renjimen

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by renjimen 2y ago
Ever heard of the East India Company? Or a modern day example: https://ccrjustice.org/bowoto-v-chevron-murder-and-torture-n...
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Lobbying corrupts democracy. The two are fundamentally at odds.
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Nice site! I like that I can filter results by fiction or non-fiction. Interesting to enter my favourite novels and see the non-fiction that's recommended. Some surprisingly good picks!
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Hilarious that it is 2024 and Apple are only now releasing a browser version of their maps. Reminds me of how god-awfully outdated Safari and iMessage are, but Apple pursues their walled garden policy regardless.
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What a miserable company.
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Yes, a teacher's role is as much behaviour management as it is knowledge transfer. I think most teachers would love to shift the focus to the latter, but it seems to be shifting more to the former of late. Knowledge transfer is what te
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But social awareness is part of adult life, and school is the place we prepare our children for adult life, not just to excel in academic tests.
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No thank you. Keep Big Brother out of the classroom.
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Engagement being a two way thing between the teacher and student. In this case I was referring to the teacher reading and responding to the student's body language.
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A large amount of engagement is reading and responding to body language. There are also no social ramifications of ignoring your laptop. Don't get me wrong, I think AI has a role in the future classroom, but that should be lead by prof
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I really agree. And I think it's likely your detractors have not stepped foot in a classroom lately. The issue is not engaging teachers. The teachers we have here in BC are excellent and love their subjects (my wife and many of my frie
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Maybe for your location, but not in Canada. I live in a rural town in Canada that is several hours of travel away from any big city. You will typically pay at least $1200 USD a month for rent. A mortgage for a cheap house will cost around $
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by renjimen 2y ago
Use Brave if you're on iOS. Firefox on iOS doesn't block ads IIRC
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Fair. You can do those kinds of analyses from historical data too, though I don’t think CCTV would have much of an effect. Try free school lunches, after school support, parental benefits etc.
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Given the order of events (childhood trauma THEN adult outcomes), and the strong relationships identified in the source material (while controlling for confounding factors), I think it's about as close as we can get to inferring direct
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Yeah, that’s useful. But maybe it should be the default.
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by renjimen 3y ago
Implement half life on upvotes. Tech changes (faster now than ever). This will allow newer answers to float to the top and make older questions more obviously replaceable, providing space for beginners to ask questions better couched in tod
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by renjimen 3y ago
Olaf Stapledon has two sci fi works that incorporate many ecological ideas into his vision of a future history of the human species (Last and First Men) and his ideas for possible alien life (Star Maker). They are both incredible works of h
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by renjimen 3y ago
> Many women in my locality are looking specifically for a good time with him. Attention != success.
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The nice thing about taxation though is that it doesn't rely on the whims of billionaires. Charity is unreliable and doesn't work for large, long term endeavors that modern society is built on. I recommend reading the History of E
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This is hard due to all the monopolies that exist in the modern world, and it's only possible for B2C businesses. The entire value chain is dominated by B2B where consumers have little say. I love System76 but their components are stil
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by renjimen 3y ago
Yeah, I guess there's a point where starting afresh is beneficial to refocus. A bit different, but it's the same for institutions too. I know some countries have "sundowner" clauses on every institution, where they need
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by renjimen 3y ago
Looks good, I'll give it a whirl. I could never figure out a good darktable workflow. The UI seemed all over the place with some basic features missing and way too bloated in certain areas that I imagine 99% of users would never touch.
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As a consultant this rang far too true
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“Self-made” people can have their own distorted understanding of how a healthy society works (through hard work and sacrifice! /s)
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Sure, but those are two of the least egalitarian things that can happen in a democracy. Conflicts of interest abound. Business and politics should be discouraged from intertwining at the individual level like that.
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by renjimen 3y ago
Easily solved with more tech! Subaudible recording with mic on throat —> encrypted transmission to peers —> peers’ earbuds. Conversation 2.0, or something. Sarcasm, but wouldn’t be surprising if it happens eventually
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I think that would just be an arms race that AI would undoubtably win at the expense of our sanity.
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Love Sabine. Great to have a news source that’s geared to those with a scientific background. Reminds me a little bit of a time when news was created to standards rather than attention metrics.
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- I set strict working hours where I allow myself to think about work things. - I finish these working hours every day with an activity that stimulates me and/or requires concentration. Usually this involves getting outdoors where ther

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