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by schmittz 15y ago
Who says we haven't? We're blissfully unaware of most of human thought because it isn't acted on in such as way that we become aware of its existence. YC is a great example of this, to a certain extent PG started it because there was no pos
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by schmittz 15y ago
This article is too short to display the intricacies of what happened. For people more interested in the exact reason why he didn't accept the millennium prize from the Clay Institute and the nature of his proof to some slightly more rigoro
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by schmittz 15y ago
I hadn't thought of that before reading your post, but I agree. Mike getting into investing may actually improve TC because he now is getting involved with startups on a more fundamental level. It might open him up to reporting on startups
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by schmittz 15y ago
Mmm, yes. I agree to a certain extent. I guess my belief is that there are ways to engage a child outside of a formal education system that would have the same effect while concentrating on something they want to do, since learning is not t
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by schmittz 15y ago
I am not advocating for the abolition of public education, but rather true equal "opportunity." You do cite valid concerns about private educational facilities, but that does not mean parents shouldn't have the opportunity to send their chi
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by schmittz 15y ago
I'm sorry, I still don't understand how these three things can't be filled simultaneously, you just keep saying they can't without giving me any more reason. Feel free to respond by explaining or not, I'm just curious why that's the case. I
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by schmittz 15y ago
Your conclusions from your example are factually not true, because there are schools where everyone gets a "good education" that do not have pre-selection criteria. I would also agree that not everyone is capable of "mastering each topic,"
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by schmittz 15y ago
I apologize for misinterpreting your attitude from your subsequent response to your own comment as disbelieving of the original commenter's viewpoint. Consequences of voucher systems are as-of-yet unknown or unexplored, but I greatly dislik
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by schmittz 15y ago
I would be very curious to see what effect increased student punishment had on education quality. Some rules should be more lax (I once spent twenty minutes having to explain why I was in the hallway after the bell rang in order to avoid de
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by schmittz 15y ago
Can you elaborate on why you can only have two of those three things? They seem very subjectively defined and I don't see why you can't have all three. I'm not a teacher (I have tutored and TA'd), so I'm curious where this opinion comes fro
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by schmittz 15y ago
You're criticizing someone's argument by using a parallel argument. There's also no reason for it to not work, at least that you've demonstrated. The web server analogy falls apart because the server is analogous to a single school, so a se
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by schmittz 15y ago
That's a good point, although I would argue that he is in fact extremely creative. However, his creativity isn't physically manifest. It lies in his ability to translate abstract ideas about UX paradigms into devices. You're right though, L
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by schmittz 15y ago
That's actually a very interesting biological question that I've never thought of before. It would be nice if the US would loosen its restrictions on testing of Schedule I drugs so that this could be studied more concretely with modern fMRI
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by schmittz 15y ago
There's no reason to attempt to prove (because you can't) or even speculate (because it doesn't matter) whether any of the "best" programmers anyone has or could suggest have done LSD or still do on a regular basis. However, I find it odd w
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by schmittz 15y ago
That's true, the best stories come from the middle or the bottom. The top guy says he'd make less, but would the bottom guys wind up making more? It's a potentially interesting business dynamic. Would you have more horizontal than vertical
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by schmittz 16y ago
I always believe in using a term correctly, no matter how confusing it is. It's not imorotant whether people understand what exactly the cloud is, but they should understand that VPN/remote desktop is not using the "cloud" and email just ba