be "I'm not going to do open source because it is useless for programming interviews". Creating an open source library that others use is one of the st
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by relkor 11y ago
Yes. I orginally tried the page in a vanilla browser. What I then observed was a black page, which the game logo would then appear and then fade out. Sometimes I get a splash screen with a tip centered at the bottom of the page. Then the p
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by relkor 11y ago
If you do not enable the tracking scripts on the page (google analytics) then the "/game" entry point after signup just endlessly reloads itself automatically in Firefox 42.0. I can watch the page load resources in the develo
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by relkor 11y ago
I don't think that is what rsync is talking about at all. I read it to mean that instead of using a specific hyperlink, that you could use a collection of English words that would allow some hypothetical computer system to locate the s
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by relkor 11y ago
Using watt's generated per dollar as a metric of success for fusion research (emphasis mine) is a false analogy. No commercial fusion power plant exists, however you seem to want to hold research reactors constructed for the purpos
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by relkor 11y ago
> A lot of money has been going into fusion for many, many years now. Maybe the ~$29 billion [1] spent by the US on fusion total since 1953 to date seems like a lot from a personal perspective, but consider the modern cost of $3.5 billio